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That's some insidious auto-incorrecting there! I actually hate all auto-"correction" features with a passion. After every Office update at work I have to go in

by _0ffh 7y ago

That's some insidious auto-incorrecting there! I actually hate all auto-"correction" features with a passion. After every Office update at work I have to go into the Outlook settings and manually disable all of that crap, but that still beats the hell out of having to live with it.

Nexxxeh 7y ago
Have you asked your admin if it's possible to keep your Office settings through updates? I'm assuming you have, but you'd (possibly) be amazed at the stuff people don't mention to their IT guy... Literally one client just "lived with" one of their screens being yellow. Never thought to mention it.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  There's often a send that "this is what my employer have me to work with, I'm getting on with it". Perhaps there needs to be some effort to poll for issues rather than rely on interrupts.
- _0ffh 7y ago
  Oh, if I even had an assigned administrator! Fifteen years ago, there was indeed an "in situ" administrator for the department. Five years ago, I could at least still find a couple of that ever farther removed breed of man in a room of the same building. Nowadays all we have is two alternative methods to have a "ticket" created, namely telephone and email. The main job of the first line of "support", located in a low-wage country, is to have every ticket you create closed as quickly as humanly possible. If your request is not on the (short) list of standardised tasks (like package assignment) it will usually get closed as "not an issue, won't fix". You then have to re-open and escalate, to get to someone who is capable of more than just following a few simple instructions from a process guideline. Even then, anything that is out of the norm will usually end in someone saying "this kind of request has not been anticipated" or "I'm probably not allowed to do that". Frankly, most of the time I don't even try anymore. Welcome to 1/2M employees company bureaucratic nightmare.

by _0ffh 7y ago

Nexxxeh 7y ago

Have you asked your admin if it's possible to keep your Office settings through updates? I'm assuming you have, but you'd (possibly) be amazed at the stuff people don't mention to their IT guy... Literally one client just "lived with" one of their screens being yellow. Never thought to mention it.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
There's often a send that "this is what my employer have me to work with, I'm getting on with it". Perhaps there needs to be some effort to poll for issues rather than rely on interrupts.
_0ffh 7y ago
Oh, if I even had an assigned administrator! Fifteen years ago, there was indeed an "in situ" administrator for the department. Five years ago, I could at least still find a couple of that ever farther removed breed of man in a room of the same building. Nowadays all we have is two alternative methods to have a "ticket" created, namely telephone and email. The main job of the first line of "support", located in a low-wage country, is to have every ticket you create closed as quickly as humanly possible. If your request is not on the (short) list of standardised tasks (like package assignment) it will usually get closed as "not an issue, won't fix". You then have to re-open and escalate, to get to someone who is capable of more than just following a few simple instructions from a process guideline. Even then, anything that is out of the norm will usually end in someone saying "this kind of request has not been anticipated" or "I'm probably not allowed to do that". Frankly, most of the time I don't even try anymore. Welcome to 1/2M employees company bureaucratic nightmare.