Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[kernow]

I've got no clue what the hell is going on. We were talking about first person shooters, then suddenly people ran out of logic and started rambling about Robocop.

[dvdx2]

I wonder if there's a market in Japan for English PAL Megadrive games complete with Woolworths price label intact?

lol - doubt it

[Altered Edge]

People who use the word leash.
This is not the US

I'll change it to lead just for you giggigy.

[Neil]

I'll change it to lead just for you giggigy.

Thanks

It irks me that that irks me tbh. *Sigh*

[J0e Musashi]

Norfolk irks me.

[Neil]

Norfolk irks me.

**** off

[J0e Musashi]

pwned.

[Neil]

pwned.

Don't think so.
I could list the reasons why I love living in Norfolk but can't be arsed, suffice to say I like it a lot.
Bit rich coming from someone who lives in the UK's equivalent of Mos Eisley, farking Landun

[J0e Musashi]

Landon rocks. Blair lives here.

[Neil]

Landon rocks. Blair lives here.

I'm there if Blair Underwood does.

[kernow]

Nasal Hairs.

sigh

[J0e Musashi]

Remington Fuzz-Away, but for noses.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Remington Fuzz-Away, but for noses.

And Remington Sand-Blaster for arse hair

[Altered Edge]

Painfull lol

[randombs]

I've started my new job this week. I'm working as the assistant to the 'IT manager' of a group of three hotels. It's been two days but feels like a week already. I could've even stayed in one of the hotel rooms tonight because of the strike! But I chose to come home so I could watch Eastenders and stuff. I love wearing a suit to work and having a canteen where you can eat as much breakfast, lunch and dinner as you like for free, with ice cream and cookies for dessert. The people there are all characters. I went for my fire safety training today and we had sweets!

But where's the irk?

The IT situation there is completely bonkers. Not going to go into any great detail due to the nature of this but imagine the kinds of corners being cut if a single man is handling all the IT for EVERY MACHINE in three hotels, including guest room internet access and wifi. Imagine this man has to carry out every single job himself, be it setting up a printer, having a new leased line installed or planning and implementing a wifi network over ten floors. Now, imagine this guy is probably so busy that he must have assumed it's easier to just let people install whatever they like and deal with it later. Imagine a computer in the server room on the company network with iTunes, VLC, Vuze and something called Relevant Knowledge on it.

"What's Relevant Knowledge?????!!1", I hear you cry.

Ahem:

"In exchange for participating in periodic surveys on topics of interest to the Internet community, and for having their Internet browsing and purchasing activity monitored, RelevantKnowledge sponsors select software that its members can enjoy for free."

Yup, that was on the machine that I'm apparently meant to use. I refuse to go near it. Every machine I used today bar one has had all manner of trojans and whatnot, and I found out from the anti-virus logs. And don't get me started on the password policy. You will cry real tears.

As soon as Eastenders is finished I'm going to write up a list of the things I've witnessed over these few days and bring it up with the Director tomorrow. He's a very good friend of my grandfather's, which is how I got the job, so I'm seriously considering starting our meeting with "What kind of zoo are you running here?". I really am. I won't even smile. I was also considering going on to a random machine and copying a document of some sort to show him how easy data theft can be. Better yet, I'm going to simply insinuate that I have done that, even though I won't actually do it.

I'm actually quite angry right now. One thing I can't stand is when IT tech sorts don't act responsibly, whether that's installing a dodgy copy of Norton on Grandpa's PC or letting him use 'grandpa' as his admin password.