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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 everythingI 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My computer at work is going bonkers and IS Dept. has been unable to solve it. Microsoft has not been called yet because they are trying to see if we can solve the problem first. This is the computer problem that opened up a hornet’s nest at work (see thread “Am I Crazy or What Thread?”).
1. FIRST: IS had to upgrade my computer because it could not handle some scanned pages I needed for a manual. It kept say “No memory available”. They upgraded my computer and now I am having the following problems.
2. They upgraded to the following:
Windows 98 (this is the same) with Office Suite 2002 (upgrade). This is the same as everyone else in the office. It appears my computer is the only one having problems. Consequently, they reloaded it with Windows 98 second edition and Office Professional 2000. That corrected the Short Cut Key problems but not the printing problems.
3. Encountered the following problems:
Problems with document repaginating itself when I change printers
My HR Policies were originally created in WordPerfect. They were converted to WORD some time ago. We have 2 printers: HP LaserJet 4V and Minolta Dpi (or something like that). The Minolta is a big copier/printer hooked to our file server also. When I print a policy to the LaserJet 4V, no problem. If I want to print it again to the Minolta, the whole page repaginates right on the screen before my eyes leaving huge portions of white space and misalignments. I don’t dare save it that way (I found out) because I’d have to edit it to get it back to normal.
Also, the document misaligns itself when it is attached to an Outlook E-mail and sent to IS who has to place it on our Web server. Even if we edit it before placing it on Web server, it still gets out of whack when it arrives on the Web.
IS Dept. doesn’t know what is causing the problem. It sounds like a font problem but I’m using a very standard Arial or Times New Roman font which is the same everyone else uses.
OUTLOOK printing with no attachments indicated
Is this normal? I get two different kinds of print screens when I enter different E-mails. Sometimes I get one type of screen, and then I get another one at times.
I want to be able to print an E-mail that I sent for my file for documentation purposes that indicates there was an attachment. I do not need the attachment printed. All I get is the E-mail text. It does not show that anything was attached. The only time I can print the E-mail showing an attachment is when the attachment appears directly in the body of the E-mail. If the attachment appears on an attachment line under the Subject line, it won’t show in the printoff. If the attachment appears below a line on the body of the E-mail, it won’t show in the printoff. The only way I can get around it is do a PRINT SCREEN and go into WORD, Ctrl V. Dumb!!!! Any way to get around this? It appears others are having the same problem. However, I don’t think they keep getting 2 different print screens.
Short cut keys operate differently from everyone else's
Block Delete in WORD: Receiving prompt “Delete Block? No (Y)”. Everyone else just hits Delete key.
Go to Top of Document in WORD: Must use Home-Ctrl-Home. Everyone else uses Ctrl-Home.
Everyone has been through the WORD Help menu and all other menus twice and cannot find any settings that would affect this. Why in the world are they functioning differently on my computer when I’m running the same programs?
4. The last word on Friday afternoon was:
a. My boss wants me keep what I currently have (Microsoft 98 2nd ed with Office Suite 2000) even though its an older program. He said it solved the shortcut key problem and that’s half the battle. See if Microsoft can help with the printing problem.
b. IS Dept. technician wants to reload Monday with Windows XP and Office Suite 2002 and see if Microsoft can help. His boss wants it to be same as my bosses for compatibility reasons.
c. Karen just wants the damned thing fixed. It’s been going on for a month. Does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what IS Dept. thinks should be done. IS wants to fix the problem properly and get it compatible with my boss and not hear about it again. My boss just wants to “hurry up” and get it done by staying with what is working for the moment for ½ of the solution.
It makes no sense to me to work around the problem with a “bandaid” downgrade fix. Someday I will have to be upgraded and it could rear its ugly head again. Something is not right with my computer and there is no reason why I should not be able to run the same versions as everyone else.
By the way, my boss approached the IS Mgr. Friday morning behind closed doors with “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.”
ANY RECOMMENDATIONS? THANKS. [[[hugs]]]
Trot
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.
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.
I’ve 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. I just want to know if I am being unrealistic or unreasonable under the circumstances.
FOR COMPUTER GURUS: Rather than go through the details on this thread of the problem that opened a hornet’s nest at work, I’ll post the computer problem on another thread. Perhaps someone has an answer. See thread “NEED COMPUTER GURUS”.
FOR THE PEOPLE WORKING IN CORPORATE MANAGEMENT, the computer problem is a symptom and not the real cause of my frustration. The REAL underlining problem that I need help with in general is as follows:
1. Is it better to be determined and get to the bottom of a problem NOW so you don’t have to deal with it later and go through the whole process again (when everyone else has conveniently forgotten the details of why you are having the problem in the first place, thereby making you look like you’re complaining again)? OR
2. Is it better to solve a problem temporarily and deal with solving it later if it rears its ugly head again? After all, it may go away…ha, ha and we just don’t have the time to spend on it. I’d like to see Boeing service technicians try to get away with this approach. OR
3. Say “forget it” because working in this dept. is a hopeless case and go with No. 2 which is what by boss wants to do? OR
4. Get a new job.
I would like to encourage those who have experience in corporate management to E-mail me. There is much more going on in the background relating to the Department and I’m hesitant to post it on a public chat board.
Thanks a bunch. [[[hugs]]]
Trot
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.
i already said farewell in my apology post to julie.
but many of you may not have read it since it was specific to her.. i was planning a long farewell statement because i have a number of things i want to share, but decided i would do that in private if anyone wishes.
you can reach me at [email protected].. i chose to leave for a number of reasons, and some stated on my last post.
Ah-h-h-h Amazing. So sorry you feel you must leave. When I first started "lurking", your posts were the ones I looked for. Thank you for those posts and hope you'll "pop" in now and then. Take care. {{{HUGS}}}
Trot
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.
