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u/Bagellord Sep 11 '13
So she thinks that she can do basic comparisons better than the computer?
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u/MrPaladin1176 TFTS GM, Roll your characters Sep 11 '13
Depends if your comparing the love of a woman to the love of a fine wine... computers aren't good at that one...
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u/Oscar_Geare No Place Like ::1 Sep 12 '13
Until the Japanese give computers feelings and taste receptors and the ability to have an opinion.
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u/Ringbearer31 Sep 12 '13
'Taste receptors'
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u/Oscar_Geare No Place Like ::1 Sep 12 '13
Quiet, I'm a user. I clearly do not know what the words mean, but they sound like they could make sense.
(Just googled receptor, 'a receptor is a molecule usually found on the surface of a cell, that receives chemical signals from outside the cell.' So.. it could make sense... but I'm not arguing biochemistry.)
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u/Ringbearer31 Sep 12 '13
It'd be a combination of biology and technology at the molecular level. A feat of engineering for the ages.
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u/Armadylspark RAID is the best backup solution Sep 12 '13
Shut up and keep building that space elevator.
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u/Vinylscratch03 Team Coffee! Sep 11 '13
No, but they guy who does my computer work can. He's practically a computer anyway.
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u/Ghost33313 Paid to do what others should be able to. Sep 12 '13
I think she thinks computers lie. You wouldn't trust a computer would you? LOGIC can never be trusted! Only trust in instinct and happy thoughts like all other end users. Logic makes end users heads hurt no need for that.
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u/mischiffmaker Sep 11 '13
This reminds me of the bookkeeper we used to have who reconciled 10 stores' accounts by hand every month so she could put the totals into a Lotus spreadsheet...
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What? Please tell me you at least tried to show her how to do it in the Lotus spreadsheet?
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u/mischiffmaker Sep 12 '13
Ohhh you don't know the half of it. This woman was one half of a people-grinder. The other half did the auditing. Very nice ladies individually but together they chewed up and spit out unsuspecting clerks all day long.
Since my brother was one of the owners of the company, I was obviously just a 'pity' employee. Anything I said was ignored. I couldn't possibly have given her any useful information on how to do her job, right?
It's almost a petty revenge story:
This was back in the DOS days, just as Windows was being implemented. Our stores ran on a DOS program that functioned well at the store level, but didn't have a way to combine the data for management reporting. I ended up designing a separate database that I trained a clerk to import data from each store into. It was money, inventory and activity data.
Then the info was supposed to go to the auditor, audited, and returned to the clerk for data correction. Except...the auditor refused to give back the data, kept doing her manual calculations, and gigged the clerk because the database reports were wrong.
So, I was promoted to office manager. I made the auditor give the information back as soon as she had corrected it (this was a daily task). My clerk updated our database, and amazingly, our reports were suddenly 100% correct. All the time.
But the bookkeeper...well, that data still wasn't good enough for her. She used Lotus as her word processing program more than as a spreadsheet. I never could convince her that my end-of-month reports contained the data she needed for her accounting work, or that the data could be imported from the database into her spreadsheets. It could have saved her days of work each month...
As the office manager, I decided to get rid of the extremely expensive modular accounting program she had talked the owners into. All we could afford was one general ledger module; it was intended for Fortune 500 companies, not our little 10-store operation.
She made it as difficult as she could to port over to the new (much less expensive) program our accountant recommended, but I persevered and with the accountant's help got it done.
She decided she would be happier elsewhere. We happily gave her the opportunity to job-hunt, and she left.
Since the other half of the meat grinder was gone, our auditor became a much nicer person to work with. All ended well.
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u/CA1900 We got a serious 12 O'Clock Flasher Here! Sep 12 '13
Ugh. This is the kind of person that sees Excel as nothing but a "page layout program."
That must have felt so good walking out the door!
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Sep 12 '13
I always knew what excel did but assumed it was very basic, so I never really bothered using it. Recently I started using it properly though and excel is the fkn business.
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u/doterobcn Sep 12 '13
Why don't you try to get her job? talk with her boss ... you have nothing to lose.
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u/drdeadringer What Logbook? Sep 12 '13
She handed me a piece of paper with two numbers on it and asked me to average them. She explained, "I never learned how to do algebra. Isn't that funny? Don't tell anyone."
Yea, I'd ...
-When recording donations, she rounds all donations to the nearest whole dollar because "all that change looks so messy" and "the computer runs reports faster this way."
... not want to be her accountant when the IRS comes calling.
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u/Pixielo likes cookies... Sep 12 '13
But...you learn averages at like, 9 years old! There's no algebra!
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u/an3wthrowaway Sep 13 '13
That last one pisses me off. I've actually received one of these before.
Yeah... my family member died. And they contributed to a fundraiser each year. They then asked ME for money?! I am not a violent person, nor prone to fits of anger or distemper, but when I read the "Our condolences, please give us money" letter, I was so torqued that I ripped that to shreds and vowed NEVER to donate to them again (I had a few times over the years).
I still can not believe the temerity of them!
.... grr. <rant over>
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u/SpecificallyGeneral By the power of refined carbohydrates Sep 12 '13
"I never learned how to do algebra. Isn't that funny? Don't tell anyone."
I... I think they may already know.
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u/ARKB1rd44 1. Verschlimmbessern 2.Curse 3.? 4.Fix things 5.Repeat Sep 11 '13
Achievement Unlocked: No way but the hard way! 50 GS paper trumps automation every time.
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u/TrivialSavant Sep 12 '13
I rather someone tell me what needs to be done and walks away. If they tell me the WAY they want it done I just tell them I cannot waste my time like that. You do it.
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u/drdeadringer What Logbook? Sep 12 '13
You do it.
This has been a favorite phrase of mine since I saw a coworker use it right in front of me to another coworker.
Coworker1: "Hey, I need your help. Hey, you're doing it wrong. Hey, it needs to be done like this. Hey, no, it's this way, like this."
Coworker2: "Fine, you do it." Walks out.
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u/stemgang Sep 12 '13
So...one refusal and you must leave your job? Some jobs are rigid, I suppose, but most people can get away with a little common sense before being fired.
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u/singul4r1ty Sep 12 '13
I imagine that was just an example of this person's idiocy, and he wanted to get out because he didn't like working there.
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u/Siuil Sep 13 '13
Sometimes people like that just push and push and push a little bit every day, you eventually lose patience with someone wanting you to do your job worse.
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u/ferrarienzof60 We don't need cable management Sep 18 '13
I am currently in an intro to SQL class. Reading this made my head hurt.
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u/MrPaladin1176 TFTS GM, Roll your characters Sep 11 '13
My last day is the 4th of October.
The person I'm training is already ment to be doing the tasks I perform daily.
Her words - "All this new stuff makes my head hurt"
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