Work...good and bad

OK, so I had a nice surprise, and also something that made me sooooooo mad.

1) The good. I had a one to one meeting scheduled for today that I thought was going to be a fight. It's with a guy who's good at his job, just he's very animated and decides he gets to pick how and what he does. Not something we have a luxury of doing. I see him as a hothead european:) Anyhow, usually we have long heated debates, he stomps and throws himself around. I think someone must have got to him, because he apologized for last week and said he understood my position. Even better, we talked about a problem he was having and I think I helped him find a solution.

2) The bad. It's that time of year again when we hand out salary letters telling people of their payrises. Well, I was promoting two people as part of the process, and have been handing out letters all day. How is it that HR, I repeat HR, get the numbers wrong on the freaking letters? I mean, if they can't get it right, I may as well do it myself. They seem to think emailing me 24 hours after giving me the letters that it's OK....and that to "just have them come to me if they have questions" is OK. Good grief............what *bleeping* idiots!