It's not even my job to make or edit these files. I do it because the person whose job it _is_ can't do it. She can't do it because she works remotely, and the licence for the software lives on a laptop on site instead of on our shared servers (so the software can't see it when used remotely). It didn't occur to anyone that this would be a problem before they hired a remote worker for that job.
I was supposed to be doing it temporarily but it's been ages.
Other department team leader emails me the Nibthrummock code from which I should create the file.
Hang on, I created that exact one earlier this week. Turns out they DID want an edit to it after all, which after all that faff turned out to be ONE LINE.
They literally just had to email me 'Please edit file 42069 to add the line 'Hubba bubba bumlegs'.
It was confusing for my team-mate because it's not something she ever deals with, so she had 0 context for anything.
Eventually she gets the details down: it's not an edit to an existing file, it's a new file using some other file as a base, with a couple of changes. Okay, simple enough. Why was that so hard to email?? (Apparently the 2 people from the other department 'didn't know how to explain' it in writing. Bwah?)
@guffo My setup is in a weird microclimate; when I'm sitting in my computer chair it's always ghostly cold! I suppose it's better for the computer that way.
Cow-irker from another department came to my desk to verbally tell me that he needed some changes to a file. I told him to email me a link to the file and write down what needed to be changed.
His team leader then phoned my cow-irker to relay the instructions! Just have your guy send the sodding email instead of making my team-mate play middleman!
You can call a rectangle a quadrilateral. But you can't say trilateral for triangle or pentalateral for pentagon. Stupid language.
Why aren't triangles and squares called trigons and quadragons (to fit the pattern of pentagon, hexagon, septagon, etc)?
Jellyfish: not fish
Silverfish: not fish
Starfish: not fish
Cuttlefish: not fish
Shellfish: not fish
Seahorse: fish
It has been so lovely and quiet in the office today! I haven't needed to use my ear plugs or headphones once. I wish it could be like this every day.
Creature I dreamed about that I should sketch: a bunny, but with the mouth of a sarcastic fringehead fish, and human dentition.
Someone is selling jars of homemade kimchi for £9. They have a Korean-sounding name so it's probably authentic. Just over an hour's walk away (in total, there and back home). Tempting...
Someone is giving away a compost bin. Nice. But the description says 'rather full and heavy'. Full? You want someone to clear away your shitey old bin for free lmao
Holy shit, the 'wanted' section on Olio is a nonsense. One person is asking for a bike and an air fryer. No-one's going to give those things away for free lmao
Another person is asking for a small tin of Vaseline lip balm. It's like £1, just buy one.
@nikki Amazing but untrue gnome fact:
My mum's geography teacher (a human, not a gnome) used to troll the class to see who was paying attention. She told them about freeze-thawing, and explained that it was caused by little gnomes coming out at night and hitting the rocks with their hammers. The class dutifully wrote that down, and then she called them out for writing it down unquestioningly.
How a compost bin works: bacteria and little fungi break down dead plant matter
How a compost bin actually works: gnomes take the contents of the bin for making soup, then the gnomes shed their soily husks into the bin.
Compost bins are magical. You put some stuff inside and leave it for a bit, and later: holy shit, free compost??!