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[erunamiryene.livejournal.com]

Dear Jerkoff,

I don't care what rank you were when you were in the military. You're out now, so it ceases to matter that you were a colonel in the Air Force. You really want to know the Marines' opinion about the Air Force? Didn't think so.

Your previous (PREVIOUS, get it through your head) rank status does NOT entitle you to have your own personal IT bitch. It does NOT entitle you to tell me to "drop what you're doing now and fix my card reader". It does NOT entitle you to wait until 10 minutes before you have to leave to give me your laptop for a LAST MINUTE INSTALL (when you've been here for TWO WEEKS), and then BITCH because the install doesn't move as fast as you want it to.

And no, sir, I can't "make the install go faster". Well, I can, but that means I ABORT the install and you don't get your damn program.

No, I'm not going to make you "one of those cable thingies for the network or whatever". I guarantee your office in Colorado has them. No, I'm not going to make you "one of those cable thingies for the network or whatever" because you "don't want a used one". It's not a car, it's a CAT-5 CABLE. And no, I'm not going to make a special trip to your office - FIVE HOURS AWAY, one way - to help you plug peripherals into your docking station. If you seriously can't figure out two USB cables and the COLOR CODED KEYBOARD CABLE, you don't need a damn computer.

Also ...
No, I can't help you with a website that won't load when it says it's an internal error. No, I can't call that website. No, I'm not trying to avoid doing work. Yes, I AM trying to avoid getting fired and going to jail for breaking your damn Latitude D630 over your head. No, I'm not going to give you monitors out of an office that I'm not even BASED IN.

I cannot wait until you and your entitlement whore attitude are in an entirely different state.

And no ... you don't need "extra programs, just in case".

*headdesk*

Comments

[misfit4leaf.livejournal.com]

*hands you booze*

I am so terribly sorry.

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

promoted to his level of incompetence?

[dogbite12.livejournal.com]

"Former colonel" means "got passed over for general and forced to retire". Not surprising, is it?

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

That's Colonel Jerkoff, to you!

[toxico.livejournal.com]

We had a former Marine (I'm unsure of rank) start at my company in an entirely unrelated department who insists that every IT person is lazy due to not doing everything his way. When I gave him his laptop he wanted to know "about the rams, because that's what messed [him] up in the past."

He hates me for responding with "I don't follow football."

[erunamiryene.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Yeah, the Marines have their share of entitlement whores. It doesn't help that from day one in boot camp you're told that you're just the BEST. *eyeroll*

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

Hell, even our General doesn't get "we-already-dropped-what-we-were-doing-Sir" service. He gets "you're-the-next-in-line" treatment, but he understands that we have other people to assist in addition to him.

Too bad your numbskull didn't.

[black-spot.livejournal.com]

That's why your General was made a General.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

Careful; if you're in a contracting environment, retired military occasionally == connections.

if not, fuck him.

however, enlightened self interest....

[teriwyn.livejournal.com]

...unfortunately, this.

[simoncion.livejournal.com]

"Extra programs"???

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I would be very careful about asking computer geeks for "extra programs". Be careful what you wish for...

[erunamiryene.livejournal.com]

He (unfortunately) walked by when I was at our neat little interface that links to installs for EVERY PROGRAM the Corps of Engineers uses.

"Oh, wow, can I have some extra programs?"

Um ... no. You can't figure out how to plug your monitor in, I'm not giving you Adobe CS3. You're out of your mind.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

All you really had to post was "I work for the CoE" and all the rest would have fallen into line.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Dang, if it was me, I'd have started referring to him as "Mister $surname" to his face as soon as he mentioned his ex-rank, and swiftly started winding down the road of first name, diminutives, and made-up nicknames.

Probably would also have started saying things like "Unfortunately, things don't magically happen just because you want them to" in the kind of voice reserved for three-year-olds.

But I'm obnoxious like that.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

That's not obnoxious, that's old school. Keep it up.

[sciffy-circo.livejournal.com]

Exactly! You're not in the military anymore, this is not the military, and you are a civilian now. And we expect some civility... MISTER!!!

And if you want to throw rank in my face, I'll have a word with your supervisor, and Human Resources.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, and I was enlisted scum in the Navy. But fast-forward to today, and I'm the IT guy and you're standing in my office helpless and frustrated. Bet you can't wait to see what TOMORROW brings, huh?"