lusers make baby jesus cry

[samwize.livejournal.com]

Enter me, returning from lunch into the middle of an extended, frantic conference between two of the Office Players.

"Jesus! How do we get this to work?!" said Boss.

"I dunno. It's not an Excel spreadsheet, but it looks like one. How'd they do that, anyway?" said my cow-orker.

"I dunno. Did you look at the "Properties"?"

"Yeah, but it doesn't seem to really have any..."

"Hmm...".

*ponder-ponder-ponder*

"Is there something I can help y'all with?" I said.

"Well, maybe," said Boss. "How well do you know Word?"

*shrug* "Medium to advanced user. Whassup?"

"Well, we've got this document (*points at screen*) and it's got this weird spreadsheet in it. It's the new manual for our ISO 9002 certification and we can't figure out how to add a new column onto the end of it. We've been trying for about an hour now." said Boss.

"New column, or new row?"

"New row, I guess."

"Hmm."(*glance at Word Table*) "Here." *click-at-end-of-row* *CLACK* "There you go."

"HOW'D YOU DO THAT?!?!" said both.

"I hit "Enter"."

"...." said Boss.

"...." said Cow-Orker.

"You care if I go steal a non-schedualed smoke break?"

"...No. That's fine." said Boss.

Comments

Cow Orkers :)

[daeleesa.livejournal.com]

hehe... don't you just LOVE PEBCAK bosses and Cow Orkers? ;) (reference your use of the word "cow-orkers." What exactly is an orker, and how would this affect the cow?

hehe. Just being sarcastic. :) But really, this COULD be coined as a new term. Yew jean-ee-us. :)

[normie.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm very guilty of having troubles figuring out tables in word. Here I am, helpdesk agent and computer engineering student, and I still struggle occasionally with any office applications...

Re: Cow Orkers :)

[jecook]

Well, I know that orking cows is illegal in 38 states.

::ducks::

[kyndig.livejournal.com]

LOL I know what you mean. I can set up an enterprise network in my sleep but if I have to use excel I am like a first day luser! I am even worse with office equipment. I have NEVER gotten a copy or a fax to go through on the first try.

Re: Cow Orkers :)

[daeleesa.livejournal.com]

LOL

[ozdeadmeat.livejournal.com]

Well, atleast it wasnt the "any" key. LoL

Re: Cow Orkers :)

[samwize.livejournal.com]

Oh, _I_ didn't come up with the term. It's standard nomenclature from the DNRC newsletter. (That's Dilbert's New Ruling Class, for the in-duh-viduals out there.)