Re: Bulk conversion of Word Perfect files

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"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:egsvbnaMJHA.4724@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jan :) wrote:
Several years ago I ran into a serious problem when we got a new IT
head at our company, who immediately had our WordPerfect and
Presentations programs removed from all company PCs and replaced them
Microsoft Office 2000 programs. None of us were given any notice of
this event, and all our data was uploaded to the server and hard
drives were wiped.

The text documents were not to hard to take over to Word, however, the
Presentation slides would not transfer to PowerPoint in any usable
way. I begged for a copy of Corel Draw, as when I contacted
Microsoft to ask if there was a software that I could use that allow
the Presentation drawings to be converted to PowerPoint, they told me
to use Corel Draw. However, our IT head refused to have anything but
Microsoft programs on our machines, even temporarily.

How do these idiots get these jobs?

Easy....

1. They know just enough to fool a large number of people who are in charge of hiring that type of employee, who have little or no clue about networks, software or much else about computers other than how to check or send their emails.

2. They are willing to work cheap, as they can't get a job at a place where people doing the hiring actually do have some reasonable measure of knowledge about such things.

Related to #1. The first person who was put in charge of handling all IT related issues and contracts was the Admin. Assist. of the Admin. VP, both having little or no computer experience other than how to use the email and print out a letter. They sent her for 3 weeks of basic Computer Concepts 101 training. She was then considered qualified to handle all IT related issues for the entire company. She was replaced 2 years later by the other IT person.

Jan :)


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