Oh boy, more than three dozen laptops to swap and the same number of laptops to wipe, clean, and pack. And you want this all done by the end of the month. On top of the trials happening this month that we will be helping with and general day-to-day stuff that can sometimes keep us busy for days. Yeah, sorry, we’re not going to be making that deadline. Maybe by October we can be done. A big maybe.
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Take me with you… please…
My boss just told me he got a new job, and it sounds awesome. I don’t totally hate it here, but the commute is going to kill me and, with him going, my workload will probably double.
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Hey dumbass, it doesn’t count as “putting out fires” when they are all problems you created in the first place. And throwing your manager under the bus will only cause you grief, as she will be less likely to help you out the next time you have a disgruntled client…
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Tell them to watch Backdraft, that’s where that sort of thing leads.
I really hope that wasn’t a doctor. That kind of thing can really ruin a reputation.
You needed: An ambitious doer who has the technical know-how to get all your ad hoc shit done.
You hired: Another manager.
Good job there.
“Can’t get it to work” may get you our attention, but you should know by now it’s not going to create some kind of miracle response. Even more so when I ask to remote on and you never respond to my request. Have fun with your issue.
That’s the way some companies roll… just hire a mangler to delegate more shit to overworked and underpaid underlings.
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Why is my work internet currently slower than last week, when I was using WiFi at a theme park?
Admittedly, It was Disney, and they know how to set things up, at least before they fired all their IT a couple months back. Then rehired them, or whatever. Sadly my IT solidarity interest faded in light of my own personal trials and tribulations. Either way, I’m assuming WiFi will continue working at Disney World for the foreseeable future, or at least until mutant squirrels become sentient, form a cult based off artwork from the Winnie the Pooh ride, and declare a holy war on technology personally approved by St. Walt.
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I’m staying out of Washington, DC tomorrow.
Who’s fsckin’ genius idea was it to throw this code directly into PROD without testing everything it touches?
I mean, clearly, we didn’t have the time to test, so we obviously have the time to go back and fix everything it fudged up in the last 3 months…
If your shih tzu comes after my dog, in my own yard, again, I’m feeding it stewed prunes, milk of magnesia, and cottage cheese and chaining it to your porch.
And clean up after your little psychopath!
Too bad Ex-lax doesn’t come in a more convenient non-chocolate formula.
A little bit of turkey will usually give them toxic farts. A half a slice (or two, bwahaha) of lunch meat should be more than enough.
They’d just leave the dogs outside, most likely. A nice gooey mess all over their front steps and porch would be better.
Paying employees late means more chance of a revolt.
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Acrobat Reader has had markup tools for over a decade. Why am I the only one using them? Why must we continue with barbarically printing, writing with a pen on the paper, then scanning?
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So do lots of alternatives. I like Nitro, personally.
But yeah, took in “New patient” forms to the doctor’s office and they almost passed out in glee and amazement.
“We can read these!”
Heck, if you’re using Macs then even the basic Preview application has name-tagged markup tools… admittedly only for a couple of years, and they were a stupid omission beforehand, but the point is that they’re there and yet still I also see people print-write-scan all the time 
I’ve done the same.
Honestly, it’s a quick way to get a little bit of positive favor from your medical professionals, I think. Just because they’re infamous for illegible handwriting, doesn’t mean they want to see more of it.
In a way, it kind of reminds me how many teachers in the 80s were so happy with the ‘amazing typing job’ for those students that had access to a computer. (Especially since my family had a daisy-wheel printer so it was effectively a typewritter controlled by the computer.)
I was expressly forbidden from typing & printing my papers by at least one teacher in the late 80s.
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