Yep, the advance check was actually handed to me in a taped envelope.
I’m not expecting to see the other check anytime soon…accounting is now claiming the whole issue is a computer problem, and says I.T. isn’t working hard enough.
If your workplace is anything like mine, IT will now find a way to blame the accounting dept.
Yes indeedy. Word was designed by idiots and sadists. Have you ever tried to put an image in a table? I have. :mad:
Indeed.
Years ago, I was working for a County Data Processing department, and to verify the accuracy of a new report, I had to go upstairs to the Child Protection department and go thru their files to compare numbers to our report.
What an afternoon that was! I almost brought up my lunch, reading some of that. (And worse, seeing that often the kids had been given back to those so-called parents.)
You know, I can understand that a parent might get so upset by a misbehaving child that you slap them, and do so harder than you intended, and actually injure them. But to get upset by their misbehavior, so you put a pot of water on the stove, wait till it’s boiling, and then go and pour that onto the child – what??? Wouldn’t your temper have cooled down in the time it takes for that water to boil? What is wrong with these people?
I knew a woman once, worked part time with her. Her full time job was with CPS. She told me a couple of stories, no names of course, that gave me nightmares.
Oh God… getting the screenies into the spot I want them is bad enough in regular text!
I just love how when you try to move it up or down a little bit, Word decides to move it to some random spot on another page, and I’m sitting there wondering where the heck my image is now. :rolleyes:
Gather round, campers, it’s time for another story about my supervisor. One of the frustrating bits of my job is that sometimes we need to buy things. I get quotes and send them to my supervisor and her supervisor, who need to approve the purchase. So I get quotes and send them on, and they just sit on them for months. Nothing happens. Then all of a sudden they decide we really need this thing now, so I have to dig through my old emails to find the quote and send it to them again (even though they’ve already gotten an email from me, but I don’t think they know how to set up folders for those kinds of things so neither one of them can ever find anything). Then we wait for months again, and I ask occasionally if we can go ahead and order, and usually we don’t order things until the end of the fiscal year when we need to spend whatever money is left in the budget, so then we have to rush to order something that’s been on hold for months. (That’s the end of the background–on to the story!)
Last year, my supervisor asked me to get prices for a product. I got a quote and emailed it to her. I told her I had sent her the quote, and she laughed snidely, and said “Now why would you want to do that?” in a tone of voice that said it was a very stupid thing to do. :rolleyes: Anyone want to guess what just happened this week? She found out we didn’t have any more of this product, and she said we should have some of those, and asked me to get a quote for them. :mad: So I got the quote and sent it to her, and I feel like I should start taking bets on whether she’ll call me stupid for getting this quote, or not do anything, or actually order the damn things this time.
I regularly produce 400+ page documents in FrameMaker. My bosses want me to start using Word, because it’s free and it will let the designers write and edit documents, too.
I can’t even begin to explain how bad an idea this is.
You’re assuming our IT department will find the motivation to blame someone else.
(I’ve been waiting three years for someone with administrative access to update my video card’s driver so I don’t get nuisance error messages every time I use AutoCAD.)
Can you require a “read” receipt for your emails?
I don’t have anything to add because I still don’t have a workplace.
On most browsers, that requires the recipient to respond for the receipt to be sent. Do you think her supervisor(s) would do that?
Personally, I consider such demands rude, and always refuse them.
In postal mail, return receipt costs the sender money, and so is used only for important things. But in email, it costs the sender nothing (the extra work/expense is put on the recipient) and so is often added to trivial things. Some people put it on every email they send!
I admit being one of those and always have been. I turn on the setting that does it automatically. In the e-mail systems I’ve used you have the option of automatically sending a read receipt for those e-mails, prompt before sending, or not send at all. For those that allow them it is handy for automatically saying “got it”.
If you don’t like them, don’t allow them. It won’t bother me.
Especially handy for SPAMmers – allows them to automatically identify real live email addresses, so they can target them for more SPAM and can sell the address to other SPAMmers. I don’t want to do anything to make it easier for them, like your action does.
Interesting username/post combo. 
I’m being asked to work a shift on Turkey Day with no mention of extra pay for it. No employer should be allowed to ask for or demand work on a federal holiday without extra pay. Any employer doing so should be heavily fined and then mocked mercilessly in the public square.
Why are there so many decaf options for the keurig?! It’s like you people don’t understand the proper role of coffee in the workplace. All I want is a smooth medium or dark roast regular coffee that doesn’t taste like ass (I’m looking at you Newman’s Special Blend) in the morning. Is that so hard?
They’ve already missed the point that coffee is meant to be brewed one carafe at a time, so yeah, it looks like they easily miss points when it comes to coffee.
Yeah, when the president of the company is fine with instant, you know it’s gonna be a hard coffee row to hoe.
We can’t do any mocking, because you failed to name the company.
To a degree. However the setting I am thinking of sends a read acknowledgement when you open the message. If you realize it is spam first and delete it, then no acknowledgment.