Thursday, July 24, 2008

My IT horror

So I may or may not have bitched publicly about my new gig, which is doing IT full time at my office.  I started out hoping to do desktop support and web design, but I got SO much more than I bargained for!  I have just learned today that I am transitioning two of my big clients away, and I couldn't be happier. 

That being said, currently I am doing two jobs, client work and IT work.  I am burned out on the client work, and I find the IT work very fun and challenging.  It's helping me to avoid my midlife crisis at the ripe old age of 40.

So today I had to work on a windows machine.  That, in and of itself, is a challenge for me because we run mac machines here.  But we have a tenant who prefers windows.  No good reason, other than to be different, and since he isn't really employed by my company my CEO caved and asked me to help him order it and configure his machine.  So I did (well, I ordered it-- there was no helping about it).

I was configuring it today, and I saw a new little gizmo in Windows Vista that I thought he might like.  He has a peculiar interest in aircraft, and has a large collection of photos, so I decided to give him a photo viewer widget which would scroll through his photo folder and rotate his pictures.

Imagine my horror when I was installing MS Office, and I see naked women scrolling across his widget!  Thankfully I hadn't eaten lunch yet.

Look, I don't care what you do on your own time.  If you like porn, good on ya.  I couldn't care less.  But please, people, don't do it at work.  My mind wanders as I ponder a few things:

1) What the hell you are doing in your office all day?
2) Do you need more work to do?
3) Mental Note to Self: bring hand sanitizer into your office the next time I come in to do work and have to touch your keyboard
4) Are those amateur shots anyone you know, i.e. your wife?  Nevermind, I don't really want to know.
5) Does your wife know that you have photos like this on your desktop?  Nevermind, I don't really want to know.
6) Do you not get much at home?  Nevermind, I REALLY don't want to know!
7) If this is your "work collection" what a vast collection you must have at home.  Again, probably I don't want to know this.
8) Do you not even CARE that I see all this?  I think I know the answer to that...
9) Has it occurred to you that this is not the proper use for company equipment?
10) I wonder if I should bring up the use of porn at work at our next staff meeting.

In the meantime, I fixed him up a sweet little screen saver.  ;)


1 comment:

Iowa Greyhound said...

OMG, that is so funny! Welcome to IT!