Don't you just love it when you and the other person who understand a thing make a proposal to upgrade it, go through all the arguments with the people who don't understand it about why it needs to be done This Way and That Way is simply not an option, then spend all the time doing the upgrade This Way (including using subcontractors), go to implement it and have all the same people asking about doing it That Way so you get to spend your time explaining it all over again? Isn't that The Best?
Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
EpicTangent - Mar 02, 2021 11:53:12 am PST #4046 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Toddson - Mar 02, 2021 12:04:08 pm PST #4047 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh, yes ... I once worked for a woman - we were doing our monthly magazine - and EVERY MONTH I had to explain to her why the number of pages had to be divisible by four
EpicTangent - Mar 02, 2021 12:14:29 pm PST #4048 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
- headdesk headdesk*
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 02, 2021 12:17:22 pm PST #4049 of 30000
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster I've never had to deal with anyone who couldn't grasp THAT in publishing!
Vortex - Mar 02, 2021 12:18:55 pm PST #4050 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
oh, yes ... I once worked for a woman - we were doing our monthly magazine - and EVERY MONTH I had to explain to her why the number of pages had to be divisible by four
I remember this.
Steph L. - Mar 02, 2021 12:24:02 pm PST #4051 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
oh, yes ... I once worked for a woman - we were doing our monthly magazine - and EVERY MONTH I had to explain to her why the number of pages had to be divisible by four
Jesus. That happened literally every month at my old job. The publisher. My favorite was when someone would insist an odd number of pages was fine. O_o
The Mother Superior of the nuns who I do the newsletter for will occasionally get weird about the number of pages, wanting it to be 6 pages rather than 4 or 8, and she never believes Sr. E, who is my contact, and then Sr. E has to email me and ask me to explain to Sr. M that it really has to be a multiple of 4. (And Sr. E will always say in her email "Don't tell Sr. M that this question drives me nuts!" And Sr. M will ask me to double-check with the printer [???] but tell me to not tell Sr. E about it. Being in the middle of nun drama is the lowest-stakes, BEST drama ever!)
Dana - Mar 02, 2021 12:27:21 pm PST #4052 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Being in the middle of nun drama is the lowest-stakes, BEST drama ever!
That's amazing. It sounds like that bit in one of the Anne of Green Gables books where she's rooming with two widows, and she catches each of them bathing their face in buttermilk, and each one asks her not to tell the other one.
Toddson - Mar 02, 2021 12:34:00 pm PST #4053 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Nun drama sounds like when the Quakers had a schism ... it was terrible ... they didn't speak to each other for YEARS.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 02, 2021 12:56:43 pm PST #4054 of 30000
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis
Can these people not be told to fold a sheet of paper in half and then demonstrate to you how just one extra page can be added to the four that result?
Toddson - Mar 02, 2021 12:58:41 pm PST #4055 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I had actually folded some paper to demonstrate ... I hung onto my demonstration folding to reuse the next week. She just never got it.