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Originally Posted by Sarlacc
ROFL 
That clear things up. I read your post several times, too; and it just didn't sound like a typical Tcoat post. Hence the conclusion: "mood".
Meanwhile, I've had a nap and something to eat besides black coffee, so my quite real mood has changed dramatically.
And so has the landscape outside. It has snowed so much I'll have to go out and try to fire up the old snow blower for the first time in 2 years.
It'll be quite interesting to see if the thing still runs. It's a two-stage Snapper with a 500cc Briggs&Stratton, so there's hope I guess. |
Ya fun how a couple of words can change everything!
Was just this Tuesday that I was cursing the lack of standardized dates. We were reviewing a pile of training records to determine who was due for updates. Some were dated DD/MM/YY some were MM/DD/YY and a small group were even YY/MM/DD. This turned into a nightmare for the 5 and 10 year renewals when you would have some that said something like 07/10/12. Is that Oct 7th 2012, July 10th 2012, Oct 12 2007 or what? We had to physically go through the hard copies to try and find clues as to what was when.
The biggest problem is that no matter how many times you say do the dates as AA/BB/CC (or whatever you chose) somebody will ignore it or out of pure habit do it as BB/AA/CC or however they are used to doing it.
I don't even want to go down the road of how confusing it gets when people don't put AM or PM on reports. "at 3:10 Joe picked up a piece of wood and got a sliver so I sent him to the hospital". Great, they know which 3:10 it was but I have over 600 people that rotate shifts to deal with so don't track who is on at what time of the day it is.