My husband works with a construction management company, and from him I’m learning that architects are the anti-Christ.
You can scan it into a PDF, but then all you’ve got is a PDF.
It happens with engineers, too. For one stretch of sidewalk, the streetlights are on one sheet, the tree wells are on another, the benches and public art are on a third . . . you have to overlap them all to see that you’ve lost your ADA 4 foot clearance in three places.
Strangely enough, a lot of our oldest CAD files suffer from monolayer. I know they weren’t scanned though. Our current storage situation for old drawings is rather scary – mostly they’re rolled up and stored in cardboard tubes that are labeled by customer or job.
Now you’re giving me ideas. 
Whenever we have to pull an old drawing out of storage, we’re encouraged to scan it and save it to the network drive. Unfortunately, due to a recent mass computer upgrade, only a handful of people still have the software for the wide-format scanner (I’m not one of them).
Do you not include the hidden “Ambiance” layer? That’s where you place horrendously-hand-drawn cartoon characters strolling through your building. We diagnosed one client as “Stuck In The Sixties”, so we filled that layer with lava lamps, bean bag chairs, and macrame plantholders. But usually, it’s just (in)famous people. Doing absurd things. And dinosaurs (to scale).
I spend every Saturday sorting the books in my charity shop into A-Z order.
The midweek volunteers: resort the books into height order, shove non-fiction in with the kids books, randomly shove books into any gap blithely ignorant of the alphabet, ignore the box of preselected “good” books waiting in the back room to go on the shelf and shove the most recently donated paperbacks out regardless of how tattered they are, balance large wooden tables upside down on plastic binbags full of donated books on top of the sink unit (picture a 7 foot tall teetering hazard), and put books out even if we already have the same book on the shelf. Yes, four copies of the Da Vinci Code in the same bookcase.
I overdid it today and left the backroom and the shop shelves immaculate, but I’m not in for the next two Saturdays so I’m fully prepared to start over from scratch when I get back. 
Got off the phone with Bro, we talked about his job among other things:
Bro: “and the blueprints were wrong…”
Me: “is that news?”
Bro: “I knew exactly how wrong they would be as soon as I heard who the architect was. Sometimes I hate being right.”
Corporate is in the pacific northwest and we have a daycare on premises. We never, ever close. They have ordered us to stay open tomorrow despite the hurricane bearing down on us, the transit company that transports most pf the teachers being shut down, and the government urging people to stay inside. Apparently, it’s only dangerous if your specific area is under mandatory evacuation.
I know this comes with my job (at a software company), but we’re putting out a release tonight, and I’m still testing. First, I got hit up to test in a different environment an hour before I was supposed to be ready. Then, we were scheduled to start testing at 8:00 PM. Sometimes that goes a little long…maybe 9:00. I didn’t get the go-ahead to start testing until 10:23.
I really do understand how important testing is; I’m the senior support analyst, and it’s me and my team who will get the calls if we screw up, but I’m tired, headachy, and starting to zone out. And there’s nothing on TV to watch, either.
I’m just tired and pissy, but isn’t that what a workplace rant thread is for?
Are you upgrading D3? If so, get back to work…and then know that I’ll be bitching at you because the updates didn’t help.
On Thursday, I got to listen to my boss call the first choice for my job. She managed to find something else and thank you and yadda, yadda. The second choice didn’t answer on Friday. The third choice will be called tomorrow.
Its so good that my give a shit attitude managed to last this long.
Nope, AFAIK, no Doper uses our application. At least, I hope not… 
I get calls all the time where the caller tells me “It’s not working”. I ask if they are getting an error message. They say ‘Yes’.
pause
“'Can you tell me what the error message is?”
“It says it didn’t work”.
Uh, no it didn’t. It’s a computer application. There are about 200 different things that can cause your particular app to malfunction. The error message will give us a clue as to which direction our troubleshooting should go. I know what all these methods are, but starting them at random, or alphabetically, is not an optimal use of our time. It could hours before I happened on the correct one.
“So, lets try it again and tell me what the error message says!”
“It says something about…”
grrrrrrrrrr
But you might check to see if your application allows the user to cut-and-paste the Error Message, so they can save it to tell you, or can send it in an email? Many Windows applications do not allow it, and it’s pretty hard to remember that long error message.
It’s not really fair to complain about the customer not remembering the error message, when your application makes it hard to record that message!
I send screen shots by e-mail. The IT people seem to like that.
Even better than a simple screen shot: Alt + print screen will capture just the active window or message box. And yes, that does make IT’s day…I actually got a big “thank you” yesterday for sending screen shots with my help request.
Well, my job’s back on - the other lady declined to come take the job. They figure it will probably last another couple of months. As I said to my supervisor, the kids can have Christmas now! (They get my sense of humour there.) You really do have to be okay with change to be a temp. 
Hooray! Glad to hear it.
Screenie or it didn’t happen… there are very, very few applications which don’t let themselves get screenied. Then again, there are many, many computer users who don’t know what the “Print Screen” key is for…
Argh, it’s very hard to concentrate when someone is having a conference right behind you. Especially when sending an email about something that needs to get done right away and you are trying to be clear about what it is and why.
And I couldn’t just tell them to please move because it was HR and upper management. Gah!
I’ve been on my job for about 2 months now. I really do like the work and I can pretty well ignore the idiots. But I am being driven irrationally mad by the various little posters stuck all over the place. There are instructions how to wash your hands (no, it’s not a food-handling company - we’re office drones who sit at computers all day.) There are cutesy cartoons telling us to cough into our elbows and to throw away tissues after we use them. In one stall in the ladies’ room, there’s another posterette about handwashing that uses pictures in place of words: "If you pet your <pic of a cat> or <pic of a dog> make sure you <pic of handwashing> before you <pic of someone eating> "
My daughter is in elementary school and they don’t insult their students with such inane wall hangings. I’ve been told all these public service announcements are the work of the woman who spams us with notices that are easily disproven by Snopes.
I really do like my job, but some people… <headdesk>
Grandboss, other co-workers and I are all typing quietly away at our desks
Grandboss: "What’s the word for when people have babies with family members?
Me: “… um, incest?”
Grandboss: “That’s the word!” goes back to typing quietly at her desk
Me: “I’m just gonna not ask the context and just be glad I knew the answer to your question, okay?”
Grandboss: “Yeah, that’s probably best.”
WTF? 