Wrong Assumptions

I really really REALLY should be working hard right now. Afterall I only have five days left at work and I whole lot to do. :) But yes, here I am.

This is my post about my boss making a "wrong assumption" At first I was kinda mad. No worries, really I'm OK. So part of my job here at the Church Magazines is to post stories on LDS.org every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Along with that, I update a "Story Log" that contains an ongoing list of all of the stories that are being worked on, where they are in the process of being written, edited, correlated, etc., etc. I also make sure to include what is posted online as our top story for the day. Even if the story isn't one of ours (Maybe it's from Public Affairs (Newsroom) or linked to from Deseret News, the Daily Universe, etc.) I include it in this list because I guess at some point we can still print it in the magazines. Anyways so I do this to keep it updated and properly reflecting the status of the stories and of the site.

Last Tuesday after I return from my wedding weekend and such I recieved the following email from my boss; Subject line: Ongoing Assignment. (I think at this time he was going through to decide what stories go in the June Ensign.)
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Karianne,

Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, please update the Story Log with
whatever the top story in the LDS News e‑mail is (whether we wrote it
or linked out to it).

Could you go back through the archives and update the Story Log
through March. We've kind of let it slip during conference time. Thanks.
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OK, so this is also two weeks before the end of my internship. I was kinda like, uh OK I think I've been doing that. He very simply states my assignment, which, well, I'm well aware of. He asks me to go through the archives to update...Again, I'm pretty sure I've kept the whole thing updated relatively well....at least within the week we posted something. So I open up the Story Log and sure enough I find that the thing is completely up to date with the exception of the past Friday and Monday when I was out of town, and probably wasn't what he'd be looking at anyways. And then...oh then the line, "We've kind of leet it slip" Well we can only mean me because I'm the one that does this...so while it was somewhat very kindly stated, I'm like uhhh no I haven't slipped, I know what I'm supposed to be doing, and did you not even look at the thing to verify this??

My response:
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Yea, I've been trying to keep the Story Log updated. Right now it looks like it is updated through April except for this past Friday and Monday. Meaning, for every date we post I've included the top story and/or our stories that are posted. Is there something else I should be doing other than what I've already put in there?
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Of course I wonder if, even though I think I've updated, maybe I'm still doing something wrong. And I'm open to that. I mean, if I have questions, I'll ask, but if I don't know I'm supposed to have questions or I don't know I'm doing something incorrectly, how am I even supposed to know to ask? Make sense at all? Anyways, I'm like, I'm pretty sure I've been doing everything I'm supposed to and haven't let it "slip" even through Conference.

His response:
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If you've got the top store, we're in good share. Thanks
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OK...so we're in good shape. But still, what urked me is I don't know if he THINKS after recieving his email if I went in and updated or if he REALIZES that even before he sent that email, I was doing it correctly and it was updated and there wasn't even a need for that email. I guess I don't like people thinking I'm wrong when I'm right. And wouldn't you think people would LOOK at what they are emailing you about before making an assumption like that? It's not even like it's ever been "outdated" with the exception of maybe the first week I was interning here before that was all being explained and there were a couple weeks between the time I started and the last intern ended. Still, I know I was doing it right...maybe we will all think twice before correcting people with the possibility that we will undoubtebly be shut down for being clearly and utterly wrong ourselves. Or maybe, we'll continue without even knowing.