If I can find a program to use this sucker from the computer, I want this. Neat little price tag, too. Christmas present, perhaps? I won’t say no.
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Wickedness awesomeness coolness.
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And now, an actual update.
Because while it was a pretty accurate summary of my opinion of the current situation on Monday, it doesn’t really do a whole lot of explaining, well, anything. So here goes (warning: the below is probably going to be an essay. Deal.).
So back in November, they transferred a lot of the overnight folks–okay, *all* of the overnight folks–over to the XPS division. Now, I have no interest whatsoever in doing hardware related support, which is what that department’s primarily involved with. Not that I can’t do it–it’s relatively easy to do, particularly when you’re not the one fiddling with the inner workings of the bustified computer. But that’s also the problem; it’s too freakin easy. If something physical is broken, it either works, or it doesn’t. End of story. You either replace the part, or tell the customer he’s an idiot and to RTFM and go on to the next call. The longest and quite probably most irritating part of the job now is more than likely going to be waiting for the diagnostics Dell builds into their systems to finish running and tell me which part I’m going to be replacing. Now, I’m all for easy as pie work, usually. But this is ridiculous easy. In a week or two of doing this, I suspect I’ll be able to just coast right through it like it’s nobody’s business. Not good when it’s me. I tend to get into things I shouldn’t. Like finding random little tidbits about my coworkers about which to insult them on here. But primarily just… being me. Which can and often times is a little freaky in and of itself–just ask any member of my family! So, yeah. This week I’m going through the retraining process that goes along with a rather forced change of career path. On the bright side, it means at least for the next month or so, I’m back to having 3 days off–and an actual weekend to boot! On the not so bright side, holy late. But that’s another rant for another day. Like say, on the weekend when we’re being hammered yet again by snow–a third rant for the next 3 days. That one I’ll probably fire off tomorrow, when I have linkage to back up my pissedness. In the meantime, though, there be hockey on my television, and I barely watch that anymore. So I go do that now. -
They’re training me again…
So apparently now I’m going to be a hardware technician for XPS computers. Which should be… thrilling, according to what other folks who’ve already made the switch are saying. Entertaining the prospect of looking for alternative employment, just in case this does take a nose dive…
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Tool outages are your friend.
Particularly when they mean you’ve only had to troubleshoot and actually fix maybe 2 or 3 calls all freakin’ day, and it’s now 2:30 in the afternoon. Ladies and gents, somebody up there loves me, methinks.
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Still way too frickin cold out there.
As I told the whacky bus driver this morning–yes, that one was behind the wheel again–it’s minus too damn cold outside. I heard in the neighbourhood of -23. I don’t care. It’s still minus too damn cold. I wanna go back home and to bed. Because bed is awesomely good.
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What’s worse than fixing Microsoft’s mistakes?
Fixing apple’s. What’s worse than fixing Apple’s mistakes? Fixing that which they already know about. For the record, I never want to get that involved with anything Apple related again. And this from a guy who’s got a well documented hatred of Microsoft. But at least their software doesn’t break everything else when you’re installing a supposedly updated version. Good job, dipsticks.
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I think winter’s getting to someone…
A few months back, they started making it mandatory in Ottawa that the bus drivers call out the stops as they come to them. Most of them do so, and the others probably won’t be working there for very long. The driver I was stuck with this morning though, oh my. There’s calling out the bus stops, and there’s having way too much freakin’ fun with a microphone. He was doing entirely the latter. I think, now that I actually have time to think about it, I might have seen him on YouTube…
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Oh nos!
Terminator wasn’t kidding! Roughly translated: dood, step away from the crack pipe.
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But I’m not a smoker…
So why, then, does my apartment smell like a smoker lives here? The downstairs people suck. That is all.
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And yet, Microsoft’s status site says it’s all stable.
Now that’s a cover up for anyone who doesn’t happen to bother reading the local news. I probably shouldn’t be irritated about it–well, or using MSN messenger either for that matter, given my already stated opinion of Microsoft. But I do. So this morning I thought I’d jump online and see what was going on. Except it was apparently down. Not that Microsoft’s status page said so. According to that, all systems were stable. Well, things that get media attention are obviously true, or so I’ll keep telling myself, so does the fact that CTV has escentially told us otherwise change Microsoft’s opinion? Nope.
This page will be updated when information becomes available.
.NET Messenger Service All systems are stable and running.The error message on my screen that says it’s temporarily unavailable says otherwise, but thanks for coming out. Ladies and gentlemen, corporate snow job at work. Just thought it deserved mentioning. Because I do that when people and companies are morons.