Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I swear, on a stack of Bibles, I’m not making this up. Apparently, some enterprising souls have decided to make the all-out accommodation to laziness: A really huge toilet. I could rant about the idiocy involved here, but I think David does a much better…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. Shirah Schmitt finally brings reason back to Cross-Currents. And so, it seems, has Ismar Schorsch. in Shirah’s case, I’m glad someone has decided to call for an end to the mockery going on. It’s all fine and well if you don’t agree with the derech…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. They were supposed to start tearing things down on Monday in order to put in the new cubes. They started early. Now, I have to try and find someone to guide me through every time I want to get up and leave my seat to…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. It looks like my skepticism was once again proven to be intuition. The pilot for the db_interface isn’t going to be released next week. Now, it’s going to be released on April 14th. Mr. Frodo did make it a point to communicate though, which is…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I think Mr. Frodo needs to add a new specialty to his resume: Pointlessologist. Allow me to explain. I went into his office, and he was already in a defensive mood. He definitely didn’t want me in there, and he definitely didn’t want to hear…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I have a meeting with Mr. Frodo this afternoon. I have some news for him, and it doesn’t have anything to do with car insurance. I’m letting him know that he’s got a week before I take this situation to the media. I’m tired of…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. It appears as though, in a bid to keep the prohibition against homosexuality in place, the executive committee of the Committee on Laws and Standards within Conservative Judaism secretly passed a ruling last summer that raises the number of votes needed to canonize a minority…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I just spent the last half hour or so cutting up vegetables for what was supposed to be a nice, big salad for tomorrow’s lunch. It turns out I don’t have any plastic bags around, (you know, the ones you get from the grocery store),…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. There’s about ten minutes left before Hadlakat Nerot (Candle Lighting for the Sabbath), and I wanted to wish everyone who observes Shabbat a peaceful and joyous one, and everyone else a relaxing weekend. I’ll be back after Havdalah tomorrow night.

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. This really sucks. I still have overhalf the day left. Nothing new has happened. I’ve brought some books to read, and I’ll probably read for a little while. This has gotten completely ridiculous. I’m starting to wonder if there’s ever going to be an end…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. So far, no response from the operations manager. The little jerk could have at least written back and said no. He hasn’t even come to say anything about it. Man, if all you have to do to be an operations manager around here is spout…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. It looks as though the PTO I put in for two weeks ago, and had OK’ed by my operations manager, was never put into the system. Consequently my check will be $71.44 short. If he was going to screw me like that, he could have…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. By WILLIAM C. TAYLOR NY Times www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/business/yourmoney/26mgmt.html?pagewanted=print PAUL M. ENGLISH never imagined that a pet peeve would become such a cause célèbre. For more than four years, Mr. English, a veteran technologist and serial entrepreneur, has maintained a blog on which he shares everything from…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. We just got userids and pwds for the apps, and the first impression isn’t favorable. There’s a combo box or something you’re supposed to use to select options in the main ap that does literally nothing. Jaws is completely silent. There’s another app that seems…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. This morning, when I got into work, I turned the system on, only to find that the master boot record had been corrupted. One of the technoshepherds got it back up and running, and I played around with the new apps for the new project…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. It’s been a couple of days since I’ve posted. Lately there just hasn’t been much going on here, except the same stuff, different day. I started playing a RPG Friday called Legend of the Green Dragon. It seems to pass the time. It’s basically one…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. Mr. Frodo just came back here, and asked if I had used a certain piece of software created by the company, and I said no. He says we need to test that out. Fair enough. But then, when I asked him about the Admin assistant…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. They’ve gotten new machines in the break room, and the microwaves have Braille on them! Bobby’s also working on getting overlays for the vending machines, as well as lists of the contents. I’m glad to see someone actually manages to get something done around here.…

Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I just realized that the extention that allows me to post to the LJ has been deactivated since January 22nd. If you’re interested in reading what’s been posted since then, Go to the site and read backwards.