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Stress ( Read more... )

I have to wonder if one of the reasons I'm so dissatisfied with my current job is that I like finding ways to help people by making things better ( Read more... )

You know, for a global, multibilliondollar computer services corporation, my current employer sure seems reluctant to move away from manual procedures, reams of duplicated and triplicated paper forms, and systems which seemed to have been designed in the 1970s and never updated ( Read more... )

Bleah. I just emailed two business consulting companies asking for advice ( Read more... )

So there I am at work, and the guy who was my original trainer and then went to work for one of the onsite teams had been hanging around HQ for a couple of days. He listened in to a couple of people's calls, including mine, and generally dispensed giblets of long-forgotten or nevermentioned lore ( Read more... )

Frickin' STUPID, STUPID, STUPID overly-complicated, fifteen-minutes-taking, idiot-spawned time-dragging cheer-sapping respect-denying CRACKBRAINED processes at work just to set up a mailing list! It's as bad as the one to randomise the PIN on a remote-access password generator, if not worse ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm writing a lot about work at the moment. Hey, it's a new job at a place in the middle of a re-organisation. Gotta tapdance ( Read more... )

Reading yet another article where uninformed end-users whine about their experiences with their IT departments yet don't actually bother giving any concrete examples, and then reading the comment shitstorm that such articles usually cause, I feel that I should address at least some of the accusations made ( Read more... )

Latest update on the house. Do you think we:

a) Got the house?
b) Didn't get the house?
c) Have been told that there is YET ANOTHER FUCKING DELAY?