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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was going to post the same thing. I cannot tell you the number of times I've misdated a document because I used a previous document as a template and forgot to check the date.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

am i the only person who had the foresight to make blank templates? that autofilled the dates?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I would say "you'd be surprised" but you evidently are also a corpo or ex corpo, so... no, you wouldn't be.

Yeah, most of your (ex)coworkers are in fact devious, petty, self-centered idiots.

Yep.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Well uh, as per my last email:

... sorry, lol.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Keep flaunting your Office skills like that and you might just land yourself a job in middle management if you're not careful

upper management, actually. it was not great.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get what you mean but we'd need a couple dozen templates and updating them would probably not be worth the time. I've gotten in the habit of highlighting everything that needs updating or verification on the first pass.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

seriously i took a few hours for a week at the beginning of my career to write out basic forms that i could use over and over, that would autofill. shit that would take an hour or two a client if i did it by hand. is this just attorney stuff to pad out billable hours or does no one else think that far ahead?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Scopes for all the projects are usually too different. I put together a checklist system instead.