― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)
Crikey I only came in today because of these meetings. Marketing manager isn't in yet. Data entry person is still busy doing data entry.
I WORE A SUIT AND EVERYTHING FOR THIS!!!
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)
― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)
Have had meeting with data entry person. She is now doing data entry for me, and then when she's done, I get to do my job. Sheesh.
x-post...
but I'm BORED!!! I hate being paid to do nothing! Then again, it's free interweb so I can't complain.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)
Ha-hem. I think I've cracked it.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)
(can you come up to Grimsby and solve all of my SQL problems, plz?)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)
And people wonder why I'm a freelancer. At a food intolerance clinic when you just up and down screaming "YES!!! YES!!! PHEAR MY PHINANCIAL ANALY$I$ MAD $KILLZZZZ!!!" they tend to just go "Oh dear, we think you've been hitting the sugar again, haven't you?"
It's a little more frowned upon in The Corporate World when you shout things like "I HAVE SECURITIZED YOUR ASS, JPM0RGAN, PWN3D, EAT MY GINNIE MA3!!!!"
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)
But then again, that might because of my secret goth shame. In which case, I'd be more at home in Whitby, but that's near you, too, isn't it?
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)
I was a bit disappointed that there *aren't* many goths round here. I'm not a goth myself, but a lot of my friends are; and I do quite like that whole goth/S&M overlap area.
*draws a Venn diagram of gothness*
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)
I just want my boss to come in already so I can show her my lovely financial analysis and then PROCEED DIRECTLY TO THE DRINKING AND CHASING BOYS element of the day.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)
Anyway, that's all old news. I don't need rubbish popstar boys. Real life boys are far more fascinating and interesting and beautiful. ::swoon::
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)
I had a polyp behind my ear once. When they cut it away I asked if I could keep it in a jar of formaldehyde, but the doctors said I probably shouldn't.
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)
Are you sure it's a tumour and not a horrible but non-invasive growth type thingey like I had last year?
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)
Do I leave now, and therefore get to change out of this suit before the whole drinking and chasing boys portion of the day, or should I futz about and get paid for doing nothing until 4pm?
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)
"Muck about on the interweb, talk about Dr. Who and, erm, daydream naughty thoughts about crushboys." Yup. Sounds constructive.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
Except inability to readapt!
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
Kate, you should listen to some Crawling Chaos. (This is my new phrase du jour.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)
Completely broken installer? Oh, yikes! Did it come like that or is, ha-HEM, a not entirely kosher application?
One report down, but still no clue where to send it. One to go, but at least the financial directorpersonnage will take a look at that.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)
It's not the *worst* broken installer we use - the worst one is supposed to set up about 10 ODBC DSNs, but only actually does 3-5 (depending on its mood), and gets them wrong, so they all have to be manually input and/or edited.
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)
The highlight of my work day has been mistakenly logging into my email in Czech. That was interesting indeed. I wonder what other languages I can get.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)
it's only 11, and i'm already quite bored today. reading the jobs in the guardian, and remembering that i'm not sure what i want to be when i grow up :(
― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)
Please don't get me started on the whole "what do you want to be when you grow up?" issue because I'm just so disenheartened and confused and stressed and bored in my job, but know that I'd be ever more bored if I had to do this sort of thing full time, but I'm sick of bloody rolling pennies to pay my bus fare (Seriously. I paid for half my bus pass in 2p coins yesterday) because freelancing sucks.
All this while The Spy is working 80 hour workweeks and messaging me to say that I should stick to composing because he thinks I'm better at it, and working the way he does sucks.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)
My ex boyfriend's father designed typefaces. It just seems like such an idea occupation.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)
It's all about the freedom to work 2 days a week so I can compose the other 5 days a week. Except it never works that way, does it?
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)
I am now trying to code a questionnaire, only to discover that they have repeated several of the questions. Sigh.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)
― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)
What is near the printer? Is it a particularly dusty spot, either? That kind of thing can wreck havoc with printers and copiers, as well.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)
― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)
(xpost)
It's in the office part of one of our warehouses. Doesn't look particularly dusty (you should see the insides of some of our boxes, especially the ones that have been at the West Yorks office). It's on the same shelf as a PC that runs just fine; that was what I thought might be causing a nasty field.
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)
Gah, your job sounds so much more interesting than mine right now.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)
The PC is fairly new, has a metal case, and hasn't had any h/w problems at all. The monitor is quite a way from it - and is a TFT, too - so any nasty fields around the printer/PC wouldn't show up on it anyway.
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)
At my last job, the building next to my office was some kind of television production studio. I have no idea what was in the room right next to my office, but whenever they switched it on, the images on my monitor would start dancing around like I was hallucinating. Very disorienting.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)
Cow-orkers are all bastards. I just go round the building saying "please can you shut down XXX - I need to take the server offline". They're usually co-operative.
One of the mechanics is pissing me off today, though. He keeps coming into the outer office and buying rounds at the coffee machine. He comes over to me:
"Want a coffee?"
"No."
(he goes and gets me a coffee)
"I told you, I don't want a coffee"
"Well, you've got it now. You've got to drink it, because noone else in here will drink it. Noone else has it like you. You've got to drink it now."
AAARGH
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)
Also, I probably have to wait till the Sys Admin comes back from his meeting (I have been moved so that my desk now faces the Sys Admin which is helpful so we don't have to shout across the room at each other.) as I probably have to disable the remote users.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)
I've just spent ages trying to install the office's new printer on my computer. And the fonts it came with, woo. Now I'm going to get a sandwich. I thought you should know.
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)
Kick them in the shins!
(I'm lucky - there aren't *that* many things we have that have remote users, as for most things each location has its own database servers. Organising remote administration of users' machines, though, is a pain, involving lots of phone calling to negotiate when they can stop working.)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)
(which is the opposite of my current printer problem, of course)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)
I did just text, and he rang to say he was just at lunch and would be back in 20 minutes. Phew.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)
(OK, I should stop complaining because I don't get to go home at 4pm today, because The Spy messaged me at 1am this morning, apparently still at work or something.)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
::does happy dance around the server room::
I got my BIG FATT CHEQUE today!!! I am saved from the workhouse and crushing poverty. I can go out tonight indeed.
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)
(11 days to payday for me)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)
I got a letter yesterday from the Inland Revenue telling me they were sending me one too! I'm suspicious.
Why Is So Much Of My Job Waiting Around To Have Lunch?
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)