Fortress of Solitude

Current Mood: Angry

Raise your hand if you hate computers. Hey, I’m with you there, both hands waving through the air. I think a lot of people assume that because I’m in the IT industry or a CS major, I have less problems with computers malfunctioning or acting up. Quite the contrary. I’d like to think positively and see all the problems I’ve had with computers as an exercise in tolerance and patience; but in truth, it’s just been a huge axe chopping away at my lifespan with tons of stress. Computer malfunctioning costing hours of time at a University is not uncommon, but I never thought I’d see something like this happening at a company like Microsoft, that’s so heavily dependent on computer uptime.

On Tuesday, September 3rd, I came to my office only to discover my computer had either been tampered with or had some serious failures over the weekend because it would not boot properly. Issues around memory constantly froze the machine and showed a nice Blue Screen of Death. After speaking to the IT department and others, I was finally able to get a gentleman to take the machine and “attempt” to fix it. I was greatly surprised how much effort it actually took me to get a loner machine in it’s place. I was even more surprised that it has been nearly 9 days and still there is no progress on my machine. The IT repairman only delivered promises, no results. And the team seems careless about the situation, leaving me without the proper tools I need to finish my project here at Microsoft.

Unfortunately, this means that I’m forced to spend my last week watching Family Guy =) Ahh technology. This is the part where Amma would agree that technology sucks.