My current employer is trying to render me useless to anyone in the future by killing me slowly.

today: "can you make some changes to RandomPDF that we made three years ago?"

Sure, can you send me the final Word version?

"don't you have it? The pdf is online...."

No. You got Minion to make changes while I was out. I only have version U. [yes, there were A-U versions].

",..." "no one here has the Word doc. can't you make the changes in PDF?"

Sure, as long as there aren't any major layout issues. there are too many images and placements in the doc, and it wasn't constructed correctly, so it will (and has) blown up if I convert it.

... makes changes.

"can you change the font? We don't like the font that way anymore."

... points up.

"and can you send us a copy of that in Word so we can add a few more images?"

::cries.::

"What is taking so long? this is easy. Oh, and we need to add new footers throughout."

Kat, our neighbors (mostly retired peeps) refer to us as "The Girls."

Sox, do you have ScanSoft?

Sox, I didn't think you worked at my company, but apparently you do. We have the same. damn. problem. all the time.

"and can you send us a copy of that in Word so we can add a few more images?"

Except swap "Quark XPress" for "Word," and factor in the fact that no one outside of the Editorial Department even HAS Quark, so they wouldn't even be able to open the document, *IF* it were possible to convert from PDF to Quark (which it isn't).

I feel your pain. Literally.

ION, we just had our birthday lunch for the June people (::ahem::3days::ahem::), and we had surprise cupcakes*! Not just any cupcakes; Key Lime cupcakes made by the wife of one of my co-workers -- fluffy white cupcakes filled with Key Lime cream/pudding, with fluffy Key Lime frosting, topped off with a wee tiny slice of Key Lime.

Oh. My. God. Cupcake heaven. Every bit as good as anything I had at Citizen Cupcake.

*(The cupcakes were in addition to lunch from Panera and ice cream from Graeter's; we knew about all of those, but not the unexpected cupcakes.)

Those sound like damn good cupcakes.

Oh, Steph, those sound amazing!

Is anyone around that could jump on AIM for a minute?

They made up for a lot of the stress of this week.

my boss is so crazy-making!! ugh. occasionally we send out "special" offers in email to customers. the problem with this is that the third party company we are using to collect the orders is making my life a living hell because the field for the credit card numbers doesn't export correctly and turn the last digit of every card to a "0". this means i have to go into each individual order to get the correct number. *headdesk*

what's worse is that he's waited until 1:45 in the afternoon to tell me that i'm now responsible for taking the orders off of the server. dude! WTF?! i have shit i have to get done this afternoon. i don't have time. why didn't you tell me this in the morning while i was sitting here twiddling my thumbs? oh, i know! it's because communication in this office is a fucking joke!

sorry for the rant, but i needed to vent and i can't exactly do it vocally.

can someone teach me the nose twinkle trick so the dishes get done and shit starts to float in the air and pack into boxes. It would be so much easier.

Anyone?

:: hears crickets ::

When I did Word support, I had someone ask me how to convert a PDF to a Word document so they could change the format of the PDF. I pointed out that the PDF format is designed so people can't just make whatever changes they want, and the customer said, "I don't care, I want to change it, how do I convert it?"

As if she hadn't heard a word I said.