What are they teaching kids these days? I should not have to tell people that when filing a title like "The Painters Inc." or "The Henson Co.," you do not put it under The. Seriously.
And people smirk and shake their heads and make patronizing pat-her-on-the-head ain't-she-cute remarks when I express this fierceness about keeping files in their intended order. Fine. But my theory of filing, which I know is pretty radical, is as follows: It does you no good to file something if you cannot find it later.
Being organized does not, in itself, indicate psychosis or obsession or a lack of a social life. Yeah, 'cause you hear that all the time, right? "Dude, you've got to get more excitement in your life. Like, try misfiling something! That is a blast." In fact, organizational skills give you more of a life, because you get to spend more time having a life and less time bumbling around trying to find your stuff.
So, patronize all you like, but don't come crying to me when you're tearing your hair out because you can't find that contract you know you put somewhere, or you've misplaced your keys for the 400th time.
Did we need further proof that I should become a librarian? Heh.
In other news, I met Sean Astin.
And people smirk and shake their heads and make patronizing pat-her-on-the-head ain't-she-cute remarks when I express this fierceness about keeping files in their intended order. Fine. But my theory of filing, which I know is pretty radical, is as follows: It does you no good to file something if you cannot find it later.
Being organized does not, in itself, indicate psychosis or obsession or a lack of a social life. Yeah, 'cause you hear that all the time, right? "Dude, you've got to get more excitement in your life. Like, try misfiling something! That is a blast." In fact, organizational skills give you more of a life, because you get to spend more time having a life and less time bumbling around trying to find your stuff.
So, patronize all you like, but don't come crying to me when you're tearing your hair out because you can't find that contract you know you put somewhere, or you've misplaced your keys for the 400th time.
Did we need further proof that I should become a librarian? Heh.
In other news, I met Sean Astin.
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And I just happen to work at a library. ;)
*huffs* Disorganization drives me to italics.
LOL. I actually had a manager tell me that once after I kinda singlehandidly redid a organizing system. Mine made sense, their old one didn't. They stuck with mine, but they almost seemed to hate me for it.
I am going to paint this in three-foot letters across the ceiling at work.
I alphabetize my books and CD's at home, which people also smirk at. But, once again, it sure makes it quick to find something; and who's laughing THEN? :)
Want "cheap filing entertainment"? Work at a university with lots of international applicants. Asians tend to interchange the order of their names at will. Many Arabic students abbreviate their names on various documents in ways that make No Sense to westerners. About every other applicant from certain parts of the world uses the surname Singh, legal or not. Lots of students adopt westernized first names that they use on their applications but not on their transcripts, INS forms, etc. And that doesn't even address the whole idea of maiden vs. married names and the joys of hyphenated surnames. OTOH, it always leaves one with something to do on slow days. "Wanna go through the orphan GRE scores and see if you can match any of these folks up with a real person?"
Also: I realize that there is probably a very good reason why most Latin individuals feel compelled to string together every surname on their entire family tree and list them all (never in the same order twice, naturally) as alternate middle/last names on their applications. I just don't know what that reason is. I only know that it has caused me more than one headache.
What ARE they teaching people?!
I work in a pharmacy and I hate when I see some who will place a drug alphabetically in the wrong place. Numbers seem to throw people too....Last I knew 600 came before 800... .:sigh:.
6 and 8...I always mix those up. ;)
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