Some stuff
Jul. 12th, 2012 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayToday I'm working from home due to complicated transport reasons. It has been a lovely quiet day and nobody has been overtly stupid around me or asked me Zombie Project questions.
I suspect that this is because I've seen nobody except the cats because Mum handily never bothers me in the office. I must remember that for future reference.
The only moment of "OMG, Whu?" was when my boss sent me an un-editable form that he needed me to fill in and return to him today because he's in a completely different province. When I pointed out that filling it in and returning via email was not something I could do with the UN-EDITABLE FORM and offered to print it out, fill it in and return it via internal mail tomorrow (so it would arrive on Monday) he found a different solution. I will print, fill out, scan and email it to him tomorrow.
He is, I feel, making a big error here based on two critical misunderstandings:
1) That anyone in the department knows how to work the departmental scanner
2) That we are in any way good at figuring out equipment more complicated than a stapler
Seriously, we are the IT team that requires three of us to change a battery in a phone headset and never, ever hand us toner for the printer. It took the copier guy two days to fix our fuck up the last time.
So, the whole scanner thing could be very interesting tomorrow. Particularly as the poor copier is also the scanner and we...are not good with printers.
I sometimes feel that we are probably being mocked by other IT teams for our technological incompetence.
I suspect that this is because I've seen nobody except the cats because Mum handily never bothers me in the office. I must remember that for future reference.
The only moment of "OMG, Whu?" was when my boss sent me an un-editable form that he needed me to fill in and return to him today because he's in a completely different province. When I pointed out that filling it in and returning via email was not something I could do with the UN-EDITABLE FORM and offered to print it out, fill it in and return it via internal mail tomorrow (so it would arrive on Monday) he found a different solution. I will print, fill out, scan and email it to him tomorrow.
He is, I feel, making a big error here based on two critical misunderstandings:
1) That anyone in the department knows how to work the departmental scanner
2) That we are in any way good at figuring out equipment more complicated than a stapler
Seriously, we are the IT team that requires three of us to change a battery in a phone headset and never, ever hand us toner for the printer. It took the copier guy two days to fix our fuck up the last time.
So, the whole scanner thing could be very interesting tomorrow. Particularly as the poor copier is also the scanner and we...are not good with printers.
I sometimes feel that we are probably being mocked by other IT teams for our technological incompetence.
