My life in the IT

I once thought the world of IT was a glamorous one, full of new fangled technology and the ability to command respect because, hey let's face it I control your business.

In the recent years I have discovered that this is not the case at all. I'm more like a babysitter, in that I'm trying not to have people break their toys, or providing new toys for people to break.

For example I spend most, if not all of my work day trying to find a serviceable blackberry in the box of "spare phones" (most of which are actually broken) and set up a users iPhone. Granted the setup should have taken me a bit because apple is the devil, and not because the user could not remember any of their passwords (or be bothered to close the 300* documents they had open)

That is actually why I find myself on a bus at 5am, there's a new hire starting today at 9 and her workstation is not up and functioning. This is because there's 13gb of data, that I need to set up her computer, transferring between 1 server to anther that should have taken 5 1/2 hours starting at 430 yesterday.

On a side note I'm going to see a friends bands tonight, and potentially have dinner with some old co-workers after work around 12 hours from now.

This should be an interesting day to say the least....also this is the second time in my entire life its taken me 20 minutes to get into the city.

Additionally I have seen a part of the Port Authority I've never seen before.

-N-

[* the number 300 is not an exaggerated figure and will swear to it in a tours of law]

Manhattan a love story

Holy crap the bus line sucks.

I feel like this is what I say in my head daily even when I've been waiting 30mins and the nice lady ahead of me was kind enough to let me see her new kindle... its pretty rad.

What interesting is that this one little part of my day really me makes me loath everything about my day even if it was good like today.

I think New York has a way of doing that to you. One second you are walking and taking in the sites, the next you are wishing with every fiber of your being that the cabbie that nearly hit you gets stiffed (or his cab is impounded) and I kinda feel like that's what makes New York great. It can show you something awesome for example Rockefeller center during this time of year, and at the same time you can walk down a 15th from 5ave to 8ave narrowly avoid stepping in dog shit like 10 times.

That's what makes the city great, because as the mayor in Ghostbusters 2 says it's every New Yorkers god given right to be pissed off at the world.

Well Lenny you're right, and as I sit here on the bus in the second to last seat I remember that line, while shooting daggers at the person talking on their phone.

Happy belated turkey day.

Nathan