The Remaining Catch-Up Entry

Sep 21, 2012 20:04

Rosh Hashanah made this a quiet week, so I can finish catching up. This is all the odds and ends I have been saving up, including several mini-rants. Well, everything except the longer entries I have been planning on the subjects of politics, dating, and social networking.

5773: If it isn't obvious, I wish a happy, healthy and prosperous year ( Read more... )

storytelling, baseball, notes to myself, work, celebrity death watch, language, judaism, kvetching, dreams

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cahwyguy September 22 2012, 01:09:45 UTC
Work rant, part 2: The correct time to close restrooms for cleaning is not during lunch hours or during peak departure times.

Or first thing in the morning. Whenever I walk into A3 (usually around 640a), the men's restroom is closed for servicing.

Work rant, part 3: When I rule the world, all documents sent for re-review will have all changes (including deletions) clearly marked. If they are sent as Word documents, one can often find this via "track changes," but that is not the case for PDF files.

You can't always do this if you are doing master and sub-documents. Track changes screws up sub-document inclusion. (Obviously, that's not your case since they are distributing Word). When folks forget to track changes, I use another useful feature: Compare Documents. You can also compare documents in PDF.

Work non-rant: My promotion finally came through.

Congratulations. My manager walked in Thursday to let me know I got a PRF!

One final note on work: We got an announcement about a new program for charitable contributions. It ( ... )

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fauxklore September 23 2012, 03:08:24 UTC
Using "compare documents" assumes it is easy to find the previous version we commented on. We do save them on our shared drive, but that is still a pain.

I don't see any real advantage to charitable contributions via payroll over just making my own direct contributions. The only reason I did United Way was management pressure to do so.

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cahwyguy September 23 2012, 03:18:25 UTC
I remember that pressure, many years ago. $1 seemed to keep them happy -- they were more concerned about the %age participating than the amount donated.

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cahwyguy September 27 2012, 23:51:16 UTC
I took a look at the new charitable contribution website today (I don't know if you saw my writeup at http://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=6337 ). Only one theatre group (in NYC), no museums, only AJWS ... not that much stuff I was interested in directing funds to. I found one group related to a cause of interest (my nephew has MLIV, a rare genetic disease) so I'm participating, but I'm not that impressed with their selection.

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piefessor September 22 2012, 03:22:24 UTC
Congratulations on the well-deserved promotion, Miriam, and happy new year!

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aliceinfinland September 22 2012, 20:08:40 UTC
One of my co-workers, listening to me kvetching about my disdain for Microsoft, said, "this tells me you don't want to learn new things." Uh, no, I love to learn new things, but I want to choose which things I learn. And spending time learning where they moved 28 separate buttons on an application takes away time I could spend learning to read hieroglyphics, which would be infinitely more amusing.

I would like to see this circulated widely and made into a meme on Facebook with appropriate picture of a nineteenth century clerk or a kitten or something. It is the appropriate retort to everyone who insinuates that older workers are by nature resistant to change. I'm not resistant to progress, just to change for the sake of change and new license revenues.

Congratulations on the promotion!

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