Oh, Microsoft

So, I've been a bit out of touch, but there is a reason for that...Microsoft Office 2007. Me and Microsoft need to sit down and have a chat. For some reason when the did their upgrades they decided to totally change the programs - to the point that the toolbar at the top isn't even the same so you can't find anything! That in itself would be bad enough seeing as how Microsoft themselves says that experienced users will see a 2-3 week decline in productivity following being upgraded (in my opinion if you have to make this statement about your upgrade you shouldn't be giving it out yet). However, add to the mix that instead of waiting until I had asked (which would have been this summer) to 'upgrade' me, the staff person (who shall remain unnamed) decided to put the new software on my computer while they were supposed to be fixing an e-mail issue. As it turned out they didn't fix the e-mail issue until about 6 hours later and then another one came up that was a result of the previous dealings with my computer that didn't get fixed until today. In the meantime, my extremely efficient process for dealing with life at work has been in a tailspin because not only is it difficult for me to get e-mails on a timely and normal basis, but I have also not been able to find how to make a text box and center text in it, or mark an e-mail as important, or change the animation on a powerpoint slide...(the list goes on)...without much searching and usually involving a help menu.

And so in conclusion, I am very certain that if it wasn't for the fact that I need Microsoft to do my job at all, me and Microsoft would be breaking up as a result of it's unnecessary and incomprehensible desire to screw up my beautifully efficient working world.