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Common sense is not that common anymore.
Posted Jan 18, 2002
Friday, 18/1-2002
08:10am
Question? If you had two refrigerators,lets call them C and D, standing next to each other, and every time you bought something that needed to go into the fridge, you put it in the fridge called C. Eventually, that fridge would be full, while the other fridge was totally empty. When you then realise that you can't pack any more into C, and want to put soem of the stuff in D instead, would you then call the manufacturer of the refrigerators and ask them to move your foodstuff from C to D? And if you did, what would they most likely say to you?
I got a case, very similar to that here at work the other day. Okay, so it's not about fridges, it's about somputers. I told the customer to move the stuff from the C-drive to his D-drive himself, and then told the people who directed the case to me that we don't support that kind of "problems" here. When I did this, they got pissed off at me, and decided to bring in my TLs, who told me that I was wrong.
10:05am
The day just keeps getting better and better. Now, I've been appointed 'sweeper' for the tech support, which means that if a customer doesn't want help from the first person that takes the call, they get sent to me. And this customer in particular should be w hell of a lott better off if he recieved a frontal lobe lobotomy. At least that's my personal opinion on the subject.
This is a guy, that calls for help, and when he doesn't get the answers he wants to hear, he starts abusing the people on the tech line, telling them how crap our products are, and he's had problems with all of the machines he's ever bought from us.
WELL, IF YOU THINK OUR PRODUCTS SUCK SO BAD, WHY DON'T YOU GO OUT AND BUY ANOTHER BRAND!?!?!?!?!
And the day started off with me oversleeping and getting in to work late.
I just want it to be 3pm, so I can go home. This sucks.
Life sucks. And then you die!
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Stress Puppies
Posted Jan 16, 2002
Stress puppy \Pup"py\, n.; pl. Stress Puppies
A person that can not deal with stress, but still craves it to a certain degree to be able to function. However, if the stress mounts up, by an unforseen event, the stress puppy breaks down, and can appear irritable and short tempered.
Personal example. This morning, our main tool of finding information was down and out, however, several other ways of gathering information were available. Because of this, one of my colleagues (admittedly new and rather unexperienced) had a couple of meltdowns with the accompanying outbursts of how crap everything was and that he couldn't find any information about anything. Then, after I had shown him that he could actually find information elsewhere, he got grumpy.
I so feel like going home, today. Just stay in bed and watch TV all day.
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Space, the final frontier
Posted Jan 14, 2002
We all want more space, in our homes, in our gardens.
But space is limitless. Look up in the night sky and point - claim whole star systems as your own. NOW you really do have some room for storing all the rubbish you've amassed over the years.
- From the little book of CRAP no. 2 by Dr. Neil Manson
And I tend to agree... A star system would be enough room to store all my stuff.
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No time like the present
Posted Jan 8, 2002
You can't alter the future, for it has not yet happened.
You can't alter the past, for it has already gone.
You can't alter the present, for altering things take time, and the present doesn't last.
So just what are you going to do?
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Survived Christmas, mostly unblemished.
Posted Dec 27, 2001
Recap of Christmas, then:
Monday night:
Went to a dinner party thing. Total bust as we were a group of Swedes ending up speaking Swedsih to each other, and a bunch of Austrians ending up speaking German to each other and no one understanding what the other people said. Got a phone call from a colleague wondering if he could bunk up at my place for the night as he'd had a row with his girlfriend. I told him we didn't have much space left in the flat as we had two other guests over the Christmas hols, but he could crash on the floor if he felt like it. Went to meet him to show him where to go, but he never showed up. Went back home, went to bed. Fell asleep.
Tuesday morning: Woke up at 8:49am as the phone rang and a voice in the other end told me that my colleague had been picked up for DUI the previous night and could I come and vouch for him so he didn't have to spend the whole Christmas holidays in the slammer. So I went to the police station, picked him up, went with him to pick his car up, got him home, watched some movies (Harry potter and Pearl Harbour) and then got back home to my place and buried myself in my room, watching even more films (Rush Hour 2 and The Dish). Then watched whatever was on tv until late, and then fell asleep.
Wednesday:
Woke up at about noon, got up and did nothing but watch tv all day. Ordered pizza. Went to bed. Fell asleep.
That brings to where we're at now.
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