My Most Hated Program
You know how Word used to be pretty easy to use like 10 years ago? Heck, it wasn’t even terrible about six years ago… The last time I actually used it was my sophomore year in college (’05) and I quit using it for two reasons.
1 | I pressed a random key combination trying to save my coffee pot from pouring on my CPU. Complete freak accident. Well, whatever I pressed changed the format of the page, and quite frankly I never found a way to turn it back.
2 | I got Pages for Mac. In about ten minutes I knew how to use it better than I knew how to use a program that had been required since about the fifth grade.
So, today I had to use it again, and I drew a little picture to describe how I felt about it:
Ever Wonder What My Desk Looks Like?
Just keep in mind that I’m part of a creative staff, and I have a long history of placing large, imposing images of myself on random walls. I was also put up to this, so it probably stands as the first time I was encouraged to something like this. Usually it’s the ol’ ask for forgiveness rather than permission routine, but getting fired over being… strange?… isn’t high on my list right now, so it came as a great relief when I was encouraged to go through with it. A few colleagues and I put it up mostly to annoy a certain art director who has no similar wall space which to defile, making him incredibly jealous. The best part was printing and getting it up there while he held a meeting no more than twenty feet away and still had no idea about it until he turned around. We have a courtyard in the middle of our office building, so the rest of the staff enjoyed a good laugh through the windows when we saw him get up and turn around to find my enormous face staring at him. There’s a video too. Hopefully that can find it’s way up here some time.
