Reply to: IT is crap

[AlfredJPruffock]

For risk of sounding a bore, why is it that whenever anyone raises an important issues about contracting hardly anyone gives a helpful answer? All we get is endless trivia, unfunny banter and cute comments. It's getting very tiresome.

This is supposed to be a serious site on agency and contracting issues. If you want to just joke around and make silly jokes why not go to the appropriate site and do it and let the rest of us read serious and helpful responses to the issues raised.

Denny this is not only a serious site at times,but also rather frivolous.

Which is the way I and others happen to like it.

And if you are nice to us, why you might just find we will be nice to you and tell you whatever you are seeking.

Hope that helps !

[ladymuck]

I would appreciate it if someone can suggest the best place for me to stick the new SATA hard disk I received this morning.

In the post to me would be good.

[Epith]

chill denny

[The Lone Gunman]

I'd rather get "Hand Relief"

Wage Slave usualy offers a "helping hand forra fiver" you could ask him.

[DaveB]

"Light Relief".

I'd rather get "Hand Relief"

[mcquiggd]

"Light Relief".

[DimPrawn]

For risk of sounding a bore, why is it that whenever anyone raises an important issues about contracting hardly anyone gives a helpful answer? All we get is endless trivia, unfunny banter and cute comments. It's getting very tiresome.

This is supposed to be a serious site on agency and contracting issues. If you want to just joke around and make silly jokes why not go to the appropriate site and do it and let the rest of us read serious and helpful responses to the issues raised.

Yes Denny.

Who are these clowns? IT contracting is a very serious and professional career.

I would appreciate it if someone can suggest the best place for me to stick the new SATA hard disk I received this morning.

Thanks,

DP.

[Fungus]

Been in IT (support) now for approx 7 years and it is crap, peeps are fine , like a beer and wot not but the work is crap, anyone else concur?

You've obviously not worked out your job description. Based on the IT support dept. at my last client, here's some tasks for you:

1) When someone asks you to increase their PC's RAM, make sure you unplug the network card, but don't tell them. It'll be a nice little intelligence test for them, and will help while away those boring hours normally spent fixing bugs and writing new features in a critical project. It'll take them ages to realise why the network is 'down'. (Happened to me.)

2) When someone orders a new PC with a DVI adaptor, make sure you lose the cable, and then take have a tantrum when the user suggests you lost it. Get revenge by taking ages to order a new one. (Happened to me.)

3) Leave your toasted sandwich maker on until the sandwich is pure carbon, the fire alarms go off, the building is evacuated, and the fire brigade arrive.

4) When a new PC arrives, make sure you create a too small partition for apps, then each time you install apps, put them on the small partition until the PC stops working properly. Hard to track down when apps stop working with weird error messages. Then when the user realises, and asks for the partition to be increased, make sure that the Partition Manager product screws the hard disk. Then before you reformat the HD and re-install everything, copy user data from teh disk, but make sure you don't back up local emails etc including critical work related discussions. (Happened to me.)

I'm sure you can think of other rewarding ways to help your customers maximise their 'work experience'.

I'm now in a company with a competent helpful IT dept and it's such a pleasant surprise after the inept wazuks in the last place.

Fungus

[Joe Black]

I agree with mcquiggd.

[mcquiggd]

Go away.

[Denny]

For risk of sounding a bore, why is it that whenever anyone raises an important issues about contracting hardly anyone gives a helpful answer? All we get is endless trivia, unfunny banter and cute comments. It's getting very tiresome.

This is supposed to be a serious site on agency and contracting issues. If you want to just joke around and make silly jokes why not go to the appropriate site and do it and let the rest of us read serious and helpful responses to the issues raised.

[Joe Black]

good old Bob Dylan...

Hmm...now I know why I was never a great fan...

Something a bit more sophisticated perhaps:

Now I've seen places and faces
and things you ain't never thought about thinkin'
if you ain't peeped then you must be drinkin'
and smokin'
pretending not to loc'in but you're broken
let me get you open
now little Timmy got his diploma and
little Jimmy got life
and Tamika round the corner just took her first hit off the pipe
the other homie shot the other homie and ran off with his 20
and when the other homies heard about it they thought that it was funny
but who's the dummy, cause you just lost a hustler
a down ass brother been replaced by a buster
and though I got love for you, I know I can't trust you
cause my crew is rollin' Hummers and your crew is rollin' dusters
and just because of that you act like you don't like a brother no more
I guess that's just the way it go
I ain't tryin' to preach, I believe I can reach
but your mind ain't prepared
I'll see you when you get there

Chorus:

I'll see you when you get there
if you ever get there
see you when you get there

I'll see you when you get there
if you ever get there
see you when you get there

More temptation than faith
I guess we livin' for the day
I seen a man get swept off his feet by a boy with an AK
the situation so twisted everybody gettin lifted
I'm just tryin to take care of my kids and handle my business
cause it's way too serious so you gotta pay close attention
so you don't get caught slippin' when they come and do all the gettin'
life is a big game so you gotta play it with a big heart
some of us gotta run a little faster cause we gotta later start
but I'd be a fool to surrender when I know I can be a contender
and if everybody's a sinner then everybody could ba a winner
no matter you rag color deep down we all brothers
and regardless of the time somebody up there still love us
I'm gonna scuffle and struggle until I'm breathless and weak
I just strived my whole life to make it to the mountain peak
always keep reachin' be sure to grab hold of something
I'll be there when you get there when you wit the sounds bumpin'

Chorus:

I'll see you when you get there
if you ever get there
see you when you get there

I'll see you when you get there
if you ever get there
see you when you get there

You need to loosen up
and live a little
and if you got kids let them know how you feel
and for your own sake give a little
oh, you don't want to hear that
you busy tryin' to stack
and keep up with the Jones' taking advantage of your own
the realest homies that you've been knowin' for the longest
but some ain't missing a good thing until it's gone
could have built an empire if not for the jealousy that divides us
we prefer to keep our eyes shut to describe when
it's something wrong and we desire
so hold your head up high if your poor and righteous
I know time seems strife
and the problems seem endless
but at times of despair we gotta pull ourselves together
and if you fell you're out the game then you need to get back in it
cause' nothing worse than a quitter
you gotta face responsibility one day, my brother
so gather up your pitty and turn it to ambition
and put your vehicle in drive and stop by my side

Chorus:

As we walk down the road of our destiny
and the time comes to choose which it gonna be
the wide and crooked, or the straight and narrow
we got one voice to give and one life to live
stand up for something or lie down in your game
listen to the song that we sing
it's up to you to make it be
I guess I'll see you when you see me

Edit: because I like this better

[n5gooner]

I am a man who looks after the pigs
Usually I get along okay.
I am man who reveals all he digs,
Should be more careful what I say.

I'm getting put down,
I'm getting pushed round,
I'm being beaten every day.
My life's fading,
But things are changing,
I'm not gonna sit and weep again.

I am man who drives a local bus
I take miners to work, but the pits all closed today.
It's easy to see that you are one of us.
Ain't it funny how we all seem to look the same?

We're getting put down etc.

My karma tells me
You've been screwed again.
If you let them do it to you
You've got yourself to blame.
It's you who feels the pain
It's you that feels ashamed.

I am a young man
I ain't done very much,
You men should remember how you used to fight.
Just like a child, I've been seeing only dreams,
I'm all mixed up but I know what's right.

I'm getting put down etc.

[AlfredJPruffock]

good old Bob Dylan. Alf me old mucker.

Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman
I wrote a song for you

About a strange young man called dylan
With a voice like sand and glue

Some words of truthful vengeance
They could pin us to the floor

Brought a few more people on
And put the fear in a whole lot more

You gave your heart to every bedsit room
At least a picture on the wall

And you sat behind a million pair of eyes
And told them how they saw

Then we lost your train of thought
The paintings are all your own

While troubles are rising
Wed rather be scared
Together than alone

Ah, here she comes
Here she comes
Here she comes again

The same old painted lady
From the brow of a superbrain
She?ll scratch this world to pieces

As she comes on like a friend
But a couple of songs

From your old scrapbook
Could send her home again

[n5gooner]

good old Bob Dylan. Alf me old mucker.