There's not enough bitching

[Brian]

Just got over the flu ... now am coming down with a sore throat.

%^$@#.

[Dracos]

Someone decided to pull the fire alarm at 6:30ish this morning.  It was not fun.

[Brian]

I wish people would drive legally and safely.

I hate doing what's safe/legal and having some vapid bitch decide to change lanes without signalling, in the middle of an intersection, and block that intersection because of a stopped car in front of me.  (That's three separate traffic violations.)

She happened to be driving to the same supermarket that I was, so I yelled at her when she was at the ATM to ask what the fuck was wrong with her, but she just grinned like an idiot.

I was so pissed off I keyed her car.


If people would just be reasonable and safe drivers, I wouldn't rage.  I really wouldn't*.

Edit: About bad drivers.  As much.

Edit2: And now I feel bad about it.

Also, the board's anti-spamware is giving me trouble and doesn't want to let me post.

[Brian]

ugh, insomnia

Also, working both days this weekend, boo.

[Brian]

Had to put someone I considered a longtime friend on ignore for being utterly intolerant and crazily unreasonable in judging other people.

Ironically, that's something I won't tolerate.

Sucks to find that out about someone you used to respect.

[Brian]

I hate being so stupid.

[Dracos]

Catching a slight cold.  Realizing that the network manager isn't just a bit quiet but very passive and seems reasonably ineffectual in all things that I crossed his path on today.

Had to sit through a meeting where that guy's boss pretty much told him that even he wouldn't approve the project that he was told to write up because the business case was so poorly put together.  He has a week to fix it, so that we can get those server purchases underway.

[Brian]

Work has been a nonstop nightmare of handling issues that belong to other departments and otherwise being stressed by abusive marketing assholes.

I have wasted every hour this week that could have been productive trying to get drives to produce a number that will make the marketing people happy.  They lack the technical ability to explain what they actually want in terms of testing, and utterly failed to convey what they were actually looking for, resulting in literally wasted _days_ because they thought that by saying "run the exact same test again -- in linux," I would understand that they meant "instead of testing the drives hardware we manufacture and sell, take the disks and connect them directly to some motherboard, and tell us the results."

So when I misunderstood and just switched which OS the tests were run in, they were unhappy.

Anyway, I'm not a performance expert.  I just plug the tests in and babysit the automation, so it _really_ grates when they want me to explain something I don't understand, and I have to point out, "You probably know more than me."

Tomorrow is a mental health day.

[Merc]

Frustrated beyond all rational thought with work.

The work week hasn't even officially started, and I already have 12 hours of overtime on the clock for doing pretty much nothing of what I was expecting to be working on, after having to go to the office on both my off-friday afternoon and saturday morning.

[Brian]

I don't get overtime, just a pat on the back for a 60+ hour work week.

[Merc]

Yeah, that's one of a few pluses with this job. Both my dad and sister don't get overtime either at their jobs.

Still frustrated because of various circumstances involved with the particular situation I was referencing.

[Brian]

Finally clear of marketing/performance data hell.

Start work on new qual effort, get told to pull one drive before I even start.  No big deal.  Gives me time to work on the inventory project.

Marketing guy e-mails me, "I don't get these numbers.  Are you 100% sure about them?"

Looks like I'm going to be running the same performance test a third time.

If he comes to my desk, I'm going to be as polite and nice as possible, and offer to train him how to run the tests himself.

[Brian]

Marketing guy is the bane of my existence:

Marketing guy: "Hey, so, you remember the bullshit I made you go through last month where we changed the entire foundation of how you do performance testing, which is something way, way, way outside of your job description?  And how now all your tests moving forward include those performance tests?"
Me: "Unfortunately."
Marketing guy: "So, do you have results from those tests on disks that you qualified a few months ago?"

So it looks like my job description is being changed by marketing assholes.  And when I complain, I'm told by senior engineering staff, "Don't say anything.  There's a rift between marketing and engineering.  If you complain, you prevent that rift from being healed."

What rift?  Marketing is fucking incompetent and destroying the company!  They are in charge of things they shouldn't be, because they can't understand them!  That 'rift' is engineering trying to keep the company from going under!

So it's smile-and-nod, but mostly polish my resume because I can see it here -- the company is going under, and it'll be because of incompetent marketing BS like this.

Edit: I continue to be astounded by this guy's incompetence.  I just don't have words.  It's like he thinks if he ignores the problem and keeps asking the same questions, he'll eventually get an answer that makes him happy.

[Brian]

I lost a spacer a while back.  I had assumed it popped out from between my teeth and been swallowed or I'd spit it out without noticing.

My orthodontist said, "It slipped into your gums."

I didn't believe that.

It popped out today, and now my gum is bleeding profusely.

%$@#.

[Brian]

One of my computer monitors died last night.

Edit: Well ... not that bad.  Replacement will arrive tomorrow, and it gave me a good 6+ years.  Still...