June 23, 2004

• Work  is getting to be a pain, however as usual I am using the computer whenever possible to organize, implement, and accomplish tasks. So far only our engineer, only at the place for two years, understands and implements the computer as I do. I remember when I got the “first PC” about 7 years ago so I could use the CAD program. I remember having lots of discussions with the boss whether it was worth it. (I would shoot myself if I didn’t have CAD. Most of the documents in the panel files are CAD documents.  Then spreadsheets, and Word documents.) Now my boss has a puter, and uses it on ly for email, and only thinks the email is “real” when it is printed out. I’ve seen him print out links and attachments that are on the email, and he doesn’t know how to “open the attachment”, so the printer prints the icon at the bottom of the email. He once asked me for my email address (he phoned me from two doors down the hall.). He needed to “send me” an attachment he couln’t open. He always assumes it’s a CAD drawing, even if it’s a pdf he can read with acrobat. (I always include a link to Adobe in my emails with pdfs as a courtesy, but he wouldn’t know what the link was.  I don’t think he’s ever ”been” on the internet.)  I asked him why I wasn’t in his contacts list (as if I didn’t know) So I go into his office and check, and the contacts list is empty. I entered myself, and showed him how to use the list to “click” on my name, and the email address in the “to” line was “automatically inserted. He kept on glancing at his faxes. (I remember when that technology was new to him. ) I showed him how easy it was to send me the forwaded attachment, asked him if he understood, which met with a blank stare, and then I finally went back to my office.

   

  A couple of days passed, and then he calls me on the phone (from two doors down the hall.) He needed my email address so he could send me an attachment.

  I metaphorically rolled my eyes, swallowed hard and recited: “MikeNyiri@……”

  © MFN 6/23/2004

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