Kestryl's Quiet Little Spot

Well... I made it back from vacation in one piece... It was nice getting away from work.. and now it's nice getting away from the kids and back to work :)

I'll update more later.... too tired now.

I'm sitting here in a meeting listening to a guy drone on and on about a process being so slow, while he's the one that drags everything on forever. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if he was interesting to listen to, but he's as boring as can be.

Why is it that both Linux and Mac users are such fanatics? Yes I'm a Windows user, and overall I'm happy with most of Microsoft's products (Project has always sucked). However I am not a Microsoft fanatic... I know that both the Mac and Linux are better than Microsoft at many things, hands down. Why is it however that they cannot see that for most computer users out there, that the Microsoft OS and products are better for their use. Stop bashing it just because it's Microsoft. Start looking at the product itself and base your opinion on the product not your personal feeling about the company that makes it

That's what this has been, just one of those days. You hope that on the weekend you could get some relaxation in and just take it easy, but no luck.

I have to say, the highlight of my day is my dog ripping out one of his teeth on the new screen door I put up this week. We finally replaced the screen, on the screen door for our sliding glass door this week. I decided that because the dog has clawed the screen in the past and ripped it doing so, that I would install a thicker plastic screen. Apparently it's really tough because when the dog found that clawing didn't do anything he decided to bite at it. From the best that I can guess, the dog got his tooth stuck when biting it and when he tried to pull away he ripped his tooth out. What fun!

Just over 5 days until vacation starts... I'm really starting to need it.

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Well, made it to the end of another week. I would have thought that I would be home by now, but no I've got to stay here at work and wait for an employee who's running late. You know I understand that shit happens, but it still sucks. If I was making overtime waiting here I'd probably be less pissed, but I don't even get that luxury.

If all goes well I will be on the road this time next week. Next week will be hard to get through, but at least it's only one week. I keep trying to decided how I'm going to keep up this blog on the road... maybe I just save notes on my laptop and post when I get back home. Who knows, by the time I actually hit the road I'll probably forget completely about trying to post.

I'd swear that my boss was experiencing PMS this week, however that would be hard for him to do, so I don't really know what's up. At the start of the week he starts asking all my employees why everyone of them is pissed off and fighting, when as far as I know everything has been fine. When I ask my employees, they agree that everything is OK, but my boss decides that he needs to send an employee survey out to find out what everyone is upset about. This is the kind of shit that I could do without. From what I've seen of the responses he's got from the survey... sure enough everyone is pretty happy over all. Of course there are going to be those that are upset and pissed off about everything, but no matter how good things are you're always going to have a few of those.

Well... that's enough Friday night bitching for now.

OK... let me start by saying I just got through writing a great rant... and lost it because the fucking network here sucks! You would figure that NASA would actually have some backup network connections just in case one goes down, but apparently that's too much to ask.

now onto my original post... or at least what I can remember of it.

I truly believe that everyone who works in any form of customer service should have to watch Clerks at least once, if not multiple times through their career.

I have had my fill of stupid people. I'm not talking about the people who just don't understand something.. those are easy to deal with. I'm talking about the truly fucking stupid people. Like those customers who wait until 4pm on Friday night to call in a problem with their computer that they need fixed before the weekend, and you find out that they've had the problem for a fucking week! If you know that you have a problem that you need fixed, don't wait until the last fucking moment to try and get it fixed. And then don't bitch because I can't magically fix your system in the last few minutes of the day before you leave.

And another thing... when you support over 6000 people, you should not know a single one of them by the sound of their voice. Then you get one of these stupid fucks calling in for the 500th time in a month about the same fucking problem and they say something stupid like "How can we get this fixed" and you want to be honest and say "get you to quit, because you're the fucking problem, not the computer!"

Overall I enjoy my job, and even the customers. I don't mind the people who have real issues or just don't know what their doing... they are at least willing to work with you to fix the issue. It the ones that think they know everything and want to blame the computer for all their problems. If they would stop fucking around with settings and such when they don't' know what they're doing they wouldn't have so many problems.

I truly believe that the comedian Bill Engvall has got a great idea, all stupid people should have a sign. At least then you would know what to expect before you started. It sure would save a lot of time....

Well, here it goes....

It seems that this is the latest rage everywhere, so I figured it was time to get a blog of my own. I hope that it ends up being as enjoyable to read as some others that I've visited, but I don't count on it.

Right now pretty much all on my mind is: Vacation, Vacation, Vacation. I start vacation in just over 8 days and I can't wait. It's not that work is that bad right now, but I just enjoy my time off more than pretty much anything.

Which brings me to something else, why is it that my boss always gives me such a hard time for taking time off of work.

I work to live, I don't live to work.

My vacation time is exactly that, my fucking time. I use all of my vacation time each year, I don't store it up. I mean, what's the use in storing it up, I have a hard enough time getting the two weeks off in the summer and 1 or 2 weeks in the winter. I can't imagine asking to take off 3 or 4 weeks at a time, I think my boss would have a fucking coronary.

I had a new life experience this week. I gave blood at the local Red Cross yesterday, and had the fun of passing out after giving blood. It's the first time I have ever passed out in my life. I woke up to a bunch of the nurses shaking me and putting cold wet towels on my head. I had no fucking clue where I was or who these people were for a couple of seconds. That is a strange feeling, waking up in a strange place with no idea how you got there. Anyways... they got me to a cot to lay down and I ended up laying there for about 3 and a half hours. Still feeling a little tired today, but it's all for a good cause..