Pretty much this, with twists. All of our work is supposed to be stored in our synced Box folders. Box is like Dropbox: the files are actually in a cloud storage but appear to be in special folders on your local hard drive so they’re easily accessible.
Peter, though, has a real rat’s nest for a brain when it comes to organizing, storing, and backing up. He duplicated the Box files into a separate directory on his hard drive, so their contents weren’t actually backed up to Box, and he did his work in the duplicated directory and then moved it over to the directory that synced to Box at the end of his project.
He also liked to create a brand-new folder for the day when he was working on graphics, and he’d copy files over from the previous folder and then make changes in the new folder. Lather, rinse, repeat. So there could be a dozen or more folders for any one project, with duplicate files in all of them, but he didn’t, necessarily, use a file from the most recent folder when he was linking and he had a habit of linking to the folders that were in his duplication of Box and not the folders that were actually in Box.
And then, of course, he never bothered to give them a number and move the graphic into the shared art folder where all the graphics are supposed to be stored so either of us could use them just by looking up the name and number in a spreadsheet file so we didn’t have to reproduce something the other had already made. He thought doing this last was too time consuming. It is a little overhead, but the time it saves in locating a graphic for reuse instead of having to recreate it more than makes up for that. Considering how much time he wasted creating graphics by getting things lined up to the micromillimeter, his complaint about it taking too much time is absurd.
At any rate, today I spent some time with FrameMaker trying to find the missing files (about 32 of them across 4 different books). Frame has the lovely ability to tell you where it expects the file to be that is linked into the document, so I had the complete path and file name. The files aren’t in our cloud storage. The folders they’re supposed to be stored in aren’t there, either.
And to add the shit sauce poured over the shit cherry on the shit sundae, there’s also at least 2 or 3 dozen graphics that WEREN’T added to the document by linking them from an external file. Instead, they are embedded, which means there’s no way at all to find them if I ever need to update them because I don’t even know what they’re named, much less where they’re stored.
I could kill him. Slowly and painfully.
), and just started therapy this month. When I first met my therapist and told her were I work she was already very familiar with my employer. We’ve been hemorrhaging personnel for awhile now, didn’t hire for open enrollment season, and the call center is severely understaffed. We’re basically failing all our service level agreements.
It’s supposed to start next month, but nobody can tell exactly me exactly how that’s going to work with pay cycles for wages earned in October, but paid in November. I should be getting an incentive, but nobody can tell me what that’s going to be. Also now to get any incentive at all you have to work at least 130 actual hours a month, PTO doesn’t count even it it’s pre-approved. So nobody can take more than 4 days of vacation, sick time, FMLA, bereavement, etc. per month without getting a month without be financially penalized. Which is ironic because we actually get a decent amount of PTO. So fuck my employer, this is going to backfire horribly once people start realizing what’s happening, and I want of this ship before I drown with all the other rats.