Some people get completely irritated by the sound of fingernails scraping blackboards. For others, it is a co-worker in the adjacent cube who constantly taps his fingers. For me, it is sitting through a financial presentation and talking about numbers that are already one and a half months old. I’ve thought about carrying around my own blackboard and scraping my fingernails whenever I am asked to endure this.
Okay, I know I have completely lost every reader out there. However, I’m dead serious about this. We live in the computer age for gosh sake. Excel is so advanced that I still have no clue what spreadsheet jocks are referring to when they brag about their pivot tables. I know–you are even more lost now than when I began this paragraph. I’m sorry, but I get very worked up when I discuss this topic.
Let me start with an analogy. Let’s say you are driving from your house in Denver to Boulder-based Frasca, the best restaurant in Colorado. This example is somewhat redundant in that Denver folks only bother to visit Boulder if they are having dinner at Frasca. Since driving to Boulder is a rare event for Denverites, they use a navigation system for directions.
So let’s imagine you are half way to Frasca and plug in the address. What if the navigation system says “Thank you for the coordinates. It will take about 45 days to get you directions (assuming the month-end close goes well). In the meantime, here are the directions to the Pepsi Center per your request last month.” Not much help, eh?
So now do you understand what I am talking about? (I’ll pick this up in subsequent post.)
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I had no idea. I will have to purchase a BLACKBOARD and use it at the appropriate times.