Stupid COWORKERS
Yay! Time for Stupid Coworkers, starring: Debby, Katy, Karol! (names have been changed to save my ass)
Katy's computer blues:
Specs: Katy is a late 40's ex-lawyer. Colormist is a mid-twenties graphic designer.
Katy pops her head into the marketing office. Looks around for someone to make eye contact. Being the naïve person I am, I look up.
Colormist: Hi!
Katy: Hey, I'm having a problem with that PDF file of the brochure.
Colormist: Uh-huh?
Katy: It's coming in upside down. I can't send it to the guy upside down.
Colormist (who is in no way, shape, or form an IT person): Oh yeah! Sometimes it does that and we don't know why. All you do is at the top of the Acrobat viewer there will be this little icon of a document sideways and a document vertical. Just keep clicking that button until it turns right-side-up. :smiles:
Katy: Oh, okay...
Katy turns to leave and Colormist yells at her: But you have to save it before you send it to him. Don't forget to save!
Katy leaves and returns five minutes later sounding frantic and talking very quickly.
Katy: I pushed save! I saved it multiple times! It isn't working! Can you fix it?
Colormist (again, I remind you that she is NOT an IT person): Aside from doing that, I don't know what else you could do. If you email it to him upside down, he can just print it out and easily turn the paper right-side up. :makes turning motions, pantomiming turning a paper right-side up:
Katy: But I can't email it to him upside down! I can't email him a pdf upside down.
(didn't I just tell her she COULD do that?)
Colormist: Well I don't know how to fix it. Sometimes they just come out like that and I don't see the option on my distiller that's making it come out that way. You'll just have to talk to the IT department and see if they can fix it.
Katy storms out of Colormist's office and runs to her supervisor to tattle on her. Katy's supervisor then contacts Colormist's supervisor with a VERY-VERY nasty email about me not doing my job (again, not in the IT department and I don't know how to fix the problem). Apparently it's too nasty for Colormist to even read and the supervisor just says she handled the situation.
I now have another mortal enemy. Katy's going down and she's going down hard.
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Karol & Debby disapprove of crawling.
Specs: Karol has been working for her current employer for 15 years, Debby is her assistant. Karol is second in command of the company and has agreed to allow the marketing department to purchase some organizational materials to make the office more efficient. The first thing on our list is a pair of 3-foot-tall literature organizer (MSRP $300). We actually wanted the 4-foot-tall literature organizers, but they cost $400 each.
Karol and Debby have a discussion about our literature organizers. They want to purchase some tables for us to set the literature organizers on so we don't have to stoop down to get to the bottom cubby holes.
Debby: Karol is concerned that you'll be crawling around to get into the bottom cubby holes of this organizer. Do you want some tables to set them on.
Clark: Oh no! We've talked this over. They're fine on the floor. We won't use the bottom holes.
Debby: No, you don't understand. You'll have to crawl on the floor to get to the bottom cubbies.
Clark: Well we have to get down on the floor now to dig through the boxes we have right now.
Debby: NO! You don't Understand. You'll have to LAY on the FLOOR. You'll be LAYING on the FLOOR to get to the bottom ones. You don't want to LAY on the floor to get to them.
Clark is now looking at Debby like she's crazy. Who the hell has to lay on the floor to get something off the floor?
Clark: Uh... okay. Um, I'll go talk to the department about it.
We end up having a brief discussion about it and agree to get the 4-foot tall literature organizers so that we won't have to use the bottom cubbies. Apparently that satisfies both Debby and Karol.
Hell, if they WANT to spend more money on us then let 'em.
Karol (the lady who first intoned the idea that we'd be laying on the floor) is also the woman who thinks nobody pays for education. Mmmmhmmmmm....
Katy's computer blues:
Specs: Katy is a late 40's ex-lawyer. Colormist is a mid-twenties graphic designer.
Katy pops her head into the marketing office. Looks around for someone to make eye contact. Being the naïve person I am, I look up.
Colormist: Hi!
Katy: Hey, I'm having a problem with that PDF file of the brochure.
Colormist: Uh-huh?
Katy: It's coming in upside down. I can't send it to the guy upside down.
Colormist (who is in no way, shape, or form an IT person): Oh yeah! Sometimes it does that and we don't know why. All you do is at the top of the Acrobat viewer there will be this little icon of a document sideways and a document vertical. Just keep clicking that button until it turns right-side-up. :smiles:
Katy: Oh, okay...
Katy turns to leave and Colormist yells at her: But you have to save it before you send it to him. Don't forget to save!
Katy leaves and returns five minutes later sounding frantic and talking very quickly.
Katy: I pushed save! I saved it multiple times! It isn't working! Can you fix it?
Colormist (again, I remind you that she is NOT an IT person): Aside from doing that, I don't know what else you could do. If you email it to him upside down, he can just print it out and easily turn the paper right-side up. :makes turning motions, pantomiming turning a paper right-side up:
Katy: But I can't email it to him upside down! I can't email him a pdf upside down.
(didn't I just tell her she COULD do that?)
Colormist: Well I don't know how to fix it. Sometimes they just come out like that and I don't see the option on my distiller that's making it come out that way. You'll just have to talk to the IT department and see if they can fix it.
Katy storms out of Colormist's office and runs to her supervisor to tattle on her. Katy's supervisor then contacts Colormist's supervisor with a VERY-VERY nasty email about me not doing my job (again, not in the IT department and I don't know how to fix the problem). Apparently it's too nasty for Colormist to even read and the supervisor just says she handled the situation.
I now have another mortal enemy. Katy's going down and she's going down hard.
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Karol & Debby disapprove of crawling.
Specs: Karol has been working for her current employer for 15 years, Debby is her assistant. Karol is second in command of the company and has agreed to allow the marketing department to purchase some organizational materials to make the office more efficient. The first thing on our list is a pair of 3-foot-tall literature organizer (MSRP $300). We actually wanted the 4-foot-tall literature organizers, but they cost $400 each.
Karol and Debby have a discussion about our literature organizers. They want to purchase some tables for us to set the literature organizers on so we don't have to stoop down to get to the bottom cubby holes.
Debby: Karol is concerned that you'll be crawling around to get into the bottom cubby holes of this organizer. Do you want some tables to set them on.
Clark: Oh no! We've talked this over. They're fine on the floor. We won't use the bottom holes.
Debby: No, you don't understand. You'll have to crawl on the floor to get to the bottom cubbies.
Clark: Well we have to get down on the floor now to dig through the boxes we have right now.
Debby: NO! You don't Understand. You'll have to LAY on the FLOOR. You'll be LAYING on the FLOOR to get to the bottom ones. You don't want to LAY on the floor to get to them.
Clark is now looking at Debby like she's crazy. Who the hell has to lay on the floor to get something off the floor?
Clark: Uh... okay. Um, I'll go talk to the department about it.
We end up having a brief discussion about it and agree to get the 4-foot tall literature organizers so that we won't have to use the bottom cubbies. Apparently that satisfies both Debby and Karol.
Hell, if they WANT to spend more money on us then let 'em.
Karol (the lady who first intoned the idea that we'd be laying on the floor) is also the woman who thinks nobody pays for education. Mmmmhmmmmm....
posted by Laura Mitter at
2:34 PM
3 Comments:
......... wtf? How do these people function? - Ny
By
Anonymous, At
8:39 PM
Ya know, Ny, I really have absolutely no idea...
By
Laura Mitter, At
10:48 AM
A close friend calls me a marketing guru; I went to school for both; I work in the marketing department as an editor who does graphic design.
By
Laura Mitter, At
2:56 PM
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