yaleman.org » Worker bees http://www.yaleman.org a blog by James Hodgkinson Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:10:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 And it is going downhill from there… http://www.yaleman.org/2009/11/02/and-it-is-going-downhill-from-there/ http://www.yaleman.org/2009/11/02/and-it-is-going-downhill-from-there/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:39:53 +0000 James http://www.yaleman.org/?p=524 One of my earliest fault reports from this morning…

Description: user’s outlook wasn’t synchronising because user refused to follow instructions in error message and sync errors repeated every 20 seconds

Impact: no new mail and deleted items getting loaded up with sync errors

Cause: user didn’t read error messages and follow instructions

Sigh.

Update: Not five minutes after I posted the first one…

user’s mailbox is way over its limit – advised to clear it up and will stop getting messages saying it’s full. user claims to have received email saying his account would be closed – but had deleted it and cleared it (and only it) from the deleted items. over 50MB of other stuff in deleted items however. advised if gets message like this to NOT delete it before calling us.

Why?

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Repeat after me: The address bar’s history is NOT your bookmark folder!
Thanks,

yale.

]]> http://www.yaleman.org/2009/09/23/repeat-after-me/feed/ 0 The job market shits me http://www.yaleman.org/2008/10/10/the-job-market-shits-me/ http://www.yaleman.org/2008/10/10/the-job-market-shits-me/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:38:53 +0000 James http://www.ricetek.net/?p=352 You heard it here. It shits me. It seems that with my weird and wonderful assortment of experience and skills that I don’t actually fit into any box they have, so I can’t get a job and I’m stuck in pizzaVille.

Fuck.

I’m going to start applying for slightly-less-smelling-like-garlic shitkicker jobs, prodding more people at random and hoping for the best. This hasn’t worked so far, but others are saying to keep doing it, so on with the poking.

In other news, I’m looking for a business to start. There’s a couple of ideas, but most of them involve knowledge I don’t have, working with other people or saving up (or spending some of my recent insurance payout which should go on a car) to buy equipment.

Uh, google reader is interesting. I’m going to try it out for a while, never really got the hang of feed reader programs because I couldn’t find a good online one. I live on at least two different PC’s, so a a local program doesn’t work unless it syncs somehow – yeah, right.

I’ll probably keep quiet about my plans for businesses so you sneaky bastards on the internet don’t steal them, but once things are going I’ll try to document as much of my (hopefully) success story as I can :)

That’s enough for me now, bye :)

]]> http://www.yaleman.org/2008/10/10/the-job-market-shits-me/feed/ 1 Office jobs shit me, especially at christmas. http://www.yaleman.org/2007/12/11/office-jobs-shit-me-especially-at-christmas/ http://www.yaleman.org/2007/12/11/office-jobs-shit-me-especially-at-christmas/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:50:59 +0000 James http://www.ricetek.net/2007/12/11/office-jobs-shit-me-especially-at-christmas/ Gold wrapping paper, a ruler and green foil tape, that’s the implements I used to wrap this present.  It’s over-engineered and under-trimmed. I’m so obviously the only straight guy in my office. and one of the four males out of thirty people.

Secret santa my ass.

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In Excel the Edit Find facility is malfunctioning. Sometimes it finds the word being looked for and sometimes not. Could you please see if there is anything you can do to fix this issue for us?

Ok, I can see that it’s just user error, but this is what happens on my day off. Ugh.

]]> http://www.yaleman.org/2007/12/03/email-to-our-pay-for-time-it-support/feed/ 0 The blackberry is only half full. http://www.yaleman.org/2007/10/15/the-blackberry-is-only-half-full/ http://www.yaleman.org/2007/10/15/the-blackberry-is-only-half-full/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:40:49 +0000 James http://www.ricetek.net/2007/10/15/the-blackberry-is-only-half-full/ Dear workmates,

When I provide you with numerous solutions, do not say “that’s not what I want to do” because there’s only so many ways I can stop your Blackberry’s email inbox filling up.

Ta,
yale.

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