Slave to Technology
I don't get mad very often. But when I do, you know it.
For whatever reason, I get more angry when it involves things that should not cause a problem. Like Powerpoint technology. This would explain why my co-workers heard a litany of swear words emanating from my cubical this morning.
I was on a hot deadline to send a Powerpoint deck to my client by 10 a.m. when the deck I was working on went into "read-only" mode without my prompting. This unforseen change nearly caused me to punch my computer screen. Now I was unable to make the needed edits. Shit, I couldn't do anything. And jabbing the keys as hard as I could did nothing to change that.
So I did the only thing that made sense: I started dropping F bombs.
Not under my breath, either. These were full blown expletives. They weren't loud enough to reach the other side of the office, but the guy who shares a cube wall with me may have had to put on headphones.
Needless to say, I was livid.
After ten minutes of coaxing the document to obey my demands, I grabbed our IT guy to share his wisdom. It turns out that the problem was with the replication of the document. The Powerpoint deck went into "read only" mode because my computer thought the saved file on my desktop was the active file - not the actual file I was working on. So when I tried to make edits, I wasn't able because someone else was working on the main file. And that someone was me, even though I was working on what I thought was the active file.
Make sense?
Yeah. That's what I thought.
After he explained what was happening, I was able to continue and send the deck to the client in plenty of time. But that still didn't take away from my frustration.
I'm still a little wound up.
For whatever reason, I get more angry when it involves things that should not cause a problem. Like Powerpoint technology. This would explain why my co-workers heard a litany of swear words emanating from my cubical this morning.
I was on a hot deadline to send a Powerpoint deck to my client by 10 a.m. when the deck I was working on went into "read-only" mode without my prompting. This unforseen change nearly caused me to punch my computer screen. Now I was unable to make the needed edits. Shit, I couldn't do anything. And jabbing the keys as hard as I could did nothing to change that.
So I did the only thing that made sense: I started dropping F bombs.
Not under my breath, either. These were full blown expletives. They weren't loud enough to reach the other side of the office, but the guy who shares a cube wall with me may have had to put on headphones.
Needless to say, I was livid.
After ten minutes of coaxing the document to obey my demands, I grabbed our IT guy to share his wisdom. It turns out that the problem was with the replication of the document. The Powerpoint deck went into "read only" mode because my computer thought the saved file on my desktop was the active file - not the actual file I was working on. So when I tried to make edits, I wasn't able because someone else was working on the main file. And that someone was me, even though I was working on what I thought was the active file.
Make sense?
Yeah. That's what I thought.
After he explained what was happening, I was able to continue and send the deck to the client in plenty of time. But that still didn't take away from my frustration.
I'm still a little wound up.