Please tell me you made this up. If this is mandatory, you should think about running over your boss in the parking lot. Or, when it’s your turn, choose a vibrating butt plug.
A bluetooth vibrating plug
We’ve done the scavenger hunt more than once. Now we’re doing mad libs. 
I don’t get to choose the scavenger hunt items, but that would be fun.
Funny story about running over your boss. I was driving down the street one day, and I saw my horrible (now ex) boss stepping into the crosswalk just as my light turned green. So I almost had the opportunity to run over my boss. She did stop, so that was good, because if I had run over her, it would have made work very awkward.
Awkward or awesome?
It would have gotten her out of the office for a while, but it would have made my life more difficult in other ways.
Another day, another InDesign problems. I have numbered lists that are behaving badly. InDesign is great when it works, but when it doesn’t work it’s like a technology horror movie. It is possessed by demons. 
Of course it is - the clue is in the “Adobe” part. Commiserations.
Pagemaker/Quark/InDesign guy here… I’ve always done numbered lists manually. I mean, literally, starting with:
- [tab] First Thing
- [tab] Not First Thing
- [tab] Opel’s Thing
You can still set your tabs to line up your items OR you can tab so that the periods line up. Of course, when Mickie McClient adds a #6 1/2 to the middle of your list, you’ll be renumbering manually, but that’s only happened twice in thirty years to me.
I had to give my two-week notice today. But if any details are seen here by the principals in meatspace…you know the drill. Accepting PMs from sympathetic parties.
Unfortunately, it’s a lot more complicated than that. I have a 70+ page document, and most of the document is multi-level numbered lists. I can’t do that manually. The numbering isn’t working correctly in one place, and when I try to change it, somehow it screws up the numbering in a different list. It just gets worse from there, but I won’t bore you with all of the details.
Commiserations, and would be good to hear about it when you are free to give more details.
“It was as if he was trying to write a perfect detective story and suddenly noticed that the second chapter was about irrigation projects in Ethiopia. If he scratched that, all the women in the story would be called Rodrigo, and if he gave them their own names back, then the corpse would be alive on the odd pages.” - credit to Tim Krabbe, writing about trying to create a chess problem. I think it’s a brilliant piece of writing, that seems apt here.
Have you tried posting the issue to the Adobe InDesign community? Lots of helpful people there, and often they’re willing to take a look at the document itself to see if they can fix it.
I’m not sure if I can make this short, but here goes: I have a 70+ page document that is almost all complex multi-level numbered lists. The top two levels shouldn’t be auto-numbered, because they will never change. One of the numbers in the second heading level isn’t correct, and I can’t find any reason why. It’s formatted exactly the same as the other second headings, and they’re all fine. If I remove the heading style, that heading will be left out when I use that style to create the table of contents. If I try to make any changes to that heading or to the heading style, it screws up the next level of the list through the whole document.
I have posted this to the Adobe forums, and someone with more expertise has contacted me, so maybe there’s hope. 
There is always hope. And thank you for your response, although honesty compels me to point out that my comment was originally directed at John DiFool’s post - I should have made that clearer by multi-quoting it, sorry. Commiserations to you too, all the same!
Went out to a dam today to work on an instrument I manage (it measures things like temperature and pH). Well it was gone, along with a chunk of the dam and some railing. The Lockmaster said “Oh, yeah. A barge hit there during the last high water. Happens all the time.” If you looked at the dam and instrument location you would probably wonder how a barge managed to hit it at all, as it was fairly well protected behind a large concrete wall. It’s amazing to me that the barge didn’t get into the actual dam structure (which actually does happen on occasion).
Oh well, it’s not my $10,000.
A few weeks ago I posted about applying for a new position.
Today, I was offered the job… and I declined it.
I may regret it, and that’s okay. Management decided to add new tasks to the position I was not comfortable with. When I expressed something that we see everyday on our end that isn’t really okay, the manager said it wasn’t happening. The training turned out to be much briefer than what I believe is needed and when the person currently in the job leaves, the supervisor will be leaving for 6 weeks. IOW, no support for a position that I am familiar with on a very basic level.
Sounds like a bullet dodged. When/if you start feeling regrets, review your post about your reasons for turning it down.
How aggravating. I hope you document the double-requests. Might come in handy if you ever decide to make an official complaint about this.
Agreed; you dodged a Bullitt. That manager isn’t managing, just denying.
Sorry, was expecting a PM, didn’t see your replies until just now. PM coming sometime today.