I just need to vent.

First, I took the day off from work today. Why? Because I have a 10,000 word team essay to wrap up. Boy, it will be nice to one day use my vacation time for…vacation.

As I edit the parts of my teammates—and I actually have an excellent team for this class—I am once again amazed that people can have business careers and be at the end of their undergrad degrees and still not know the ins and outs of MS Office products. It boggles the mind!

I have seen people enter manual line breaks to add an extra space between lines instead of changing the paragraph setting to double spacing! I have seen people tapping their space bar five times to indent a paragraph rather than setting a tab! What kills me is the references page: does no one know how to use a hanging indent? SERIOUSLY!? Trust me, MS Word can be your friend.

This is stuff I learned in middle school. Maybe I was just geeky and had nothing better to do with my time, but still! I will have you know that I placed in FBLA competition for word processing in 11th grade! Third in state! I take this stuff pretty seriously! (By the way, I have not achieved a major accomplishment since getting my little plaque and pin in 1998. The glory days…)