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[chaeotica]

Whee! I has a Dilbert Widget!!!!

What I Did on my Winter Vacation or Dear goodness, you mean she isn't dead yet?

Yeah, it's been a while since I was an active poster. And yet, I still catch myself composing LJ entries in my head now and again. Well, my recent activities have been:

• Working my new(ish) job with a contractor. (I can has base access!)
  
• Ordering video cards for linaloki. (One of these is going to work.)
  
• Gathering tax information. (Curse you, IRS, bane of US citizens humanity!)
  
• Studiously ignoring as much of the ongoing election crap as I can. (Living by the philosophy of the first two of the DNE monkeys means I can pretend political commercials don't exist! W00t!)
  
• Visiting Mom's extended family. (Total visits in '07... 3? Maybe?)
  
• Playing NWN2. (Nope, no flavor text here. Sorry)

And some other stuff. Like fighting with this censored keyboard just to get spaces in my entries, or fighting with my sister for access to the sole internet-capable computer.

Amusing note (I thought, anyway) I actually ran across Monty from ASMS in October (we were at the same conference). I found out today that he probably works in the same building I do. It's not definite, but if it's true, that makes three (non-coworker or client) people I know who work in the same building I do. The other two I know are actually from my church, which is pretty small, so the coincidences just keep adding up.


Well, if anyone has something they'd like to ask me about life, the universe, and whatever, please feel free! It'll prolly inspire me to post more often.

Legal disclaimer: Author reserves the right to not answer questions based on any number of undefined criteria, which may include, but is not not limited to: work, pop culture, small fish, boy bands, and winning lottery tickets. Unless the question is, "Do you want some/most/all of the money from my winning lottery ticket?"

Comments

[chaoticogre.livejournal.com]

From the "I can has base access" comment, I would assume that you have seen LOLcats or similar internet memes. Can you enjoy the absurdity essential to such a thing and yet keep your rigidity on the subjects of grammar and correctness?

On an aside, do you think that IT people get upset with the type of people who contact them every other day for their first month on the job with immediate needs to get software access on the assigned test equipment or to get things set up at multiple stations on opposite corners of the building?

Questions!

[chaeotica]

I did see something along those lines, yes. LOLGrenades, or something like that, had a LOL-speak version of "The Trouble with Tribbles". It made me giggle muchly. I think that it is perhaps the inherent absurdity that makes the lack of correctness acceptable. It's not trying to be serious. And I don't have too many problems with the occasional gaffe or shortening. It's when people are constantly and willfully displaying a lack of care that I want to bludgeon them with "The Complete and Unabridged Rules of the English Language" volumes 1-15.

As to your second question: Probably. I think I would get pretty pissed off if someone was calling me every other day for that sort of thing. If you have requested through the appropriate channels, you are on the To-Do list. If they don't get to you for a week/by the time they said they would, then feel free to ask for a status report. Once. Bugging should not happen in an ideal world.

...Unless, of course, the bugging is because the IT people just aren't doing their job. "We'll have it done by tomorrow." "You said that three weeks ago." Yeah, in that case, bugging is warranted. It might piss them off, but their slacking would be cutting into your ability to do your own job.

...Incidentally, you aren't the one making the requests, are you?

Quite.

[chaoticogre.livejournal.com]

Of course I am the one making requests. It was known that I would be working in Development around mid-December. Started working at the start of the year. Things still needed "adjusted" so that I could get work done in mid-January. Granted, things are busy and our IT department is a whole of two people (so I should probably be glad that I have an account on the computers at all).

The biggest issue so far was the phone ping-pong over one of the test units. I was the ball, Frank was a paddle on one end with his "call IT and have them give you access," and IT was the other paddle with "the security settings are correct, so ask Frank about it." That took forever to resolve.

The current situation between me and IT is stable. I can do my job and so I am not contacting them. Still can't access the messaging system on the phone and it identifies me as "Melissa" when I call people, but they can get around to that at their leisure.

Re: Bugging

[chaoticogre.livejournal.com]

Also, just to clarify, I got response each time I made a request and they were prompt. The main issue was the vast variety of things which I need access to (both hardware and software).

[mehrit.livejournal.com]

You know I never really appreciated those Dilbert cartoons (or The Office, or any other cubicle-farm-related humor) until I actually started working in an office. And now they're hilarious, which is good, because you have to laugh, or else you'll cry. *sigh*

Office Space is quickly climbing the ranks to becoming one of my favorite movies. Adele got me the fire engine red Swingline stapler for my birthday last year. (And yes, it has been stolen several times...)

Hah, Monty! I haven't seen him in forevar. It's a small world.

[chaeotica]

Well I haven't seen Office Space yet (though I have heard about the stapler), nor have I seen The Office, but I have heard that both are pretty good. Dilbert, on the other hand, I liked as soon as I started reading it. I don't know if it's my slight engineering tendencies or my natural cynicism that let me get the jokes before I joined the "real world"...

And, it really is a small world. He was sitting right behind me in the first session of the conference. It was a very "Whoa!" experience.