WHAT?

[hellison]

In work, we are moving, as a whole, to a WONDERFUL new document management system, which is so WONDERFUL that we will no longer be allowed to save documents either locally on our own computers or to shared network drives. Woe Waily, but what can you do?

However. This morning, an email arrived about this. I give you the first paragraph of the email, for I have been staring at it for an hour now going WHAT? See if you can work out why!

The implementation of the NEWSYSTEM for electronic document storage and retrieval will soon move to its second stage. This will entail the removal of the 'local button' option effectively preventing NEWSYSTEM users saving documents to local or shared drives. As the availability of local/ shared drives are restricted there will be an increasing need for staff to have access to scanning facilities - either actual scanners or printers with the capability to scan.


I have been trying to compose a polite and sensible reply to this but am failing because I keep reading and going THIS MAKES NO SENSE! WHAT?!


In other, less ranty news, it turned out the problem with the car leaking petrol was a corroded fuel filter (which the mechanic said he had never seen before), which was still under warranty and thus was all fixed, free of charge, within an hour. YAY!

EDITEDIT OH GOD THIS HORRORSCOPE. Most Apt Thing Ever?

You'll need to bite your tongue today, instead of just shooting off at the mouth without thinking. If you do respond to someone too quickly, you may say something you later wish you kept to yourself. It's wiser to save the sarcastic retort for another day when the buried tensions aren't so delicately wired. Your rapid-fire reply could turn into a lit match in a pile of dried hay, sending everything up in flames.



yes. Quite. Thankfully haven't replied to the work one yet, but may have replied to a couple of things elsewhere quite... vehemently. Tho, not sure I precisely regret what I've said, but perhaps it could have been more tactfully put. Maybe.

Comments

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to compose a polite and sensible reply to this but am failing because I keep reading and going THIS MAKES NO SENSE! WHAT?!

I read this to a colleague who sits next to me, who runs our internal knowledge base, documentation and information systems (she used to be my boss), and her reaction was exactly the same as yours.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I am all for more scanners and storing things electronically. Hurrah, backups to our irreplaceable paper archive, etc.

But. But but BUT. BUT if it can be stored on a drive SURELY IT IS ALREADY IN DIGITAL FORMAT AND THUS HOW IN GODS NAME DO YOU PROPOSE TO SCAN IT. AND WHY? WHYYYY?

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

so uh. SO, eh. You can't save your files so YOU'LL HAVE TO PRINT THEM OUT AND SCAN THEM??????????????? REPLY WITH ALL NECESSARY DRIED-HAY LIGHTING POTENTIAL!

LOONERS!

aLSO where did you reply vehemently to things elsewhere and can I look?
I know the answer is 'no' but I thought I'd try anyway.

PS Why WHY does detoxing = boogy eyes and a headache?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL HELP ME HELP ME TROGDOR WANT BURNINATION

there is one vehement reply on being_here's journal, another more of an emaily thing, so alas, no looking for YOU.

um, all the hideous toxins FIGHTING their way out of your body? or... something? Drink lots of water! thats what they tell you to disperse toxin related nastiness after massages anyway!

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

*drinks water*

also

[hellison.livejournal.com]

That is a thing of AWE and BEAUTY. Oh yes.

[doccy.livejournal.com]

I think I understand! The scenario would go thus;

Person 1: I.. I can't save anything again.

Person 2: Me either. So, this document I just had to print rather than save...?

Person 1: Yeah. I have the urge to scan... something.

Person 2: Me too. Did you remember the lobsters?

Person 1: Of course!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

but but... you CAN save things (allegedly), just to NEWSYSTEM not to a networked drive or your home drive.

OR, if you can't save anything, WHERE IS TEH SCAN GOING TO GO?

it hurts my brain thinking about it

tho. hmm. lobsters. I hope they give me a scanner! i really really do.

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Oh! So it's a thin client, is it? Web-based or in-house? *says the Ex-IT Helpdesk bloke, 8 years behind the headset, when I were young we had to walk people through a manual reboot of The Entire Feudal System, kids these days, they don't know they're born, etc. etc.*

[hellison.livejournal.com]

um it's a ... thing. Records management system?
Basically a huge big repository split into sections for various departments were you Put Things. but you can't delete things or have a section of your own for works in progress or whatever.
The sections all have very vague identical headings so that technically they apply to everyone one but in fact apply to no-one's work properly so finding anything is going to be FUN TIME. Plus, it crashes almost weekly (which is why we still have local & shared networked drives). it'll be GREAT tho. Honest (some stuff, like the vast amount of admin and Directive the civil service produces, it is useful for. Other stuff, not so much ;p)

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, yeah, I know systems like that. They're A Special Kind Of Fun. Good luck!

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

Can't save locally. Can't save to a network drive. Does it get saved to a crystal ball or something?

Actually, this sounds like a Notes-type database, in which case the scanned whatevers are saved as attachments to Notes documents. Still a bit sucky, though.