This particular week at work is stupid busy, mainly because I’m
dealing with a lot of stupid.
Despite my best efforts to streamline processes (and despite the
fact I’m probably the only person outside our IT department who understands the
concept of a business process), I’m inevitably thrown a curveball due either to
our latest software “upgrades” or someone managing to be creatively stupid in a
way I hadn’t anticipated.
This year it was a little of both. Normally I can troubleshoot
these issues on my own but this time I’ve had to admit defeat when what should have
been a simple mail merge kept cutting off the text midway through a sentence.
After half an hour of faffing around I had to admit defeat and call
in the IT troops, who at least know me well enough to know it must be a major
issue as I never call them for stuff I can’t fix myself.
In the course of troubleshooting, we worked with various different
data formats to see if we could persuade the damn thing to work. Consequently I
now have files on my desktop named
thisone
trythisone
bodge
epicbodge
and finally my favourite: hippo
Hippo finally worked. I guess it’s all in the name.
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