Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.

Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


meara - Aug 15, 2019 7:11:27 am PDT #10489 of 30019

Who the hell are these people?? Computers have been a large part of the workplace for several decades now. How do they do that? It would make me crazy.

Jesse, I really hope that means you will soon have great but anonymous stories about College Kids these days!!


Jesse - Aug 15, 2019 7:12:16 am PDT #10490 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My pet peeve that I cannot control my tone over right now is that I work with people who cannot use browser tabs or bookmarks or the address bar. So if we navigate away from what they have set as their homepage (like our Learning Management system) the way they navigate back is to close the browser and reopen it. Like, if they need to have the LMS and another thing open at once, it blows their minds and they use two different browsers.

This is why I have so much trouble doing tech support with my mother. She just closes everything all the time! Need to check email? The only way to do that is by clicking on her gmail shortcut on her desktop. Want to look at a second document? Close Word entirely, then go find the new document!


Jesse - Aug 15, 2019 7:12:50 am PDT #10491 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse, I really hope that means you will soon have great but anonymous stories about College Kids these days!!

Me too, but I bet we just talk about picking classes and I don't get the goods.


Dana - Aug 15, 2019 7:20:09 am PDT #10492 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I found out not long ago that my mother, who does quite a lot of her work on a computer, didn't know how to drag files around or about any right-click options.


Amy - Aug 15, 2019 7:56:55 am PDT #10493 of 30019
Because books.

Screen shots confuse me. But that's about it.


Shir - Aug 15, 2019 8:26:47 am PDT #10494 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

It's the day before last of the intensive summer semester of math and stats and economics, and my body is celebrating with a nasty virus that's forcing me stay in bed. Damn you, body. I did not survive many hours of mumbling math genius professor for this.


Laura - Aug 15, 2019 8:29:22 am PDT #10495 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I have seriously suggested to some of my doctors that they hire a scribe to follow them around and do their computer work. They are not trainable.


Laura - Aug 15, 2019 8:29:42 am PDT #10496 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Oh Shir, health~ma.


lisah - Aug 15, 2019 8:50:34 am PDT #10497 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate

They choose not to be trainable, Laura.


Theodosia - Aug 15, 2019 9:12:03 am PDT #10498 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Sophia would make a good Penelope Garcia, I think. It's the role you were born to play!