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Bitch of the Day

Lauren

Back tomorrow.

After two weeks of site design and fighting with my webhost, I’m sick of the internet. You’d think if they offer WordPress as part of their hosting package, along with a bazillion other mySQL-based blog platforms, they’d employ someone who knows how to use it on their damned support team. Not to mention that this site and a slew of others were up and down all damned weekend with no prior announcement. Asshats.

What’s your BoTD?

23 thoughts on Bitch of the Day

  2. Clients who hire my expertise and knowledge of how to do something, and then override my expertise and knowledge with micromanagement. Instead of writing me a check for the deployment of my genius, you’re writing me a check to compensate me for putting up with you being a dumbass.

    Dumbass.

  5. Same as yours. When we moved the Liberal Avenger over to PowWeb I thought I wouldn’t have to deal with downtime, slugishness, and the other aliments that we have had this weekend. But alas with the DOS attack they had and the MySql problems, this weekend has been in a kind word … interesting

    btw if you have any wordpress questions let me know…
    ~

  7. Every semester – every semester – there is at least one guy in who fills out the course evaluations with the useful advice of “you should explain material in class so that everyone understands it”. Yeah, thanks, I’ll get right on it.

  8. Robert – my mother is a family lawyer and gets that all the time. She’s like “fine, you’re paying me $150 an hour when you can do just as well by representing yourself”.

  9. Confused H.R. departments — I’m supposed to be going into a new contract (6 month temp to perm hire), and I’m instead waiting on HR to cut the purchase order for the temp portion — so far waiting on 6 weeks.

    The last three weeks of which has been beyond the end of my prior contract. If this were not the prelude to a perm. gig I’d have grabbed another contract somewhere else by now.

    :: grumble ::

  10. Ooh, I second “confused HR departments”. Specifically: HR departments that are confused about paying their employees, and then when they finally figure things out two weeks later, they ask if it would be okay if they pay you the many-hundred dollars they owe you next month, because see, it would be so much trouble to take care of that NOW.

    I mean, that would be terrible if it happened, but of course it’s purely hypothetical.

  12. Bitch of the Day? How about Bitch of the Minute? There’s always something, someone, getting on my nerves. Right now it’s my upstairs neighbor, who seems to be bowling.

  13. Fake BoTD: Spending three years in the Exciting TCU Marching Band™ as the only person in the band with my name, only to have some young whippersnapper with my name come in (in my section, no less), and instantly become more popular than me, therefore causing much confusion when someone yells my name, and I turn around to find that they weren’t calling me, they were calling the other guy. (Actually, the freshman with my name is a cool guy…I’m just jealous. And yes, I know the BoTD was a run-on.)

    Actual BoTD: People who don’t return my phone calls, especially those on whom I’m currently crushing. (And no, there was no previous indication that I should leave her alone.)

  14. My second BoTD:

    INTERNET EXPLORER. PIECE OF SHIT.

    Agreed. At work, I end up having to serious simplify/hack my designs to work with that garbage, and it drives me bonkers. Oddly enough, I have very few glitches when I test with Gecko/Opera/KHTML engines.

  15. My BoTD:

    This is day 13 of me being inflicted with some sort of nasty cold virus thing. I’m mostly better but am still hacking out a bunch of crap and every night lose my voice. As a singer, this sucks as much as IE.

  16. My BoTD: Getting stood up–hate it when people tell you’ll they’ll meet you (date, dinner, whatever) and then just don’t show up…no call, no nuttin’.

  17. Internet Explorer really is a piece of shit. I’m obsessed with Mozilla Firefox. Brilliant.

    My BoTD: Vicodin that gives me a horrible stomach ache. So either I don’t sleep because my teeth are killing me, or I don’t sleep because it feels like someone is stabbing me in the stomach. Awesome.

  20. Second bitch of the day: Finding out that my spontaneous reboots weren’t a software problem at all, and having to lay down $300 for new motherboard, processor, and memory. *sigh*

  22. Vicodin that gives me a horrible stomach ache. So either I don’t sleep because my teeth are killing me, or I don’t sleep because it feels like someone is stabbing me in the stomach.

    You’re lucky. I was given Vicodin to take post-surgery once, and ended up head-over-toilet for over a day.

    Taking it with food, instead of on an empty stomach helps a lot, though.

  23. Lauren, do we have the same hosting company? Because I’ve been fussing and fighting and cussing, and ultimately giving up on my internetual-relocationship. No, it’s still going to happen, but god damn, I wanted it done before classes start.

    MySQL problems abound here; my client sofware doesn’t even seem to want to log in to the database… grrr…..

    Here’s to seconding your BotD.

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