It's good that people know computers
As you might already remember, I am the head-editor of a chinchilla-hobbyists member magazine, named, surprisingly, Chinchilla. I needed the member list as an Excel-file to give to the printing service, who will also send the mags to the members. I asked for it on a phone, and the girl I talked to promised to send me the Excel-file by snail mail as she didn’t have a net-connection. I assumed she meant she’d send it on a disk, as I told her what it was needed for. Well, the letter came as agreed, but the Excel-file was printed on paper… (Luckily she didn’t send me a photocopy of the disc!) Ok, I call her on the phone if she could please send it as an Excel-FILE, as it would save me a lot of time if I didn’t have to type it on the computer again. Oh, it hadn’t even occurred to her! So she tells me that she doesn’t have it as an Exel-file, as she uses Works, so she couldn’t get it into Excel anyway. Then her boyfriend commented in the background, that they have Office on their computer. Do we? She asked, ok then she could send the file as Excel on a disk. All was fine, until she sends an SMS message that she couldn’t export the file into excel. I send her a reply (I’ve never used Works) that couldn’t it be copy-pasted into Excel, as they both are MS-programs. Then I said that if not, I could probably open it at work and paste it on Excel myself if she couldn’t do it. She then replied, that no can do, I’ll send the Works file. The file arrived yesterday. With an attachment of a piece of paper saying, that could you then send this disk back so I can add the new members on it…. At that point I was bursting to tears!! Didn’t she make a fucking copy??? And the disk costs less than a stamp for crying out loud!!
It took me 2 seconds to transfer the list to Excel. It was that hard.
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