Okay, I could write up a long rant about all the stuff that went wrong today, but instead I’ll just list it all. Seems like more fun at the moment… Stuff that went wrong today: I missed Christine’s call to my cell on my drive in because I had the radio turned up too loud […]
Read More Today = SuckageThursday, 7:00am I woke up, got dressed, packed up my Renamon costume, and went to work. 9:30am Arrived at work and got some stuff done. Answered e-mails and all that. 11:45am Ducked into the floor’s private bathroom and changed into the Renamon costume. Noon Lunch meeting with the department and Information Services. 1:00pm Toured the […]
Read More My own Twenty-Four…and then some.So back when I didn’t have a real job, it stressed me out. That was all I could think about. Every day, it was “How much money do I have left?”, “How long can I last on that?”, “How can I get more money?”, “What will I do if I run out of money?”, and other […]
Read More The stress that consumed meWhy is it that some people feel compelled to stick their noses into everyone else’s business? Drives me insane… You do your job and let me do mine, okay? Okay.
Read More Get your damn fingers outta my pudding!I’m tired of having to explain everything I do here at work. For example, I sent out a notice at 2pm saying that we’d be rebooting a server at 5:30pm. 15 minutes ago I got an e-mail asking “Wasn’t this supposed to go out a few hours ago? Why the late notice? Please try to […]
Read More Defend yourself from the army of beasts within. What the heck does that mean?
Monster is a Coca-Cola lovin’ company. Our soda fountain machine dispenses Coke products, there’s occasionally Vanilla Coke cans or bottles in the food vending machine (we don’t have a soda vending machine), and they always buy bottles of Coke products whenever they order lunch for meetings. (Although lately they’ve been getting cans instead.) Today…not a […]
Read More Pepsi: The Choice of a Greedy GenerationWasn’t so bad afterall. Christine’s nice. …but I still wish I called in sick. I still feel like poop.
Read More AftermathSo a week ago I made a minor change in Monster’s DoubleClick system without telling anyone. It was done to make things easier for people and cut minutes of the time it takes them to enter an ad order. …and it has, but users were apparently confused at the change. Yeah, I guess I should […]
Read More I’m in trouble…
Northeastern University cancelled the course that I teach again. Apparently nobody wants to learn web design anymore. This is the second time in a row they’ve cancelled it. Damn. I was really looking forward to getting that monthly paycheck again. It wasn’t a lot of money and I can live without it, but it was […]
Read More Nobody wants to learn web design“Oh, your nightly jobs aren’t running because there’s an error in the log file. Our fine product isn’t smart enough to just IGNORE the errors. That would make sense. “Anyway, the error must be caused by something in one of your ad orders. Here’s a list of over 3000. Look through them for bad HTML […]
Read More DoubleClick is stupid