People, in general, are given way too much credit

I was pissed b/c yesterday, M., who is my most annoying co-worker and who I dislike tremendously for several reasons, came to me and asked if I could do this search that was faxed in b/c she had to go to a luncheon. Now, my boss and I are the 2 who do the majority of the searches that come into this office. Seriously. Last year, according to our annual stat.'s, de boss woman did something like 70 seaches; I did something like 58; and the jerk M. did about 5 and the other librarian, B., did like 7. So the numbers speak for themselves, ok? Anyway, I was just finishing up another search for my dear Dr. P (i should say about to give up on it b/c it was a totally unreasonable request--he wanted legal material that we simply do not have here) and told her so. But I said could do it on Friday (today) if necessary. M. said she'd start it and then she and I could touch base later to see our progress.

Well, I deliberately waited until today to even look at it. There were actually 4 separate topics, therefore 4 separate searches (all re: child porn, bleccch). One search was to find the current laws on child porn. I found the TX statutes, b/c I use them all the time and as a cop have to know them anyway, and checked w/M. to see where she was on the search. She said she had started on that question but was going to have to refer them to the law library b/c we do not have access to legal resources. I said that I had found the TX laws but not the US laws but could find that too, and send it on. Which I did, at doj.gov. So obviously, I have even less respect for M. than I did before b/c she just seems lazy and incompetent to me in some ways. I do think she's a good enough librarian--I GUESS--but seems to do things pretty slowly. This is why I don't feel at all bad about getting in late at 9:30 and leaving early at 5:30. I do my work well and so much faster then everyone else around here!!!