somnambulist  

Hi, I'm going to yell at you because you're enforcing a policy that your predecessor simply ignored.

Well, I'm supposed to enforce it. It's actually sort of illegal if we don't. The last person who had my job was just lazy and irresponsible. And kind of a slut.

OK, then I'm going to yell at you because that policy doesn't let me do things the way I want to do them and got used to and I think you should either ignore it or change it back to the way I want it.

That's a lovely sentiment, but I wasn't even in the meetings that established it. The Comptroller is in charge. We just follow the rules.

So are you going to fix this, or what?

I wonder how long of a lunch break I can take before anyone actually notices I'm gone.