Work Rant!

by | Nov 14, 2006 | Programing, Customers, LiveJournal

you have to love customers who think they are better, cleverer, more skillful than yourself. Although you have to ask yourself the question “If they are better than me, why are they paying me to do this work?”

just had several emails from a client.. asking for something to be changed on their system so it works with their new code better. the emails go on for ages, explaining how their stuff is better and more complicated so we should change our stuff, and using lots of big posh, technical words. They even told me which file i need to change, which part of the file, and gave me some suggested code to help me out..

$allow_extensions = join(‘|’, array(‘txt’));
if( !preg_match(‘#.*?.(‘ . $allow_extensions . ‘)#si’, $filename) )

its probably taken him hours researching the problem, looking up the words in the dictionary, coming up with their solution, sending me all these details…

And how do i fix it.. i change * to *.txt in the code. 1 minutes work….

Muppets…

Work: Gods the Day is Dragging!!

by | Sep 1, 2006 | Office, Work, LiveJournal

Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!!

I swear I have been in work for 12 solid hours due to the day dragging so long!!

I think its due to the small number of people in the building, so its too quiet, and too slow. My office is empty apart from myself, and fozz (Who is alternating between being asleep and reading, meaning I have managed to get a half dozen sentences out of him all day. And half of them was drink based.)

The other offices are equally empty, The Hardware lot are down to one girl who has gone on a mad cleaning spree, and was last seen braving the coffee area. The main support office is playing classical music, and the people in there seem to have drifted off asleep…

And the phones are quiet, I wonder if they are broke?

Fire…. Fire….

by | Aug 23, 2006 | Office, LiveJournal

Gotta love my place of work…

Turn up in the morning to the fire alarm going off, so after the amount of people standing outside reached critical mass to get the woman who worked for the company who does the fire support to phone up her bosses for help, the alarm gets silenced.

So with a quick check round the building for obvious signs of danger, like flames, burning stuff, small rabid monkeys we all go back to work, with the alarm silently screaming to evacuate the building…

Tis a good job my office has the fire escape in it…

Must find the calm place!

by | Aug 17, 2006 | Work, Travel, LiveJournal

Think calm mellow peaceful thoughts…

I almost drove into a council office car park and beat the living hell out of someone this morning (I think they were getting this feeling as they kept staring at me in their rear view mirror)…

Worst case of Road Rage I ever felt, but they had deserved it if I had given into the dark side.

Driving along to work at 70ish on an clear road, and some idiot decided to pull out in front of me and do 30, but they waited till I was about 3 meters away from them before doing it, Not enough room for an emergency stop, a bank to the left of the road, and a truck driving towards me on the other lane…

How it did not escalate into a big crash I do not know…. Someone or Something was looking out for me.

I’m now sat in the office trying to think calming thoughts to stop myself driving back to the car park, and smashing up thier car, or looking up thier name off the parking permit in the window…

Sometimes Work Has Good Points

by | Jun 29, 2006 | Work, Weather, LiveJournal

Woooo..

A Customer just came into the office with a bag of magnum ice creams for everyone in the office (Which was seriously needed as its so god darn hot!!) and a bottle of canadian vodka for me, to say thanks for my work on a project…

Tis good to be appreciated :0)
Tis even better to be appreciated with booze :0)

!nn!