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July 23, 2010 at
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The title says it all!
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The title says it all!
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Time to contact my friendly neighborhood Amazon CSR
Plus, I'm having issues with paper feeding properly into the printer. I made a 1 page copy earlier today and it used 4 sheets of paper. I never had this problem before about March.
I found a couple monochrome laser's for under $60 shipped. They're unfortunately usually the ones with terrible reviews. I'm hoping to get something that comes with toner capable of printing 750+ to start, and then the regular ones print above 2000 pages. I'm probably not being too lax, am I?
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- I have clinical depression, for which I take Cymbalta daily and religiously. Despite the medication, depression significantly influences my outlook on all things, all the time.
- I experience a much wider range of emotions (both positive and negative) than do most people. Highs are ecstatically high, and lows often reach the point of contemplating suicide. Many years ago before starting medication, I committed to *never* doing that. Never. I won't ever do it and I don't allow it to become a serious consideration, because I cannot afford to.
- I work on a truly crappy database application, for which there is no cure. (See # 1 and # 2 above.)
- The idiot at D***TV who is supposed to be my so-called Development manager is an ignorant full-of-sh*t a-hole who BS'es *everything* and his fellow idiots lap it up like kittens at a trough full of heavy cream.
- If I were to describe aforementioned idiot f-o-s a-hole as a "hands-off" manager, I would be overemphasizing his involvement in anything by a factor of at least 100,000. Seriously.
- Several weeks ago, it became known they would be decommissioning a secondary networked database which is required for developing the application.
- I am currently developing changes that actively use this secondary networked database.
- Nobody at D***TV gives a fark about this p-o-s (I don't mean point-of-sale, either) application, or anything it requires.
- They shut down that secondary database last Friday afternoon at 5 pm EDT. At that time, I could no longer compile or verify any code I was working on. I e-mailed the people responsible, and told them I could not continue without this resource. The subject of this e-mail message started with "URGENT:" and was marked as "important".
- When I returned to work for Monday morning (lovely Monday - What is it good for? Hunh! Absolutely Nothin; Say it again!! - Apologies to Edwin Starr - It's a late-60s/1970 reference. RefCache probably gets it, others can Google it) nobody had done a single farking thing to fix the situation, even though they had three more hours Friday and all weekend.
- I showed up for work this Monday morning and nobody had even acknowledged my Friday afternoon e-mail. I couldn't do a damned thing, and nobody cared, least of all the idiot a-hole who's supposedly responsible for the application.
I left work about 11 am, after telling my local supervisor I was fed up and wasn't going to sit around waiting for idiots in Los Angeles to contemplate the flavor of the thumbs stuck up their posteriors. I went to my favorite Greek mom-and-pop diner and had two cups of coffee with a reuben sandwich and fries. The caffeine and carbs both helped my general disposition, but I was still royally pissed. Unexpressed anger and depression do not play together well, at all.Currently, I'm contemplating whether or not I should return to work Tuesday. The a-hole called my cell phone this afternoon but I didn't answer. I really wasn't in the mood for any no-action BS from this guy. If I was still a drinking man (which I'm not) I probably would have gone to a bar instead of a diner today, and I'd have consumed almost a complete bottle of whiskey. Instead, I spent several hours at Barnes & Noble, sipping a latte', reading, and surfing from my phone. It wasn't productive, but it was reasonably peaceful and a relief from work.
Sometimes, venting is the best thing you can do.
Do you have a stuffed animal, such as a puppy or a kitty? I've found that when I want to kick a puppy or a kitty, I can kick the stuffed animal version, and avoid all the possible criminal charges. And no one gets hurt (except your foot if you accidentally kick something else
I never suggest animal abuse is a solution.
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