Pointless Announcements

Nose goblin invasion again. Still.

 

Tuba Chickens do make very fierce weapons. Especially if the person wielding the weapon is a poor player or the chicken is raw.

 

Voted.

 

Anybody else here have that moment when you see the alert with "person x liked your post in <insert area here>" and you have no recollection at all what it is even though you just made said post in the past hour or so?

 

Had to switch the avatar again. I did go more recent and jump from the 1930's to the 1940's.

 

Tested a kid for neurodevelopmental issues, provided feedback to a family regarding a teen's ADHD and major issues with self esteem, and met with a family that wants me to retest a kid because they like the way I did it the first time (new issues). Then I started working on the training manual for master's level practicum students.

I also made dinner. From scratch. Bitches.

 

Did you demonstrate the difference as well? There are always One Direction or Twilight fans available for testing purposes out there.

 

"Pictures of You" just started up on my play all songs functions. My mind took a moment to place it I thought " I love this song. Why don't I hear it more often? Adding it to several playlists ASAP.

Thanks Grumpy, some day I'll see you guys live... If I live that long.

 

Well, yesterday, I brought my office one baby step further into the 21st century.

A fairly abrasive customer, who works for an energy utility, was frustrated with service she had received, trying to get a usable copy of a certain set of diagrams.

So she went up the bureaucratic chain of command and complained directly to me. My desk is where the buck stops.

One of my employees had told her she'd have to come in and buy a copy of the high-res version. She vehemently objected to having to leave her office to get the diagram.

I inquired with my staff, and discovered this longstanding office policy: if someone wants a copy of a detailed, large-format diagram, of which we have a few thousand, we will print a copy and sell it to them for $2.

But the printed copy isn't made by a copier off the paper original, as I had assumed.

It turns out that all those diagrams were scanned, years ago, by an outside vendor, and we have them on CD.

The paper copy that we sell is generated from the scanned version.

So why not sell them the digital image from the CD instead of a roll of plotter paper?

We don't do that.

Why not?

Nobody ever asked for it before. Plus, how could they pay for it?

Let's say they've already paid the $2. Is it more trouble to email the image than to print it and mail it?

Well, actually, that would be easier. But who would want that? They'd just have to print it themselves. What if they don't have a big plotter?

Maybe they just want to blow up the image and check a couple details. Besides, I bet (the utility company) has all kinds of plotters on hand.

I've never heard of anyone who wanted the digital file.

This customer I just spoke to wants it. [Actually, I had suggested it to her, and she was enthusiastic.]

Yeah, but she's not very nice. Why go out of our way just for her?

Look: new policy. If somebody wants to buy the digital image instead of a paper copy, we will sell it to them. More than that, we'll email it to them, so they can get it right away without having to travel to our office.

How will we collect payment for that?

We can bill them. I think we can trust a $10 billion company to pay six dollars.

Well, okay, but have them write an email with the detailed request, so we can print it out, and have a paper record of the transaction.

 

Sounds like I fall under "Generation X", at least according to the definitions I just read on wikipedia. Makes sense to me, as I do not feel much of a connection to the group that I commonly see referred to as millennials.

 

I think your post helped prove what I said. Never heard of Whatsapp, I think I have heard of Snapchat but have no clue what that is without an internet search, and Instagram is something for foodies to post at least three pictures of EVERY SINGLE MEAL THEY EAT as far as I know.