That's IT. The last straw. NO MORE jobs involving crappy assed Microsux machines. NONE. I don't give a shit if you offer me $500 an hour, fuck you, I'll take NO MORE jobs with these horrid systems.
You need help with one? Call Onyx. Do NOT call me. Or Nick. IndigoDragon is out of the PeeCee support biz (not that I ever wanted to be there in the first place!).
Do NOT read any more if you are gonna get your feelings hurt. I just need to say this to vent. You've been warned.
The problem is more than just a crappy OS on crappy boxes. The problem is that no PeeCee user really understands what's happening and therefore can never, EVER tell you what the real problem is. So, you take a job that should be a simple networking gig and walk into a network that was set up (inexplicably) with a Winblows 2003 server as a DHCP server and a print server and you're immediately doomed to a WHOLE day job rather than a TWO HOUR job.
That's fine if you you a) don't have a REAL job you've only taken a HALF day off from and b) you BILL for the WHOLE time you're there and c) it's not on a goddam FRIDAY when traffic will SUCK OUT LOUD and take you 2 hours to get home if you try it at 4pm.
And finally, it's fine if you don't mind blowing off your REAL job to fix the ills of the PeeCee impaired. BUT when you have a PARTNER sitting at another job that is definitely only 2-3 hours long and SHE needs to get home to FINISH HER OTHER FUCKING WORK THAT IS DUE and she loses a WHOLE day due to the PeeCee impaired, now that is a whole 'nother thing entirely.
It's beyond my comprehension how FUBAR this day got. And for what? A 2.5 hour billing? Fuck that. I didn't even charge the DRIVE FEE that covers going up to hell's half acre!!!
Last time I checked, I was speaking ENGLISH to my idiot partner and the person we did the job for. I KNOW for a fact I asked about how that network was set up and I was assured that, NO, the server was not used in the network setup. I also KNOW for a fact that I PLAINLY stated that this gig was to END at 3pm at the latest to ensure that we could traverse fucking 285 on a fucking Friday.
Goddam, I'm pissed. I feel that the gig was NOT as it was described and I feel that my partner should have had sense enough to WALK AWAY. I did NOT take a "redo the whole fucking network and reset the server" gig. I took a "hook up all cabling and make sure the internet is accessible" gig. Why my partner didn't understand that, I just don't know. Why the person who we did the gig for didn't understand that TRAFFIC IS BRUTAL on Friday, I just don't know. Seems pretty simple to me. Anyone who's lived here for more than a week (EVEN OTP) should understand that.
INCONSIDERATE!!!!
Now I get have a relaxing Friday night sitting here in front of my Mac, doing all the work that I didn't get to do today while I was waiting for my ride.
Yes, yes, I'm PISSED.
NO NO NO NO don't even try to talk to me right now.
I need to cool off.
Posted by Misangela at March 25, 2005 07:08 PM