I hates stupid
Jun. 20th, 2007 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThe following email was waiting for me when I came in this morning:
"Your CSO machine has been re-imaged to XP, and is now sitting at the sign-on screen"
If you work for EDS, here is a list of ways that you can ruin![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
plonq's morning.
I need two things on the machine that are not part of the standard corporate image; I need local administrative access and Adobe Acrobat Writer.
Without the first, I could probably get the machine partly functional again with some help from somebody in the office out there (though it would involve giving them my password and spending an hour or two on the phone while I talked them through how to configure the ODBC settings and the like).
Without Adobe Writer, though, then they may as well have just replaced the machine with a paperweight for all of the good it will do me.
Right now I am merely irked that they did not contact me, and also that they did the work after I'd gone home (rather than doing it in the morning, when I was still here and could have addressed some of these issues). I am saving my full ire for later when I find out that they did not configure and install critical stuff because nobody called me.
I have heard an ugly rumour that I may have to jump through hoops to get LAC access on the machine again. Apparently what they have done for some is remove it when they re-imaged the machine and make them create a new business case about why they still need it if they want to get it back (since peoples' requirements tend to magically change when we go to a new OS).
Fortunately I brought in lychees today. They may not fix the situation, but at least they make it less intolerable. Mmmmm... lychees...
By the way, my poppies bloomed.
"Your CSO machine has been re-imaged to XP, and is now sitting at the sign-on screen"
If you work for EDS, here is a list of ways that you can ruin
plonq's morning.- Tell him that you are going to install the new XP image on his critical executive scorecard/dashboard computer in another city.
- Refuse to take his list of requirements for the machine, using some lame excuse like, "The guys will contact you right before they do the work."
- Don't contact him before you do the work.
- Don't do the work until after 16:00 to ensure that he will have gone home before you finish - even if he's working a normal schedule.
- After it is done, inform him with a one-liner that includes absolutely no critical details that he'll need (like the new machine name...)
I need two things on the machine that are not part of the standard corporate image; I need local administrative access and Adobe Acrobat Writer.
Without the first, I could probably get the machine partly functional again with some help from somebody in the office out there (though it would involve giving them my password and spending an hour or two on the phone while I talked them through how to configure the ODBC settings and the like).
Without Adobe Writer, though, then they may as well have just replaced the machine with a paperweight for all of the good it will do me.
Right now I am merely irked that they did not contact me, and also that they did the work after I'd gone home (rather than doing it in the morning, when I was still here and could have addressed some of these issues). I am saving my full ire for later when I find out that they did not configure and install critical stuff because nobody called me.
I have heard an ugly rumour that I may have to jump through hoops to get LAC access on the machine again. Apparently what they have done for some is remove it when they re-imaged the machine and make them create a new business case about why they still need it if they want to get it back (since peoples' requirements tend to magically change when we go to a new OS).
Fortunately I brought in lychees today. They may not fix the situation, but at least they make it less intolerable. Mmmmm... lychees...
By the way, my poppies bloomed.
