Seriously -- when my friend's publishing company got bought by the Germans, they got a lot more time off!
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I work for a Canadian company, and I don't get Canada Day off!
In my workplace news ... turns out our web host has, somehow, lost an entire database. With no back-up. No explanation, just "it's gone".
WTF, today???!!! Seriously?
yes, seriously. Seemingly the guy who was responsible for it was fired ... so this may have been malice or incompetence. Whatever the cause, I am just INFINITELY relieved that I can't be held responsible for it ('cause if I were? I'd be keying in the stuff we have paper records for ... the kind of job security I really don't want).
yuck.
wow - that is gonna suck for someone, or several someones.
For those keeping score, I know have approval on both sets of minutes and can distribute them as well as enter tasks assigned in them into the job tracking thingy.
our web site is seriously screwed - the current version went live about a year ago. BUT! it's basically the old web site with a different look and organization. The fun part - everyone's responsible (supposedly) for doing their own updates. I'm supposed to be managing and editing this ... but there's no mechanism for me to see what's new (that is, without checking every single page every single day ... and trust me, there isn't that much time in the world). So ... we have people slapping all kinds of junk up every which way. Periodically they come to me asking for help, or with instructions for me to do something for them. The real fun is that we have a bunch of external web sites ... which I can't touch; I'm not even authorized to contact the external company to make changes.
Mess sums it up, right?
but there's no mechanism for me to see what's new
not even a updated_dateTime field?
We have sort of the opposite problem here, Toddson. No one can make their own updates, but we have to keep track of all of our information. So if the registrar's office has asked the manager to put up one of my courses, and I make a change to that course, the manager doesn't change the registrar's information, just what we tell her to. Except people put up my stuff all over the website, and I am still finding incorrect information from 3 years ago, usually by a student telling me where they saw it! It is very frustrating.