So I work for a small manufacturing company as the parts & purchasing manager. Last Monday the owner and his wife went off to Europe on a trip, and before he left he wrote out a PO, scanned it and sent it over to one of our vendors in the UK. The purchase order was for a bunch of parts for a manufacturing job we have coming up, and are supposed to ship with some other items we have coming from the same manufacturer. So over the course of the last week and a half I've been slowly ironing out the finer details of this purchase order, as the owner had gotten wrong or neglected to write out several details. The kicker comes over some hoses.

On the purchase order he put down x5 of them, but for what we are going to be building there are two different hose sizes to use. After initially insisting the hoses were the same, the owner requested I split it 50/50 between the two sizes, which isn't possible. So finally he says x3 of each, but that the whole thing is only a quote (Which he didn't tell me) and the customer will decide how many he needs, then ends the email with "They need the quote now!" And to top the shit-sandwich off, he left me with no contact information for the customer.

so to my dear boss: Why the ever loving fuck did you submit a PO to the vendor when you haven't even quoted the customer?! What the fuck were you thinking?! And how the hell are you getting angry at me for not reading your mind and knowing this was just a quote?!