ranty rant rant

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

I work for an ISP in a small somewhat-rural town (~30,000 people)

Why do people feel the need to say "yeah this is so and so on such and such road, I've been a customer for x number of years"? Guess what? I don't FUCKING care. If I DID care I'd say "hey why don't you tell me all about yourself" instead of "how can I help you".

When I answer the phone, I say "[my company name]" NOT "ebay". Therefore, logic would suggest that I do not have your fucking EBAY password you inbred moron. Insert amazon, myspace, etc for "ebay" and it becomes a whole new happy fun time call!

If you're not smart enough to sign up for a partypoker account, go buy a DECK OF GOD DAMN PLAYING CARDS YOU RETARD. "It keeps saying my password must be 8 characters long, what does that mean?" OK, I gave him the benefit of the doubt (maybe he was having a "duh" day), so I told him "that means the password has to have at least 8 letters or numbers. Then he says "it says the 'real name' field has to have at least 3 characters, what does that mean?" /stabbity stab stab stab die you dumb half-literate fucker

And if that's not good enough, our mail server administrator left today... we were short staffed to begin with, so it's gonna be even better now. Our owner (for some reason) doesn't seem to think hiring someone to replace him is a good move, so instead we're being moved to working four 10 hour days a week instead of five 8 hour days. WTF is that going accomplish?

Sorry guys, I just had to rant. What a day. What a week.

I need to find a new job. Anyone know of any openings around Columbus, OH?

Comments

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

you got it man. that's exactly how it is where I work.

We do have broadband though... DSL and a wireless service... it just causes more headaches too though, you know how that goes ;-)

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I work for an ISP in a small somewhat-rural town

I love the smell of DOOM in the morning.

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Once we had this hill bombed for 12 hours. Went up to the top after it was over, did find one luser body. But, that smell, that gasoline smell. Smells like failure.

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

What about that icon though?

Shouldn't it be Morons?

Nice rant though.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

I kinda think that's the point of the icon

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-moran.htm

[harmer.livejournal.com]

Haha I work for an ISP too and one of the main division my centre takes is Columbus. Is the ISP you work for in that area?

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

kind of. I live in Columbus, the company I work for is actually located in Lancaster.

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

who do you take calls for?

do you work for calltech?

if you don't work for calltech, is your company hiring?

[harmer.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I've heard of that.
I work for Road Runner. :(

[harmer.livejournal.com]

I live in Ontario, Canada and I work for an outsourced call centre for Road Runner Internet.

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

bingo ;)

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

ah... i have a friend who is a network tech for TW... well he used to be, he now somehow got tricked in to working in their digital cable department... he has a very weird job-- he sits and watches all the pay per view porn to make sure that the content is actually playing

I keep telling him to get me a job, but he hasn't yet...

[harmer.livejournal.com]

Hahaha...that is a weird job!

As a network tech was he a phone monkey?
The "higher ups" in Time Warner who take calls tend to be huge assholes (though I'm sure your friend isn't).

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see now. Now it all makes sense! That guy is retarded.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

These people really don't need high speed Internet.

I have to delurk and ask... why not? If I lived out in the middle of nowhere, I'd love to have a connection fast enough that I could play MMORPGs with faraway friends, and visit webpages that are not optimized for dial-up, and listen to music I like on webradio instead of the local country-western and easy-rock stations, and share my art and photography, and run a home business. The stuff that people use high-speed Internet for isn't specific to city-dwellers.