One of Those Days…
February 24th, 2009
Ever have one of those days when you just wanna tell people to “fuck off”? Yeah, today’s one of those days for me (actually, been one of those months but I won’t bore you with the details).
I especially love whenever I go to sit down in the cafeteria to enjoy my breakfast when I was bombarded with technology questions. (Actually, I made two mistakes here: going to the cafeteria and not thinking some moron was going to ask me something and, number two, “enjoying” a free breakfast. Oh, wait. I just figured it out. No free breakfast when you’re on call 24/7. Damnit.) Yeah, at 7:15am. May I eat my bagel first?? “Ummm, no.”
Me: *happily munching away on my bagel but not trying very hard to be inconspicuous (my mistake)*
User: “Hey, I have a question!”
Me: *thinking “Wow, good morning to you too! Yes, please join me and chew my ear off on what kind of laptop you should get for your aging grandmother who can barely see a 60″ plasma screen let alone a 13″ laptop monitor.”* “Okay.”
User: “Well, about 10 years ago, so-and-so had email set up so that everyone can see this calendar on their desktop.”
Me: *thinking “What is it with public calendars of all of a sudden?? Did the public calendar fairy bear her head and subconsciously declare to everyone that ‘we’re gonna start being more productive’ and this, in turn, makes me get off my ass so people can blame me for the delay in getting all the calendars up and running??”* “Well, that was a little before my time since, you see, I’ve only been here three years, two days, nine hours and 43 minutes.”
User: *blinking* “You’re counting how long you work here down to the minute???”
Me: *sly grin* “Sometimes. Look, my bagel’s gone cold so what’s the problem?” (Mind you, dear readers, that I’m still NOT on the clock yet.)
User: “I need everyone to see this calendar in order to…” All of a sudden Hakuna Matata starts playing on the coworker’s cell phone. “Damnit, hold on…”
Me: *sitting there trying to stuff as much bagel into my mouth as I can so I can make a rapid depature* “Mmmmfffffff…” (Too late; the call ends.) “Okay, I’ll see what I can do.”
User: “Thanks. So, how’s it going?”
Me: “I’m sorry but I gotta run and get working on your calendar thing.”
User: “Oh, great!!! Don’t let me hold you up.”
Actually, have I started working on the calendar problem? Ummm, no. But wait, there’s more!
One of our more “popular” endusers bounds up to my desk, shoves a laptop in my face and screams “THISCOMPUTERISN’TPRINTINGANYMORE!!!!” I calmly sit there with a silly grin on my face which only pisses her off even more, of course. Now she’s turning several shades of red and purple until she…starts crying and exclaims the “big boss NEEDS this document in two minutes!!!” So now I give a soft “it’ll be okay” and look at her screen. The “important document” turns out to be a picture of dogs taking a bath. I look back at her and she starts screaming again at me to “FIXIT!!!!!” With that, I got up, walked away and am now finishing this up in the server room while I cool down. Good thing everyone’s scared to come in here.
