Why I’m falling behind…
April 16th, 2009
I’m falling behind on my project list. Yesterday was a huge help. In addition to that, there are a number of reasons for this. Some of them are pretty amusing; some annoying; all make me just say “I really don’t care.”
I received the following email from the same user that wanted me to “speed up” her ‘Net connection at home (actually, that one reminds me of the time when one of the “big bosses” wanted me to sit by her home computer and make sure her ‘Net connection stays up. Priceless. And, this user also sent us this gem.):
“Did you uninstall my college internet connection for home, which was on my laptop when I went to lunch? Curiously enough, it is not installed now!”
You know, this one is so off the top, I don’t even know how to respond. Yes, we just happened to break into your *work* laptop to remove your *personal* VPN connection. Hell, do you even know what “VPN” stands for? It’s certainly not “very perfect nutcase.” We have nothing better to do than wait around for people to go to lunch and fuck with their laptops. We like to think of it as “job security.” So, yes, we did that. Oh, and doesn’t it run much faster now?
Here’s another one:
“I can’t get into the XXX directory. Did you change my password without telling me?”
Well, let’s see. More job security because we figure if we change people’s passwords, they’ll *have* to come to us to get them back on track. But, with a little bit of troubleshooting, we come to find out that your account was actually “locked out.” So, you see, this means that not only did *you* not know *your own* password, *you* actually locked *yourself* out. But because the domain controller has feelings, it decided to pick on *you* today because you were mean to me. Never, ever piss off the domain controller. It is your friend. (But, I’ll be nice and reset your password for you and we’ll never tell another soul that this was actually *your* doing. I’ll gladly take the blame.)
And one more time waster to prevent me from working on anything worthy is a “requirement” to attend a vendor mini-conference today. (Actually, this one was kinda cool as it was about cloud-based computing.) All the while, however, I had to listen to the Curmudgeon share how “great” his son’s company is. Now, a little Google digging will reveal that his kid’s company has actually received a number of customer complaints that were submitted to the BBB.
I guess the apple really doesn’t fall that far from the tree. (Actually, I almost wish *I* worked there so I could treat people like shit! Oh, but wait, I already do that. But maybe I’d make more $$.)
