*blink* *blink*

[clevermanka]

And another typical situation at my job:

Longtime readers might recall back in January when I had to have my machine "upgraded" cough to XP so I could install MS Access on my computer. I was supposed to use Access to make a database of all our grad students, addresses, emails, and current enrollment information. I'll spare you all a rehashing of those events, suffice to say: It Did Not Go Well. But here it is, several months later. Add/Drop is over and I'm about one-third finished with entering the students' data.

But wait for it. Oh! I don't think we need that information after all, Chernobyl. It seems nobody else is interested in working with this database. Since you're going to be the only one who uses it and you already have access to all this information through Peoplesoft, well, there's really no point, is there?

Well. At least I don't have to finish the remaining 60 odd student entries. Silver linings and all. I guess this frees up my days to work on the CSSF website for mckitterick.

Comments

[0verdrive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like KU, alright. It's got to be a good feeling to know that your time/work is spent on something useful, huh?

On a related note, a coworker told me today that "Every silver lining has a cloud." ;)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I don't so much mind the wasted time. I mean, I get paid no matter what. It's the fact that I didn't, in the end, need to have XP (or Access) installed on my computer. That is the real bite in the ass as far as I'm concerned.

[scottmorrison.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, I did a temporary contract that was basically paying me just to waste time. I spent most of the time going through employee records and creating a database of their information. The last day was spent shredding those exact same records and deleting the database because the information had expired and been replaced by their head office.

XP isn't actually that bad once you get used to it. I hated it with a fiery passion at first, but once I set it up like the 2000 operating system and got it to stop doing all those really irritating little 'helpful things', we got on fine. The thing that pisses me off about XP is that it's set up like a beginners system, not a professional tool.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

XP isn't the problem. It's all the annoying restrictions they put on machines with XP here at KU. Grrrr.

[scottmorrison.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. Every University has an insanity all its own, nothing you can do about that.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Hey, be careful about getting yourself associated with the CSSF (http://www.livejournal.com/~mckitterick/93770.html) website! >g<


Chris

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

bastards