Lost In The Web

So the last week we have been having somewhat of a good turn of weather, the Sun has been out and essentially “baking” here and everyone has been enjoying it.
Well except for today, which has been grey, dull yet still boiling… that was until the rain came.

One lovely thunderstorm later, and its feeling somewhat cooler I pity anyone who was caught out in it!
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Seriously where the fuck have all these sales calls came from? its like a spate of morons calling up looking for someone looking to flog the Next-Best-Thingâ„¢.

My boss is now off on the sick, his road trip to Germany for his new fancy Trike has knocked him back to suffering from the dreaded lurgy.
The Senior Manager Brian is on an away day with the rest of senior management, so isnt available. (its that bad, he  has his mobile turned off, as I discovered) This means that I am the only person available this week to do anything, as everyone else is sick or off on holidays.

I also now have to deal with the wallies upstairs, the finance and accounting package is playing up and they come crying to us, and when we tell them to contact the supplier of said package for the support they shout about having, they get grumpy.  Scrap that they are phoning the supplier, its now an irate user who cannot manage a simple password reset in Windows

You cant win at times.

I wonder if going on a toe-curling, blood hungry rampage using a plastic spoon as a deadly weapon would be beneficial?
(note: they should include plastic spoons into the deadly weapon range, you ever seen how easy it is to scoop out a heart with one? )

Or maybe taking a week’s holiday would be better…

I have always wondered how some people manage to forget their passwords after 3 days.

Hell, I have had people change their password, then forget it less than an hour later!

I would see past it if we were strict with passwords and had them set to something like Bk3@~99Dra$1 and you had to write the bloody thing down, but nope.. ours are less than complicated Asswipe1 works pretty well on our systems (I wish we could use it at times!)

I have also grown to hate the way Citrix handles print queues in Presentation Server 4.0. To get your lovely network printer working you need to put the same driver onto the Citrix Server, which is a pain in the ass if the printer driver isnt best of friends with Citrix in the first place (a-la Xerox Workcentre M/Pro 123/128 Photocopiers)
Or you happen to end up with a corrupt printer driver which brings down all 28 people’s printers connected to that server (they vanish like a slice of chocolate cake at the weightwatchers slimming class)

Also in a very under-manned department doesnt help, two guys doing the job of 5 guys (well actually, one doing the job of 4, my boss is already overloaded courtesy of our senior numbnut lumping everything on him)

Me Spiteful? never!