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April 24, 2008
Bill Gates and Microsoft are Evil
Ok, normally I would never blog about work stuff because I've heard too many horror stories about people getting fired and sued for doing so. And in fact, I've been in trouble for saying the wrong thing before. But this isn't really about work, it's more about how much I HATE Microsoft and, by extension, Bill Gates.
For the past two weeks, I've been assigned many, many, many, many, many projects involving me having to write paid search text ads for different clients. It's kind of a paid search hell, if you will. For those of you who don't know what a paid search text ad is, go to Google, search for something (say "coffee") and look on the right side of the screen. Those ads you see are paid search text ads that companies pay for so that when people search for a particular term, your ad will show up. They tend to be tricky to write because the title can only be 25 characters long and each description line is 35 characters. There are also certain rules you have to follow or Google & Yahoo will reject them.
Because of this, I use Excel spreadsheets to do my work. Depending on what the client wants, it can be anywhere from a couple of ads to many many many ads. The project I've been working on for Serta meant I had to write about 60+ ads.
Here's the thing...I could SWEAR I hit save before I closed the file and sent it off to the account team and the paid search guy who I'm teamed with. Now, admittedly, there is a slight chance that I may not have. But I'm pretty sure I did. And even so, I'd rather blame Microsoft and Bill Gates.
Just after I'd sent the file off, the paid search guy emailed me back pointing out that some of my description lines were off. When I re-opened the file, I saw that he was correct and quickly realized the work I did (which took me about 2 1/2 hours to do) was GONE! OMG, I could have screamed!! In fact, I nearly did. So I had to go back and try to remember what I wrote and try to reproduce it because I wasn't smart enough to have printed it out before I closed the file and lost my work. This is the second time this week that's happened to me and the third time in two weeks! How FRACKING annoying!!! I have absolutely no idea how this could happen so often, but leave it to Microsoft to produce a product that has a glitch like this.
Moral of the story? SAVE OFTEN and DON'T close the file until you're 100% SURE you hit save!!!
Posted by Amy at April 24, 2008 11:45 AM
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Even if you didn't hit the save button yourself, whatever program you are using should prompt you if you have any unsaved information before exiting. (e.g. "You have unsaved information. Are you SURE you want to quit?").
Microsoft Word is also a pile of stinking crap. It might be fine for typing something simple, but whenever you try to get any reasonable formatting involved it (Word) is always annoying, and often times scews things up.
Posted by: Mastadon ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://priori2ude.net/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 28, 2008 01:44 PM
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