4 Mar 09 - MS Office 'idiot'

i know i'm complaining, i know it's not really her fault but.. let me shout it out here, ya?..

i just dont understand why cant she be more 'adventurous' to explore those excel formulaes and document functions? .. if she's a elderly senior, i can understand the fear of IT.. but she is just 3yrs older than me! and she went through IT classes in her polytechnic!! how can she be so ignorant about mail merging, about formulation? come on, at the most you can always save a working copy to explore before you have the confidence to replace the official copy, what is the big deal? IT exploration wont eat you up! actually IT programs are pretty dumb and inflexible- they are all about logic!! unless you are illogical person..

sometimes, or rather very often nowadays, i just dont feel like helping her.. she has to learn how to understand and 'play around' with the formation and linkages.. i'm not really an IT expert myself, but i dare to play around.. opening some formulaes to see, to understand.. and if i have to use some complex formulation, i will learn from help wizard tutorial to help myself.. i dun blame her if she's not IT sauvy, but at least do what you can do to get your things done.. dont tell me you can be stuck with the same task for days (doing in the looonnngggg way), yet no time to turn on the help wizard to be more efficient..

when i step in to help, she is always so skeptical about my formulation.. as if i'll screw the document up, as if i'll mess the forms.. hey, hello, be gladful someone is willing to help you in your work, instead of being doubtful, esp when you are hopelessly hopeless in MS Office.. *my goodness i really wonder how she pass her IT module in polytechnic* anyway, there's no reason why i shld sabotage you - we are of same team! and be gladful when someone ask 'why not', 'why this', so things can be done more efficiently - save your time and effort. dont keep telling people 'that's how it is', when it obviously has a better resolution... learn to think and make your own decision in your work.. stop waiting for boss to instruct before you make your stand..

.. sigh.. some people.. these people are really 'polishing' my patience up..