Posts by Trotafox

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NEED COMPUTER GURUS

by Trotafox in

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windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

Trotafox

Toddy: I almost did. This IS my new computer. Management get the new stuff. Staffers get the hand-me-downs. Aren't I lucky.

Fod: I'm not impressed with our IT staff either but it's all I have. The IS Manager hates Microsoft also. We're stuck with it. We have problems because they keep upgrading us all the time. I keep asking why? What's wrong with this version? Just when you're finally getting productive and in the swing of things with the new version, they come around and upgrade either the operating system or the office suite software again. Now this isn't working, that isn't working, ya-dah-ya-dah-ya-dah.

I remember when our HR Policy manuals were in WordPerfect and I was trying to meet a deadline for distribution. The I.S. Dept. came around and announced they are taking WordPerfect off our computers and installing WORD. No problem they said. Documents will convert okay. Well, our manual had all kinds of formatted text. Do I need to tell you what they looked liked when the conversion was finished? Have you ever seen, re-e-e-e-ally seen, a Tasmanian devil? That closely resembled what I looked like that day!

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

25

Bad news, folks!

by TweetieBird in

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my teenage son approached my husband and me yesterday to inform us that he wants to get baptized at the summer convention.

ugh!.

he hasn't shown an interest in witness things for several months until a cousin from up north came to visit and took him out in service all day.

Trotafox

TweetieBird: Peer pressure is stronger than normal as they are very brainwashed. Further.....You know your son the best. You at least have the advantage of knowing what he is getting into. Just think if you were a parent with no exposure to the WTS. OMG. If you are Christian, pray that whatever he chooses to do is according to His will and not yours or your son's. Then don't fret. Trust God to handle the situation. If it's not God's will, your son's efforts will be derailed causing the grief that we know the WTS is capable of dishing out. Just be there for him if it comes to that. If this direction is God's will, then who are we to argue. Just support him in whatever he decides to do. I'm certainly not endorsing the WTS because I can't stand them but you'll lose the tug of war once the love-bombing starts. Just pray and reason with him, repeat, repeat, repeat.

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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Am I Crazy or What?

by Trotafox in

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ive got a problem with my boss that is driving me nuts.

[>:(] we differ drastically in our approach to problem solving and it is affecting my everyday life on my job.

it's to the point where there are times when i wish we could part company.

Trotafox

Brodark: Don't know if we have PageMaker. I'll ask. Bodily Harm: I feel like it sometimes. I vent here instead.

Jeremy: I sure did. With your wife and daughter (and her teddy)? Adorable. Ya'll look like a very happy, happy family. I envy you. Thanks so much for the pic.

Flip:

...Is it possible for you to troubleshoot the problem on your ‘own time’, using subterfuge if necessary, in the effort to compile a record of ‘the fix’?

Ever heard of the expression "She's like a puppy with a root" when researching a problem? That's how my best friend always described me. Writing policies and procedures and identifying administrative problems are my forte. Been doing it for 37 years. There's a lot more background to this situation. I'll send you an E-mail if your E-mail is open.

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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NEED COMPUTER GURUS

by Trotafox in

jw
friends

windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

Trotafox

Simon/Rhett: OK you two. I assume this is something between you two now re Web pages and not concerning the original question in my thread?

Any more computer gurus out there who care to make a comment about my office computer gremlins? The more the merrier. I'm going to be going after this problem first thing on Monday morning.

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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NEED COMPUTER GURUS

by Trotafox in

jw
friends

windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

Trotafox

Thanks, Bigboi. I see that now. That was dumb. Can't get into the message to edit. The editing area disappeared.

Trot

P.S. Ya know, the brain just isn't functioning tonight. For some reason the screen enlarged on me and the editing area went off to the right.
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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NEED COMPUTER GURUS

by Trotafox in

jw
friends

windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

Trotafox

Simon: What happened? My quotes wouldn't work. In trying to correct, I took out the first one and placed [CODE] in them instead. I lost all the editing area and I can't get it back. ???

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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NEED COMPUTER GURUS

by Trotafox in

jw
friends

windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

Trotafox

Simon:

Sounds like it's all messed up. I rarely do 'upgrade' installations as they never go smoothly. A clean install is always best.

Messed up is right. Clean install..got it. The IS Mgr admitted that many people in the Company are having compatibility problems because they everyone is on different versions. He takes the blame for that. We seem to be spending so much time fighting our computers and tempers get short when you have a job to do. And you're right about the money/resources/time thing. But I have a job to do also. I try very hard to be patient with the IS guys normally but when I'm up against a deadline and ignored by IS and given excuse after excuse, I turn into a raving bulldozer. And guess who is giving me the deadline. You got it. My boss.

JeffT:

Get to all the meetings and go out in field service more, that should fix everything

I tell ya what. With the time I have put in on this thing this month, I would have been way (I mean WAY) over the national average for the month.

Seriously, I think you need a competent IS person to fix this.

I'm stuck with what we have and that's real questionnable at this point. All 4 IS guys have been involved in this and getting nowhere.

It seems none of them really have the time to devote to the solution. As I stated earlier, my boss told the IS Mgr (actually he's a Director and head of the IS Dept.), “I don’t know if you know Karen very well but she will not just let this drop until it’s fixed. If it’s not fixed, we are not going to have a Happy New Year.” Trust me. He wasn't kidding. I'm up against deadlines, too, and nobody, I mean nobody, messes with my ability to get my job done! The IS Mgr has finally agreed to do it right and now my boss and he are arguing about whether to give it a temp fix (my boss) or take the time to fix it properly (IS Mgr). And true to form, my boss once again causes more problems than he solves.

Among other things that means don't call microsoft.

I'm glad somebody agrees with me about Microsoft. When IS told me that I could call Microsoft, I just looked at them like they were crazy. In the first place, they are the IS Dept; not me. In the second place, I had visions of hours on the phone coming to no solution. Been there. I'm sure my boss would have loved having no assistant while I spent all day on the phone correcting a computer problem that IS should be working on!

Sounds to me like your whole system needs to be reinstalled, or better yet replaced.

I've been fighting for a fix and not just a temporary "going back to the old version fix" but it's my boss that is giving me the problem. He's a "I don't want to hear it, just get it done, while I stick my head in a hole type of person". The IS Mgr wants to reinstall Windows 2002 and Office Suite 2002 and work with Microsoft, if necessary, from there. I AGREE. And once again, folks, Karen butts heads with her boss (for the 400th time).

By this time next week, I'll probably be looking for another job.

Thanks.

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

25

Bad news, folks!

by TweetieBird in

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friends

my teenage son approached my husband and me yesterday to inform us that he wants to get baptized at the summer convention.

ugh!.

he hasn't shown an interest in witness things for several months until a cousin from up north came to visit and took him out in service all day.

Trotafox

Danni: Hi. Trotafox, here. We haven't met yet. Welcome to the Board. You asked "Whats the deal with being baptized?". The long and short of it is: Until you are baptized, you are not a JW; only an unbaptized publisher which means you can go door to door, attend meetings, are studied with (for more of that slow, slow indoctrination), etc. Once baptized, you have formally joined the organization and are expected to adhere to everything, and I do mean everything, without objection or question...ever. If you don't, you will be pressured to do so. If you don't, you will be disciplined via judicial committee and possibly disfellowshipped. If you disassociate yourself voluntarily, you more or less disfellowship yourself. Easy IN; HELL getting out. You leave and you are cut off from EVERYONE, including family. You are DEAD in their eyes. You are told not to even meet their eyes. Allowances are sometimes made, I believe, to a certain extent for spouses. Others can correct me, if I'm wrong. It is definitely a cult. Nuff said?

TweetieBird: Communicate with him constantly. Make him think. I do like the idea of a 200 post requirement. That's good. That'll work. He probably will be conflicted at some point and will have to make a decision. Poor little guy. I really, really, can't stand the WTS when I see things like this being done.

Trot (((hugs)))

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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Am I Crazy or What?

by Trotafox in

jw
friends

ive got a problem with my boss that is driving me nuts.

[>:(] we differ drastically in our approach to problem solving and it is affecting my everyday life on my job.

it's to the point where there are times when i wish we could part company.

Trotafox

Dave: You're talking to the documentation champ here. Five people have left our Department because of my boss and the Co. in general. One more just turned in their notice yesterday. They all loved their jobs. My boss likes me. I like him. We all like him. If we were neighbors, we'd be great buddies. Professionally speaking, he can't manage his way out of paper sack and is making our daily lives miserable. I'll E-mail you with more details.

GF: Thanks for the site. If I feel like getting out a gun, I'll make sure I check it first.

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.

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NEED COMPUTER GURUS

by Trotafox in

jw
friends

windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

Trotafox

Simon:

Thanks for responding.

They gave me someone else's computer from upstairs. She got the new machine. I got her junk which was better junk than I had, supposedly. It was a completely different computer. My old CPU is still under the desk. They upgraded it to accommodate my problems with memory for the scanned material I was working with. They just installed newer software versions. It didn't like it. They reinstalled the Office Suite. Didn't help.

Re printer driver: A month ago, I inquired as to whether or not there was a driver that needed to be downloaded to the HP LaserJet4. The technican just admitted to me yesteday that he didn't know much about the software. LOL.

Re diagnostic software: I also asked them a month ago if it could be a keyboard problem. They shugged their shoulders and walked away. Will suggest they check the Minolta printer default formatting and see if they have run diagnostic software. I wish I could fix the darn thing myself. Talk about a waste of time.

It's just very frustrating because I was trying to get a project out on a deadline while all of this was, and still is, going on.

Trot

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.