Friday, May 15, 2020

Flashback Friday: It was like this when I got here

Pilot fish is working on solving a problem at a user’s desk when the user asks about something unrelated: Is it possible to change a weekly customer list report so it prints out a customer’s entire ID number, instead of just the first four digits?

User tells fish that the change would save several hours of work every week, because each customer's name has to be looked up to find the full customer number and then write in the missing three digits — and there are hundreds of customers listed in the 14-page report.

Fish promises to take a look. But after a little research, it’s pretty clear that there’s nothing wrong with the report. It’s outputting all seven digits. The problem is with the printer on the user’s desk.

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from Computerworld https://ift.tt/2AtzA5D

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