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Part Four in the BossLady series. (One, Two, Three.) The longer I worked for BossLady and BossMan, the more I started to take over the day-to-day running of the office and all the stuff BossLady herself used to do. She began to create issues where there were none in order to feel useful and to assert her Authoritah. BossLady saw this filenaming scheme as yet another opportunity to harangue me about something that wasn’t really a persistent problem.

I had to email PDFs of various contracts to people every day, and for those who were leery of opening attachments, I helpfully included a link so they could download the files directly from our site. (This is Florida, where people are elderly and suspicious.) After one or two complaints from AOL or WebTV users, BossLady became convinced that “stupid people” could not click the links and would therefore try to type the URLs in themselves, only to be thwarted by such things as underscores, slashes, trying to spell their own names, etc. She was so determined to eliminate the crushing tsunami of time-wasting phone calls from idiotic customers (which happened about once a month, at most) that she literally spent twenty minutes explaining this thesis to me. But since altering my entire filenaming system would have caused a lot of pointless extra work for me with no actual benefit to anybody else, I blithely continued using my own method for some time. To Be Continued…