What is banging out? (or should we not ask).
Thanks for asking. We had borking, and ears pinned back, and then banging out.
Oh, and was it a 9am vs 9pm mistake?
Update: IT remoted into my computer around 11 and got my stuff working again. However, my nerves were already shot for the day so I had to take an anxiety pill to make it through the rest of my shift. I don’t like taking them during the day because they make me sleepy, but I was so stressed it only took the edge off. By the end of the day only three people were still locked out.
Apparently I was so stressed my Appalachian accent was all over the place. Banging out = leaving early.
On the plus side, I found pear cider at the store so I was able to have a Relaxing Beverage last night.
Quite possibly. I’m a California boy, but I picked it up from my first wife, whose mother came from St. Louis.
The A/C is out. It’s up to 85 F in my office. Usually I complain that the A/C is set to 65 or so. How about we meet in the middle?
I took my kids to a local restaurant recently. It is winter in the southern hemisphere, and, yes, it is cold - around 15°C / 59°F - but really, not that cold. Cold enough to need a jersey, not cold enough to need gloves and a parka jacket.
Not so cold that the air-con needs to be blowing out 32°C / 90°F air, as was clearly indicated on its little digital display.
The problem with making things look easy is that sometimes people expect things that just aren’t going to be possible. One of the top people wants me to edit a document, by Monday. She also wants me to find out what changes need to be made, which involves emailing people. That is not how things work around here. A week would be reasonable. Not less than two days. Did she ask me if I have time to work on this? No, she did not. So disrespectful! I can either edit the document or email people to get the new content, but not both.
A/C is fixed. Back to freezing.
There’s a bunch of angst about job titles here. We used to have 3 levels in our technical track. The third level title was Senior (biologist, chemist, whatever). Last year we added a 4th level and made that level Senior. There are now a couple people who are getting advanced to level 3 and they want to be called Senior. Our Executive Director seems to be caving in to their demands which is pissing off the Level 4 people.
My boss asked me if I had ideas for a new job title for the level 3 people. I said how about “my bitch”? He shook his head and left.
That tactic was guaranteed to piss off both groups. It would have been better to make the new tier 4 positions “Premier”.
What’s better the “Senier”? “Seniest”!
The top technical level where I worked was “Principal”.
Around here the tier above ‘Senior X’ is ‘X Services Manager’. Although if you don’t know what that means, you don’t know that it’s a tier over Senior.
I’m level 4 and at my age I feel pretty senior! Or Seniest. They also threw out the idea of “Lead” (and no, not pronounced like the element, more like a leader! I’m looking at you Pleonast…)
Principal isn’t bad. Sultan of Science would also make me happy.
“Lead”, “Leader”, “Leadest”?
The peerages of the technical track:
Chemist
Sir Chemist
Lord Chemist
Baron Chemist
Count Chemist
Duke Chemist
King Chemist
That was the P-word I was grasping at.
I am about to lose it. I was asked (not very respectfully) to make some changes to a document in a very short timeframe (it needs to be done by an unspecified time on Monday, which I think means in the morning). I shared the text with the other people involved and turned on track changes because I need to see what’s new. So one of my coworkers made a copy of the document instead of using the one I shared, and now other people are editing BOTH DOCUMENTS. What am I supposed to do with this nonsense? Why do people have to make things so much harder than they need to be?
Is anyone hiring? I work hard and I try to get along with people. I would like to work with reasonable people for a change.
I’m trying so very hard to not be snappy right now. I can understand that not everyone know how this process works, but I don’t feel like I should have to spoonfeed every little step to people who seem to be competent professionals.
I’m going to cope with my problems by eating an obscene amount of chocolate (Tony’s Chocolonely with pretzels and toffee, which I may never buy again, because I can’t stop eating it).
That sucks. FWIW, our attorneys had some way with Word to compare documents (contracts) to identify differences. It was a standard step, to make sure the other firm’s attorneys didn’t change something without tracking the change (to sneak in a change in a term without drawing attention to it).
So, I’m not a lot of help by describing some Word feature that I never personally used. But perhaps someone else knows how this works…seems like that might be a good way to mitigate the stupid user challenge you have.
I think there’s Merge and Compare somewhere on the ribbon in MS Word, or at least some versions of it.