26 January 2001


Missing Fire Hydrant: Day 36
Lee Brown's America-Houston Held Hostage

 

Zero Tolerance

I was psyched at 7 am (okay, as psyched as one can be that early) for a productive day at work, but that was thwarted by the fact that someone in the IT Department screwed with the logon scripts for about half the people in our office, and essentially disabled our ability to boot to the network (necessary for email, file sharing, and internet).  This took over two hours to straighten out.  The incompetence of that place amazes me sometimes.  My response was a lovely, long pub lunch at Floyd's/Woodrow's and a laid-back rest of the day.

Of course, the IT people did manage to change the firewall to block any realaudio/windows media/chat access, because, heaven forbid, anyone have any pleasure while they are in the workplace.  No, by gawd, we'll stamp out any pleasure at all.  Work will be shitty, by gawd, say the powers that be.  And so it is.  And so are they, for that matter.

My response was a lovely, long pub lunch at Floyd's/Woodrow's and a laid-back rest of the day.  Idiots shall not rain on my parade.

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In contrast, my home network does not suffer from limitations imposed by idiots.  The router/switch is a fine addition to the whole thing.  Tonight, I put a network card in the computer Callie recently purchased for her mom, and got it all ready to go as far as Roadrunner cable service goes.  It popped onto my network beautifully, I tweaked a few things and updated some software, and it's good to go.  And it sure as hell didn't take me two hours to get it all working!  

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Not to brag, but I rather like the fact that whatever I do, I tend to do it competently.  This is not an accident, and it's not because I'm any more "talented" than most.  It's because I have personal and professional integrity.  There is no reason to do things half-ass.  There is no reason for IT people, for example, not to check their work to make sure the productivity of an entire office won't go to zero because of their screw ups.  There is no reason for an official band's website to look like RK's.  There is no reason for the fire hydrant above to be nonfunctional over a month after the crash.  There's no reason for lots of nonsense.  Yet it persists.  But not in my life, where there is a zero-tolerance policy in effect.

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