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I just landed a job interview for this thursday. I am really hyped about it. It is with a local IT consulting company. The position is full time. The dynamic enviroment should do wonders for my shitty mood. I can’t wait to get out of this corporate bullshit. I’m tired of looking at the same 15 dumb ass people everyday. This place has to be the most technically challenged place in America. I have to singlehandedly take care of about 9 offices so alot of my troubleshooting consists of walking an end user through something over the phone. Just the other day I got a call about a bitch not being able to plug in her wireless fucking mouse. I can’t wait to get the hell out of here. They got me. I put out all of their fires so they should be good until they can find another sucker. I feel bad for them because they need to replace about 65 6 year old workstations and a P3 server. I’ll be sure to leave a note for them somewhere.

Don’t get the wrong opinion of me. I am pretty much negative on everyone of my posts. This doesn’t reflect how I am in person. I’m actually pretty laid back. I tend to bottle up the things that bother me. Once I’m pissed I usually come here and bitch about it. Maybe, some positive posts will come in the future. I’ve had a pretty shitty attitude over the past few years. I’m just tired of getting jacked around by the corporate world.

I just realized the job, I was so hyped up about starting, fuckin’ sucks. I am just now reaching the end of my 90-day probational period. If I knew 10% of what I know about these people now I would have passed on the offer a million times. Anyways, lets put together a little list of reasons to start looking again.

1. Any company that makes employees put all their business expenses on their personal credit cards doesn’t give a rat’s ass about them.

2. Any company that makes it’s employees pay for the insurance on company provided cellphones and blackberries can fuck a goat.

3. An employer claims they pay for part of the employees medical benefits and then once your hired and make your elections you notice the price for health insurance alone is $256 every two weeks. How much are they paying? 3 cents?

4. An employer makes you work 3 weekends in a row and then you need part of a day off and they make you take it without pay. Not to mention you are a salary employee.

5. An employer uses you to fix employees’ personal computers because they make good money for the company. I don’t give a fuck if they make a bangin’ baloney sandwich. Tell them to call the fuckin’ GeekSquad.

6. You bring forward a proposal letting the employer know that the IT department is severely undermanned and they tell you they will keep acquiring new offices and you will be the single-handed IT department forever. I was told I could bring a friend in for contracting when needed. I asked “At what rate?”. They reply “$15 an hour”. Where can you find an IT consultant for $15 an hour and how do they survive?

7. Your employer wants to keep brand spankin’ new equipment as backup and use the old shit until it craps out. Where is the common sense it that? Let the new shit go obsolete just to get every last penny out of your Pentium 3 800mhz? Use the god damn old shit as a backup. Hell, computers are so cheap now days just order on overnight if it’s that much of a concern. We work a fucking mile away from Dell’s shitty shipping facility.

8. Your company’s gay owner needs a new laptop so you spec one out for him and he needs 7 different choices so he can pick the prettiest one. I’m not going to order you some bullshit. This is business class not some pink and yellow piece of shit laptop that we can’t get parts for tomorrow.

9. Contractors and consultants come to do work and warn you of how fucked up and how much they hate the company you work for.

10. Your told to do something and then your 10 bosses want to change every fucking detail of the damn project all the way until it’s time to actually execute it.

The network administrator before me should have left some kind of text file or something on one of the servers notifying me of the fucked up-ness of this piece of shit they call a company. No wonder she left after only being here for 3 weeks. I will make sure I leave some clues for the next network administrator.

Well, just got back from a project down in the Greensboro, NC office. We redid their whole network. Now I’m getting ready for a trip to Philly to install a few workstations and run some new phones. After that I will be going over to Detroit to do a network assessment of the assets located in that office.

Doing a project to clean up someone else’s mess is pretty shitty. All the data cable were wired in the “A” standard. We redid all of that and even re punched all the ends on the patch panel in the “B” standard. My guess is that the people who did the wiring must have been phone people. Anyways they are good to go now and I am really pleased with they way everything turned out. I will post some pictures of the job up later.