What? The email. What, What? The email
‘Kay, so yesterday, when I was trying to get out of the office, I had to write an email. I had to write it then and get it out as quickly as possible. I’d explain why, but it doesn’t matter and you probably don’t care. Long story short, it was 30 minutes after I usually leave and the email had to go out, ASAP.For the record, the email needed to be sent out to a number of people, most of whom I don’t know, and I need to get these people to check something and send me an email back. Translation: The email has to be worded very carefully. Why? ‘Cause people are stupid. Each ambiguity halves the amount of people that will follow the instructions properly. But, I digress.
So, I finish typing up my little email. Awesome. Now I need to add an attachment. Notes has a drag and drop interface. Even easier, right? So I grab my little attachment and drag it onto the email to where I want it to go. But, since Notes sucks ass, it places the attachment in the middle of email, right in the middle of sentence. And then I did what any self-respecting power user would do. I hit Ctrl-Z. Why? ‘Cause that’s the keystroke for Undo. And Notes, being the glorified turd that it is, decided to delete my entire email, save the first sentence.
My first reaction was to yell “NO!” and then “FUCK!” in rapid succession. As my co-worker came over to see if I was OK, it hit me. In a normal program, one can just hit Ctrl-Y to redo. But, as you may be able to infer from the existence of the paragraphs below this one, it didn’t work.
Furious doesn’t really cover it. However, instead of bitching, I just decided I would type it up again so I could just go home. Type type type. This time, I add the attachment properly. So we’re good.
However, I notice something in the email. “Hmmm… everything should be good… but since I am sending this to so many people, I should double-check it.” So, I pull up another email just to see it.
This is why I hate tabs, by the way. I look at the old email for just a second. I then proceeded to close it. For some reason, Notes always assumes that I want to change the text of emails that were sent to me. … Not really sure why, but whatever. So a little window pops up. “Do you want to save your changes?” “No, cause I didn’t make any changes.” I click “Discard Changes.” … … … … And for some reason the old email is still on my screen.
Good thing the office was pretty much empty at that point ‘cause I cursed something wicked.
I had to type that bitch again. Got it right that time. Third one is the charm, I guess. I hate computers. I like my computer. But I hate everyone else’s computer.
posted by Sunder @ 5:14 PM
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