As we are preparing to cut-over our team's biggest customer thus far to production, stress and pressure is reaching an undesirable level. An impossible vendor and an over-demanding customer do not help either.

What we don't need at this point is a moron at work who not only does not help to play his part, he creates more work for us to do. I can empathise with people who learns slowly, but I certainly can't tolerate those who refuse to learn and try to get away with it. And this moron belongs to the latter breed.

Everytime any of my team members has to talk to him or get him to do something, our blood pressure rises double. One of my team members was recently told by her doctor that her blood pressure was indeed high. No joke!

He shall be officially known as Blood Pressure Boiler, aka BPB.

Me: Something is not right. Emails from our application are not reaching the recipients with external email addresses. But emails sent to internal email addresses are ok. Can you please check?

BPB: Strange... *continues with grandfather's story*

Me: ... just please go check what is wrong.

An hour later...

BPB: So is it ok now?

Me: ??!! Did you like inform me that you have fixed it???

BPB: You didn't test?? Fixed already.

Me: *trying to keep calm so as not to let blood pressure rise* Ok, I'll test it.

Of course, the test failed.

Me: I still can't receive the emails!!!

BPB: Ok I'll check.

Me: *raise hands in despair*

This issue, believe it or not, took 2 days to resolve.