Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

Why cant they install it, idgi.

moved to a floor where there's a cluster of americans all together.

holy shit do they talk loud.

they seem nice and friendly though, couple of them even asked why my EARS WERE BLEEDING

Loud how? Like shouting across a room or standing close but still bellowing?

In her type-written notes, my boss writes in all caps. She does it b/c she is farsighted and she says that all caps are bigger and therefore easier to read. I hate reading her notes b/c they are NOT EASIER TO READ.

Can you maybe increase her page size or change the resolution for her computer or take her to get glasses?

Screen size doesn't matter b/c I'm talking about hard copies.

Just checked: Her deposition abstracts are in Century 14 pt. All caps, of course.

And she wears glasses.

all caps is def harder to read. using proper upper/lower sentence structure allows the letters that compose a word to form shapes. you don't realize it, but you can identify a word without reading every character because of it's shape. using all caps robs you of this because ever word is basically shaped like a rectangle. although, i get the feeling that info might be lost on yr boss.

Oh man, just re-reading this thread. Be careful about printing e-mail. I save mine to a disk which I take home at night. I hate finding e-mails mixed in with important print jobs! Also I stopped printing out web pages a million years ago. You can easily pdf them now. I'm like, adapt to technology already!

carl agatha plz keep us updated w/r/t this movie debacle

Same boss calls me b/c she can't find a PDF of some interrogatories. I go to her office and find the PDF and open it.

She says "Why is that saved under 'Discovery'? I was looking in Pleadings." I'm like....because interrogatories are part of discovery, and they are not pleadings. She seemed confused but didn't say anything.

She knows that interrogatories are discovery and not pleadings! There is no reason they would be saved under pleadings. It's like she can't comprehend that a computer file is still a file that contains related documents, exactly like a paper file.

I *LIKE* my boss and on the balance she's really great, but it annoys me that she so undervalues the use of computers and pretty basic computer competence.

loud like talking like a normal person, but to an entire street at once

CA's IT issues are pure gold (from a distance, admittedly)

I keep telling my colleagues that if they don't take time to learn the technology and the software they are going to find themselves struggling to keep their job when they are in their fifties! Make the time, check with your boss or employer for refresher classes if necessary.

I've worked at some places where they don't even teach you how to use the e-mail. Then if you take an hour or so a week to learn all of the functions, you are made to feel you are "screwing around". These attitudes have to change!

Ding dong associate attorney: Je55e, I haven't been getting emails all day.

Me: That's not good.

AA: I just checked my iPhone and I have a ton of emails that I didn't get on my computer.

Me: I can let Brad (IT guy) know.

AA: Ugh. No. I don't have time to deal with this!

Me: Okay.... Then you don't want me to call him?

AA: No, I don't have time for him to work on my computer. I just need email! [pause...sigh...pause] I'm just letting you know that I can't access email and I need it!

Your lawyers and my IT dept deserve each other.

Update!

Since the agency IT guy was bamboozled by a slide show and .mov files, they escalated the ticket to the big time IT people.
A lovely young fellow named Mark just came into my cubicle, logged in as an admin, associated the file time with Windows Media Player and installed Quicktime. Took him five minutes.
I am now watching videos of a guy doing yard work, just as god intended.

And I totally ratted out the shitty IT guy. "Why couldn't Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo* just associate the file type and install the program yesterday?" I asked. The competent IT guy just shook his head and said, "I really don't know."

*not his real name

"we're gonna take this project away from you b/c we don't like the results"
...
"we need your help on that project b/c we don't know what to do"
-_-

my supervisor doesn't understand basic technology. "so, here, where it says 'title' in the search field, does that search everything? or just titles?"

we're redesigning the website so every phone convo w/the designers takes twice as long because of questions like that. and then he repeats things that have already been clarified because he needs to reclarify them.

he's a really really nice guy but sometimes these questions boggle me!

he repeats things that have already been clarified because he needs to reclarify them.
my work life & the reason every meeting takes three times as long as it needs to.

One thing I think about a lot, which sounds like it might apply to your situation: When and why does a person stop learning? He clearly has enough ability to operate a mouse and do some other stuff. If he's like some of the people I work with, he might know a few more "advanced" things. All those things had to be learned. (Learning to use a mouse from scratch takes a little effort!) But then there are some things that just DO NOT stick. I wonder if they thought in the 80s and 90s "learning the computer" was something they did once and were done with, not something ongoing as technology changed.

Earlier today a partner and the associate (the one w/ no email) and I had to electronically file 3 motions in federal court and messenger courtesy copies to the judge. We were seriously behind and I was the only one if the office who knew how to:

- redact from a PDF
- print to the letterhead tray
- convert Word to PDF
- electronically file
- operate a two-hole punch

The partner ran around going "How can I help you? Tell me what to do to help you!" I had to do my work + walk him through printing to a certain tray and use the 2-hole punch. He messed up the printing and the associate tried to help, but he couldn't figure it out either.

My mom barely knows how to change channels on the cable and bought herself an ipad.

- operate a two-hole punch

OK serious lol @ this

It is literally true.

You work in The Office.

Teach me how to redact from a pdf.

I just got back from a week off work and there was some fun while I was away. there was a colleague's last day, and they had a farewell afternoon tea for him. Literally five minutes before it starts an unhinged volunteer who works here races into the CEOs office and demands that the leaving person be fired because of something that happened 18 months ago that he refuses to actually discuss or explain.

And then at the tea itself, another volunteer went berserk about a climate change action poster we've had in the window for more than a year, but which she just noticed, and demanded that we removed it because climater change isn't real and "the icebergs are only melting because there's too much water in the Northern Hemisphere".

so a new hire with ad agency experience was asked to give us lessons on how to make better looking powerpoint presentations. one of these recommendations was to use "elephant" (bold) as the font for all titles and headers. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FUCKING FONT? now it's all over everyone's presentations. IT IS SO UGLY AND I HATE IT!

Teach me how to redact from a pdf.

Tools>Redaction>Mark for redaction>Apply redactions. Or you can do Find & redact via advanced find.

I covet Acrobat X b/c it can automatically find and redact portions of text that appear to social security numbers, email addresses, addresses, etc.

James, that's bizarre. That person wanted the person fired even though s/he was already leaving? Is that volunteer actually nuts?

ytth, assuming it's this Elephant

http://i.imgur.com/s5Ig7.jpg

but hoping it's this one

http://i.imgur.com/WVvH2.png

Literally five minutes before it starts an unhinged volunteer who works here races into the CEOs office and demands that the leaving person be fired because of something that happened 18 months ago that he refuses to actually discuss or explain.

Hahahah wtf!? So what ended up happening?

My aforementioned supervisor keeps asking if we should download nitro for all our PDF needs when acrobat x comes loaded on all our computers. Every time we need to edit a PDF or something, "so should we all just download nitro?" acrobat x does everything we need!

Nitro is good for MAKING pdfs, tho! I use it for that. That or Primo.

I've made such identifying comments in my last two posts that I'm slightly paranoid he will find it but I rest easy in the thought that if he doesn't understand how the search function works, he is probably not the type to be on this site. Xp

I dunno we can create PDFs from word with acrobat x. Does it do anything special? Maybe I've dismissed his ideas out of hand because I distrust any of his technology-related statements.

You know Word can just save as a PDF now?

Im usually PDFing scans, I cant think of the last time I used word tbh.

I was just baffled someone would not know how to "convert Word to PDF." SAVE AS
SAVE AS

Oh I didn't realize it was native to word now! For some reason thought that function was some relationship btwn acrobat & word

Literally five minutes before it starts an unhinged volunteer who works here races into the CEOs office and demands that the leaving person be fired because of something that happened 18 months ago that he refuses to actually discuss or explain.

Hahahah wtf!? So what ended up happening?

The CEO said 'Why didn't you tell anyone earlier?', the volunteer went berserk and stormed out, the CEO took the rest of the weerk off

lol je55e

it's the first one, but it looks way more normal there than saying "SYNDICATED DATA RECAP Q1 2012" in bold on a blue background.

James: yike. Does anyone know if whatever-it-was was true? I'm imagining awful scenarios like nutty volunteer claiming sexual harrasment and realising they have to jump on it NOW because person is leaving, or thinking they should be fired because that way they wont get leaving benefits because person is grudgeful, or ... lord only knows.

knowing the personalities involved, i would be amazed if it was anything other than bitter reactionary man misunderstanding flamboyant gay foreign man's jokes

I was just baffled someone would not know how to "convert Word to PDF." SAVE AS
SAVE AS

Reaction would be "HOW DO YOU DO 'SAVE AS'????" at least from most of them.

Man, just from my typing, you guys can probably tell how bossy I am when explaining computers to people. I lost all my patience after working at Kinko's for two years. I was explaining "save as" to someone older the other day and I had the kind of tone in my voice you use to discipline a mischievous puppy. I realized it but I couldn't stop it.

ha ha hahaha!

And the thing is I have been explaining Save As etc for 4 years but they just will not grasp it bc they know I can do it for them when they fuck up.

Also annoying: email from boss saying "Please get me _______'s phone number." I get the number from his Outlook address book and email it to him. If I don't send it soon enough he will email me again or call me and ask for it.

If I'm on vacation he emails the associate to ask for numbers.

I've told him that his Contacts list -which he has in his iPhone - list contains all numbers and addresses and he joked "You're my contacts list." "joked"

We are having a big old building-wide fire drill today that requires everybody to exit the building completely and go outside, and they close the building to the public, and then let everybody back in. It takes about an hour.

It's also our agency's bring your kid to work day.

A coworker just rushed out into the hall, breathlessly exclaiming, "The kids are here?" Then she did a weird screamsigh, because she saw the kids, and ran up to one and said, "HIIIII!" in that awful way that people who talk to kids like they are dumb woodland animals instead of people do.

I have a headache.

But speaking of PDFs, a firm where I used to work during law school (so about six years ago) approached me about a year ago about a job and told me that they still use the horrible Word Perfect software that they had when I was there, because it's the only way to create PDFs. I told them that you can save as a PDF right in MS Word now, but she didn't believe me.