LEL Annoys Everyone, Not Just Me

Example 1: Tuna wanted me to work on a project LEL had been put on. We had to write how much money Cowboy had billed for each client, for the last six years. But first, we had to make sure the spreadsheet had all the clients and their matters listed on it.

I was sitting in Tuna's office to find out about this project, while he called LEL to have her bring him the 2005 and 2006 figures. As we wait for LEL, Tuna says to me, "Loose could probably explain this to you, but you'd slit your wrists so I'll explain it."

Example 2: For reasons unknown to me, we were instructed to write the figures on the spreadsheet, as opposed to typing them. Once we finished that, the spreadsheet was to go to our Nighttime Word Processing guy to type them in. LEL and I stayed late tonight working on this, and when we finished she wanted me to go to the other floor to drop off the spreadsheet. Fine, I was too tired to argue.

I go upstairs and wander down the hallway. Upon coming to the WP guy's office, I realize he's on the phone with LEL. I hovered outside of his doorway for a solid two minutes while she babbles on and on about how I was coming to drop off the document, how we stayed late working on it (he doesn't care), how Name Partner wanted it today by 3 p.m. but we couldn't get it done on time so it's VERY important it be finished by the morning, etc. When he escapes from talking with LEL, he turns to me and says, "That woman needs to be hospitalized." Then he goes on a whole rant about what a waste of time it is for him to type in the numbers we just wrote by hand (I agree), and wraps up by saying he can't read LEL's handwriting.

UPDATE: The WP guy didn't do the project last night, claiming he couldn't read LEL's handwriting. Upon arriving at work this morning I was informed that I would have to read SEVEN YEARS worth of totals billed for EACH CLIENT to LEL while she put the figures into the spreadsheet. I lost my voice. But I sure did work nicely with LEL; many people commented on it.