Two Mini-Rants

Why is it always more fun to blog when you have a rant?

Rant 1 - Emailing up. It's douchey and career-limiting (I think). Everyone knows what these are. Someone is pissed off at you so they email you, your boss, your boss's boss, your boss's boss's boss and so forth. Most of the time these are backfires. The person was wrong, retarded or didn't know what they were talking about. I got one of these and someone actually used the word "castrated" in it to describe the changes my project brought to the application she uses. She just didn't know what button to click. And in my pettiness I searched and found that she didn't complete training. Sigh.

I have a friend that has a way better example though. He's a unix admin for a huge medical device company. A big-wig doctor had a printer problem. He emailed the whole damn IT department straight to the top. The printer was out of paper. My friend replied all to let him know after the doctor demanded he get all the details about how the problem was resolved, what steps were taken, and blah, blah, blah. Awesome.

Rant 2 - I've been taking the early morning bus lately. I do that to get to work early because the hours between 6-9 are really the only time you can get solid work done. The rest of the day is littered with meetings and people stopping by asking "do you have a minute?" (As a side rant, you can't say "No" to these. The one time I tried, my co-worker just kept talking anyway. Sigh 2.) Anyway, back to the bus. It's like an unwritten rule that you be quiet on the bus. You dont talk to people. If you do, it should be with "6-inch voices."

My super scientific observation has determined that the earlier the bus, the louder and more talkative its riders. This makes no sense! People should be tired and sleepy. My bus time is my sacred reading time. I get about 100 pages in a day on the bus. Some fuckers this week wouldn't stop talking (almost yelling) about pure bullshit. So instead of getting swept away in my book I had to listen to how divorced woman deserve everything from the ex-husbands because they "put up with them" through the marriage. Shut the fuck up you old, out-of-touch hag! I'm trying to read. That's what I wanted to say. I didn't. But I wanted to. After more thought, these people must be on the early bus because they're "morning people." Fuck em. I just want to read and get my work done.

Happy fucking friday. You all deserve it.