"Yes, my world's tumbling down. Stone by stone to the ground."

[reddragdiva]

It's jolly fun having a PFY. He's gone from doing internal support for PCs to outsourced support for Unix and appallingly-written third-party applications and dealing with difficult things (arse location and so forth) whilst coping with an adversarial customer organisation. Watching his enthusiasm crumble has been exquisite. Truly, he will learn to avoid worship of Eris.

A colleague has been on holiday the past two weeks. He's a dedicated Bill-sucker, but otherwise reasonably competent. I thought his stand-in would be of at least marginal general competence and surely only seemed to be a braindead Essex girl stereotype fascinated by Krispy Kremes. Last week when I was snowed under dealing with exploding balls of whirling shite calling themselves "software," my boss assigned her something out of my queue, a fairly simple clerical task. Here you have a list of tapes in numerical order, here you have a box of tapes; take tapes out the box, mark them off on the list, group the tapes by week number (first three digits). This flummoxed her for half an hour before she asked for help. She was angry and distressed and glared at me for the rest of the day and half the next one. But she evidently manages PC support well enough to stay employed.

I have such a pile of stuff to do it's ridiculous to contemplate getting it all done.

Been getting a few more recruiter calls. The secret seems to be to update one's CV monthly on the job sites whether it's changed or not.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Pssst... this one's public....

[reddragdiva]

I don't know what you could possibly mean.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Hee!

:-*