Entries by Jay

I talk about work often on this blog, and give a few tidbits here and there, well today I'm going to give you a complete rundown of my day. Don't get too excited, as this won't be all that exciting!

Continue reading "An Almost Typical Day at Work"

When I came in this morning and found I had a customer’s computer waiting to be optimized, and found that another employee brought in his computer that had a similar problem to my manager’s computer. After examining his computer, I discovered that his problem would be much easier to solve, than my bosses was. His problem was created by a program on the hard drive, not embedded in the system files, so I simply erased the file, and had him visit all the places he usually visits to make sure it didn't come back. It didn't so that was that.

Continue reading "Return to Work on Icy Roads"

I went to bed last night as the computer was in the process of installing 69 updates in a single batch. These updates require 4 steps to install completely, first to download, second to install, third to continue the install during shutdown, and forth to finish the installation during restart of the system -- this take a long time so going to bed was the best bet.

Continue reading "Tomorrow I Work Again!"

My two days off - and I going to start fixing my bosses computer - Most of the repair is comprised of waiting for the software to install - but I do have to keep an eye on it so it won’t take for ever. Fortunately there is a hidden partition on his computer which allows me to reinstall the system and user files - It just takes a couple of hours to run, so while I wait, I’ll answer some email that has been waiting for a while.

Continue reading "My First Day off this Week!"

Well my boss brought in his wife's computer in this morning on which his nephew has been using to surf porn on the internet with out virus protection -- Now that’s like playing in traffic with a blindfold on, or better yet, Jumping off a skyscraper without a parachute.

Continue reading "Monday One Day to Go!"

This is one of my short days, and with the traffic we had, that was a good thing!

 

I had a pretty good day at work today - sold a fair amount of product - optimized a couple of computers, and have only one more day till I get 2 days off.  I realize that looking forwards to my days off, instead of work isn't right, according to the status quo, but I've worked for 40+ years and I just no longer get excited about work. Continue reading "Saturday is a Good Day!"

My usual days off are Tuesday & Wednesday except when I have my monthly Sunday off, for which I lose one of those days instead, which really screws up my weekend, so to speak.  As compensation, I take the Monday after my Sunday off, which gives me a 4 day weekend once a month.

Continue reading "Friday - or my Tuesday!"

After 4 days of trying to get my computer to work properly, it was actually pretty nice to get back to work.  The day was slow - so I spent a lot of time working on other peoples computers, and actually enjoy that because I solved their problems.

 

Continue reading "Back to Work Today"

Classic means something that is a perfect example of a particular style, something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality.

Continue reading "The Definition of a Classic - Not Space Precinct!"

I have a Dell XPS 430 computer, with Windows Vista Home Premium, 6 GB of RAM, Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.5 GHz, 750 GB Hard Drive, and a ATI Raydeon HD 3600 Series Graphic Card.  And no matter what the experts at Dell and Windows do - this system doesn't work as well as my Toshiba Laptop with less than ¹/₃^rd it's capabilities.

Continue reading "Giving Up on Dell & Windows"

I realize that computers are complicated, and good help is hard to find - but I am tired of spending 3 or 4 hours going over the same problem with a new tech rep, each time I try to solve the problem. My question is, why can't these so called experts read the transcripts of the previous calls and skip over doing the same things over and over and over again..

 

Continue reading "Another Day - Another Computer Problem!"

Although I lost my 4 days off provided by the company - I still take 4 days off a month by taking a vacation day on Monday, following my monthly Sunday off, added to my normal weekly Tuesday & Wednesday it gives me a nice little vacation once a month.

Continue reading "4 days, House Cleaning, But then the Computer!"

I've worked for this company for 8 years as a commissioned sales man.  During that time we have grown from only 17 stores to over 110 stores, and are still growing faster than any company of our type. We achieve our growth by using our profits, instead of borrowing money.  We provide the best selection of appliances and electronics, and have the best trained sales staff because we train over 250 hours a year (at our expense).

Continue reading "Rewards for Doing a Great Job!"

We got another couple of inches of snow last night, and I had to dig my way out of the pile of snow left by the snow plow - but got to work in time to make a few bucks today.  The customer traffic was better today, but nothing to brag about. I still spent a majority of the day waiting for customers, but did enjoy the customers I had.

Continue reading "More Snow - A Few More Customers & Sci-Fi"

Everything was covered with four inches of fluffy, white, beautiful snow when I got up this morning -- beautiful, but a major pain, as it would continued most of the day. So after my usual morning routine, I headed into work and arrived at my scheduled time, and just as I expected -- No Customers, just employees doing things to keep busy - trying to make the time go by.

Continue reading "Lots of Snow - Just No Customers"

I got up, showered, shaved, got dressed and went to work.  The RM was at the store again today making everyone up tight as he feels his primary duty is to make the day miserable for the management, who in turn makes it unbearable for everyone else.

 

Continue reading "Day One of Every Day"

I'm not much of a writer, but there are time when I just have to blow off a bit of steam, and find the best way to do it is by writing it down and then editing, re-editing and then more editing. It can take me an hour or more just to write a single paragraph to my satisfaction -- the reason for this can be found quite often by reading my other posts, where I don't always take the extra time needed to make my entries, make sense!

I was talking with a friend yesterday about my motor home, and during the conversation she told me about an email she received, stating that; In November, Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the Winnie left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the handbook that he could not actually do this. He was awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago. It was also said that Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home. The e-mail that announced the award concludes: “Are we, as a society, getting more stupid?”

Continue reading "It not always true what you read - Check it out!"

My frustration abounds -- my computer system still isn't working properly -- Once again I contacted Dell with the problem -- and after talking this time and explaining that I've reinstalled the Vista about 50 times - they agreed to send me a new hard drive with the system installed, as well as new restore discs.  

Continue reading "Sorry for the Delay - Still Fixing My Computer!"

Unfortunately during my last two day off, I got very little time to work on the motor home, as I spent most of the time trying to get my computer to run correctly. 

Continue reading "Just a Quick Note!"

I love this time of year, but it requires me to work many more hours than usual which makes it hard for me to find time to work on the motor home as needed.  Fortunately this year my schedule for the next two weeks is normal.  I'll make up for these easy weeks in the following two weeks around Christmas, but that's to be expected.

 

Continue reading "My Diagrams Made - Now I just need time!"