Back At Work

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I didn't post anything last night. So sue me. It's not like I'm getting paid to do this (other than the ego trip of watching my hits go up). I watched football all day. College is over and soon the Super Bowl will be here and gone. Gotta get my final fixes in while I can.

I'm back at work after a nice long vacation and my team lead is still having problems with his PC. Even tho' he put all the fixes on, he still got one of the viruses. He's been having problems for the last few months and, as I have discussed before, the support structure passes all the problems back down to the user. Call the (No) Help (Whatsoever) Desk. Try this. Try that. Reboot. Try this again. We have some $5 (or less) per hour dude in India telling someone who makes ten times that amount what to do. My team lead knows more about PC's than the Indian dude.

Dear Corporate America CDSM®'s (Clueless Dipshit Managers): If you insist on hiring incompetent dipshits in I/T support, train us users better so we don't have to put up with this crap. The buttwipes who make these decisions don't have to deal with these morons. When they have a PC problem, someone else fixes it for them. I wonder if they have a clue as to how much lost productivity is involved? My team lead has not done one thing associated with his job today.

Now, after fighting various problems for the last three months, he is getting a new PC and having all the crap reloaded on it. This is a problem that should have been fixed by a human, in Atlanta, three months ago.

Also we were having network problems this morning. We had a problem with a network box over the weekend and my team lead came in Sunday and reloaded the NCP (Network Control Program) and recycled VTAM and RSCS. That's mainframe network stuff. Unfortunately, all the RSCS links didn't come back up.

Our network guy left in November and the guy who took his place is clueless. He was supposed to start picking this stuff up a year ago, but kept dragging his feet hoping it wouldn't happen. My team lead kept pointing this our to our CDSM® who blissfully ignored the problem.

I looked at the problem when I came in, but said let the network guy do it. Unfortunately, I know more network stuff than the network guy so he wound up calling me and asking for help. After remembering how I set up NJE/RSCS in my network, I checked out the definitions in his network and found the right JES APPL's to start up. (Are you impressed yet?) Then, I had to spend another hour on the phone with this booger eatin' moh-ron trying to explain to him how all this stuff was put together and how it worked. That's why I make the big bucks: not for what I do, but for what I know. And now I'm expected to try and pass this knowledge on to a complete moron. All of a sudden I don't feel overpaid anymore.

Woody sent me the following:

TOP 10 REASONS WHY A HANDGUN IS BETTER THAN A WIFE

#10 - YOU CAN TRADE AN OLD 44 FOR A NEW 22.

#9 - YOU CAN KEEP ONE HANDGUN AT HOME, AND HAVE ANOTHER FOR WHEN YOU'RE ON THE ROAD.

#8 - IF YOU ADMIRE A FRIEND'S HANDGUN, AND TELL HIM SO, HE WILL PROBABLY LET YOU TRY IT OUT A FEW TIMES.

#7 - YOUR PRIMARY HANDGUN DOESN'T MIND IF YOU KEEP ANOTHER HANDGUN FOR A BACK UP.

#6 - YOUR HANDGUN WILL STAY WITH YOU EVEN IF YOU RUN OUT OF AMMO.

#5 - A HANDGUN DOESN'T TAKE UP A LOT OF CLOSET SPACE.

#4 - HANDGUNS FUNCTION NORMALLY EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH.

#3 - A HANDGUN DOESN'T ASK, "DO THESE NEW GRIPS MAKE ME LOOK FAT?"

#2 - A HANDGUN DOESN'T MIND IF YOU GO TO SLEEP AFTER YOU USE IT.

and, the number one way a handgun is better than a woman

#1 - YOU CAN BUY A SILENCER FOR A HANDGUN!

Posted by denny at January 5, 2004 02:31 PM