Half time summary of my annoying day (636 hits)
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Submitted by collin <rtfm.at.airmail.net> (View user info) at 2003-06-09 14:33:57 EDT
ever have one of those days where it seems everyone you work with actually got DUMBER over the weekiend? my day is just past half over and i'm already to start cracking skulls.
7:45 am - The Blair Witch* from Network Operations calls. Me: "Shift Desk" TBW: "Uh, yeah, there may or may not be a problem with (e)mail."
wait. WHAT?! WTF?!?! Me: "Ummm, what do you mean? What KIND of problems might we, or might we not, be having?" TBW: "What do you mean?" Me: "Like what troubleshooting has been done? Did someone in systems have you call? Are the redirects responding? Can you telnet to a box? Can you send mail? receive mail?" TBW: "I need to talk to systems." *click*
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?
8:10 am - A tech that was supposed to be in at 8 calls on his cellphone "Hey, um, I'm stuck in traffic. I'm gonna be late." Me: "No shit? You're *going* to be late? Thanks for the advance notice, considering that you're already late as it is."
8:30 am - Mere minutes after announcing to everyone on the floor that they would be taking down some of the core routers briefly (essentially like shutting down huge sections of highway system in a large city. when we announce things like that it's because there will be a huge call volume from intermittent routing problems) AND writing it on the big ass 8' x 6' dry erase board AND the flashing blue light, I was asked no less than THREE times if we were having routing issues.
::fast forward past the minor annoyances::
roughly 9:45 - a tech comes up and asks me to check and see if we can run DSL to a customer's house. No problem. Except he had neither the phone#, zip code, nor the name of the fucking person. 3 of the 3 required pieces of information we need to prequal a DSL line and he fucking forgot them all. I contemplated stabbing him in the jugular with a pen, but decided against that course of action for the time being.
9:55 - guy from H.R. comes over and proceeds to rattle off the names of everyone that is either not in yet, or is off today, and says he needs to see them. I contemplate jabbing the pen in HIS jugular, but then I remember this guy just got out of the marines like 9 months ago and that he could probably kick the shit outta me in short order. So i explain to him that they are all either not here or not coming in today. He acts all pissy about it for a second, and then leaves. His neck remains pen free and my ass remains unkicked.
11:05 - Fuck! I have to take a shit, urgently at that. Domino's is not my friend. I now hate Domino's. Right about now you're probably like "what's the big fuckin deal about taking a shit?" The fact that there's ONE men's stall for the entire floor. There's about 75+ people on this floor, and probably 90% male at that. That means IF you don't have to wait to use it, you're damn sure gonna have a line once you're in there. And for some reason i don't particularly enjoy having a fuckin audience when i'm crapping. And, to top it off, I had peperoni and jalapeno pizza last night, so it was kinda like shooting a flaming brick out of my ass. My ass STILL feels like i was anally raped with a branding iron.
11:30 - Thank god it's lunch time. Until i go into the break room and realize there's nowhere to sit and it's full of D&D playing, Everqrack obsessed social retards. Oh yeah, they only talk about two things. D&D, and Everquest. ALL DAY LONG. I'm seriously contemplating suicide at this point, but then mass homicide starts sounding more appealing. So i duck out, eat some lunch really quick downstairs then have a nice relaxing smoke and check out the awesome downtown scenery (read: hot womenz)
and then I come back up here and waste 30 minutes typing this :) eh, hopefully everyone pulled their heads outta their asses now. and i can still talk shit to my coworkers.
BlueEyesJY (8:09:25 AM): Portal is down
cdarthschrader (8:09:51 AM): thanks
cdarthschrader (8:26:51 AM): it's back up
BlueEyesJY (8:27:26 AM): liar
cdarthschrader (8:27:47 AM): it should be working
BlueEyesJY (8:27:53 AM): well its not
BlueEyesJY (8:27:56 AM): you sick fuck
cdarthschrader (8:28:24 AM): it's just running slow
cdarthschrader (8:28:36 AM): you must be having id10t errors
BlueEyesJY (8:28:37 AM): show me
cdarthschrader (8:28:47 AM): come look at my monitor homo
BlueEyesJY (8:30:04 AM): click a portal id from the SAR page
cdarthschrader (8:30:49 AM): still working for me
BlueEyesJY (8:30:58 AM): shutup
cdarthschrader (8:31:00 AM): but i'm 1337 and you suck
cdarthschrader (8:32:40 AM): are tyou sure you're clicking it right?
BlueEyesJY (8:32:50 AM): your mom
cdarthschrader (8:33:05 AM): dude, i don't wanna hear about you clicking your mom
cdarthschrader (8:33:09 AM): that's gross
cdarthschrader (8:33:11 AM): sicko
BlueEyesJY (9:11:10 AM): I'm going to stab Rod
cdarthschrader (9:11:27 AM): hahaha, why's that?
BlueEyesJY (9:11:39 AM): he's an idiot
cdarthschrader (9:12:10 AM): awwww, are you miffed aboutt the fax machine thing?
BlueEyesJY (9:12:33 AM): i'm annoyed about his hunger for power
cdarthschrader (9:13:00 AM): hunger for power...........?
BlueEyesJY (9:13:12 AM): that little demonstration of authority he put on
cdarthschrader (9:13:36 AM): oh
cdarthschrader (9:13:54 AM): he could probably twist you up like a pretzel too
BlueEyesJY (9:14:05 AM): man you seen his belly
cdarthschrader (9:14:12 AM): hahah
cdarthschrader (9:14:16 AM): it is rather large
BlueEyesJY (9:14:19 AM): no way he can kick my ass
cdarthschrader (9:14:31 AM): dude, he's like 20 times bigger than you
BlueEyesJY (9:14:38 AM): and 6000 times slower
cdarthschrader (9:14:46 AM): hahahah
cdarthschrader (9:15:01 AM): i guess that would matter when you're running away
BlueEyesJY (9:15:13 AM): not a chance
cdarthschrader (9:15:34 AM): and then we'll start callign you Brave Sir Jeffery
BlueEyesJY (9:20:21 AM): I have asian power
cdarthschrader (9:34:56 AM): do not
BlueEyesJY (9:35:24 AM): uh huh
cdarthschrader (9:36:17 AM): it doesn't work second hand pal
BlueEyesJY (9:36:41 AM): just watch
cdarthschrader (9:38:58 AM): hahahah
BlueEyesJY (9:40:13 AM): second hand
cdarthschrader (9:40:44 AM): i stand corrected
BlueEyesJY (9:52:21 AM): what'd Ray say to Rod?
cdarthschrader (9:53:11 AM): nothing really
BlueEyesJY (9:53:19 AM): just enough to change it though, right?
BlueEyesJY (9:53:45 AM): that fax machine has been disconnected since last week sometime
cdarthschrader (9:54:25 AM): hahahah
cdarthschrader (9:54:28 AM): i love this place
BlueEyesJY (9:54:37 AM): why
cdarthschrader (9:54:54 AM): if anything ever got done RIGHT i'd shit myslef
cdarthschrader (10:09:36 AM): dude, you're so dead
cdarthschrader (10:09:49 AM): ray gave me permission to whip yo ass with that steel bar
cdarthschrader (10:10:17 AM): I got asian power now pal
BlueEyesJY (10:14:55 AM): we'll see about that
cdarthschrader (10:21:15 AM): sooooooooooo dead
BlueEyesJY (11:30:26 AM): i'm still ticking over here
cdarthschrader (12:02:01 PM): ticking?
BlueEyesJY signed off at 12:51:25 PM.
User Reviews
Submitted by streetpunk (user info) at 2003-06-09 17:57:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hell yeah, maybe it's a dallas thing. i have had to deal with the bottom of the barrell all day. argh!!!!
Peace,
STREETPUNK
Submitted by audjgirl (user info) at 2003-06-09 16:20:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i am so sorry for you. next time, skip the jalapenos. good luck with the genocide. i'm sure you can't be arrested for going temporarily insane.