An “emergency”??
April 6th, 2009
Today started out pretty good. We’re having a tornado watch and the “big boss” has decided that the CEO is going to use the laptop that has the symbol of a fruit on it instead of the other laptop that has all kinds of pretty colors on it (come to think of it; the first one *used* to have lots of pretty colors on it). Of course, this decision was made *after* we’ve burned through all our budget this year to the tune of now being over tens of thousands of dollars. But why lose momentum, right?
Where the “emergency” comes into play is the fact that I just received a rather “heated” phone call about one’s screen. O. M. G. The screen goes dark except when one moves one’s mouse and then it comes back on. “Is there someone watching me? Is that like when those little eyes appear on my screen? Can you all see what I’m doing???” Yes, I love sitting around and moving from workstation to workstation remotely just to see what kind of porn people are trying to access and what kind of deals they’re getting on PriceWatch. (Personally, I’m more interested in the porn as my sources are getting pretty light now.) All that being said, I promised to look at the screen in a bit as I’m in the middle of working on something at the moment. Apparently that wasn’t good enough because I immediately received the “I-NEED-THIS-FIXED-RIGHT-NOW-AS-THE-CEO-NEEDS-THIS-REPORT!!!!” excuse. (It never fails to humor me how *everyone* throws the CEO’s name around. “OMG, the CEO needs his ass wiped right now. Yessir, I’ll make sure there’s a roll of toilet paper right next to his desk.” Come to think of it, *everything* is *very important.*) That being said, I’m flexing my fingers because it takes a lot of energy to stand behind one’s desk and pull the power cable out of the monitor which ultimately forces the user to “lose their work.”
Come to think of it, maybe I should take a roll of toilet paper with me when that end user shits himself.
