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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. Today wasn’t as unproductive as it could have been. I spent most of it trying to get the software that allows call monitoring (specifically, listening to calls) to work with Jaws. No go. I’m going to play around tomorrow in the system to see if…
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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I don’t have much more of this to go. Then I can go home and take a break from the monotony. I think I could use a nap.
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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. I just got off the phone with Sprint, and found out I will be able to get my ‘Net service, along with my phone service which includes everything, for $80 a month. I like that. That totally cuts out the bill I’m paying to the…
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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. It’s almost 13:00 hours, which means I’m almost through the work day, getting to the halfway point. Still no progress. I had John submit a service request to see if the hard drives containing the calls could be mapped, and we’ll see where that goes.…
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I’ve spent the weekend importing posts from LiveJournal, twenty at a time. I’m thankful I had the backup, but I hope I never have to import like this again. It’s very tedious work, and I’m not done yet. I’m not taking it to work though. I could, but I can’t stand the tedium of the…
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I spent this afternoon sitting with M’s boss, letting him listen to Jaws. He wanted to prioritize the issues, asking which one is the most important, and should be fixed first. By the time I left, they were all simpathetic, saying how sorry they are about all this, and how they have forty-five people who…
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John came out to the patio while I was out there on my lunch. He said he’s going to try to get me to do some monitoring this afternoon. Apparently he also talked to UM and co. So much for UM having a soul. John’s just breathing down his neck again. Go John! Originally published…
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UM came back here to let me know he heard that the suits came back here yesterday to talk to me. I gave him the run-down, and he said he didn’t care if M’s boss is keen on the idea of using Jaws or not. He says we should just make him do it anyway.…
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I looked through the classifieds in the local paper this morning, and emailed several ads to my home address. I plan to look into them when I get home, mainly because I don’t have a copy of my resume with me. Here’s hoping for the best. Originally published at Customerservant.com. You can comment here or…
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UM’s boss and M’s boss came to my desk shortly before I clocked out this evening, and said that M’s boss wants to sit and observe what Jaws does when interacting with the db_interface. I told them that the best way for them to figure that out was to use Jaws themselves, but they shot…
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It’s almost 17:00, which means the work day’s almost over. I didn’t get to torment the suits today. I actually managed to catch a nap today. God, this is ridiculous. This isn’t the kind of stuff I’m supposed to be able to do at work. I have to find more creative ways to spend my…
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Today is Tzom Asar Tevet (the Fast of the 10th of Tevet), a public fast which commemorates the date on which Nebuchadnezzar began the siege of Jerusalem, ending in its destruction and the exile of its inhabitants to Babylon. The fast gets the ironic distinction of being the “easiest” fast, since it falls near the…
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I’ve spent the afternoon doing some reading, but not as much as this morning. I’m really sleepy by this point. God, this is really bad for me. I’ve added more links to the respective categories in the links section, so take a look if you’re lacking reading material. I’m not saying the blogs are boring,…
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I went back to UM’s office, and put forth my idea about having the client attempt to get Jaws and the db_interface to cooperate. He didn’t shoot it down, although he could have been blowing smoke. We’ll see what happens. I hope to blog the results. In the meantime, I’m still going ahead with the…
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I woke up around 03:30 with a migrane, and it hasn’t gone away. I don’t have to be to work until 09:00 now, and I’ll work until 18:00 this evening. I wish I could just stay home and sleep this thing off. I plan on going in to work this morning and letting the suits…
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I got off the phone with Cary about an hour ago. It turns out he has been complaining, and submitting trouble tickets, to no avail. No one’s listening, as usual. Furthermore, the client’s coming down here and saying he’s not complaining. Looks like it’s time to take further action. Originally published at Customerservant.com. You can…
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After some mulling, I’ve improved my earlier idea. Instead of letting the suits play with the screenshots, I’ll let them play with Jaws. It’s not that hard to learn to use it enough to be able to use IE, and they’re never going to get where I’m coming from until they’re in my position. What…
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I have a bunch of database interface screenshots, made using Jaws and a text editor. I think, instead of taking a call, I’m going to have the suits sit down at computers with no mice, and scroll through those with their keyboards to find the information they need. It will simulate, as best as possible,…
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I slept through most of Shabbat. I came home yesterday, showered, and went to bed at about 21:00. I didn’t eat dinner last night, and I didn’t eat until just a few minutes ago today. I wasn’t very hungry. Work was too depressing yesterday. I thought things were going to change, but after testing all…
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I’m testing out a new WP plugin, specifically written for 2.0, that should allow entries from customerservant.com to post to my LJ. Hopefully this works. Originally published at Customerservant.com. You can comment here or there.