The Law of Averages

I have hit, yet again, the major stumbling block that I seem to run into on a fairly frequent basis and I don't really understand why I can't get the idea through my head. What is it? The fact that I am not average. (No, that's not my incredible ego speaking - I think it really must be the truth). I don't get why people I work with just don't get things.

Today I completed a task that I began yesterday around 11:30 am. I was pulled in at that time to do this task because the person who had been working on it for 6 days had made no progress and it is due COB tomorrow. It was basically importing flat files (really nicely put together comma delimitted ones at that) into a SQL Server database and then doing really minor SQL queries to manipulate things into the right format as well as a very simple Java program to pull out pieces of a text file and put it into a nice flat file that could then be imported and manipulated. I finished it about 30 minutes ago -- total time needed: call it 15 hours and be generous (took a few breaks, had a few 2 hour meetings). Point is...this was not a hard task. This person claims that they're a developer, SQL expert and so on...how could they not do it? Grr. Now he's all horked that I got it done and made him look bad. Um...maybe he did that himself?

Which leads me to another pet peeve I keep running into lately -- don't lie on your resume! We've hired two people lately who have said they are "experts" or "advanced" in such and such technology and then you throw them into a project when they come on board and they have no clue what they're doing. What's up with that?!

Anyway, enough on that. We're off to a wedding this weekend. Should be an interesting time as I'll know exactly two people there other than the bride & groom. Add to that the fact that I just have a gut feeling the bride is going to be annoyed that we didn't get them a super huge gift because we spent so much on our airfare and hotel reservations to get up there that it seemed like a $20 gift card was enough. She'll be annoyed. But I'm kind of used to that.

I begin to wonder if after working here much longer I'll continue to find Office Space as funny as I have in the past...when something is true to the point of pain, does it lose its humor?