Crazyness at work. I get to work yesterday and have a pretty normal day until around 4:30 when my General Manager sends me an email forward. The forward was from some "big wigs" some place to all the GMs, VPs and high level managers. These aformentioned "big wigs" think the best way to get updated legal documents (ie. copyright, visitor agreement, etc...) to all of the Big Compay's websites would be to have all the websites create pages with Iframes on them and have the iframes link to www.bigcompany.com/copyright.html. So after talking to one of the managers in my group we came up with a plan to end the sillyness. Simply to not do it and send our reasons to the "big wig".
Let explain something about this method of updating the websites like this. It solves so many problems its not even funny! They don't need to send out updates to these documents! It is the perfect solution! [end sarcasm] The reality is that this way of implementing document changes creates more problems then it "fixes".
Big Company's main website was created from word documents. If you haven't seen html that has been created with the built in webpage maker thingy Microsoft has included; its not for the faint of heart. Lets just say it won't validate at all. The copyright html page had over 100 errors on it and had about 270 lines of nearly useless css. Here is a code snippet or two:
@font-face
{font-family:Helvetica;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:swiss;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:536902279 -2147483648 8 0 511 0;}
And:
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">
<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]-->
<o:p></o:p></span></b>
<p></p>
So that was good. I'll update about the competence of the "big wig" when I know more.
The other picutre I found yesterday but couldn't find today. =( I makes me sad. So I can't give credit to the author for it. What I do remember is that it had board ninjas about it. They look more confused then anything to me. Definitively not ready to kill many people. Though looking like this might just be a ploy because ninjas never caught off guard.
