TheBanyanTree: an office moment

[Pam Lawley]

I *love* this!!

As somebody who's worked in 'administration' for a whole lot of years, I can
remember that little 'thrill' of knowing I'd pulled off something that
nobody had a clue HOW I did it, and everybody was amazed.

Hell!  Sometimes *I* was the one most amazed!!

You go gurl!!!!!  :)


On 10/3/08, auntie sash <auntiesash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Every now and then, the job is satisfying.
>
> It was a silly little thing, but the pdf file from the escrow company had
> the signature block spilling onto a second page.  So my boss is supposed to
> sign independent of the text?  Not gonna happen.  He was in the other room
> all a dither because he couldn't modify the pdf, it has to be on their
> letterhead, so he can't retype it and it's gotta be sent in today and....
>
> I had this little "pdf to word" utility that I got from the daily giveaway
> site a while again.  I hadn't tried it yet, but while he was slamming
> papers
> around looking for the number to call the escrow company, I fired up the
> program and crunched the file.  It worked like a charm.  Deleted a couple
> blank lines, shift the bottom margin, and *POOF*.   A one page document.
>
> I walked in and handed it to Joe who said "What's this?  Oh wow!  How did
> you do that?  Magic??"
>
> I said "It's complicated.  And you owe me a goat."
> It's the little things.
>
> -sash
>
> --
> Live to the point of tears.
> - Albert Camus
>