I Am Jack's Headache

I'm in wind-up mode today. I think it's gallows humour setting in!

I had two emails from an employee in America asking for some time off:

Subject: PTO second half year/1 day emergency off

Hi Matthew,
I got a call last night that I have guests from south California this Sunday and the following Monday. I will take Monday 6/26/06 off for my emergency PTO. Sorry for the short notice. Please approve.

I have 3 days PTO in August
I have 3 weeks PTO this October instead of December, 2006.
I have 2 days PTO in September.
I will try to fix the date and let you know and approve.

I am very headache because all my friends not inform me more than 1 week for their visiting.

Jazz-Woman (name changed to protect the innocent)

I had one soon after explaining the mix up:

Hi Matthew,
I sent to a wrong person. Please review and approve 1 day PTO.

Matthew Morley,
Sorry for the confusing.

FYI.

Jazz-Lady (name changed to protect the idiot again)

It would appear that Jazz-Dudette was supposed to send it to her boss, Matthew, and not me. Yet another example of Microsofts Auto-Assumption feature of Outlook. Remember kids, "assumption is the brother of all f**k ups"

Well, anyway, I couldn't resist so sent off these replies making out that I had not seen the second one until later on...

Hi Jazz-Girl,

Yes, that shouldn’t be a problem for Monday 26th. However, I only seem to have you down as 1 PTO day in September… I will look into this and let you know my findings. Hopefully it will not make me headache either.

In the mean-time I sincerely hope you are no longer headache and hope you enjoy the time you spend with your friends from Southern California.

Yours,
Matthew

... and then a few minutes later...

Hi again Jazz-Mistress,

It appears that I too was headache and made a mistake in who you were. I thought you were someone else. This is why our figures for September did not match! Who is headache now?!

Please ignore that last email as it was not you who I thought you were! Oh headache.

Enjoy your weekend.

Matthew in Bradford, not in California!

I hope they have a sense of humour! I wonder if they'll reply? They're about 7 hours behind so I won't get anything until later anyway. I think I'll have to set up a sarcastic Out of Office reply for when we all get the chop next week.

See ya

MaFt