I WANT MY MOM!
This is how I feel after work today. I formatted charts today that made me cry. I'm sure that it's just because I feel awful and sick, but I got so frustrated at this presentation that I started to tear up (!)
Basically, we have a medical client with A LOT of informational charts to format. The problem arises when the clients format their info using Excel-based chart programs and import them into Powerpoint. These two programs don't like each other, so usually we convert the Excel chart info into Powerpoint objects and remake them. When you do this, extra info tagged on the Excel files is lost. This isn't a problem for most clients, as they still have the original Excel files to refer to. But THIS client wants access to ALL of the Excel info, so we MUST format the charts in Excel.
Everytime you change something, it shifts the image around, the colour palettes are incompatible making colour uniformity impossible, if you make a mistake the chart info reorganizes itself and you could lose stuff... it's extremely aggravating. I usually fight with charts anyway, so this just adds an extra layer of difficulty which is time consuming and completely unnecessary. I did my best and sent it back to Becky, who is at home sick anyway, telling her that I was gonna go and have a good cry over it. I didn't want to be bothered about it until tomorrow.
Then I had to fight to get on a packed streetcar and ended up hacking my lungs out for about 45 mins. I'm so tired of being sick. I just wanna rip my lungs from my chest. I feel kinda sad and tired and ill-used by my body at the moment.