Thursday August 15, 2002 at 08:09 pm
There’s no weekend blog this week since there was really nothing to write about.
However this week has been boring yet busy at the same time. Actually boring outside of work and busy at work. I did however find out that if I make stats for the next 30 days I would finally be hired on permanently. As my manager advised me “We’re hiring 20 people, 10 have already been hired. You were not one of them. And I can tell right off the bat it’s because your stats suck!” I was almost shocked simply because, I didn’t expect Scott to actually put anything straight out there like he was doing. It was kewl, though I’d rather have him be straight than blow smoke like so many others here do. Needless to say yesterday was pretty much and “IDGAF” day, and I spent most of it drifting off into daydream land and answering the phone.
Today is not really nay different other than the fact that ATT is having router issues, which is prompting everyone to call us, because they can’t get to our website or the mail and news servers. So I’ve spent most of my day giving retarded analogies about who would you call if I-10 were blown up and you were unable to drive to work on it like you’ve done for so many years or months. In the end the response is the same if not very similar, and that would be to find another way around it. And with that final glimpse of light beaming into the dense, dark craniums most have been able to put 2 and 2 together and come up with the realization the problem is not ours and to try another service or from another location. Whereas other are still stubborn and swear by the first born child, that we should be taking responsibility for the issues. I so want to simply conference one of them in with ATT and start bitching at the poor soul on the other end to fix the problem because we said so and anything short of success is an utter failure and therefore unacceptable.
But I won’t, simply because, that’s right today as well as yesterday is an “IDGAF” day. Which is why I haven’t told the dumb ass instructor on the phone whom, I’ve told 5 times already to type his name in a box, hasn’t been advised in a my patent baby voice that he needs to review his Outlook Express tutorial and that he can’t play with other big kids until has had passed his test. No instead I’m letting him babble about his own stupidity until he realizes I’m not paying any attention to what ever the hell he is muttering about in whatever foreign accent he his speaking and only then when silence is golden shall I proceed to grace him with the knowledge of common sense, and guide him to typing his name where the blinking cursor next to “Name” lies in wait.
Now the list, oh yes the list of yester years has been dusted off and is making it’s debut in the new millennium.
5 Reasons why YOU should not attend a Online University
1) If when told by your computer manufacture to “Put your mouse in the middle of the screen”, you respond with “I can’t it keeps falling off and landing in my lap”, you shouldn’t attend an Online University.
2) If your clocks continuously blink 12:00 after power outages for more than 1 year, you shouldn’t attend an Online University.
3) If you rush home every evening heart racing, pounding against your inside to hear the words “You’ve got mail”, you shouldn’t attend an Online University.
4) If you turn off every appliance in your home, due to fears of hackers, you shouldn’t attend an Online University.
5) If you have to have your 5 year old daughter pause hr game of The Sims, Living Large”, come in to turn on your computer, setup the printer, start your game of solitaire, and then explain what a right click and left click is, you should do 3 things. The 1st is to invest in a laptop for your daughter so she doesn’t have to walk so far to provide tech support for you and can simply play her Sims game on the laptop. The 2nd is invest in a Speak and Spell for yourself, once you have mastered the art of this challenging hardware software combo, you can gradually move up to items such as Playschool’s “My First PDA”, the techno advancement includes such things as learning your 123’s and ABC’s. The 3rd and most important is you should NOT attend an online University, since your 5 year old may find the stresses of playing Barbie and working on your graduate degree a little unbearable, since she’ll be doing most of your work for you.
This is my first visit to your site. Your sense of humor shines through… it’s great. It is also nice to know that I have what it takes for an online U. I suspected it might be so, the day I asked my son a question about HTML and he said, “Mom, you know more about that than I do.” Yess! P.S. around here, stupid tech support questions are a major form of entertainment. Love it.