RE: The Save function

[Gerrinson]

BG: I was CC'd in on this email since I am the only full time IT person and the previous IT manager is now working as a part time consultant. I think know I'm going to miss having him as a full time buffer between me and the stupid.

The employee who wrote this email has been working here as night audit for more than a year using Excel the entire time. He also claimed to have years of experience using Excel. I think he lied.

I've reversed the order, so you can read them chronologically. Might want to get drunk first so it kills fewer brain cells. Here come's the stupid:

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From: Idiot Auditor
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:25 AM
To: <IT Manager>

Subject: RE: The save function.



<IT Manager>, Please bear with me. I'm still not 100% clear on the save function.

1) When clicking on "file" and then on "save" is it the same as "Ctrl - S" ?

2) When entering data and then the save function does the computer save only what has iust been entered or does the computer save all that has been enterd including data of other departments entered previosly ?

I'm going to be off for a few days so no urgency for a response.

Thank you for your time and patience.

Idiot - Night Audit.

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Hi Idiot,


1) Yes

2) When you save a file, the entire file is saved. This is includes new data you entered as well as ALL other data in the file.

I hope this helps answer your question. If you have any other questions, you can direct them to Gerrinson, since he will be available every day.


Enjoy your time off,



M

IT Manager

[protege]

Damn. I felt my IQ literally *drop* after reading that. Is there any way I can get compensated for that?

Seriously, where the *hell* do these people come from? I was always told that there is a place where elephants go to die...but nobody knows where it is. Similarly, there must be another place...where idiots and assholes go to breed. Too bad we can't find it...and bomb the living shit out of it

[Elspeth]

ow ow ow. If I wasn't married to the IT guy at work, I would swear you worked at my company. I swear I have to explain the easiest stuff to some of these people. Shortcut keys confuse them. I do almost everthing with shortcut keys.

I feel your pain.

Now I need to go find what is left of my brain

[Naaman]

I don't know what's worse...

1) An 'expert' had to ask such a basic question

2) He didn't think to knock out "Test spreadsheet 1" and poke around himself*


*This is how I (mostly) learnt Access and a smidgen of SQL, got a local version of the database on my PC and import any query that makes me go "Huh?" so I can pick it apart at my leisure

[Dark-Star]

If my brain was running Windows, it would have just had the Mother of all BSOD's.

Even putting the stupidity aside how much efford does it take to use google or the built-in help? 60 seconds? Geez Louise what a dimwit.

[JLRodgers]

Hmm.... #2 kind of makes sense as I recall one of the office applications have a feature that said it "saved only the changes to the end (speeds up saving)" option...

[dalesys]

Meh. I've had crapplications (required for the job/function) that behaved differently depending on how you did something.
Hell, the author/manufacturer explicitly stated in the manuals "Only use the <Quit> button to close windows."
(Implying: DO NOT <ALT-F4> or <CONTROL-Q> or...)