September 4, 2003

9/5/2003

I hate how everyone seems to go on vacation around the same time. I’ve been dead in the water for 2 weeks with nothing to do, now this week the parking garage is jam packed with cars and I’m swamped with work and support calls.

The worst problem of all is that Michele is being a total bitch/moron again.

She wants to change the layout of one of the manuals to suit her needs. Her way makes it ugly, inefficient and more difficult to navigate for the average user. The problem is that she is totally inept when it comes to using Lotus Notes. And since it’s technically HER manual we have to comply to her stupidity. We’ve shown her and shown her how to do what she needs to do. But she doesn’t listen or retain anything we tell her. I hate people that don’t listen.

Michele nearly set me off yesterday, my boss asked me to please explain, again, the benefits of having the manual set up the way it is, to double check that she remembered what we had taught her and to offer to go ahead and do it her way if she really wants to sacrifice useability. Michele wrote back that blah, blah, she uses it the most and it’s hard to use and yes, do it her way, and then she closed with “Thank you for complying with our request”. I just wanted to run downstairs and beat her over the head with a bat. Fucking bitch. If she would just LISTEN to us, we tried, and tried, to show her how to save time on this, if she’d listened she’d have less work to do than she would by changing this manual to “her way”. She’d have little to no work to get the users this information. *sigh* You can lead a thirsty bitch to water but you can’t make her drink.

Between Michele and idiots that can’t install software on XP today. I’m going to go insane, it’s Friday for chrissakes!!

I said there would be pictures of Sara today and I didn’t lie. 🙂

Here are updated pics of Sara:

Chewing her rawhide: