Very Quizzical
Which Office Moron Are You?
I'll smoke you a kipper, because you'll be back for breakfast. You're the cult television show quoting, user account deleting, soap loathing IT Manager.Something in your childhood has made you the way you are. You've been hired to provide a service to everyone else in the office - you make the computers run, and you make them run well. You've streamlined everything; you've removed all the viruses and installed all the firewalls. The only trouble - the only hole in your veneer of digital perfection - is the way you laugh at everyone.
If someone doesn't know UNIX, you laugh at them. If they lose their password, they laugh at them. If they visit a website using Microsoft Internet Explorer and their computer succumbs to an Internet worm, you laugh. Then you take a swig of your Coke, and with another hearty chuckle tell all your friends on IRC about the idiots you have to deal with.
Maybe it makes you feel better about yourself, although let's face it, you don't need help in that department. You're great, you. Fantastic like burning cool. If only those luddite office fools would let you play Unreal Tournament in peace.
[Thanks to Christopher, who's blog doesn't look like itself at the moment.]
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RE: Very Quizzical
Whaddup, lil Janitor. I see you have a chip on your shoulder the size of Montana.
It’s not enough that you have to watch those overpaid idiots go about their inane business every day on twice your salary, as you relentlessly clean up after them. It’s not enough that they refuse to say more than a quick “hi” to you day after day, and never invite you on the office outings or give you so much as a Christmas card. But the things they leave in the toilet, on their chairs, across their keyboards and clinging to the outsides of their wastebaskets like snot to a child …
… it’s enough to make you shudder with grief and fury.
And shudder with grief and fury you do, behind their backs, in corridors and broom closets. Some day, you’ll get your own back. But you’re not going to play their underhanded games; you’re not going to stoop to their stuffy little level. You’re going to take the moral upper hand and screw them over one day so bad that they won’t know what hit them. And until then?
Until then you wait.
RE: Very Quizzical
lol
“If someone doesn’t know UNIX, you laugh at them. If they lose their password, they laugh at them. If they visit a website using Microsoft Internet Explorer and their computer succumbs to an Internet worm, you laugh. Then you take a swig of your Coke, and with another hearty chuckle tell all your friends on IRC about the idiots you have to deal with.”
It Manager, Niiiice. Btw, no coke just Mountain Dew.
RE: Very Quizzical
Not satisfied with the look…
You know the drill… It’s on the to-do list.
I wanna get everyone else situated and then there is this annoying job I have too.
RE: Very Quizzical
I think you should get paid vacation until you get your blog settled.