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A reddit post in r/fednews. Trump Took Away Adobe Acrobat and it took Me 45min to Combine Files Fed only Not that this matters but for anyone who thinks this is creating efficiency, Trump/Elmo took away my agencies Adobe acrobate away which means I can’t edit documents. So instead of being efficient and taking 5seconds to combine a pdf, I took 45min along with IT to combine files. That’s how I spend my time these days, trying to overcome the obstacles they put in place so I can do my job. For all this talk about government employees not doing work, I’m working double time just to keep up with what they are doing.

  • Grimy@lemmy.world
    7·
    26 days ago

    Fuck Trump but fuck Adobe too. There are free and open source alternatives, acrobat is a bloody scam.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    26 days ago

    Goddamnit, i wish people would understand that this is the entire point! They don’t want government employees to do their jobs, that’s why they’re firing all of them!

    Our entire infantilized society is too dependent on authority to understand when that authority has turned on it and then has no conception of how to fight back against it except to do their jobs harder like for the love of any and all good things please pull your heads out of the fucking sand!

  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    26 days ago

    Here to plug Stirling PDF as free and very nice to use to do anything like that. Had to use it cuz foxxit moved signatures to paid? Or forced to use an account idk. Annoying.

  • earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    26 days ago

    If they cared about efficiency, I’d still be employed at a company that decreased government department mean time to hire from 18 months to 6 weeks.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      26 days ago

      Libreoffice draw can edit PDFs, and is polished the same as all the rest of the Libreoffice suite. It works pretty well in my experience.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          1·
          26 days ago

          Nobody knows it exists, apparently.

          (And even worse, people are too computer-illiterate to think “hey, maybe there’s a solution for my problem” and figure out how to go find it.)