Brownie points
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 02:14 pmI just got major brownie points with my dept. head. Yesterday, a girl from another department came in wanting four 2ft x 2ft maps printed. The problem? The maps were in different pieces, in PDF format, and needed to be put together. She'd been trying to do it herself with ArcGIS which is not the program you needed to be using to do that. I suggested Photoshop. She just wanted someone else to do it since she'd been working on it for two hours by this point. I caved and said that if my dept. head okay'ed it, I'd do it.
Dept. head okay'ed it. She emailed me the files. Today I sat down to work on it. Less than 30 minutes later, I have the composite maps done. I was hoping to get them printed today as well, but the guy who handles the large plotter is out. I don't particularly want to deal with it today because the instructions would be given over the phone, which might be fine because sometimes they work like a charm but sometimes the plotters act like the spawn of Satan. So it'll get printed Monday afternoon.
My dept. head thanked me and is rather pleased I stepped up to help. Hey, learning to do something new and a chance to play on Photoshop some? I can give up 30 minutes for that.
Dept. head okay'ed it. She emailed me the files. Today I sat down to work on it. Less than 30 minutes later, I have the composite maps done. I was hoping to get them printed today as well, but the guy who handles the large plotter is out. I don't particularly want to deal with it today because the instructions would be given over the phone, which might be fine because sometimes they work like a charm but sometimes the plotters act like the spawn of Satan. So it'll get printed Monday afternoon.
My dept. head thanked me and is rather pleased I stepped up to help. Hey, learning to do something new and a chance to play on Photoshop some? I can give up 30 minutes for that.
