Question...

[podling]

Okay. Say I send you a spreadsheet to fill in weekly. I will quote part of the instructions here.

"Do not alter anything on the Weekly page (it automatically populates itself). Your weekly total will print out on the Wednesday page, there’s no need to even look at the Weekly page at all."

Now tell me, does this seem clear? Concise? An easy direction to follow, even? And upon reading it, do you think, "Huh, if *I* had that spreadsheet, I think I should go enter information on the Weekly page." What about DO NOT is hard to understand?!?

I'm just asking, for the sake of my sanity here.

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EDIT: Okay, so it turns out the guy who filled it in wasn't given the instructions. And no, I have no idea why, though my thoughts run towards the boys all not getting along. It's like babysitting sometimes.

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Can you lock the weekly spreadsheet so they can't make changes to it?

[podling]

I don't know... can you lock one tab without locking the other ones? I should check that.

I think it'll be the last time that happens though. I spoke to them and all.

[adellyna.livejournal.com]

I would totally make changes to it.

Then I would do the math myself (incorrectly) and put the (incorrect) number OVER the formula, so that you had to reprogram it.

Then I would rename the whole file.

And then save it to a disk. Which I would label incorrectly.

And then I'd ask for a raise.

[podling]

Hee. Sadly, I have no power over raises.

Technically, I'm not even in charge. Go figure.

They did actually overwrite all the formulas and rename the file. But I talked to the guy who did it, and the reasoning was actually pretty simple... the person who gave him the spreadsheet decided not to give him the instructions. So... yeah.

[libermentis.livejournal.com]

Seems kinda like my last trip for a haircut.

ME: Use the clippers, starting at a #3 setting at the nape of the neck and the sideburn-ish things, and blending evenly through #4, #5, and so forth, from there to about 2 inches long *hand gesture with fingers 2" apart* all over the top. But don't cut the hair right around my part point *grabbing tuft of hair to remain untouched* - it turns into a cowlick and sticks straight up if it gets too short. And I'd like choppy, kinda feathery bangs, not all the same length - I still have nightmares about bowl cuts. Other stylists have used either those comb-looking scissors or the comb with the razor blades in it.

STYLIST: OK, I can do that.

Care to guess what got done?

[podling]

Ouch.

I hope it got better eventually... :)

[libermentis.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's growing out. And a training regimen for the cowlick involving copious amounts of gel seems to have been effective. I was going for a shorter, choppier version of T'Pol's hairdo from Enterprise. I ended up with something vaguely mushroom-ish and *very* shaven. It was almost more of a shock than when I went from small-of-the-back-length to short. But it's growing. It's growing...

P.S. Three guesses as to who this is. ;-) (Take it off LJ or do your guessing cryptically, if you don't mind, though -I've got a stalker-boy ex who, as of yet, hasn't found me here!)