work rant

As you probably know by now, I work in IT.  IT can mean many things to many companies.  I have been asked to set vcr’s, dub VHS tapes to DVD’s, fix cell phones, and most everything else except plumbing.  And it’s only a matter of time until the plumbing request pops into my inbox.
Some companies [...]

So the move was completed at 4pm, with a bunch of tired, sore IT folks limping out into the rain.  We knew it would get interesting the first time it rained in the new area.  Even if there were no leaks, the noise would make it sound like World War II, with the rain banging [...]

My company, previously and hitherto referred to as the Twilight Zone<tm>, is not a normal place to work.  Or visit.  Or drive past in a hurry, pretending you don’t notice it.  As a not normal place, it tends to attract not normal employees (as if I wasn’t enough by myself).
Among the weirdities is the moving.  [...]

Morning time is the time I hate most at work.
The trip up the steps and through the main floor is always deceptive.  There are only a few people there already and one can sleepily drift toward one’s desk.  And that’s where the problems start.
No sooner did I sit down then I received an email from [...]

Did you ever have one of those weeks?
I think I’m having one.  Today.
It started out with that pain in the back of my neck.  I got to work, somehow managing to brave the traffic of the first day of school, which adds thirty minutes to my commute (a thirty minute commute).  Much to my surprise, [...]

One of my favorite blogs, Dog Reader, just featured a story about finding a computer virus on the space station.  I highly recommend this blog and always find myself saying THAT’S RIGHT when I read it.
I want to deconstruct the story and the larger issues a bit.   Here are the facts as stated in [...]

I have this recurring nightmare…. I’m at work and surrounded by the largest collection of incompetents I have ever seen.  While I stand there, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people who need individual lectures on how to find their own desktops, I notice the problem is only getting worse.
I’m just kidding, of course.   [...]

does it worry me to be alone?
My boss took the week off.
It is said that when the cat goes away, the mice will play.   In fact, my people asked me what we should do this week, since the boss was away.  I think they had Liquid Lunch<tm> in mind.
I figured we could use the break [...]

It’s no secret that I don’t like iPhones or Macs.  What does this mean?  It means that I don’t like them but I couldn’t care less if you have an entire warehouse of them.  In fact, I hope you do; they’re a license to print money.
As the guy who makes the corporate IT decisions, I [...]

My virtualization project is 75% finished.
Somehow I don’t feel 75% more intelligent, well-informed or experienced.
Many people were aghast when they read the news about the BIG VMWARE BUG.  I read about it online that evening.  It was nothing serious - it just wouldn’t let any virtual machine start up on August sixteenth.  Fortunately we had [...]