Man this Internet thing has everything. Like video instructions on using that plastic strapping tensioner we have at work.

While I read this Rogers Portable Internet bait and switch post I am not surprised, neither by the misleading and mistakes on the website nor the belligerent attitude of the customer service people. I work with Rogers everyday at work and only the simplest of tasks are done without trouble. But the more difficult or complicated tasks always get screwed up and take forever. Such is the life of a callcenter employee, not trained properly nor paid enough to give a shite about their job. I am just glad the incompetence has me getting free cable since I cancelled in April but still watch TV.

Now this would be a fun contest to win and make use of. Vern Yip, of Trading Spaces fame, could provide a Microsoft Home Office Makeover. Honestly, it wouldn't be just the toys I would want but also the actual design. I would make it a dual-use office, a bit for me a bit for Marmy. Alas, it's only in the US. *pout*

I probably should have known that Rogers Blackberries do not work in Japan before I had a user take hers with her.

This article on The mystery of the daytime idle is really only interesting to the people who work all the time often seven days a week. They are stuck in their 8am to 8pm work lives and therefore, cannot understand why someone would have a chance to sit on a park bench in the middle of wednesday and just read. I was once one of those people having many random week days off of which I would just sit and watch people. But what I really need to know is, at Yonge & Eglinton, what does The Tanned Man do? He really is just hanging out all... the... time.

Team Leader: "OK guys, it's time to post another entry on the blog about how much fun it is to work here." But it isn't; you work us to death till 8pm and 9pm on fridays !! "That isn't the point. We must give the perception that we are A Fun Company To Work For !!" How about showing them your standard reprimand method and make them think it's fun? "BRILLIANT !! No pink ball in the face for you today."

The scuttlebuttle going around work today is Geek Sued For Peeking At Woman In Shower Via Video. The main reaction, "Who the fuck takes a shower when a service person is in their house?!?!" Well it does sound like other people were in the house so with that in context, I can see it happening. "Hi sis, I am gonna get ready for work, if they geek needs anything tell him I will be right out." Poor guy probably thought he was a pizza delivery guy in a porno.

A current obsession, actually interest as I am currently too apathetic to be whatsoever obsessed with anything, of mine is the arrangement of one's workspace. When you look at An Inside Look at the Offices of some New Yorkers, you see who's offices are used and who's are just a business accessory. My favourites, and that would describe what I would have mind look like, are they screenwriter's, the music producer's and the fashion designer's.

Heh. This was the topic of the conversation that coworkers were having that left me not having a thing to contribute but their kids were saying worse things than, "Shit !!" I was 21 before I ever said the word fuck in front of my mom and I had been up for 30 hours straight at that time.

Overheard at work from a guy on his BlackBerry, "iPhone coming to Canada." The funny thing is that we order our work smart phones via Rogers. The funnier thing is that this contract might be over by the time they are available and the execs are requesting them.

While I will never own one of the beautiful beasties, today I got to touch a Apple MacBook Pro in order to place it into inventory. Droolable. Totally.

So I am now sitting in an IT Dept eavesdropping on guys answering IT request phone calls and hearing, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Well, no not really but I want to say it when I hear them struggling with a user.

For the first time in a long time I will be doing a job that allows me the temptation to blog while I should be working. Oh I imagine there will be times when I can be blogging but the idea is to stay focused on the tasks at hand so we offer 18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work. (via the aforementioned jish)

It scares me that a work related blog would have a category called 'The No Asshole Rule'. oh, it's his book. That is scarier.

Holy Fraggle, I get to avoid this kinda shite this year and in case you haven't already guessed, I did quit The Store and I will be working elsewhere. Last day is tomorrow. First day is Monday... maybe.

People think I am nuts when I say I want to get back to the Nine-to-Five. It's really just a matter of knowing when I am going to be done every day. I would sooo have a clock like this.

Really, I could only get so far through this 'Tell US Airways how you feel about the' as it became too unbearable in the manner in which the guy was being treated.

Kewl. It's benoit falardeau the designer I tried to get my company in Montreal to hire. We probably couldn't afford him. And I found him by an ex-worker's Last.FM page.

As my brain fires calm down, having only destroyed a few homes (but they had insurance so that's ok), I am back to obsessing about work. I might peruse Bob Sutton's blog for some insights as to why the people I work with, and myself, work the way we do.

I think I will try this at work today, with the automated stock check system.

Ah hah !! I knew they were trying to kill me !! I knew that Constant Smiling Makes You Ill. (ahhh jen, you understand...)

Dang! This Toronto After Work Schmooze was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to attend when I first arrived in Toronto but now four years later and four years out of the webdev loop, I would be afraid.

I like the attitude behind Mutiny at the Cafe but I fear it wouldn't do much; oh wait, it didn't do anything.

Dear potential employer, if you end up reading this blog because I did tell you about it, I am not such a scatterbrained, manic-depressive loser as I make myself out to be. This is where I let my inside voice come out. I still would be a good employee. Please?

This is a neat, and ongoing, story about checking Best Buy receipts. The Store doesn't check receipts even if the customer has it in their hand; a nice amount of trust is going on.

I never could think of a reason to have a USB thumb drive but then I remembered I needed to bring a PDF from home to work and cannot remember where I have any floppies.

Heh. PVP Online, the webcomic, says everything I want to say about working retail during the holidays.

I know it is for students but maybe jobpostings.ca could help me too?

Tags with weight is a concept that has some meaning these days. It's a quick interface way to tell what means more than another thing, whatever that means. For example, looking for work is weighed this way in the web tech world.

I kind of thought my Boss was a Psychopath then I realized he just liked to kill people.

It's called Starbucks Gossip but most of the posts seem to be advertising it and the comments are full of full-blown *$ devotees yelling loudly.