I spent the majority of this year going through certification for becoming what Dell calls an advanced resolution expert. Basicly it’s proof that I actually can fix your shit. So effective as of today, and for the next month I work here, I get hit with a nearly $10k raise. Now that’s how you almost end a week. It’s almost enough to make me forget I won’t be working here in a month. Shhh, momallrat. I said almost. 😛
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An ironic little moment of pure fucking win.
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Why LJ is bad for me, or conversations that should not be had at nearly midnight.
It was recently realized and recently rather amusedly giggled about that about 90% of my current flist either is, has been, or should be in therapy. One has to wonder just a little tiny bit about me. Ah well, if this is crazy I don’t ever want help.
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If one more person walks past me with a plate of fries…
Sadly, I can’t even go on lunch for another hour. Bastards. It’s a conspiracy. Ah well. I still have leftover pizza at home. There may be KFC ordered tonight in spite of such things. Because now I crave absolute crap. … I shall blame samari76 on principle.
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Why I’m glad I have a copy of XP kicking around at home.
Shit, Microsoft, it’s dead already. Let it go. You’re releasing fucking Windows 7 in like a year anyway.
PS: Sometimes, I love this job.
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Damn.
I could have paid $1000 less for this and not had to go find XP compatible drivers for my beast of a machine currently sitting in my living room? And yet I did it the hard way anyway? … Yes, I am ubergeek. But we knew this already.
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Canada’s job bank is tempting me to apply for this. Sadly, I’d have to wait ’til the end of June so I don’t end up missing out on teh royally kick-ass severence package, but it’s tempting to fire off an application at these people anyway. Worst they can say is no.
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Firefox plays nice with this system after all. Life is good. Now if I can just convince it to play nice with corporate tools, I can use a whole lot less IE. Not that I should say much; I still use IE for a fair bit at home. But there is the Firefox love, too!
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The crap I find to entertain myself while trying to fix someone’s webcam. I need to be more productive, methinks.
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One of the afore mentioned links has been located.
With that said, to the National Energy Board of Canada, die in a goddamn fire. Yeah, I want to pay a crapload more for my electricity this summer. Really. The only thing going for me in that department, and the only reason I’ll be thankful for that this summer, is I can has no AC. I’ll make you a deal. You convince my landlord to slap AC in these apartments and you can bill them for the AC related electricity consumption. Other than that, take your “gas prices will continue to be insane” report and shove it right the hell up your ass. Okay, I’m over it now.
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I had links for to post. Again.
IE went sideways. Again. It’s days like this when I wish the great firewall of Dell played nice nice with Firefox. Oh yeah, and IE crashed hard enough to take out all my links, and the site I was pulling those links from, but the company tools that need IE stayed up. What kinda twisted sense of humor does someone have today? And can someone else clue me in?
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I should stop having such conversations.
So the last couple days, for whatever reason, the topic of people’s entitlement issues, be they disabled or otherwise, came up in conversations that were had with samari76. Reasons they should not be had on such a frequent basis: I got the ultimate entitlement call this morning. Warning: technical terminology follows. I am not defining it.
Ordinarily I don’t bother to post crap that goes on here in great detail on here because really, it’s not worth mentioning. But this one, ohmygod. For the blind/visually impaired folks on my list, if you thought the entitlement issues had by some of us were huge, this one’ll floor ya. Girl calls in, has had a few things replaced on her system already. A HD, a motherboard, her memory. System’s about 2 years old so yeah, stuff’s gonna start to go whacky. The guy she talked to like a month ago decided he’d be an idiot, and tell her she’s entitled to a system exchange if something else on that system fails. Not a very inteligent thing to say to a customer like this; you’ll see why momentarily.
Fast forward to today. She calls in because she can’t get into Windows. Says she gets a black screen that tells her to hit f1 to continue. That’s pretty much all the last technician she spoke to put in his case notes, anyway. So he futzed around with it, and decided that she can’t get into Windows because her CD drives are done. At this point, he gets half credit; the CD drives *were* toast. But as it turned out after she escentially got pissy and was sent to me for a system exchange (why he didn’t try putting it through on his own is beyond me, other than it’d never get approved), not her actual issue. All it was was pretty much chicky was too fucking lazy to press f1. So to shut her up, I ended up going into the bios and escentially telling the computer not to look for anything atached to the ports her CD-ROMs were atached to. Poof. Instant ability to boot into Windows. Root cause of the issue? User failure.
And now, I go write up that work order to have her CD-ROMs replaced. Why must most people possess an IQ lower than 3…?
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Oh nos, teh busy starts already.
It’s usually a whole shitload quieter when I show up in the morning than it is right now. I was gonna do a random update and such at some point this morning, but that’s apparently not happening. I probably have links to post. That will happen if I can catch a break. Which… means probably lunch-ish. Oh, dear god. Why do I do this to me?
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I can has break now.
Insane is probably world’s hugest understatement today. Unfortunately it’s the best description I can find. So insane sticks. People were on hold earlier today for upwards of half a fucking hour. Ignoring the ridiculousness of the idea that someone actually has that kind of time to spend on the phone, it’s *only* a computer. I actually had someone call in who ended up calling in sick for the sole purpose of fixing their computer. Uh. I’m sorry, but I can fix my own goddamn computer and I still don’t take the day off to do so. I just curse people out for it while I’m at work and then deal with it in half an hour when I get home. Thank the gods it’s starting to be more manageable now though. If that kinda tailspin kept up right up ’til 5:30, my head wouldn’t stop spinning ’til friday.
In completely random and nowhere near related news, I’ve already decided I’m so not cooking tonight. So the decision comes down to from whom shall I order. KFC is an option. So’s a local pizza joint. A coin shall be flipped. … Later.