Will Dee

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Working in IT is sometimes an excercise in futility.  Sometimes it’s more than sometimes.  Like today.

We get told to patch an application.  It’s like putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.  ’nuff said.

Jeez!  What a week.  I swear they get shorter and shorter, and people try cram in more and more every 7 days!  Last time I checked, it was Thursday last week, and I was putting in the finishing touches on an online prize draw for the (nameless) company I work for.  Expected result 1500 entries, which was the result of the previous attempt to gather client email addies.  10,000 and counting for this campaign.  A success, I think, and we’re not even 75% of the way through it! Yay!

The down side to this is that the last couple of weeks have been an absolute nightmare, work wise, and I’m beginning to question whether or not it’s worth continuing at this pace or not.  My gut tells me no.  With current blood pressure levels, I may just conceivably make the festive season, but that’s about it.  I’m beginning to think about going freelance again, so I can charge an idiot tax, which will go some way towards making the frustrations more palatable.  Not entirely, but somewhat.

Or maybe I’ll be able to talk the wife and kids into a more bohemian lifestyle, and I’ll concentrate on becoming the next Alf Hitchcock.  Hmmmmmm…..

Ok, another post for the “Rants” category.  Sorry.

Have you ever been in the situation where you’ve identified a problem, suggested a solution and been ignored, and then six (or in this case twelve) months later been told that a consulting company has been ‘consulted’ and suggested THE SAME F*CKING SOLUTION and it’s been agreed to implement it at almost 400% the cost because the solution’s licensing model has changed?

I have.

’nuff said.

that as soon as you see a great, never-to-be-repeated, deal on something you’ve been dying to get your grubby paws on, you never have the cold cash in hand to be able to take advantage of it?

Or is it only me?

Case in point; Item A retails for $1100.  Check out auction sites regularly for Item A.  Find Item A listed at $650 (kewl, no?).  Auction ends, no bidders, seller offers buy now price of $500.  Now, between “Find Item A listed at $650″ and “Auction ends…” yadda, yadda, yadda…yours truly gets fu – uuuuhhhh – bloody fine of $530, and yours truly (and financial manager) had thought the $500 was do-able too.

Again; why is it???

<sigh>

It’s been a longer than usual week this week.  I never thought it could be any longer than seven days (five if you’re only counting working days) but I fear this one’s proved my assumption wrong.  Perhaps some guru on relativity could explain the seemingly endless stretch of time that confronted me this morning upon receiving the news that yet another server had failed?  No doubt Einstein covered it off in one of his theories, but I’m afraid I slept through that particular lecture so can someone please ‘splain?  Thanks.

Edit:  I promise I’ll come up with a category other than ‘Miscellaneous’.  Soon.  Well, sometime soon anyway.  Relatively speaking.

I’ll shut up now, shall I?

Actually, no, I should say “I feel violated!”

Had a date with a judge last week, related to a slight mishap with sunstrike, my car and another vehicle parked on the side of the road.

I swear, as I left the courtroom, the solicitor handed me a jar of lube and pointed to a barrel.  B*stards!

Reading through the news today, I saw so many ‘trivial’ stories about companies getting sued, people getting sued and even (no kidding, a dog being sued) over petty, inconsequential things, that I have to wonder at how people manage to stay in business.  Or for that matter, even want to be in business, when you have to deal with people.

You can’t afford to sell anything without a million warnings, just in case some idiot fails to realise that “gee, that coffee might actually be hot so I better sip before gulping” or “golly-gosh, using a hairdryer in a shower could be a bad idea.”

You can’t even voice an opinion online just in case your boss/coworker/random reader takes offense (and boss, our company’s great and I love working there) and fires your ass.

When going to job interviews you get asked for your logins to social networking sites so your prospective employer can keep tabs in case you voice an opinion.

WTF has happened to this planet???

Just in case; this opinion was not my own and I take no responsibility for any offense it may or may not cause.