Hey look, a castle! Hey look, a castle! Hey look, a castle!

My boss is stupid. Here's the deal. When I invest the copings for him to cast them, I mark them inside the ring with special symbols so that he'll know what kind of metal to use. It's the system he said to use when I first started investing. That way, when he pulls off the end cap, he can look and see which metal to use. Also, I write on the counter how many of each metal are in each ring so he knows how many pellets to melt into the thing. I still use the inside marking, partly for myself, and partly so that if the rings get moved around, he can still use that system to match them up with the numbers written on the counter. Well, despite the fact that these rings were marked in not one, but TWO different ways, he kept casting things in the wrong metals. Which means that several times because HE can't hold a thought in his head for five minutes, I ended up having to do half a days or even a whole days work over again the next day. Which SUCKS. So. He did this frequently enough that he decided I needed to mark the actual rings themselves so that if he took the rings into the casting room and then got them mixed up, he could just look on the ring and see which metal to use. So now I write SP or NP or HW or Gold on two sides of the ring so that he'll be sure and see it. So guess what happened this weekend? Go ahead. Guess! Yep. He cast a ring in the wrong metal AGAIN. Despite the fact that I identify the metal in THREE different ways and places. Dear Lord! Is the man a goldfish? I mean seriously, this is what the man does for a living! It's his livelihood? He's been working in this field since he was 16. His father had a dental lab before him. He should really be able to keep straight which metal to use at what point. And everytime he screws up, I am the one that has to redo my work. Which I really hate. Grrr.

Most of you probably didn't understand that at all. For that I apologize. Thank you for your time. I feel much better now.