Comments | emiline: 5 second rant

emiline

5 second rant

Nov 23, 2006 10:48

I HATE MICROSOFT ( Read more... )

Comments 11

thecherrybomb November 23 2006, 19:30:15 UTC

oooh i hate things like this... especially when i'm sure i used to know how to do something and can't anymore. it normally means somehow the program has changed but instead, i always feel as though i got stupider.

emiline November 23 2006, 19:41:39 UTC

That is EXACTLY how I felt! I never had to use this MS Queries before, so I ignored that button for the longest time. Then I finally decided to try it, since nothing else was working, so what did I have to lose, right? GAH.

lection November 23 2006, 19:40:04 UTC

I had the same thing happen to me when I worked in the scholarship office at MUN. All of a sudden the mail merges I had been doing almost every day CEASED TO WORK, and I thought I was going to THROW THINGS. And I was like, How do I ask for help, when for 6 weeks I have been DOING THIS EXACT THING without any problem?

I am glad you figured it out!!

emiline November 23 2006, 19:45:23 UTC

You'd think you'd get some kind of warning that things would change, wouldn't you? BUT NO. And then it takes FOREVER to figure out, which is so annoying because you've already gotten so frustrated that you've almost burst into tears at work and when you work in one small office with the four other people you work with in very close quarters, you'd really rather not have everyone see you get so upset over a stupid computer program.

Um. Yeah. While I'm glad it's not just me that this happens to, I'm sorry it happened to you, too!

alltheleaves November 23 2006, 19:45:43 UTC

I'm actually pretty good at them so I wish I could have been around to save your bacon so to speak. Glad you got it all sorted. Thanks for the e-mail by the way. I keep seeing it in my inbox and thinking I should reply to that, it was really lovely, I'll do it when I have a spare moment. Yet the spare moments and my seeing the e-mail never seem to coincide.

emiline November 23 2006, 19:48:07 UTC

Now I know who to ask next time something like that happens! I had been pretty good at mail merges, until just this time. I think it's burned in my brain now, so hopefully I won't freak out again. :)

Don't worry about replying to the email, since you're busy. I just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you, and hoping your lj-silence was a good thing.

cosmorific November 23 2006, 21:41:55 UTC

Ack! Would some blueberry pancakes help?

emiline November 24 2006, 03:03:21 UTC

MMM! Yes, they would! Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving, Smo.

cosmorific November 24 2006, 06:32:17 UTC

Thank you very much - and glad to hear you got things sorted out with the 'puter.

vitaminbootay November 24 2006, 19:43:04 UTC

Simmer down my little Bonsai tree.

emiline November 24 2006, 19:44:48 UTC

Don't worry, I already did, my little sailor on the ship of children's librarianness.