2/28/04

Well, only a few weeks late, oh well..

So, let's see... I recently created and self published a free book. The book itself sucks, but at least I can now call myself a published author, at least in a remote sense of the concept. I also completed a paper on propaganda during WW2, as either an evolving or a static presence. Didn't take too long to write, which means I did it very poorly. I didn't even get to play any videogames this week. SERIOUSLY! I read a ZERO on the game meter, there was so much work.

Something else happened recently. During this week, the computer lab I work at got infected by the Mydoom.f virus, or at least one of them did. Anyone who doesn't know about the mydoom.f virus, should really look into it if they use a PC. It's pretty nasty.

Well, Luckily, the school managed to clean up the problem with a few minor incidents. I would like to say this: If somebody you don't know sends you a mysterious file, DON'T FUCKING OPEN IT!! I know it's like a mysterious attention grabbing object, and if you absolutely must open it, DO IT ON YOUR OWN FUCKING COMPUTER. I don't get paid enough to clean up your god damn messes. Hell, I'm hardly paid enough to sit there and help you morons figure out how to print, and thus wasting more of MY precious recourses on YOUR frivolous crap.

The story doesn't end there.

So, Friday, I worked an 11-3 shift. That's the usual, but most of the time, there is nothing for me to do. Not the case for that day. The tech in charge of our lab, who I see probably once a week, was there. Normally, I don't have a problem with techs. Yeah, they're snobby, but they have a right to think that they are awesome, because they probably are. However, she treats me like an idiot who is more likely to choke himself with a mouse than use it to surf the net. This bothers me for several reasons. The biggest reason is that she is in the same program I am in, but she has not finished it. I have finished, and as a matter of fact, have a FUCKING DEGREE. She, as far as I can tell, doesn't have one.

Continuing on, we discovered that over half of these computers in the lab were unprotected by Norton Anti-Virus. Oh boy! To make matters worse, she told me that it is my job to make sure everything is on the computers that we need. I'm thinking it's not, because we don't have a list of what need on those computers. We don't have the rights to put them on the computers. Even IF we knew what was needed and told them, they'd just ignore it like they usually do. So, I went though and marked all the ones that didn't have NAV on it. She went though and installed it all but three of them. Yes, she left three of them uninstalled. Then she left. YAY!

But wait! There's more! I decide that it would be a good idea to run a scan on some of the computers. One one of them I found two more viruses: Trojan. Bookmarker and Mydoom.A. FUN! So, I want to get rid of them, because they can cause damage, but I can't because I don't have the rights. I go and get my boss, and see If he can run the removal stuff, but no. So, he calls back the tech to get rid of it and put NAV on the machines she missed. What does she do? She quarantines them. She doesn't log in and run the damn program designed to remove it, because "I have lots of labs and If I had to do this on every computer that had this problem, I couldn't get anything done." You know what? TOO FUCKING BAD, IT'S YOUR GOD DAMN FUCKING JOB!!! To quote Penny-Arcade "If you had a job eating bees, and you complain about being stung in the mouth because you eat bees, too bad, because it's your Fucking job to eat bees."

That sort of shit really pisses me off. I might not be the most active person, but when it comes to my job, I do it. I don't complain at work, or just leave it for someone else. It's my problem and my responsibility. If you are being paid $30/hr to fix computers and ensure networkability, fix the god damn computers and make sure they can hit the network. Don't leave your shit for me to clean up, cause if you do it too often and piss me off, I will use every ounce of my contacts to try to make you lose your job. I would expect the same from anyone else about me.

Perhaps America just lost it's work ethics? Maybe they just lost their ethics in their entirety? Maybe they don't know what ethics are? Either way, some people are lazy slobs when it comes to work, and I'm sick and tired of this shit. Do your god damn job fuckers.

Later.

~Western Oracle