GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

I HATE FFM!!! HE"S SUCH AN INANE ASS!!!

Ok, this isn't really a huge thing, it's just the root of what pisses me off about him. It's just hugely annoying. Even more annoying is that my boss doesn't read my freaking e-mails, but responded to FFM's with "concurrence."

I ask one tiny question - literally two sentences. Very specific. FFM responds with this huge diatribe about his suggestions about how to handle all sorts of other things, recommending a written policy about it, and never really addressing my question. Additionally he cc's his boss and my boss about it.

For God's sake grow a spine! Answer a question defnitively and succinctly directly to the person who asked it without shoving your nose so far up the bosses ass that you permanently lose your sense of smell.

After getting his pointless e-mail I explain to my boss, via e-mail, that all I was asking is "can I still do X under the new procurement policy?" No response, but I don't freak out because I know he's very busy and hasn't been in a lot.

But this morning there is a response from my boss. Not a response to my e-mail, but to FFM's. I'm sure he never scrolled down to my question to see what it was, or to realize that FFM's e-mail never even touched a related response. Instead he agrees with FFM, blah blah blah, says a bunch of things I already know and didn't ask about and cc's everyone that FFM cc's. Gawd!!

I had to do it. I replied to all and said "thanks, I wasn't asking about a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, or j - but agree. I just needed to know if I could still do X. thanks for the answer."

He never really answered it but the indication was that it would be fine. Nobody ever really answered "yes, you can still do X." That's all I needed. Why all the extra crap that had nothing to do with anything??!??!?!?!??! AAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHhh the beauracracy is killing me!

This is, I realize, a major part of what I've grown to hate about this place and this freaking job!!! It used to be that we could avoid all of the beauracracy and red tape that gov't agencies were bogged down with. Now we seem to be creating a new level of it every year. It is overbearing, overkill, slows progress, and creates TONS more work. No wonder I'm stuck and frozen and can't get anything done. I don't want to do it, I hate it, and therefore I resist it.

Why should communicating be so difficult? Why can't I ask FFM a question and have him respond to me, answering the very question I asked? Why does he feel the need to cc the world and rant on and on about other stuff not at all related to what I'm asking.

GOD I"m so f-ing frustrated. I just want to walk out and leave. This should trigger such huge emotion in me but A. I already can't stand this guy, and B. it's just one more thing.

I quit.