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No sleep.....
Lucky me, i have the "Critical pager" for the week.... which means when someone has a problem after hours (it is supposed to be only for critical issues, but critical is subjective...) i have to help them.
Imagine this situation: We have no IT people in our Sydney Australia office. there is roughly a 12 to 14 hour time difference between New Hampshire, USA and eastern Australia... My work computer is not connecting to the internet on my new high speed line, so i had to use a wireless modem card to use sprint's network to connect. I could not call, because sprints coverage of my area sucks, so so did my internet connection. I had to connect to the other computer, that was half a world away, in the SOUTHERN hemisphere, over a shitty wireless dial-up connection..... the whole fiasco started at 10:20. i finished at 3:45. I am tired. I( hate people. If i thought he could finsd the guy, i would send Cheeba some money to find him and smack him for me. He was a nice guy, but jesus christ, why in hell did they assign pc tech work to a FINANCE MANAGER????? |
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Thank you :)
I forgot to mention.... A squall tore through here this morning... I was awake because Bree was getting ready for work, so i jumped up and covered my grill so it wont rust... but..... my car window was open all night and i had forgoten. so i get up this morning and my driver's side is soaked.... AND, i desperately needed to shave this morning (i get all itchy if i dont every couple of days).... guess what? No shaving cream.. Remember that part in 28 days later where Jim is butchering his face? I got to reenact that this morning. well, at least i had water.... I like the other part of my job, the webmaster/programmer part. but support sucks. I have spent the last 3 years getting to know people at their "worst" moments.... Like not getting email for a morning is the end of the fucking world....:rolleyes: |
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I would cut loose, but funds are ridiculously tight right now since we just bought a house. I have to wait until September to breathe easier.... And since i am on salary now... no bonus hours for all the work i did last night...
I just have to hope my fucking boss drags his ass in so i can go home and get some shut-eye. |
wouldnt be able to hack I.T support... too many nubs allowed near PCs these days.
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Precisely. Exactly. Damn straight. And bunch of other terms that mean "I agree".
I really hate explaining the same shit for the 30th time....."Yes, you have to change your password every 90 days. No i wont change it back for you. Yes, we have been doing this for years." I have written EXPLICIT instructions for most of our common tasks, any idiot who knows what a keyboard is and can read english should be able to use them... but no....they need their fucking hands held.... there are days i almost miss getting splinters and getting hit in my package with flying wood in my uncle's woodshop... almost. |
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Vod...you don't have any water towers in that part of New Hampshire, do you? |
Some, but climbing is too much effort, and i dont own a gun.
my computer is hooke dup at home now, so all i need is some tension-cleansing Unreal Tournament, and some nookie, and i will be all set. Oh yeah, sleep, too. |
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LOL.......Chuckle chuckle.... that was good :D
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I have had to lecture people on things like: If YOU fucked up your machine, and now cant get your work done, you get to wait until tomorrow for someone to come fix it.
If you cant get to the internet from home, that is not our problem. A. Find out what the hell is wrong with your bull-shit home network, or B. call your ISp and bitch to them. Checking that status of a ticket you opened earlier, especially for shit like a ram upgrade (:rolleyes: ), is not a critical after-hours call. get a fucking life. At leat i get to go home at 1... woohoo, 3 fucking hours early.....:rolleyes: :mad: |
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