Outlook sucks. Gmail is better!

Gmail has completely spoiled me.

Being forced to use Outlook at work is like a punch in the nuts. I need to find an email from November but the insane archiving system in Outlook is making this seem impossible. I have these backups of the Outlook Archive file (.pst) but it appears to be empty. What the hell was the point of archiving! Why don't I have everything available to me? I have a 300 GB harddrive, why is anything gone?