I am Obviously on Crack

[willow_25]

So, one of the projects I've picked up doing that the last girl was unable/unwilling to do during her day, is updating a home address directory for the company.  It was given to one of the floaters after my predecessor got rid of it, and her updates were sporadic, so I had some work to do.  

I went through all of the notices indicating that people were leaving the company since January, and deleted those people, all of whom were still on the list.  I still don't think I even got them all.  Then I tried to add all the new people, which is when I realized that there was NO AUTHORIZATION FORM for handing out all of this personal information!  So, I created an authorization form.  Then I had to convince HR to let me add it to the packets of information I make up for new employees.

So, anyway, I've been working on this damn thing in one form or another for two months.  I got the administrative partner to look over the document, and approve an e-mail to the entire company to which I would attach it; basically asking everyone to read their info and tell me if it was correct and if they wanted to share it.

After all the time I spent on the document before I sent it out, I've still gotten 21 e-mails with updates, including 3 people who were not on the list at all.  One of those e-mails included info for a whole bunch of people, some of it incomplete, so there were probably close to 30 errors on the damn thing.

The worst part of all this data entry is that I brought it on myself; I could have just hung out and read fic all day today.  Stupid work ethic...

Comments

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Perhaps I'm odd but I wouldn't want my home address etc available to my work colleagues. Not that I don't trust them - just privacy issues. I wouldn't have any problem with a phone number being available for emergency use but no more.

I got posted to a country town once and had big problems with parents stopping me while I was shopping and wanting to discuss their kid's progress at school. Not the same thing I know but still. It drove me nuts! I mean, really - if I tried to do that with a doctor they'd quite rightly tell me to make an appointment but when it's a teacher they think it's ok!!

[willow-25.livejournal.com]

I get why people would not want to be added...Which is why I've been so adamant about giving it to everyone for review and creating a consent form. Not making people choose what info they give out and getting written consent for it is a good way to get sued, or at least end up with unhappy employees.