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Another Dilbert Moment

When I worked at OSU I used WP quite a bit because I needed to write macros for my particular job. I found it easier to do with WP than with Word. However, someone developed a set of tools for editors using Word that made me scrap WP altogether. The macro function was the only thing that WP was good for.
 
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Saturday, Sep 23 2017

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I received a document last week from someone using WP. I commented to my assistant he must be the last man in the known universe using WP. She had forgotten what WP even was.

The entity that I work for does its core document production function (and our core function is document production) in wordperfect due to an entire legacy database/workflow system that was built for it over twenty years ago. We've changed everything that we reasonably can over to Word. Whether we get a whole new system or the whole thing explodes (which would likely make national news) first is the interesting question.

Didn't notice how old this thread was. Makes my post even more ludicrous.
 
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Not quite as bad as someone still using WP, but our phone billing section downstairs uses a jerry-rigged system that was piecemealed together using multiple (about 20) Access databases and Excel spreadsheets, designed back in 1998. Then, when they finally get done manually importing monthly billing data via CD from the phone vendor and hand-massaging about 20,000 records, they upload a zip file containing several Access databases and an Excel spreadsheet to a timed job on the server, which was written by some dude who had just got his PhD who decided to write the entire function into several .ddl files and an .exe file with absolutely zero documentation. So, when one of the billers downstairs invariably fat-fingers a data input and then the timed job on the server errors out, they freak the fuck out and ask our section (me) to troubleshoot what they did wrong. Our section chief has told them for about a year and a half now that our section (I) can do a complete rewrite from the ground up which would take about 6-8 months but would permanently resolve their issues (they haven't been able to bill customers for about eight months now), and all they need to do is come up with a requirements document, they just can't seem to find the time.
 
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Not quite as bad as someone still using WP, but our phone billing section downstairs uses a jerry-rigged system that was piecemealed together using multiple (about 20) Access databases and Excel spreadsheets, designed back in 1998. Then, when they finally get done manually importing monthly billing data via CD from the phone vendor and hand-massaging about 20,000 records, they upload a zip file containing several Access databases and an Excel spreadsheet to a timed job on the server, which was written by some dude who had just got his PhD who decided to write the entire function into several .ddl files and an .exe file with absolutely zero documentation. So, when one of the billers downstairs invariably fat-fingers a data input and then the timed job on the server errors out, they freak the fuck out and ask our section (me) to troubleshoot what they did wrong. Our section chief has told them for about a year and a half now that our section (I) can do a complete rewrite from the ground up which would take about 6-8 months but would permanently resolve their issues (they haven't been able to bill customers for about eight months now), and all they need to do is come up with a requirements document, they just can't seem to find the time.

What? No floppy disks? No AOL email? What about a corporate MySpace account?
 
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