Don't Take It Purrr-sonally

This looks all too familiar to me.

Where I work everything is reviewed by three different levels of reviewers. In other words, there are three people getting paid to find each and every mistake I make. The snarky looks they give me are a bonus feature.

And I get notes like this:

First reviewer: "Susan, there are two misspellings in your (230 page) report."

Find two misspellings in a report that reads like this: This group, of which Corp Y is a member is collectively known as B. Corp Y elected to use C and claimed D in its taxable income (loss) computation included in the consolidated tax return for the year A.

I spend a day and a half or so trying to find them, correct them, and send the report on for second review.

Second reviewer: "Susan, there is an incorrect reference on work paper E3."

Find one incorrect reference in a work paper that reads like this: Work paper E3 provides, in effect that, if F is used in G, then no D or C will be allowed. The H issued an I on J that was deemed to be F by the tax code in K. Corp Y has L at the time of your request."

I spend a good amount of time before and after lunch hunting it down until luckily I find it by accident. I correct it, and send it on for third review.

I don't see if for a week, and another, and another, and another. I forget all about it.

Then the third reviewer wants to ask me questions about the report and I have absolutely no recollection by this time what the report even said. Come on, I've slept approximately 28 nights since submitting it for third review. News flash: I forget after sleeping only one night.

Is it like this everywhere?

Do three different levels of supervisors check each mail carrier's mailboxes, and then report back to the mail carrier that two letters on the route were misdelivered, and, by the way, figure out which ones they were? And then four weeks later the big boss comes back to the mail carrier and asks about the mailboxes that were missed four weeks ago - meanwhile the mail carrier has delivered mail 24 times and slept 28 times since then and can't possibly remember that day's mail?

One word answer: government.