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hellisonIn 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-04-30 10:39 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-04-30 10:47 am (UTC)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?
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Date: 2009-04-30 11:04 am (UTC)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!
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:53 pm (UTC)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.