Duh...uh...

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

So I'm sitting here at work, talking to the VP, Owner and Treasurer of the company and the VP looks at me says, "just what do we pay you for?"

Thing is, we were eating breakfast, and I had a mcdonald's breakfast sandwich in my mouth at the time. I just about lost it. You guys ever get any stupid questions like that?

Comments

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

From a customer "Do you know what you're doing?"

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

LOL.

Yeah, but customer's can be real assholes. These are the people that hired me, and they have to ask what I do! GAWD!

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

no, but the pay does me....

Nope, no idea

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

I've tried to understand what you're saying for the last hour but have given up.

What are you talking about?

Re: Nope, no idea

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

Ok, I’m guessing you're American, so I just may be replying in a reasonable English way...I’ve come across that before.

I was replying directly to your "Do you know what you're doing?"

I guess I could write it as "no, but the pay does for me" as in, "it is enough for me", "it suffices" etc. that help?

Re: Nope, no idea

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Ok.. First, I'm Australian. Second, I still don't get it.

"Do you know what you're doing?"
"No but the pay is enough for me"

?? I'm thinking that this is not something that should bear the brunt of scrutiny, but now I have to understand or I'll feel like I'm failing life.

Re: Nope, no idea

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

Ok, first off, sorry about the assumption, i saw no clues in the profile so I look until I saw a $ at which point I made a guess on the premise that most people here seem to be from America.

"Do you know what you're doing?"
"No, but they pay me enough so I don't care"

That do?

Re: Nope, no idea

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Heheh thanks for the apology ;)

Now I understand! Although they don't pay me enough so maybe that's where the confusion came from hehehe

[inahandbasket]

"fire me and find out!"

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

I think I'm gonna have to tell them that, at some point. I hope not, but they'll freak when they can't do the things they can supposedly do.

Case in point: The VP couldn't get attachments in her email. Owner of the company says to her, "I think it's something on the firewall, you'll have to get DocSkurlock to work on it."

I go up, spend 5 minutes in Outlook Express (I tried to get her to switch, but she cried and is pregnant, so I didn't force it) and enable the download attachments radio button. She starts getting her attachments no problem. So, yeah, they can do my job.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Ugh crying?!! MEH!

Um would that have been a great opportunity to ask for a raise?

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Haha. Yeah, I think so. You know how pregnant chicks can get.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Yeah and I am dreading loosing my mind to have a spawn of my own. EEP!

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Pregnancy didn't make me a luser, and it won't make you one either.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

No I wouldn't become a luser, I'd become the psychotic bitch from hell. Seen one too many of my friends turn into one of those when they spawned. Except my coworker, but then I wasn't working with her at the time. So I can't say if she lost her mind completely or not in day to day stuff.

I thank you for the vote of confidence though.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't say you won't become irrational. But it won't be an all the time thing. You'll have some all the time things though. I don't think there was a single minute during my pregnancy that I stopped wanting Arby's.

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

haha. I don't mind kids, just not my own!

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

YES!

[sketchydave.livejournal.com]

I think this sums it up:

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Oh that's great. I love that!

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

YEA! UF Rules!
(or in 'the language everyone hates': "U53|2 F|213|\||)1'/ |2U70|27")
sorry, couldnt resist *G* *hides*

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

That's IT for ya. When things go wrong, you're not doing your job properly. When things go right, you're an unnecessary expense.

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I know that. I even said that after I finally stopped chewing and actually got unstunned from such a comment. Not exactly that, but I said that I make sure things work right when they need to. Thing is, these guys did this to my predecessor, so..eh.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

No, never got asked that, ever... though it would be interesting to find out.

By the by... the song you've got on... sure it's not "Wish You Were Here?"

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Could be, I was having a brain fart at the time. Just wrote down some lyrics and went from there. You could most definitely be right. (radio, not on my computer)

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Gotten stupid comments, too, like (while working tech support for Dell) "That's why you guys make the big bucks!"

Um, dipsh*t, just because the word "computer" is in the title doesn't mean I'm making six figures. Hello? Try just above minimum wage!

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they take us for granted, expect us to make so and so and then freak out when shit goes wrong. Dumbasses.

[akage.livejournal.com]

I'd be tempted to make sure said VP's hard drive had a little "accident". And then show up saying "BTW, *this* is what you pay me for."

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I could definitely BOFH it, but she doesn't like people in her office when she isn't there and I don't have a key anymore. Long story there.

[kalium.livejournal.com]

Spill it.

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Nah, not gonna do it. Thousand points of light....not gonna do it. (sorry, bad Bush Sr. imitation)

[d-l-leonine.livejournal.com]

I did get asked that one morning. None of us tier 3 reps were on the phone and I was happily sketching away on my comics waiting for a call. Without looking up from my sketchpad I answered in my most arrogant voice...

"You pay me to think dummy"

Surprised I survived that week.

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

YES! I love that! Oh man, that's awesome. Good work, and did you draw your icon?

[d-l-leonine.livejournal.com]

Yes, that icon was cropped from one of the drawings in my devinat art gallery. That is Leo, my fursona and main character of my comic strip. I'm planning on making some geared torward tech support.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Heh. "You pay me to think so you don't have to."

"I keep you out of the nineteenth century."

"Remember the $28m you lost last year because your computers kept breaking down? No? Exactly."

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

rofl. Those rock man. I only wish I could use em.

Beware the penguin.

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

"Its not what you pay me to do... Its what you pay me NOT to do..."

*clicky clicky cklicky*

"Will you look at that? The network is down. Hrmm... oh well, I'm not gettting paid to FIX that."

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Haha. NICE! I do believe they're just fucking with me, but still. It is kind of a pain in the ass when they say shit like that to me.

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

Wrong: The correct answer is: "Iam not only giving the Business the chance to survive, but also to be productive"

This is a comment to an old post about stupid questions from bosses...

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

In case you've got email alerts, I'm catching up on old posts...

I work on a University campus for a faculty's computing office. Yesterday we held an information session for staff members (read: admin assistants) and one of them asked me and a coworker, re: future careers, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a job away from computers?" and she meant completely away. We were joking about opening bakeries.

Um, lady, we like computers. That's why we work here. I wonder today if it had anything to do with all the conversation participants being girls. Then again, I am very suspicious about that.