I hates him.
People who decide to go further than âturn it off and turn it back onâ.
Iâve now seen touchscreen two monitors destroyed at my place of work. I saw one happen today, and wasnât happy about it.
A user comes up, explains that theyâve tried restarting it and have yanked out all the wires?
âYou did what?â, I asked.
I visit the station, and once again, theyâve tried to put square pegs in round holes and have fucked up all the pin alignment. I make it very very clear that users are NEVER to do this again, telling them Iâd much rather fix the original problem than whatever they go on to cause.
Grr. On the bright side, I donât think anyone that witnessed my angry replacement job will ever do it again. Two fucking monitors in the last six weeks. I say again. Grr.
Southampton players âBuzzinâ, is starting to piss me off. Every other tweet they make, no matter what about, they are always âBuzzinâ. A few weeks ago Nathan Redmond tweeted that he was 'Buzzin" after scoring twice at Watford. A week later he was âBuzzinâ to be going to Wembley. Last week he and Prowsy informed everybody that they were both âBuzzinâ after being called up to the England squad. Likewise, Josh Sims was âBuzzinâ to be called up to the under 20âs England team. Now Maya Yoshidaâs caught the bug. A few days ago he tweeted that he wsas âBuzzingâ to be made captain of Japan for their World Cup qualifier. (Interesting that he appears to have a better understanding of written English than the other three!). And now it is spreading. Yesterday the family of Bradley Lowery, the young terminally ill boy from Sunderland, announced on the BBC that young Bradley was âBuzzinâ to be leading England out at Wembley. British people shouldnât be talking like this, young Bradley should be âexcitedâ, or âproudâ, âthrilledâ or âmade upâ. Likewise our aforementioned players. Not âBuzzinâ. What sort of word is that? Meaningless, irritating, bastardization of the English language is what it is. And for some irrational reason it is really starting to piss me off.
Right, now iâve got that off my chest, iâm off up the pub.
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If only someone from IT would come and sort out all the monitors that donât work. Maybe then we would have a few more desks to use at work.
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IT Staff unaware of basic principles.
Some time ago, I developed a project certain in the knowledge that the entire business unit was getting monitor upgrades to support the development effort. I could aim all my screens for full HD, allowing me to get a shitload more columns on screen than would be possible, readability wise.
Thus, it was to my surprise when I discovered that these users with these nice new monitors were experiencing the cardinal sin of the design world - the horizontal scrollbar.
On-site, I stroll down to the office, and immediately discover the problem. The monitors are not only in super-low res, theyâre also in fat vision. I spent about 24 minutes visiting each station, changing display settings, immediately rocking my usersâ worlds and fixing the problem.
I spent the next 24 hours saying stuff like âwe finally got a resolution on that problem, mate!â.
Iâve probably mentioned it everytime Iâve been on site. Iâll probably bring it up the next time I see him.
I donât think heâll ever make that mistake again 
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Children
Motherâs Day
Little buggers said theyâd cook the evening mealâŚguess whoâs doing it.
Mrs C_S doesnât mind because of the nice pressies the kids got herâŚvia my Amazon Prime account because they hadnât got her anythingâŚ
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Occamâs Razor?
Perhaps theyâre all on drugs.
That thought had crossed my mind, i suppose it could explain a lot. Steven Davis, going on one of his runs from midfield, bursting through beating two defenders then blasting the ball into row Z. But young Bradley? Nah, Donât think alternative therapy has gone that leftfield yet!
Being an England supporter and expecting them to play well.
In any sport
ebay buyers. Or one in particular. Wonât bore you with it. Just itâs blooming frustrating and could get poor feedback which wont help me sell more of my rubbish.
Another company who donât turn up when they say they will. Contacted a scrappage dealer to have my old banger taken away,
'âabsolutely weâll come and collect it for you, but we can only do it on Wednesdayâ
What time I enquire.
âWednesday is all we can say for sureâ.
Ok fine will you at least contact me when youâre on your way?
âYes certainly weâll call you half an hour before our transport driver arrives.â
Great, thanks I say.
Well after wasting my day off work did they call? Did they arrive to take my car before it falls apart on the driveway? Did they fuck. Bastards.
Absolutely love my parentâs little west highland terrier. She is a cute little thing. When I am at their house she sleeps on the end of my bed. I am not so happy about her waking me up at 4am to let her out for a wee. But I suppose she didnât wee on the bed.
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Unlike some of us on here who would probably wee on the bed rather than get up at 4am
The Ayatollah and her lack of spacial awareness about what a suitcase is capable of swallowing
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Is it just me or are there more potholes on the road?
Fuck me, my commute is getting a bit Mario Kart at the minute. I know where every pothole from here to Warrington is, carefully slaloming the fuckers so I donât kill some aspect of my lower car.
I see in the Echo that itâs bad in Southampton too.
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When your phone doesnât give you a text alert about the voicemail from the scrappage company who phoned on Tuesday saying they couldnât come to collect my old banger on WednesdayâŚ
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Spending over half an hour being interviewed by a journo from the FT and getting one measly quote in a biased article that you could have written better yourselfâŚ
I used this lot once Iâd planted enough evidence in the old van:
Couldnât fault them.
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Dear gods, youâre hiding in plain sight, arenât you @goatboy ?*
* Serial killers are not amusing.
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First day pf working at home in over 2 years (last place wouldnt allow it). I got way more done today than in the office. IT worked. I had my own desk, didnât have to spend 10-15 mins trying to find one or set it all up. And the peace and quiet! Usually I am in a cramped open plan office with 30-50 people often on phones being loud dealing with other loud people.
I may have to book working at home days more often. If not all the time.
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