What has happened to the phone skills if people. Is it the cell phones, texting, not caring? Why am I asking? Today I got a voicemail that said “This is Tom. Call me at 867-5309.” No I’m calling for…. Or this is …. So and so gave me your number to call about x. I have customers that call me on my cell and when I say hello, they respond with “hey” or “how’s it going”. Uh, how about you say “hey, this is Jane Doe, is this so and so”.
Maybe it is just me.
The other day I stopped at the post office to drop off a number of packages. That were all ready to go and normally I could just put them in the larger tumbler drop box. But this day, it would not open. Most likely a jammed box on the other side. I went to the desk and left my packages at the end, and mentioned to the clerk that was helping another customer, that the drop box was not working. Her reply, “it is working, it just has too many packages and we haven’t had time to empty it.” Well, to me, that would mean it is not working, as I mentioned. Don’t know if it was a defensive comment on her part or just stupidity.
I must say, overall, I am very pleased with shipping via USPS. Fast delivery, free supplies and typically cheaper than FedEx or UPS (for smaller packages).
So I went to an elderly friend’s house to fix her computer issue. It was that her printer was no longer working. While I am trying to fix the spoiler issues she kept saying is it the paper. Do I need to load the paper in a special way. No!!!! It’s not the paper.
Sitting enjoying my son’s little league game. Can never understand the necessity of parents to call out the obvious. After the pitcher throws a ball high, mom yells out “bring it down”. No shit, really?
Other parents yell, “you got it”, or “one more” (referring to strikes).
Oh well….. play ball!
I customer of mine is moving a branch office location and needs their network moved and new wiring for voice and data. I pull new lines and work with the Internet vendor on the backboard for the gear. The installer puts up a 2×2 back board above their current one and arranges his equipment nicely on the top leaving me plenty of space. I mounted a 24 port patch panel and 66 block leaving space above the patch panel for the switch and firewall/router and space below for the phone system to be moved.
Fast forward to the next day when I return to move the network gear, only to find that the moron phone guy moved the patch panel up and put the phone system in the middle of the board and mounted power adapters below the system rather than on the side which would have left the patch panel in place. Incompetence at its best, plus he mounted to crooked.
Take away lesson, grab a sharpie and clearly mark DO NOT MOVE, SPACE FOR NETWORK EQUIPMENT.
After my Mac attack I stopped at Wendy’s for a burger. I like Wendy’s. They have the best burgers out of the nationwide fast food chains. However, today getting what I wanted was not so easy. Mind you, if this is the worst thing in my day, I am a lucky man, but it is frustrating asking for a burger no cheese, no pickles and no mustard, I get a burger with all three. I bring it back and this time no cheese, no mustard, but still pickles. They are easy enough to remove, so I moved on. I never worked in fast food, but how hard is it to make such a simple item. Almost every time I order a hamburger (anywhere), not a cheese burger, a hamburger, it has cheese. Well enough petty rambling.
Well today I had the misfortune of working on a Mac. I avoid them as much as possible. What a crap OS!!! I am not an apple hater, and if this is what you like then good luck. The iPhone, iPad and iPods are all fantastic but the desktop OS is horrible. I was called to fix a Parallels issue and because some genius decided to have one menu that changes as the application changes, I couldn’t get to the right menu as it kept changing and I would click the app.
No wonder Microsoft remains the desktop and server undisputed champ.
So, I stop at a customer to drop off a thin client. While there, they inform me that another thin client of the same model is intermittently turning off and won’t turn back on for 10-15 minutes. I indicate that I will look for any known issues. While waiting to meet with CEO, the user of the errant hardware finds me to let me know it just happened. I follow her back to her cube, where she proceeds to sit in her chair blocking my access to the hardware and she proceeds to try pressing the power button trying to make it go back on. I stood in amazement with a WTF look on my face waiting for her to get up so I can actually fix the issue. After 20 seconds or so, I ask “can I take a look”. I notice the power supply is not the one for this unit, but rather a lower voltage supply for a 5-port switch. I swap it for the correct supply and all is well.
People, when you ask for help, clear the way for the tech. You have had your chance to tinker and/or f**k it up in the first place.
I am dissolving one of my corporations registered in New York State. I filed all the paperwork and included the printout of the NYS corporate business listing. etc. I received a rejection today because I did not put a period after INC in the dissolution document! You stupid f**king douche bags!!!! Seriously?!?!?!?! It is the same F**CKING company!!!!!! There is only one company in New Your with that name and tax ID.
This is the reason this state is in a financial crisis. The reason why taxes are so high. The reason no one wants to do business here. Etc.