"Have you gone in the tutor area yet?"
I just sort of started blankly at her. "Huh," was about all I got out.
"Oh, no reason, but you should."
I sort of just looked blankly at Sundy and went on with tutoring. During my C++ session, I needed to get some pens for the whiteboard from my box. There, hanging off of my drawer was a half-folded piece of red paper with my name on it. I was curious, so I opened it up, and for some odd reason, it made me smile. I am now +1 pair of chopsticks (first pair I ever owned), and also +1 valentine card that isn't a token "oh by the way" thing. It made me smile because it was simple, and it was sincere. In some small way, it strengthened my resolve to smile tomorrow. (though the new cam going up at midnight really says otherwise). It's a play by ear day, and I really am not crazy enough to be as crazy as I need to be in order to be crazy. (Of course, me understanding that could negate that whole thing.)
I am always amused by the place I work (notice the topic of conversation transition here). Maybe it is because sometimes the most unique situations crop up, including ones for which no amount of training could really ever take of. For example, today as we were closing, there was a poor woman who spent all of last semester struggling through the Intro to Technology class. She was working in the lab, and we reached 5, which is our new closing time. And I feel somewhat bad because she seemed so lost. Apparently she copied her information from Microsoft Word to Excel, made changes, and assumed that the changes in Excel would somehow go into word when she quit Excel. She never saved. So she got back to Word, realized she lost all her work, and was complaining. She then saw Word asking if she wanted to revert her document to the last save. Before any of us could stop her. click .... poof there went all her work in Word as well. A good 2 hours poofed away because she didn't take the time to ask or read the dialog box. Now, part of this could be that she is not 100% fluent in English. It could be that "revert" is a word that isn't very well known and commonly used. I want to believe that, but experience tells me that neither of these are the case. It was probably the result of blindly clicking at the first thing that looks right.
That is how half the people end up in ASAP to begin with. Clicking blindly, skipping instructions, not bothering to read. I think technology only manages to bring these fundamental issues to the surface faster. Thoughts, opinions, flames?
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Mmmmm pie.... maybe I should change my mood to "hungry".
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