Oh the horrors

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

Thought I'd say hi and drop off ,if nothing else, a quick annoyence.

I'm currently working as the Asst. dir of IT at a local coll. Well that's a bit of a joke, as the Dept has 2 people and one parttimer. Ooooh, I'm the Asst. Director and the othe rguy is the Director... feel like a scam to anyone else? Only one problem with this setup. He does database stuff and really ONLY database stuff. I do everything else. Was trained as a field tech .. hardware/software/wiring/internet so now I have these 120 machines and 6 servers to watch over.

My single worst pet peeve here has to be... all the people who call my line everytime some fucking webpage doesn't load and ask me "Is the server down?" "You mean the Internet Line or the FILE SERVER?" "Uhm that internet thing" "No it's fine." "Well it doesn't work up here." "OK, what are you trying to do, I'll check it here." "I was trying to go to cnn..." "CNN is down, see I'm looking here. The internet is up, CNN is down." "Well can you fix it?" "I'm sorry I don't work for time Warner right now, but I'm sure I can call them and ask them to speed things up..." "Uhm, ok"

And they hang up and go about their lives, probably thinking I called Time/Warner for them, until the next time when the disneyStore website doesn't work. Oh, I can't ask them if they should be useing the net access like that, nono that would be rude. Luckily, they are now mostly used to my sarcasm and no longer fight the unending flow of it. Thank the lord for small favors...