Dear most computer-related technology I've encountered in the last few days,
I HATE YOU. YOU SUCK. YOU LET ME DOWN.
Mouse: you fucking suck. I don't need you to die on me, and then send me on a wild goose chase all over Ottawa looking for suppliers who don't exist, to find one and now have it come back that because it's FIVE FUCKING DAYS after the warranty expired I have to pay for it, and you weren't even the problem, apparently, and it might be my fucking BLUETOOTH. That's even worse.
Keyboard: don't you even start.
Printer: well aren't you a piece of shit? And your tech support too. When the problem is with an ink cartridge, try flashing the "check print cartridge" light as opposed to the "check paper" light. And maybe it would help if you still fed paper so I wouldn't get confused about where the problem really is. If that's even what the problem really is.
HP: my cartridge is not expired, because the ink still flows! I don't care how old it is, it still works. Why do I need a new one? Oh, I know, you want my money. I forgot you're a greedy multinational corporation. My like for you/trust in you, now that has definitely expired.
DNR Garmin: well aren't you just dandy with your Windows only ways.
Mac: why haven't you been updating me past 10.3.9? Now I'm screwed cuz I can't run ArcExplorer, the one program I can run for my Geomatics course.
Future Shop: it would help if you 1) knew anything about customer service and 2) actually got some of your workers familiar with a) the mac stuff you carry and b) where you keep it. Not that you had what I needed anyway.
USB stick: you're brand fucking new! Where did I mess up in saving that info to you? I saved the whole freaking folder it was in to you so I'd not miss any of it, and I'm still being told I'm missing data. Where's that freaking data?
GEOM lab printers: well it would help if you'd turn on.
GEOM pharos computers: it would help if you'd turn on too. You're the only printers that can print my effing map because this is the only lab with the programs that read the files. You follow?
Rogers: it would help if the internet had a consistent rate, you know? And if Hannele's computer recognized you.
MS Word: that'll teach me to try to use you for anything complicated.
NO LOVE. LOTS AND LOTS OF LOATHING.
- Me
I feel like half the time I spend trying to accomplish anything I'm on the phone to tech support or emailing tech support or trying to find tech support or fighting with yet another thing that's supposed be here to service ME. It's been like this for weeks. I am so sick and tired of trying to deal with all this shit. I'm halfway between tears and smashing that damn printer.
Now there's supposed to be some dude from the Geography department coming sort out the printers down here. No sign of him, but then again I could have missed him since it took me a bit longer than half an hour to get back here from trying to find another lab with a printer to print the files that don't need the software in this lab. (I could be doing all this at home if Mac would update me to 10.4 and my printer wasn't programmed to deny my cartridge).
Mouse: you fucking suck. I don't need you to die on me, and then send me on a wild goose chase all over Ottawa looking for suppliers who don't exist, to find one and now have it come back that because it's FIVE FUCKING DAYS after the warranty expired I have to pay for it, and you weren't even the problem, apparently, and it might be my fucking BLUETOOTH. That's even worse.
Keyboard: don't you even start.
Printer: well aren't you a piece of shit? And your tech support too. When the problem is with an ink cartridge, try flashing the "check print cartridge" light as opposed to the "check paper" light. And maybe it would help if you still fed paper so I wouldn't get confused about where the problem really is. If that's even what the problem really is.
HP: my cartridge is not expired, because the ink still flows! I don't care how old it is, it still works. Why do I need a new one? Oh, I know, you want my money. I forgot you're a greedy multinational corporation. My like for you/trust in you, now that has definitely expired.
DNR Garmin: well aren't you just dandy with your Windows only ways.
Mac: why haven't you been updating me past 10.3.9? Now I'm screwed cuz I can't run ArcExplorer, the one program I can run for my Geomatics course.
Future Shop: it would help if you 1) knew anything about customer service and 2) actually got some of your workers familiar with a) the mac stuff you carry and b) where you keep it. Not that you had what I needed anyway.
USB stick: you're brand fucking new! Where did I mess up in saving that info to you? I saved the whole freaking folder it was in to you so I'd not miss any of it, and I'm still being told I'm missing data. Where's that freaking data?
GEOM lab printers: well it would help if you'd turn on.
GEOM pharos computers: it would help if you'd turn on too. You're the only printers that can print my effing map because this is the only lab with the programs that read the files. You follow?
Rogers: it would help if the internet had a consistent rate, you know? And if Hannele's computer recognized you.
MS Word: that'll teach me to try to use you for anything complicated.
NO LOVE. LOTS AND LOTS OF LOATHING.
- Me
I feel like half the time I spend trying to accomplish anything I'm on the phone to tech support or emailing tech support or trying to find tech support or fighting with yet another thing that's supposed be here to service ME. It's been like this for weeks. I am so sick and tired of trying to deal with all this shit. I'm halfway between tears and smashing that damn printer.
Now there's supposed to be some dude from the Geography department coming sort out the printers down here. No sign of him, but then again I could have missed him since it took me a bit longer than half an hour to get back here from trying to find another lab with a printer to print the files that don't need the software in this lab. (I could be doing all this at home if Mac would update me to 10.4 and my printer wasn't programmed to deny my cartridge).