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Hi All,
The great overlords of mine have dictated that we use a more user friendly and quicker system for our time sheets... and they have to completed by Friday lunch time. Oh Joy, open the system on Thursday it all works (horrible Java interface from the mid '90's)...Does it work today? elephant me, it won't let me in today, mutter, mutter, grumble!
Done it! Ha, Ha, clear the cache' sacrifice Goat, and it works! 
modified 19-Oct-18 6:16am.
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glennPattonWork wrote: they have to completed by Friday lunch time
And the stuff you do on Friday afternoons?
They haven't thought this one through, have they?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: They haven't thought this one through, have they?
I have yet to meet management that thinks anything through 
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Right at this moment they would think about you if they had read this.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You're assuming they're capable of thought at all... I'm not so sure 
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Ever had the impression that some of them just pretend to be idiots to pull the wool over your eyes? These are far more dangerous than the natural fools.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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PeejayAdams wrote: And the stuff you do on Friday afternoons?
Fridays are strictly for meetings away from the office (friends / collegues, but even talking to the bartender is a meeting.)
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Well, that's precisely what I should be doing (having a meeting with my friendly neighbourhood barman) but they won't let me do it until later 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Your subject reminds me of my first job. Got into strife after a few weeks for using the last requisition in the book for something other than the next requisition book. Caused quite a kerfuffle.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We were using a system a bit clunky, based on VB6 I think but it worked. I'm guessing it output flat csv files which the greater company didn't like as there Java based system would barf up the wrong value. So now we individually have to use a system that is designed for a shift manager on a building site to use...
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Could be worse...
Our are due on Wed. Try to figure that one out, I can't.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Any particular kind of goat? I have the same problem!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Nope random goat, We are in the country side, farm animals not hard to come by...
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Replicon?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I think it is in that old book, "Tales of computing folks" (a collection of a regular column of the good old Datamation magazine, bringing true-life stories) where the time tracking reports became so complex that the employees started filing half an hour a week, then increased to an hour a week, for filling out the forms. If I remember the story right, management started reacting to it when everyone spent an hour a week filling in the time sheets, realizing that the system had to be simplified. (Obviously, this was in the paper & pencil dates where no computerized system limited you to a specific set of project numbers.)
My current company makes no real use of the time sheet; the only reason for collecting them is to prove to the authorities that we are not working more overtime than allowed by public regulations. (That is obviously a joke, when hours worked are registred manually - if we come close to the limit, we can just push a few hours over to the following period.)
The effect is that they spend no resources on making a decent reporting system. E.g. you have to fill in the fields of a form in a given sequence, otherwise the system will barf. You cannot enter fractional hours using a comma rather than a full stop (in Germanic languages, comma is the standard), no matter what you have specified in the language/region setting of your PC. If you happen to hit the wrong activity code when clicking in the pulldown menu, you may spend quite some time, and dozens of manual operations, to have that entry cancelled and to reenter the values using the correct activity code. For all but a standard, run off the mill, work week, you may easily spend half an hour filling in the forms. -- And then, knowing that they will use it for absolutely nothing, is the most frustrating part of it!
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My yoga instructors name is Matthew.
But we just call him Yoga Matt! 
Sorry, it's friday. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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That was a bit of a stretch: yoga-ta try harder!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wait till you see me in my yoga pants. THEN you can talk about a stretch! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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The worst part is that for some reason you thought this deserved to be written in a bigger font 
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Also shows how well-planned this site is; you can change the size, not the type. As such, you never see a post in Comic Sans 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yeah, I guess you're right, won't happen. Never ever. Certainly not in those annoying colors! 
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Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Wow, who knew, from now on, please post the CCC like this to make it that bit more difficult.
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That's because all the old geezers tend to relax here in the Lounge. Wouldn't want to strain their eyes!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Well, yoga's all about stretching, so fonts are no exception...
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