#I'm on day 4 of escalation of professional annoyance

[tj-crochets]

My job can basically be boiled down to data entry but one of the jobs I took over (because my boss didn’t like to do it) is updating the progress of every contractor that works with him on every job they are doing every day in our system. About a third of them will just email me updates when they start their day so I don’t bug them, another third will respond to the automated text I send out, but the other third ignore me. I now get to be as politely annoying as possible to get them to update me. Every day. This past week I’ve progressed from text to text + email to text + email + followup email and the next step is text + email + call + another email.  The ultimate step in being politely, professionally annoying is going to be texting, waiting an hour, emailing, waiting an hour, and then calling every hour after that until they respond. I did this a few months ago but we got a new batch of contractors since then and they haven’t learned. The old contractors are the ones that email me first thing in the morning so I don’t bug them, and we are all happy with that system lol

#tj talks about work #I don't like doing this so I am choosing to take delight in being professionally annoying #like...giving me this update is part of their contract #they need to update me every day they are working for the company I work for #usually I only have to keep this up for like a week and a half for new contractors to start updating me #I'm on day 4 of escalation of professional annoyance #I'm down to six contractors consistently not responding #and three of them are SO BAD at paperwork it's honestly not a surprise #but being professionally annoying is reminding me of when I used to do martial arts #and I was practice sparring with this one huge dude #who literally tossed me across the room #and I used the force of the landing to launch myself back at him #and he said 'you're like a damn mosquito!!' #and that is now my job description lol