"If at first you don’t succeed…"

This is sound advice in most situations. Well, most honest situations, anyhow. If, by mischance or ineptitude, you fail to realize your goal of murdering a busload of crippled nuns, or your crack dealer won’t accept your infant in exchange for another hit of 8-ball, most of society would very much rather you gave up.

Last week, somebody here submitted some articles to the database that I couldn’t use. Why? Because they were already in the database. How did I know that? Because I fucking wrote them. I rejected the articles, and sent a general "hey, tell your people not to copy existing content" message to the supervisors of the technical support team that’s been writing most of the new articles.Yesterday, though, the same guy cribbed another one of my articles and sent it up the pipe for approval.

I nearly choked on my midmorning dram of schnapps in amazement. Hello?!? Either the supervisors didn’t bother to pass my gentle admonishment on to their suffering minions, or this guy thinks I’m even more stupified than I already am after sifting through piles of dreck. Possibly both. Still, though, helloooo? I know you can’t spell "plagiarism", but could you at least refrain from it?