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Office connectivity can be really frustrating at times. Most of the time it works perfectly smoothly. Normally, I use LogMeIn to access my office hard drive from my own home computers, but it wouldn't let me connect this evening. It probably had to do with brownouts affecting Cablevision's t-1 line speeds to our building. That meant that I couldn't access my office email from home. However, VPN worked and let me access the network drives.

Fortunately, a Word document that I had to email out to our extremely pushy Toronto officemates today was on an office network drive. Since I couldn't access my office email program but could access the file I needed to attach, I had to send it from my home email--at 9:30 or so this evening.

For added value, I loaded the document and resaved it, which updated the timestamp to approximately 9:20 pm. People pay attention to timestamps on email and attachments when they're office-related. They wanted it by COB today. I was more than happy to let them hyperventilate for another 4.5 hours. They got what they wanted in time to read it first thing in the morning, anyway. Let them stew in their juices before I save their asses.

I used to think that Germans were the pushiest people on earth. No way--Canucks win, hands down. And I'm convinced that it's simply because they're so neurotic and extremely poor at stress management. It's probably related to being a wider part of the stressful advertising/media industry, but every one of them with whom I deal as a client or coworker is like a person on speed. Sheesh. Take a chill pill. Go out for an iced latte. Ingest a quaalude. Or something.