Excuse anything technical in this post, but I’m going to have a go at a muppet I’m unfortunate enough to work for. We all know about people being promoted above their abilities. Well, I’m amazed this ****’s made it out of primary school.
It’s hard to believe he works for an IT company as a manager, until you look at our recent board and directors and realise they could easily be baffled by a few buzzwords and some techno-bullshit. Which, to be fair, is the sum of his technical knowledge. No wonder our internal systems keep falling over – he’s like a kid pressing buttons at random trying to look after them.
Anyway, I was walking up the steps at Forster Square station in Bradford on Friday when my laptop back strap snapped. The bag (and laptop) made a nice *thud* as they hit the steps below. Oops. On getting into the office on Monday morning, the machine wouldn’t boot (no real surprise) and we diagnosed a damaged DVD and also the mouse touch pad.
After much dicking about, I managed to requisition a second-hand Sony Vaio which I’m currently tapping away on. Nice machine, bit faster than the old one. **** keyboard layout, but hey ho. I’ll get used to it.
Now this guy has to have his finger in every pie. But only for a minute. He’s well known for starting something then buggering off and leaving someone else to fix the mess he’s made of it when “he knows best”. Basically, when things go wrong, it’s someone else’s fault because by that stage he’s moved on to screw someone else’s work up.
As an example, I was reconfiguring this little machine from scratch and he was mouthing off at someone to bring in a copy of Partition Magic because: “when you set it up you can only have an 8Gb partition and a separate 32Gb partition. We’ve tried every way and that’s all you can get. And I don’t want it set up like that.”
Note: “I don’t want”. Who’s going to be using the damn thing? That’d be me, not him. Plus, if you follow the instructions when rebuilding, then you can set it up in various ways. When I mentioned this later it was someone else (unnamed of course) who got blamed for not knowing, despite him being the only person to configure it before.
Back to the laptop. I managed to get mine running to the stage where I could start dragging files over from that one to my new one. Both were sat there transferring away when he crept up behind me. “How are you enjoying your new machine?”
“Well, it’s fine. It’s faster. The screen’s not as good as my old one, though, but I’m only being picky. Look.”
And I showed him the BBC news ticker scrolling across the top. The image is a little blurry and rather pixelly. Not a problem. Still images are sharp, but moving ones aren’t as good as on my own machine. This is down to the response time in the screen not being as good. Simple issue, common difference between screens. Only not for this ******:
“Oh, that’s because it’s a better screen.”
“What?!”
“It’s sharper. Which is why it looks like that. I changed my desktop from a monitor to a flat screen a couple of weeks ago and I get the same. It’s because it’s better.” Talk about comparing apples and elephants.
So my screen image is worse… because my screen is better? OK, if that’s the way it goes I’ll swap him my company car for his. Mine must be better… because it’s worse.
