Another random hivemind question: if somebody says "from this list of court documents, I want softcopies of x, y. and z". would you know what softcopies are?

It seems very obvious to me, and is a term that gets used a lot around here, but two very smart people from the East Coast asked me what that meant, so now I am wondering if it's a California thing.

Is softcopy an electronic copy? I haven't heard that term.

JZ,

I had to put my head on my desk because I was laughing so hard.

Lee,

Never heard of softcopy, but out of context, I would think it was something dirrrty.

Is softcopy an electronic copy

Yep. That's common usage around here, but maybe not most places>

And...my boss scheduled a meatspace meeting (the one I'm supposed to be presenting) but today is Tuesday, and I work from home every Tuesday. He's not answered the emails or the texts I sent, so I guess it's thumb twiddling time. Or I could work out how to apologise for something that I'm not sure is my fault, but this is just..simpler sometimes.

I guessed that soft copy = electronic copy because I reverse-engineered from "hard copy". I've never actually heard it used, and would've guessed it was maybe a law-jargon thing rather than a regional thing? (the latter, just because I know a metric shitton of west-coast people who have something to do with publishing or some kind of electronic text)

Ooh, the troublesome transitions of an employee leaving with time to spare. Even the ED is at the point of "her opinion is no longer valid" but he's taking it to the uncomfortable place of telling the entire staff not to speak of a certain thing to her, but he needs information about that thing that he can only get from her.

Dude, you're the ED, tell her that there is this matter, he does not want her to be bothered with it, and to focus on wrapping up her other matters to transition the new person in with, and be done with it. And if she gives trouble, let her go early.

She did give trouble in regards to a key that she doesn't need. I don't know why hort staff would need the finance key (and I only need it to get to the lock box on Mondays, and I could wait until the Finance Administrator comes in). The Office Admin, who does the initial book keeping asked for her key. OA meant on a permanent loan, seeing as boss lady is out the door in two weeks. Boss lady got all panicky about OA actually taking the key off her key ring. (backstory, we'd been keeping the finance office unlocked for the cleaning staff that used to come in on Saturday nights, but now the new cleaning staff is coming in on Monday days, so we can lock it again). OA has actual business in the finance office, boss lady doesn't, and boss lady no longer counts since she's resigning, but she insisted on holding onto her copy so she could pass it on to the new boss person. Again, they don't need it, unless they are looking for staples. OA said it would be kept in her drawer, accessible to all staff, boss lady still wouldn't relent, insisting that she'd make a copy or the OA could take the spare out of the master key box.

Lady, let it go. My god, what a control freak. And over something that wasn't even necessary to her job, past or current or future. I have more business in the finance office than she does, and I can exist fine without a key.

I've been given a reduced work week, four days instead of five, with a temporary raise. To reduce stress. I don't think this will happen, but I'll take the raise to pay off some bills. (I know that I'll be working ten hour days to make up for all the shit I won't be getting done). (I realize that ten hour days might not seem crazy to some folks, but doing physical work outdoors, I'm usually not even capable of admin work past hour 7, especially not in this soup. I actually took an hour out of the middle of the day to go home and shower so I didn't offend my colleagues during our staff meeting).

I had my podiatrist appointment today. Really nice doc, great exam room manner. After talking and poking my foot (no pain, no pain, OWWWWWWWWWWWWW), he diagnosed it as an inter-metatarsal neuroma, aka a pissed off nerve bundle. So a cortisone shot later and things are improved. I even went to karate after - just punched things. I go back to the doc in 3 weeks but he said it should be "back to normal" by this weekend.

it was maybe a law-jargon thing rather than a regional thing?

I would have thought so, but the two people asking me were law librarians too

There's a baby bird in the nest under my deck! I think it might be a robin, cause there was an anxious robin hanging around yelling at us. I always thought the nest was empty from last year, but Pumpkin was sniffing predatorily on the deck just above it, so I peered down in there and sure enough! Doesn't even appear to have fuzz yet. Gonna see if I can get a picture.