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Have you ever wanted to grab someone by the shoulders, shake
them and ask where the hell their head is at.
I had that feeling the other day at work. And I realized if
I did that, then I'd probably get a muffled noise in reply and
if I flipped them over, would see that their head is lodged firmly
up their ass.
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Have been babysitting a cd burner at work. We have close to
200 back-up cds that aren't properly labeled. Someone would come
in asking for something we did several months ago. Grunt would
pull out all the cds and reply, they are somewhere in there,
it'll take us a while to go through it. Notes are written on
them giving an idea of what is on it, but no date or anything
else. He'd hand the cds to me and I'd have to go through them.
Not fun.
So they bought us Retrospect. My job has been reburning our
cds onto a retrospect created and compressed cd. Take one out,
but another in, hit ok.
I also spent the better part of an hour one day making labels
for the spines of the jewel cases and the cds. Grunt decided
he didn't like the white labels and ordered silver. Then when
the silver label tape came in, he ripped the case labels off
and told me to make labels for them all again, this time put
the label on the top of the case.
The case is clear so you can see the cd and its label. Why
put a second label on top? Why not put it on the spine so when
Retrospect says a file is on cd #45 you can glance through the
cd shelf and easily find #45? With a label on the spine you won't
have to pull each out to look at it and it would be easier to
put back in order instead of putting back in the first available
empty slot.
Grunt seems to think a label on the top of each case is more
convenient.
I asked him why.
He said with a label on the spine they are more likely to
pop off. Well, that happened on a few cases, but just smooth
it down again, and all is just fine.
"Won't it be easier to find a certain one if they are
labeled on the spine?" I asked.
"Not necessarily." he said
"Without labels, you'll have to pull them out to look
at the top, how will that save time?"
"Well, I don't want to make new labels for these every
month when they come off."
You won't dipshit, they won't have heavy use, they'll sit
in your binder bin collecting dust.
So, when we need a back-up cd, we pick one at random and either
go up or down from there.
I guess living with your head up your ass all the time starves
the brain of oxygen and that's the reason stupid decisions are
made.
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Day 2 of cd burning babysitting I wrote a two page letter
outlining why we need to start catalog production now if a catalog
is to be ready for shipment by Jan 1. And if they want their
goal of 5,000 images met, then there is no way in hell they will
have a catalog by that deadline. It is April and there are only
1,500. Tell, me, without hiring any more people how will we get
3,500 new images by mid-May at the absolute, very latest?
Huh? I'm waiting.
So this is in a sense a Cover Your Ass Letter. Two other depts
have done the same in regards to the amount of images produced
in an unreasonable deadline.
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