I really hope you will be able to do something!
No, you whiney twit, I cannot move you from Windows 7 back to XP. I do not give a damn that you can’t install toolbars and other crap for me to have to clean up later. I fact, it thrills me to no end to tell you that I have no way to roll back the upgrade. Sure, you can talk to your director, my director, and the CEO. Your director isn’t even tangentially in my chain of command. My director has my back 150%, especially against the likes of you. And the CEO would like nothing more than to be more of a Luddite than he actually is, aside from being far too professional than to get involved.
Seriously, get over yourself and be glad that I don’t laugh at you to your face.
I typo’d “our central email address” as “our ventral email address” and I cracked myself up but there’s nobody here who would get the joke.
So, I share with you folks.
Gee. I’m wondering if you like Word or not. For what it’s worth, I hate it and hate having to ask you to use it! 
I take it you don’t have to use Access…Word is a sparkling gem compared to the most recent release of Access. Searching by field requires a ridiculous number of extra steps, and prominent features of previous releases – such as the ability to export a report as an Excel spreadsheet – have to be added manually as custom items to the “Quick Access toolbar”. (And what, exactly, is supposed to be “quick” about that thing is beyond me…its buttons are obnoxiously tiny.)
The painting is finally done, thank God. The intent was to find another contractor, but my boss is not exactly popular in this town and there are many contractors who won’t work with him. I found this out the hard way.
Boss gives me a list of six contractors to call to get painting quotes. I wasn’t with the company the last time we had to have this painting done, so I had no idea who these people were or what I was getting into. The calls went like this:
Contractor #1: “We can’t work with you because Mr. Bossman was verbally abusive to our staff the last time!”
Contractor #2: “We had to sue Mr. Bossman to get paid for the work we did, no thank you!”
Contractor#3: Hung up on me when I said where I was calling from. :eek:
Contractor #4: Gave me quote.
Contractor #5: Gave me quote which was about half of what #4 said. This is who we hired that caused all the problems.
Contractor #6: Left a message for them, never called me back.
I was trying to hire #4 to replace #5 when the work finally got done. Remember, the boss told me to call these people. You’d think he’d remember someone who filed suit against him. Unless it happens way more than I know about.
The problem with people like this is that the thought process is;
“They can’t still be mad about that! It was just a silly little misunderstanding! They eventually got their money! What are they still sore about?”
I really pit holiday creep when it comes to working. So you’ve taken off thinking for the whole week?? Good for you, except I really really need that email answered to continue to do my job.
I once typed up a letter for my boss to a customer that ended with, “And please continue to tell us who we’re doing.” (It was supposed to be “how we’re doing.”) I caught it before I sent it out, but we all had a good laugh over it. 
Apparently you are working for my husband’s old boss. He would regularly close his company and re-open it the next day under a different name to escape all his creditors.
Dear agent:
if you call me for a job and my first question is “does this happen to be for The Client From Hell or for one of its subsidiaries, such as Third Circle?”, you say “no, no, it’s that sector but not Client From Hell”, and a few seconds later I’m reading a wikipedia entry which states that “Third Circle’s factory employs about half of the village’s inhabitants”, not only will I tell you not to forward my resume, I’m going to file your name under B, for “Bloody Lying Asshole (And Not Even A Good Liar)”.
SRSLY? It isn’t even the first one, do they think that if they send my CV and I find out once I’ve been (pre)selected I won’t have the balls to say “hell no”? Have they forgotten the power of google? I may be an idiot, but I’m not that much of one!
Morgyn reminded me in a different thread to share this story about SG. The guy who just keeps on taking. But, this time, he did do a good thing.
A couple of months ago…right around when my “give a shit” went away…TPTB started looking at the warehouse.
I’m always happy to have visitors, so I took them around and pointed out the insulation hanging off of boxes and mentioned that the installers hadn’t finished. Government bidding, TPTB took the lowest one and you get what you pay for. Anyhow, my give a shit was gone by then.
When we went to the shredder room, I was having fun pulling box lids off and showing TPTB half an inch of paper dust. We ran the shredder for a few minutes and then they left.
The next day, one of the Risk Management guys came out and put a particulate meter in one of the rooms and said that it would record measurements every hour and that he would move it a couple of times a day.
When he moved it into the shredder room, I donned my earplugs and dust mask and started killing trees. As I recall, the danger level on the meter was 28,000 (can’t remember the exact numbers, sorry) and I had it at about 68,000.
When I called to ask about the results, I was told that most of the warehouse was good, but that it was a* little* high in the shredder room. It was also mentioned that it was pretty noisey in there.
On my final evaluation, I got scolded for not bringing these problems up. Of course I should have been buying ear protection for everyone (even though I kept all of the denied requests). I should have told them about how dusty it was. This was all my fault. Whatever, that was 10 days ago. I don’t care.
What I did learn is that SG has filed a lawsuit against the county over hearing loss. Much as it hurts me to admit this, I’m on his side.
So he might actually do something that improves the place, even after he’s left it, and even though his motivation is pure greed. I’m on his side on this one item as well.
Wait, shouldn’t that be under S, for “Sangriento Mentir Gilipollas (y ni siquiera un buen mentiroso)”?
You are based in Spain, aren’t you?
That might actually work for the boss. His name is in the company name, and if he changes the name some contractors might not realize who they’re working with until it’s too late! At least it might work the first time we try to hire someone.
So I managed to fix my printer!
I don’t know if I mentioned it before or not, but one of the printers I use on a weekly basis stopped working sometime back in September. Just… stopped for no discernible reason. It LOOKED just fine, no error messages and no jams or anything. Even turning it off and on didn’t do a thing.
I figured it may have been the cable from the wall to the printer that decided to give up, but I couldn’t get to the wall part of the hookup thanks to a very large desk/cabinet in the way so I put a call into IT helpdesk.
Now here’s the thing about IT. We don’t have one, at least not at our location. We previously had a full time IT guy, but head office laid him off, set us up with a contractor for a year to do various things and then cut him loose. Now we only have Not IT (NIT) and if you actually ask him directly anything about IT you get HR on a rampage that he isn’t IT… so why are we asking him?
Here’s the thing about NIT, he’s dating HR’s daughter (we only have one person in many of these positions) and does other work. IT is really only a side thing that he does, he’s the person that the REAL IT department calls up to talk through issues and get them straightened out. If that doesn’t work we have to get authorization to call in the computer consultants to get things done. NIT is really not a techy guy. In fact, I was told by the Former IT guy that he wanted ME to do this job. Because I’m apparently the techiest person there. He may be under this impression because I never, ever, came to him for computer issues unless they were something that either needed more expertise/time than I had or needed someone with an admin login. And even then I once found him the solution to fix my problem when he wasn’t moving fast enough on it for me.
Well apparently they needed me to log in to that computer connected to that printer so they could test the outlet etc and hang around while they did all of this. I spoke up and said A) I don’t have time to stand around (though I can log it in) and B) I think the cable might just be the issue… can’t you get someone to move the cabinet and try plugging in a new one? Nope, neither was going to happen. I had to log in and IT had to do their thing apparently tying up my time at the same time to be standing at the ready to do… something.
So I said screw it and let it drop. I had a workaround, it was mildly annoying but really no skin off my nose. They never came back to me and I only thought about it once a week when I used that computer.
Now we are getting some new people, things are being rearranged. Like the office furniture! One of the guys decided he could use the cabinet and really we don’t use it except as a storage space for five year old things that should be tossed or stored anyway so it got taken away to the other side of the floor, leaving the wall wide open to see the cables plugged in. Someone also handily left a CAT5 cable sitting in there and since it wasn’t being used I co-opted it.
I unplugged the old cable, plugged in the new cable and…
the printer started printing the documents I had tried to print to it 3 months ago.
I haven’t told NIT or HR, because I got shit for telling them maybe they should review how many drums we have for the colour printer and ordering more if we need them, who knows if I will ever tell them. I’m just happy my printer works again.
Even more than Word, I hate people who want me to design (I’m a graphic designer) something in Word, so that they can do live edits.
Hell to the no, never gonna happen.
Boggette and I (we work together) are currently designing a Word template so that the engineers can write up documentation that looks just like ours and which can be (a) easily imported into FrameMaker and (b) won’t allow them to edit on the fly. The second part is easy, but Word and Frame handle enough things differently (and approach things from such different paradigms) that doing the first part is a bit of a nightmare. For some things, it’s going to boil down to, “You can’t do that in Word, deal with it.”
Meantime, my loathing for Word, which was dark and deep to begin with, only increases. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to create a style for table and figure captions in such a way that you can’t name it the way you need to and also bollix cross-referencing so you can’t look for specific style names?
Man, I hate Word. And tomorrow, on top of dealing with the HOA management agency about my leaking fire suppression system, I get to deal with this stupid template again. I anticipate an ugly week.
Well, M de Mentiroso de mierda (y que ni siquiera miente bien), but you know, that kind of expressions don’t work too well if you translate word for word. Plus the fucker was lying in English.
It wasn’t so bad. Ok. Yes. It was/is. I hate Word, too. But it’s nearly DONE! I wish we could go back to Word 97. That one only did what you TOLD it to do, instead of whatever it wrongly thought you wanted it to do. heavy sigh
I will just say this:
There’s two people who do my job in my company: one in Boston (me) and one in NYC. The girl in NYC has had the job for far longer than I have yet she constantly fucks up and I wind up being the one getting screamed at for it because our boss works in the Boston office. Then I get the pleasure of fixing the mistakes.
I could deal with that, if it wasn’t THE SAME DAMN MISTAKES that she makes every week. I’ve brought them all to her attention multiple times but she refuses to change.