No, I’m not watching/listening to Pewdiepie play Deadpool because all I have to do today is totally mind numbing paperwork.
Blargh.
If you’re going to have a conniption fit and scream about/at one of your soon to be ex-employees, could you please not do it while I, your humble vendor, have to hear the drama. I’ve much better things to do with my time.
Ah yes,the joys of watching a lawsuit go from birth to emo-adolescence before your very eyes…
Remember, when chewing off your foot in order to escape, try to keep the edges even.
Dear $colleague
Why do you phone me when email will suffice? Or are you afraid of an email trial?
I have learnt not to take verbal agreements any more, but rather stick to emailed agreements. So much easier to put the blame on somebody else don’t you think?
Now get lost, kthanxbai.
The ‘new proxy server’ is not wrecking havoc with this site. Not at all.
(3rd try to post and it needed repeating)
You assholes aren’t starting to succeed at your evil plan to finally get me sick by hacking and coughing and sneezing around me for weeks.
I’ve got teh crud, to where I almost wish I was actually sick and could stay home.
Calling it an evil plan presupposes planning and the intelligence and social cohesiveness to carry it off.
Bacterial-Psychological warfare.
Dear $colleague
Whut? You don’t know how to set up a PPTP VPN connection? Are you that lazy?
fek off.
You just lost two hours worth of work on that doc and now you’re getting mad and pointing fingers? Normally that would be worth some sympathy, but you’ve been working here for years and these documents are your lifeblood and yet you don’t have the common sense to save your docs every few minutes. We’ve been sending out Best Practice notices about this kind of thing for a while. I guess you just don’t care and as such, I won’t care.
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Isn’t auto-save on by default in MS Word?
The newer versions, for 7 and 8, not only is it on by default, I can’t see a way to turn it off - not that I would want to.
I know that way back when, when I was using Wordperfect 5 (before it went to hell), I had it set up to automatically save every fifteen minutes. I’m not sure if Multimate had that option… I think Works has that option, and OpenOrifice definitely has it.
So, I’m wondering if the luser was using Word or something else, and what version he/she/it was using. And which settings the ijit disabled for no damned good reason.
Dear $site_technician
Today (December the 16th) is a public holiday in South Africa.
This morning you sent out a message and phoned me that your site have loss of Internet - since last week.
I have NO sympathy at all for you, since :
- You have had more than enough time to report the fault
- I am not on standby, neither do I get paid any kind of standby allowance.
So shurrup and take the shafting like a man… You certainly deserve it for not being proactive.
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I turn autosave off whenever I can. I often work from old work, and if I don’t “save as” first I’d overwrite the original document.
Why not set all of your old work to read-only, thus forcing you to Save As?
Weird. My SOP with documents is simple and direct.
Right click. New > Word Document > enter new filename > hit enter twice.
Even if I change the names, when I change a title, it’s all simple and direct.
If I need to copy a file, I can do that too. Pretty easy, actually.
I change the templates at the drop of a hat, and I don’t want to mess with unlocking it to do so. I’m an old warhorse who learned one way and doesn’t want to change.
I almost never create a blank sheet anymore. I should sharpen my template knowledge and make 90% of what I work on a template instead of just a regular file. But that would requite motivation.
Just like there are a few macros I should write, but so far it’s been easier to just do it manually, even though it isn’t really easier.
This reminds me of the “Laziest Man” story in Time Enough for Love. It amazes me how much work people will put into resisting doing something so much easier and simpler.
I have some templates myself, for things I do regularly, but from time to time I go outside the usual formats. The documents I’ve been working on tonight are a good case in point: I’m deliberately not doing a history, as all the history is waaay too back to pin a date on and it’s academic anyway. Then I’ve got a list of characters that I am deliberately not doing character sheets for (I usually use only a half-page CS, but also have a full-page, a detailed half-page, and an eight-page). I’ve done no maps… I may wind up doing two architecture mock-ups, nothing very fancy. I might wind up doing a couple pieces of jewelry, just for the hell of it. Working with some fashion designs could be fun for an afternoon, just in case… Just as something to show a prospective artist.
What was the question? Oh. Um. I do have a bunch of templates saved for different parts of the worldbuilding process. If I wind up doing the same thing more than two or three times, I make a template. I also have two spreadsheets that have nothing but formulas in them, so I don’t have to reinvent the circumference of the wheel constantly.
(Edited for coherency)
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Pratchett’s laziest man works out every day and makes sure he eats good food and dresses well because it takes less energy to do things if you are healthy in the first place and people will do things for you if you look nice and act nice.
I need to cultivate that kind of laziness.
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I was referring to Heinlein’s laziest man… the guy who memorized a log table and the number of seconds until graduation, to get out of work and avoid the upperclassmen at Annapolis.
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