Resolved:  If I am ever in a position of authority, and an underling gives me a spreadsheet that contains no mathematical operations or numerical data, I will at minimum have him fired, and, ideally, have him flayed and his bleeding carcass displayed from a gibbet above my door, bearing the legend: I DID NOT USE THE PROPER TOOL FOR THE JOB.

I am ( Read more... )

"Hey, ouij, I need you to make some copies for me."

"Sure thing, boss. What's up?"

"Copy each of these six filings once. Make sure they're clean. Then, prepare this filing." hands me ransom-note cut-and-paste draft of filing."Uh, boss, we already filed these papers electronically ( Read more... )

Took babybro to the Wizards game after work. Snagged some good
seats--it's a birthday celebration, after all. The look on his face was
totally worth it. I love being kuyaWatching Gil and the Wiz thump the Timberwolves mostly erased my office ( Read more... )

. . . sucks ass. I mean, it really sucks ass. Why should I be compelled to sit through an hour of useless powerpoint presentations with a total information content of five minutes?

Because my co-workers are computer illiterates. Electronic case filing in the D.C. Superior Court is not complicated. We received TFM(tm) in our e-mail boxes last ( Read more... )

Baa, baa black sheep, have you any wool?
"Yes, sir; yes, sir, three bags full:
"One for the Master and one for the Dame
"And One for the little boy who lives down the lane."

This is my life at work. I move piles of paper to and fro. Occasionally, I move them hither and yon. The cruel twist is that I am supposed to be living in the age of the ( Read more... )

An anonymous informant who works in the IT industry submitted this e-mail, which he received from his IT Service Desk.:

From: Service Desk ( Read more... )

My office just migrated to WindowsXP. It's really fun watching a whole bunch of 12:00 users being confronted with new software.

Basic functionality has not changed; all that has changed, for most users, is the look...and yet people are utterly baffled. Considering the amount of confusion this is generating, I wonder if it might not be equally ( Read more... )

The downside to the increasing popularity of Linux has meant an influx of "Blinking 12:00" users, who have neither the capacity nor the desire to learn anything new. Some even threaten legal action on community boards when they hose their installs.

These are presumably the same people who argue with soundboards of Schwartzie soundbites.

There are people who believe that e-mail is a magical extension of the Telex...and require hard copies of every single e-mail.

I can understand the desire to hard-copy things for archive...but for someone to eschew electronic reading utterly in this day and age......[APOSIOPESIS]