15 March 2001

ITPs Strike Again

So, I just ran PCPitstop's wonderful little internet connection test on my work computer -- which connection has been unstable all morning and reduced to timing out constantly. The result -- the one time out of five the connection didn't time out -- a whopping 76 Kbps! That means our wonderful internet backbone here at work is cruising along only slightly faster than a 56k modem. That's impressive!

Or not. Recall it was a few weeks ago that the ITPs, in their ultimate wisdom, decided to use their firewall to kill everyone's access to streaming audio/video and virtually all other "unsupported" applications (but not all, because our ITPs really are incompetent)! Our bandwidth problems, they intimated, came from lazy-ass employees screwing around and playing on their computers instead of working. Now, I will refrain from ranting about what I think of an organization that has such a shitty opinion of its employees -- but today's bandwidth issues just prove that the ITPs need to take a much closer look at their OWN work. Although, It's Not Like People Are Stuck on the Moon!

BTW, here's a charming email that just came from the ITPs (funny how the company email always works even when the ITPs have destroyed all contact with the outside world):

Attention all 5333 Westheimer employees

Please turn your machine off before leaving this Friday.

We will be upgrading our DNS/DHCP server on Friday night.

Potential problems will be minimized if your machine is off during this period.

Thank you.

I would like to add the following to the email: "Potential problems will be eliminated if you take your machine home over the weekend and become a telecommuter."

Now the internet connection has died altogether. I guess I'll go home to work (preferable anyway) and post this from there. Here's today's pseudonym for the ITPs: dumbasses.

[Posted @ 12:17 PM CST]