A major pet peeve: business owners who hire high school kids, college kids, or recently graduated kids to do ANYTHING related to their computers, networks, or websites.

It always, ALWAYS, A-L-W-A-Y-S ends badly. It’s always a TERRIBLE idea. First of all, regardless of what they tell you, they DON’T have the skills they claim to, and their young egos won’t allow them to admit this or fess up to mistakes. I know this because I was the same way at that age. (Yes, I do own up to my screw-ups now. Stop snickering…uh…every one of my siblings.) Secondly, they completely lack any sense of perspective. They don’t understand that messing with computers at someone’s place of business is NOT the same as setting up a LAN party or messing around in the CS labs on campus. They don’t get that not returning phone calls for a week and half is NOT okay, because people need to get their work done. They need to be able to receive and reply to emails. They need to be virus-free. THEY NEED THEIR FRICKING SERVER BACKED UP.

AARGH I HATE CLUELESS BOZOS. STOP SCREWING MY CLIENTS UP OR I’M GOING TO HAVE TO BEAT YOU SENSELESS.

Oh, and when it becomes painfully obvious that the client no longer wants to deal with you because we’ve fixed problems YOU have created, don’t blacklist my domain from their mail server. It’s childish, and it’s pointless. I have more than one email address, and the client actually returns my phone calls. But not yours.

Joe says…
This reminds me of me when I was around 18 years old. There was a job opening at a local Canadian Tire store (hardware/automotive/houseware) for an assistant service manager position in the automotive department. It paid well and sounded pretty cool to me at the time. I had no prior automotive experience whatsover and was quite frankly not qualified for the position. There were dozens of applicants and it was one of those multiple interview deals with aptitude testing, etc. Anyway, I interview real well and can bullshit like you wouldn’t believe.

I got the job. I was fired two weeks later.

So. Ikea shelves. Those are hard to put together.

I notice we don’t seem to find the time to post often enough on Twodinks.com but we sure can light ‘em up in web chat.

(19:46:16) Dave: Marco Hernandez
(19:46:22) Joe: hmm
(19:46:25) Joe: Scottish?
(19:46:32) Dave: Welsh, I think
(19:46:33) Joe: :D
(19:46:51) Dave: don’t get those mixed up, they get pissy
(19:47:05) Joe: that frickin catherine Z
(19:47:48) Joe: there’s a guy at work here who’s convinced catherine zeta jones is hispanic
(19:47:55) Dave: rofl
(19:47:59) Joe: i told him it’s because she was in Zorro and he’s an idiot
(19:48:00) Dave: sure, she was in Zorro
(19:48:04) Dave: :D :D
(19:48:12) Joe: lol
(19:48:21) Dave: her hottest role, btw
(19:48:25) Joe: def
(19:48:40) Dave: it’s before she went insane and married saggy old Michael Douglas
(19:48:43) Joe: except maybe that one scene in Entrapment
(19:48:55) Dave: nothing wrong with a little slithering in Lycra
(19:49:06) Joe: where was the Academy then?
(19:49:26) Joe: we were all fuckin hand claps over here i can tell ya
(19:49:27) Dave: watching My Left Foot or some shit

You know how sometimes you have a million things to do, but just can’t decide on which one goes first so none of them get done? Or maybe they get done, but you’re really pushing the deadline? You ever get just a couple hours of sleep a night because of all that stuff?

Yeah, that’s my week. Not complaining, it’s been fun work.