I have learned that Outlook has a dropdown for recently-used meeting locations. Since I use the same things over and over in that field (long dialin strings, the same rooms), this is nice time-saver.
Category: Work
Ship it Home
I learned, months too late, that my company”s HR department can provide a FedEx number for a newly-terminated employee to return a laptop once they have left the building.
Hey, Look What Jane Printed!
I have learned that it’s important to set your default printer. If your computer is re-imaged (because , for example, you work somewhere that had re-imaging as the solution for all problems computer) then you have to set the defaut printer AGAIN.
If you don’t do this, you may be printing who-knows-what, from your home office, on the big public printer in the office!
Lesson of the Year
From a colleague:
“content is not as important as common understanding and communicating”
This is so big I can’t even take it in.
Trust but Verify!
From Barbara:
Never release your test environment to the users until you have checked it yourself!!!!
Flag Ahoy!
Who knew??? Kat knew, and taught me (on vacation!), that Outlook has COLORED FLAGS that can be set, and sorted on, for each message! I love this!
Now if she could only get me to clear the 5509 unread messages in my Inbox…
The Big One
This may be one the biggest things I’ve learned this half-year. It feels deeply profound to me.
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.”
Anonymous via www.meditation.org.au
That’s Why They’re There
Kat learned that instead of scouring the streets of Manhattan for the Wall Street Journal, she can send out an intern to do it. Especially a paid one.
Be Safe
I am still learning to back up essential files.
Keep Going
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill via www.meditation.org.au
Jane's Lessons Learned 