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So, yesterday I needed to e-mail my boss two paragraphs that I'd just written for his review.
Now, most of you are assuming that this procedure went something like this:
1. I wrote the paragraphs.
2. I sent the e-mail.
3. My boss wrote back, with either a Yay! or a Dear god, no! or something in between.
Alas, you are forgetting that this is me, Microsoft, Office 2007, and electronic equipment, which put together makes a deadly combination. The actual procedure went like this:
1. I wrote the paragraphs.
2. I attached them to the e-mail as an Office 2007 Word document.
3. I sent the e-mail to my boss.
4. My boss, who has pulled rank to not get Office 2007, was, natch, not able to open the document.
5. I said very nasty things about Office 2007, but quiet like, to maintain the illusion that I am a friendly, calm person who only says nice things about computer products.
6. I saved the document as a rich text file, and sent another e-mail, with the rft attachment.
7. My boss read the two paragraphs.
8. My boss then attempted to reply to my e-mail. I say attempted, because when he hit "Reply…."
9. Every single one of my words in the e-mail, and every single word he typed back, was transmuted into barcode. No, not Sanskrit, barcode, with the words in a very small Arial font resting on top of the Sanskrit.
10. Various techy people came around and laughed and laughed.
11. Naturally, when IT came around to check on the problem, it had vanished - and just as promptly reappeared once the IT guys had left. (It always works like that.)
12. "I had barcode free e-mail once," said my boss mournfully.
I hope he isn't making too many of the right connections here.
Avast, me mateys! 'Tis be well beyond the time to eliminate this scourge of evil that be Microsoft!
Now, most of you are assuming that this procedure went something like this:
1. I wrote the paragraphs.
2. I sent the e-mail.
3. My boss wrote back, with either a Yay! or a Dear god, no! or something in between.
Alas, you are forgetting that this is me, Microsoft, Office 2007, and electronic equipment, which put together makes a deadly combination. The actual procedure went like this:
1. I wrote the paragraphs.
2. I attached them to the e-mail as an Office 2007 Word document.
3. I sent the e-mail to my boss.
4. My boss, who has pulled rank to not get Office 2007, was, natch, not able to open the document.
5. I said very nasty things about Office 2007, but quiet like, to maintain the illusion that I am a friendly, calm person who only says nice things about computer products.
6. I saved the document as a rich text file, and sent another e-mail, with the rft attachment.
7. My boss read the two paragraphs.
8. My boss then attempted to reply to my e-mail. I say attempted, because when he hit "Reply…."
9. Every single one of my words in the e-mail, and every single word he typed back, was transmuted into barcode. No, not Sanskrit, barcode, with the words in a very small Arial font resting on top of the Sanskrit.
10. Various techy people came around and laughed and laughed.
11. Naturally, when IT came around to check on the problem, it had vanished - and just as promptly reappeared once the IT guys had left. (It always works like that.)
12. "I had barcode free e-mail once," said my boss mournfully.
I hope he isn't making too many of the right connections here.
Avast, me mateys! 'Tis be well beyond the time to eliminate this scourge of evil that be Microsoft!