Exercising…
May 5th, 2009
I’m fat. I admit it. I gained a good amount of weight in the past six months or so. But that’s gonna change this summer when the “reduced” hours kick in and I’ll starve myself. It’ll be fun!
That being said, I had a great time yesterday running all over the complex, hauling a 150+ pound network laser printer on a little wheelie cart. Awesome fun. Especially up to the point when I manhandled the thing off the cart, by myself, and placed it on the filing cabinet only to find out that someone had pilfered the network card right out of it. Now, you’d think I would have enough common sense to ensure the printer had a network jack in it before leaving the shop. Oh, no. GT generally makes *assumptions* that there will be minor little details included such as a network jack or a power cord. Needless to say, I hauled the printer back to shop where I managed to swiftly dump it on the floor since I failed to realize that this particular printer actually has *three*pieces to it, not two. Buh bye, “little” printer!
After wheezing my way back to semi consciousness, I got a phone call that someone *else* wanted their printer moved as well. With the last piece of conventional common sense I could muster, I advised them to put in a work order to request the printer be moved to the other location where I would then promptly appear to load the drivers on each respective workstation. Common sense #2 fail for ‘ol GT, i.e. “why didn’t I think of that for myself??”
Finally, back from the dead, I receive yet another call from a “big boss” who wanted me to replace the company workstation we “desperately needed” for him on such short notice with his personal CrapBook. “Oh, but would we please put the network printer on it? Oh, and, of course, please take the original workstation back.” Nothing like this place running at peak efficiency here! Ranks right up there with moving offices and entire departments not only once or twice but THREE times all at the cost of running expensive fiber cable lines, etc.
Nothing like a bit of self-induced stimulus to help keep the company afloat, I guess. After all, we don’t have anything else better to do.
