Grumpy Old Men - again

[oldrocker]

Nice weather today Chums . . . . . .

How soon could we get legislation passed that males walking about in public with no top on could be summarily executed and their bodies left to rot on the highway?

[oldrocker]

Would you leave your child in his care ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7442435.stm

[johndibben]

Would you leave your child in his care ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7442435.stm

My idea of getting them down safely means ensuring they don't fall on anyone after being shot.

[perfnet]

Let's give the guy a fair hearing, he may have a valid point and be at the end of his wits... there are some vindictive mothers out there and the courts are usually on their side.

[oldrocker]

Would you leave your child in his care ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7442435.stm

My idea of getting them down safely means ensuring they don't fall on anyone after being shot.

[johndibben]

I've a great deal of sympathy for fathers who suffer real hardship at the hands of women who use laws designed to protect those children who's fathers have abandoned the family as a money making opportunity. I've a cousin who was completely turned over by his ex-wife who went on to partner after partner. He's a really nice chap who stood by his obligations and married her when she became pregnant despite parentage never being proved.

However, the partner you divorce is the partner you married and people don't change that much.

These people are stupid though as they don't help anyone. By dressing as Superman and climbing onto Harriet Harman's roof they appear daft which means the attention is centred upon them and not their cause. They invaded someone's property and no one likes the idea of that. Harriet Harman becomes the victim being forced out of her house and at a time of bad news for the government, this is a welcomed diversion. Even the Tory MP quoted realised supporting these people wasn't a good idea and condemned them.

If they've got a grievance then go to a Tory newspaper as they will be only too pleased to print it and there's the bonus in that what appears will be far worse than even they'd realised

There was a Daily Mail left on the bar of a local pub and so I thought I'd read it.

I was about ready to invade Poland by page 6

[WSR2005]

I was about ready to invade Poland by page 6

Off you go then John, tell us how you get on

[dkightley]

I've a great deal of sympathy for fathers who suffer real hardship at the hands of women......full stop! Particually where its wife and daughters!!!

And there are other hardships as well.....lack of access to the bathroom, underwear, shoes and make-up everywhere. The list is endless!

And as far as their concerned, cars don't need petrol....they run on fresh air. And you have plenty of spare time available to run errands, taxi, keep the garden tidy, do all the DIY.....and do the disgusting clearing up jobs.

Fortunately, I'm free of half of the above......the inexpensive half.

[Pyromaniac]

I was about ready to invade Poland by page 6

You sure your not this guy?

Or his son?



Cheers

Peter

[ianmacmillan]

It's easy to invade Poland.

There's hardly anbody left there to defend it.

[dkightley]

This has been grumped about before.....but I don't care.

I hate it when shop assistants talk to each other when they're serving customers. I was in Decathalon last night and the young girl supposedly serving me was yacking away to another girl on the adjacent till.

Not only did she not see me standing in front of her until I deliberately coughed to attract her attention, but she dropped the money I gave her...and then virtually threw the change and the receipt at me. She did apologise, though.....to her colleague for having to stop mid-sentence to pick my money up off the floor.

[johndibben]

I was about ready to invade Poland by page 6

Off you go then John, tell us how you get on

It was shut.

There was a sign on the door saying gone to Tescos and then off round a mate's house to do some plumbing

[Easilyconfused]

Work is getting me down again Been getting hassle all week from end-users since we barred people using the old version of our client software from accessing the system

They had 4 months warning they needed to upgrade. For the last 2 months every time the logon they get a message. Yet still they are annoyed at being barred. Apparently some have had major issues upgrading but I never got any tickets for that. We finally found where the blockage in the ticketing system was and now I am snowed under

Apparently it is my problem if :

1. The Microsoft SMS system is installing other software and our software update can't install since SMS can only do 1 thing at a time.
2. The users have no administrator rights on their PC that we as an application team can not fix.
3. The users have insufficient diskspace on their PC to install our upgrade since they have loads of pictures of their ugly kids and awful music MP3 files hogging all the space.
4. The users don't know how to work their PCs (this is worrying in an IT outsourcing company). Why would you copy an ISO file to CD using the XP recorder ? You burn ISOs to CD using the image function to make readable CDs for goodness sake !
5. The helpdesk which is outsourced to Spain, Hungary and India can't figure out what the user is talking about so they send the ticket to me. I still don't know what the user has been smoking or drinking so am as much in the dark as the helpdesk.

Right now I hate my job so much. I have to be working from 07:00 - 23:00 tomorrow loading service packages to our production servers but all I am getting is tons of emails and tickets about the client upgrade instead.

Kindest regards

John

[Lad491]

3. The users have insufficient diskspace on their PC to install our upgrade since they have loads of pictures of their ugly kids and awful music MP3 files hogging all the space.

Are the users in question part of your company John, or are they external clients using your software and support? We used to have this problem when i worked in support but, since all the clients were actually working for the same company, and since they were supposed not to have anything non business related on their machines, we used to just delete everything prior to an upgrade.

We used to get some very irate calls from people who found on a monday morning all their piccies or music was missing.

4. The users don't know how to work their PCs

This too is quite common Its a miracle some of them even managed to find the on/off switch. I once did a 16 miles round trip to fix a bank of PC's which had apparently mysteriously stopped working. All I had to do was plug back in the extension cable which a cleaner had unplugged the night before.

You have my sympathies. Support can be interesting work, but it can also be the pits. I have to say though that my biggest moan was at developers, not users. developers who write software which works fine on their non standard builds with elevated permission rights, but which doesnt have a prayer of working on a bog standard build with no elevated permissions.

[dkightley]

I once did a 16 miles round trip to fix a bank of PC's which had apparently mysteriously stopped working. All I had to do was plug back in the extension cable which a cleaner had unplugged the night before.

Reminds me of the urban myth that came from somewhere in the US about patients in one particular bed in a hospital all dieing at around the same time on a Sunday morning, which was solved when someone spotted a part-time cleaner unplug a life support machine to plug his vacuum cleaner in.

Not an urban myth.....at Ratcliffe on Soar power station a contractor wanted some hot water for cleaning and was directed by a member of the operations staff to a drain pipe from part of the feed water heat exchangers that had a valve, and the end of the pipe stopped about 12 inches above a floor drain. He filled his bucket and went on his way.

The following morning brought an emergency call reporting of someone having been scalded and hit in the face by something brought first aiders and operations staff running to the site of the incident. The contractor who'd filled his bucket the day before had done the same again....but the turbine unit, unlike the day before, was in service, and the drain he had got water from now had superheated steam at 3,000 psi. The steam had hit the bucket, snapping it from the handle. The bucket bounced on the floor so hard it hit him in the face......followed by steam at more than 400 degrees C!! Fortunately, his injuries were not severe.