The Sydney Office is really starting to get on my nerves. Some people there, like the nerdy asian chick, are wonderful people who can actually function with a computer in their environment.
Some people, however, live to infect misery and hatred upon others.
Today's drama (at least, part of it) involved our backup procedure. It's not a particulary complex thing - 2 external HDDs used on a daily, rotating basis. This has been in place since before I started (so well over a year now), and apparently CapsLockGirl had recently been given the task of rotating the drives - and today, we needed to grab something off them.
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CapsLockGirl: "Yea, apparently we need to restore from a backup, whatever THAT means. Can you do it from the Melbourne office?"
Me: "Not really, no. All your backups are handled up there"
CapsLockGirl: "Oh yea, I know, but....yea."
Me: "What's happened?" (At this point, I have resigned myself already to pain and suffering)
CapsLockGirl: "Well, I um...I can't find the drive!"
Me: "...er..."
CapsLockGirl: "It's at home, somewhere!"
Me: "...why is at your home, no wait, SOMEWHERE at home? Where are you keeping it??"
CapsLockGirl: "I just took it home one day! It's ok, we're still backing up to the other drive each day!"
Me: "..." *sob*
Me: "Not really, no. All your backups are handled up there"
CapsLockGirl: "Oh yea, I know, but....yea."
Me: "What's happened?" (At this point, I have resigned myself already to pain and suffering)
CapsLockGirl: "Well, I um...I can't find the drive!"
Me: "...er..."
CapsLockGirl: "It's at home, somewhere!"
Me: "...why is at your home, no wait, SOMEWHERE at home? Where are you keeping it??"
CapsLockGirl: "I just took it home one day! It's ok, we're still backing up to the other drive each day!"
Me: "..." *sob*
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Not long after I curled up into a ball and started sobbing, AngryRussian decided to call up - it was he who needed something from the backup drives.
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Me: "Ok, so I've restored your file."
AngryRussian: "I fucking hate Excel, it always does shit like this!"
Me: "Like what?" (note: this was my mistake, should of just "uh huh" and left it at that)
AngryRussian: "Well, I was looking at some fucking data, and I did a sort on some columns, fucked up the other columns but anyway"
Me: "Okaaaaayyyy"
AngryRussian: "And then I closed it down, it asked me if I wanted to save it, I clicked yes, and it fucking saved and closed it!"
Me: "So....it did exactly what you told it to?"
AngryRussian: "Yes! Now all the data in the columns I didn't sort is out of place! I didn't want it to do that, I wanted to undo!"
Me: "Er....ok."
AngryRussian: "Fucking Excel. Fucking Microsoft products, they all do this!!"
Me: "....yes, yes they do."
Me: "Like what?" (note: this was my mistake, should of just "uh huh" and left it at that)
AngryRussian: "Well, I was looking at some fucking data, and I did a sort on some columns, fucked up the other columns but anyway"
Me: "Okaaaaayyyy"
AngryRussian: "And then I closed it down, it asked me if I wanted to save it, I clicked yes, and it fucking saved and closed it!"
Me: "So....it did exactly what you told it to?"
AngryRussian: "Yes! Now all the data in the columns I didn't sort is out of place! I didn't want it to do that, I wanted to undo!"
Me: "Er....ok."
AngryRussian: "Fucking Excel. Fucking Microsoft products, they all do this!!"
Me: "....yes, yes they do."
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I wonder if there was a communist OS back in the day.
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