Disordered Thoughts and Curmudgeonly Ramblings
Five guys, six computers, ten monitors and one doorway. Something’s gotta give…
The air conditioning is broken. It is 28.1° Celsius in the office. We have two desktop fans, one free-standing fan and an evaporative cooler running in an attempt to bring the temperature down. It’s like working in a tropical cyclone.
I know I said I don’t have cancer earlier, but if these working conditions continue, I may well catch it.
Later: We’ve just got another free-standing fan. The temperature is a balmy 26.9.
Burgers and hot dogs? Lord take me now!
Well, looks like my old school chum Sebastien is finally getting that gourmet burger bar of his up and running. That gourmet burger bar that’s pretty much right next door to my work.
I can’t decide is this is awesome (for my mouth) or awful (for my waistline).
I’ll go with awesome 🙂
(oh, and it’s December 1st and it’s not yet open. What gives?)
Email from Client: I add da product an it no in da pending! Help me!*
My Reply: Just to make sure I’ve got this straight – you added a product using the the new interface, but it became active immediately rather than going into the pending category? Correct?
Client’s Reply: I no see product not anywhere!
Reply I would have liked to send: I asked you a damn question!! If you don’t answer it I can’t fix your petty little problem!
What I actually did: Spent twenty minutes investigating the database and determining that the product had been added using the old interface, and the client skipped a step, despite being given clear, numbered instructions only yesterday.
Sheeze!
* The client’s emails were actually written in reasonable English, I just edited them to cave man to give an idea of how uninformative and useless they were.
On the face of available evidence…
Here at the office we are still to actually meet new girl.
She’s sending us designs, so she must exist in some form, but there’s been neither hide nor hair of her around the place.
My leading theory is that she’s actually a cutting edge artificially-intelligent design program. My co-worker Bruce claims to have actually met her, but I feel that this encounter can safely be written off as a weather balloon or similar statistical anomaly.
Not a good idea.
Have a new employee starting today. A new female employee.
I’m going to have to resist the temptation to address her as “new girl” 🙂
Murders in Maylands
The trains were running late this morning and the one I was on was halted for quite some time at Maylands station while a pair of cops searched it up and down.
Turns out there’s been a double murder just near the station and the whole area is completely locked down. The cops were looking to see if the alleged killer was trying to escape via the rails.
Scary stuff! Not to mention the that I was late for work!
(What’s the odds that there’s Bikie involvement?)
Being my first time creating a website I simply didn’t think of this…
An email from a client today, who asked us to add a new and very complicated feature to his recently constructed website (details redacted to protect the innocent)…
Bit confused about the costing for the [new feature] – if I had realized this earlier, I would have had it done previously.
Sort of would have thought that [other client] would have already had something like this – being my first time creating a website I simply didn’t think of this.
In other words, “the website doesn’t do something that I never actually asked for it to do, but you should have realised that that’s what I wanted so you should do the work for free”.
Ha! Haha! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Clients, how they crack me up!
Edit Wars Ahoy!
As someone who was peripherally involved with the decline and fall of Earthcore it’s quite amusing to read through the history and discussion pages on its Wikipedia page.
Spiro always was a bit histrionic…
I have no truck with the Gregorian Calendar!
I was wondering this morning where my Census form is, and speculating on whether the Government believes that I actually exist.
My coworkers pointed out that the Census is on August 9th.
I maintained my stance of puzzlement over where my Census form is, and wondered how I was to fill it out tonight if they didn’t sent me one.
My coworkers pointed out that today is August 2nd.
Oh, how we laughed!
Climb on Board…
Just about to go into an important meeting with a client and I have Murder Train stuck in my head.
This is probably not a good thing.
