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Setting Short Fuses

Posted in General. on Friday, April 7th, 2006 by Derek
Apr 07

I think work is trying to get everyone to quit. First, promote a large amount of people to another department causing dozens of people recently hired to take their place, using a software system made in the late 90s that works like a Cezanne, whereas Windows 3.1 functions as a daVinci. For instance, I get the customer’s phone number and it takes me 30 seconds to bring up their account information. Ok, now the second point, make it mandatory to offer every single customer that calls in to upgrade to a new phone and rate plan. I wish to make a payment today. “Upgrade to a Motorola V3 Razr and we’ll talk”. “I have delayed billing on this last invoice, I’m not paying these charges and I’m going to sue you fuckers”. “Would you like to upgrade to a new flip phone and rate plan with rollover minutes? No? No credit for you”. They must enjoy the employee turnover and using up all that training budget for two classes every week.

So life is listen to music, sit on computer at work, sit on computer at home, watching the talkies, doing a minuscule amount of exercise so I don’t become a fatty (I don’t think one set of push-ups a day counts?), and waste more time on the Internet. I likely should leave the house at some point for a purpose that does not include catching a bus to work. Well I guess I am saving a lot of money for the impending heartache of monthly student loan payments.

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2 Comments

  1. iameugenerobinsonofoxbow on April 7th, 2006

    hey prog rock boy get a real job and shift the weight from the latter bit to the former in the word smart-ass, which is what you are, and a fat-ass, which is what you’ll soon become.

    ps. no crying about student loan payments. at least you didn’t waste your future money on a useless humanities degree, cunt.

  2. Afterglow on April 8th, 2006

    My focus for a quote unquote real job will start after I write my last university exam ever on Wednesday and have my degree on-hand. My issue with finding computing work is that I haven’t worked on any projects in the last 3 years, so employers can see the proof that I don’t give a shite about the field… although if I got a decent paying job, I could start finding meaning.

    Bachelor of Arts degrees majoring in computer science are pretty much as useless as humanities. With your degree you could studying law or be a politician or a high school teacher or a social worker… yeah it’s pretty much over for you right now.

    Now excuse me while I return to eating my ice cream.



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