The treat fairy has visited.

There's a little Ferrero Rocher on my desk this morning.

The treat fairy came!

I remember when I went to France and saw a big package of them on sale. I thought "Ooh! I'll bring those home with me and share 'em with my co-workers!" I'd never seen them before.

So I got home and brought the treats to work, thinking "They're gonna love these cool french treats!" Then one of my co-workers said, "Thanks, but you did know that you can buy these at the grocery store across the street, right?"

The proverbial shit has hitteth the fan

Me and my big fat eagerness for something to do.

I really picked the wrong fight.

Ok. Simple little two-line SR. Couldn't duplicate it. Sent emails. Had a meeting at the other building with SupportLine and saw how they duplicated it. Came back to my cube. Could duplicate it some times. Didn't know why. Other stuff came up and left this on the back-burner for a couple weeks.

Came back to it upon request from SupportLine. Figured out what was wrong. Discussed with Developer. Didn't think it'd be an issue. He agreed. He discussed with the utility's creator. He also agreed. I added notes to the SR and sent emails asking if it was still an issue.

Got emails back saying it was because of this small reason that could happen. Went back and talked to Developer. He added reasons why it was not an issue. Sent emails about this explaining our reasoning. That I probably shouldn't have sent to all of the people I sent it to. Damn "Reply All". Got a big fat upset email with all higher authorities involved that was angry about my mis-worded email.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I could argue with that email easily (I see explanations and resolutions to each point they made), but I'm just an intern. A QA intern. Which means I am about two layers below dirt in the "Special Important Person" hierarchy. A QA intern that probably shouldn't have even gotten into this fight in the first place. Technically (or historically), I'm not even supposed to look at the SRs I'm assigned to until they are ready to test.

And here I am in the middle of this. And the Developer has the day off.

I don't know if I have the balls (or any type of authority) to effectively win this battle.

I'm actually shaking...

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Well, I rebutted a little after noon, per direction from my supe. No response since. But only SupportLine has read the rebuttal so far.

Huh.

In other news, I've decided I don't like my decisions being questioned. I much prefer questioning other people's decisions.

Maybe I don't want to be a responsible adult. Or maybe I just don't like to be wrong.

Either way, I need to do the laundry tonight because I'm wearing my last clean pair of socks.