"We Need to Talk about your TPS Reports"

For those of you who thought the movie Office Space was over the top, here's proof that it's really not... Okay, so maybe people aren't going around blowing up their office buildings, but who can't relate to having a weird co-worker like Milton, having to go to birthday parties for co-workers you don't know or don't like, having too many bosses, getting their office or cubicle moved for no apparent reason and receiving memos on procedure changes because someone wants to change things for, again, no apparent reason?

Below is an actual memo sent out today to all staff at an agency that will remain nameless. The memo is about a new format for cover sheets!! As soon as I read it, I thought, "Ummmm... Yeaaahhh, I'm gonna have to go a head and post this on the blog. Mmm-kay?"


"Effective Immediately:
When preparing a cover sheet for all documents please enter a Document Name in the following format:

The date--in this format:
YYYY/MM/DD followed by the document name:
ex: YYYY/MM/DD memo PSG to MPB
YYYY/MM/DD Draft
YYYY/MM/DD Final
YYYY/MM/DD Exit Conf. (the use of obvious abbreviations is encouraged)

other acceptable abbreviations include, but are not limited to:
Ent. Ltr. (Ltr. = Letter)
Engag. Ltr.
Ltr. to Prov. = Provider
Doc. from MD = Physician
Ltr. from Atty = Attorney

By preceding the name of the document with the date in the correct format at the time we e-file the document we will be able to View the document list and sort the Document Name column to show the documents in chronological order. It is not necessary to re-e-file previously scanned documents. However, if you are adding a number of documents to a filewhere only 1 or 2 were previously e-filed in the old format you may wish totake a few minutes to create new cover sheets to rename the documents to comply with this format, rescan them and don't forget to request the old document(s) be deleted (in Issue Manager). Please take note of the sort capability when you view your next e-filed documents (click on the DocumentName column heading to re-sort) and let me know if you encounter any problems or questions. Thank you for your cooperation."