Category: employment
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Is today the national day of malware or something?
Only explanation I can think of for the reason every call, except maybe 1 or 2, has been a badly messed up system in desperate need of a serious cleaning. If I really wanted to play dirty, I could probably break the single-person record for amount of times reinstalling Windows … Read the rest
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Now there’s a random search woops.
I think Google may have had a momentary laps. A Dell technician in India has, apparently, stumbled across this entry while looking for a solution to one of I’m sure a meriad of Sympatico related problems. Particularly surrounding Windows Mail. Now, uh, don’t get me wrong–I like the attention, but … Read the rest
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My computer sucks…
It’s a sad, sad day when you work for a computer company, doing tech support, and your computer goes on the blink. Mine’s already developed this nasty habbit of restarting for no real apparent reason. And now while making someone pay me to fix their brokenness, my computer started to … Read the rest
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I can haz no webmessengerz?
So apparently they’ve gotten smart and blocked all the good web to IM services out there. I didn’t want a way to kill a lunch hour anyway. Anyone have an alternative to things like meebo, MSN’s web messenger, ebudy and… um, all those? Will pay in… um, praise. ‘Cuz that’s … Read the rest
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If you’re stuck on hold, I’m sorry.
Very rarely will I make 2 work related posts in one day. Not because I don’t like my job, but because I’m too lazy. But today–oh, today… there are 23 people currently waiting on hold. One of them, the one I’ll probably get to talk to when my break ends, … Read the rest
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Baby, it’s cold outside.
Another Friday morning which feels more like a Tuesday morning. And another freakishly cold morning. Thank you wind chill for making -12 roughly translate to -19. And now you can go right to hell. And now they’re threatening me with snow. I thought I evicted you yesterday? I’ll say again, … Read the rest
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I despise Microsoft Office 2007.
Well, actually, I despise Microsoft. But Office 2007 for specific reasons. Primarily, it should not take me, who knows his way pretty much around Office products for the most part like the back of my hand, an hour and a half to figure out where the hell they put this … Read the rest
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Someone’s gonna have to reformat…
I just spent the better part of 3 hours on a spyware call. That ended up pretty much being nailed, except for a lingering Windows Installer issue. Nothing I tried was working, and even the fix I ended up settling on was a little iffy at best. If she does … Read the rest
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Sanity not included.
Usually I wouldn’t post this many work-related blog entries in a row, and definitely not *from* work, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. There are 2 agents waiting for calls. I’m coming off break in 3 minutes. I am relieved. With 2 available, I should not be relieved. … Read the rest
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I left work nearly 12 hours ago.
I’m back at work now. I’m off at 7:00 tonight, barring another 10.5 hour day. Uh, crap on a cracker? The hours I’m billing Dell for are gonna be bloody well insane… ***************** Ladies and gentlemen. When I left work yesterday, it was snowing like hell. There is more snow … Read the rest