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An observation.
It has occurred to me that when someone says "I'm not proud of ", what they really mean is "I know you think it's bad, but I've long since rationalized it to myself, so fuck you." -
Second part is coming, I swear
...but I've been tasked with writing up the first part as a post-mortem, which means I have to take out all the swearing.
In other news, I've had quite the fun time helping people get settled in at the begining of term, resulting in some fun games nights with alfedenzo, math_foo, and holdenk. math_foo even gave me a countertop dishwasher for helping her shuttle stuff around, ( Read more... ) -
It has been A Day
So, today ( Read more... ) -
Machine Replacements, Part the First
My current project is rolling out brand new PCs to a number of new employees - specifically the ones with really old PCs. Like everything else around here, we've fucked it up. Here's how.
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A Resolution.
Looking back on my recent posts, it occurs to me that all I've done is bitch about my job. Since I loathe people who use their livejournal as a place to whine about how terribly life is treating their overprivileged upper-middle-class suburban selves, I have resolved to make my work bitch posts more useful. From now on, while I'm not going to ( Read more... ) -
I think I may have to quit
I was kind of joking before; now I am seriously thinking about it.
I just spent an hour explaining to my boss what source control was, why it was necessary, and why we needed to use it for the login scripts, among other things. And he was fighting me all the way.
This after we had the canonical no-source-control hey-you-overwrote-my-changes ( Read more... ) -
Burning Ring of Fire
I could eat sixteen Taco Bell spicy chimichangas and crap a better help desk system than FrontRange HEAT. This is the second company I've worked for that's blown the $30,000 for the HEAT Suite, and (big surprise) it doesn't work. Even when it does work, it's the most unusuable, clunky, poorly designed POS I've ever used ( Read more... ) -
This is no way to run a railroad.
I've been here for four full working days. I just about quit this afternoon.
This is the fourth major NT-networked company I've worked for and the first non-IT business. I have never, never seen an NT network this badly fucked up. Nor an IT staff more blindly unaware of their own incompetence ( Read more... ) -
With great power...
...comes some fairly bad movies, actually. I saw Sky High over the weekend, because, well, it's a superhero film about six high school kids and their wacky misadventures, thus fulfilling BlueDog's Law of Television ( Read more... )