if I remember next week, I’ll try to save one while offline and see what happens

I can tell you that if I use “save as PDF” while online with onedrive not running (whether because I shut it down or because it crashed and didn’t restart itself), the pdf will not show up locally for me

seconding that

what the fuck are oled people

his home is a midscale restaurant pretending to be fancy?

I don’t see why then being a guest would mean you should invite them to track dog shit and greasy dirt all over your house, though

the snow?

yeah but I don’t hire those people

do you not know how those work?

the sun shines on the side angled upwards and heats it up. everybody knows hot air rises, so this raises the blade, creating the spinning motion.

it’s basic, really. third grade stuff.

You’re showing your privilege lol

When you save an office file to PDF and you are in a OneDrive environment, it doesn’t save it locally - it saves it to the cloud, and then downloads it locally. it’s fucked up

I’m not going to fault people for having trouble when the “save this file as PDF” option doesnt result in a PDF immediately in the save directory

nah. I’m not taking responsibility for shit management. I don’t care if they’re open or not, and I think they shouldn’t be, and it doesn’t change how much money I spend at their store, so they should close to save the labour costs. but it ain’t my responsibility.

but what fraction of those people are those that wouldn’t just go the day before or after closure instead?

The only gain the store is making is customers who need something that day and will go to another open store instead

in the winter, I push my errands out until there’s enough snow to slide around in, if I have to drive

you’re telling me that I get to go drift (reponsibly, of course), I get a basically empty store with nobody blocking the aisles or anything, the parking lot is wide open, and the checkouts have no lines? fucking sign me up

I really think the argument that “people who go into stores are the reason the store is open” is kind of dumb. The reason the store is open is because the owners want to make more money, and they think they can do that by staying open. I had to do the errand sooner or later anyways, it makes no difference to the amount of money I am spending at your store if I go in today or tomorrow. but it’s more fun and convenient for me to go today. if you were closed because of the weather, I would be mildly disappointed, and then forget about it in 3 minutes because I’m having fun sliding around.

blaming the customer in this situation is like blaming the customer for your boss paying you below minimum wage.

you can still do that

it’s buggier than it used to be, though

depends

are they trying to export a PDF from Microsoft Word? because Microsoft makes that difficult nowadays

oh god

we still regularly get comments “I don’t have access to the [whatever local drive letter OneDrive is using for the user] drive”

like motherfucker IT’S ALL THE SAME FUCKING DRIVE, JUST LOOK AT THE PATH AND FOLLOW THAT ON YOUR LOCAL ONE

I have no idea why Microsoft removed the ability to map OneDrive to a drive letter. we have a third party tool but it sucks.

I’ve even made a two page document (big font and pretty pictures) to explain the difference, and people don’t look at it when they’re onboarded. or their supervisor didn’t add it to the onboarding package.

that’s what pisses me off about going the extra mile and making such clear instructions

like why the fuck am I doing it if you’re not going to read it

a separate issue to this is the feedback I’ve been getting from management lately

• “so and so needs more clear instructions, you need to accommodate that as a supervisor”

• “your messages are too long, they need to be more concise” — meanwhile it’s literally a flow chart in bullet point form of “if this do that, else go to next bullet”

like what the fuck do you guys want from me, I’m doing extra here to make it simple, if people are fucking stupid that’s not my problem

a guy who just quit routinely turned in work that had some shit wrong with it. just today I found something that was wrong in yet another way every time I looked a bit deeper at. the short version is: “this thing needs to be able to move in the positive x direction. here is a message that this guy sent me showing that he intends for it to move in the positive x direction. here is what this guy designed, that moves in the negative x direction.” okay I’ll go fix that, wait the way this is set up clearly shows that this was not a simple mistake and that he simply fundamentally misunderstood what this thing is supposed to do, even though he sent me a diagram of what it’s supposed to do.

/rant

dude we have to do the same shit with people, and it’s not always young people. Some people just don’t fucking understand stuff

literally step by step instructions with screenshots and they sometimes still don’t get it, and usually it’s not because the instructions were unclear, they simply did not follow what it clearly said because they fundamentally lack understanding or something I don’t fucking know

I used to think it was an unreasonable challenge just to get people to paste values and not formats in Excel. it seems like that’s going to be even more difficult going forward. I fucking hate it when I’m looking at a table with a half column of cells with a border on the bottom because my dumbass coworker doesn’t give a shit about quality and just dragged the first row cell down. like it takes no extra effort to do it cleanly, that shit pisses me off. and it’s not for lack of knowledge, they’ve been taught this and shown it explicitly and told that it’s the expectation to have cleanly formatted files. I couldn’t imagine handing in work that just had a giant shit stain on the front and thinking that’s okay.

not in my workplace

we have to teach people how to navigate directories. mind-blowing

fuck, yesterday I had to explain a local drive map and the user-specific OneDrive folder location to our IT guy (who is 20-25). although I am pretty sure he is a jr tech

if working with my hands like a peasant paid what my job does, I’d do it in a heartbeat. fuck this mental exhaustion and stress, I’d rather be working the field eight hours a day for the same pay

AI is not coming for my job, which leads me to believe it’s not coming for that many other ‘skilled’ jobs

damn. well congrats on the progress so far

hope it goes well. your knees and ankles will thank you