Monday, June 06, 2005

The Modern Wonder a.k.a Bane of My Existence

My PC is acting up again. You’d think that when I got a brand new PC from the Co., all my PC woes would be over, right? Wrong.

Got my new PC on Tuesday. The IT guy fiddled here, fiddled there, installed this and that. Finally, he checked to see that all my applications were up there and running. Yep, all set. The next day, which was Wednesday, my PC was definitely A-OK.

Went on leave the next day. Just came back today. Opened up the PC. Good, PC is now on and still A-OK. Proceeded to open my intranet mails.

Wait a minute. Where’s my mailbox? Dang it! My office mail application is gone. As in not there anymore. What happened to my mails?

Called the IT guy. They’ll be right over.

Sure, no prob. I’ll just do my other tasks while you guys figure this out.

Proceeded to download my working files from the server.

Hey, what the *&@$?? I couldn’t open them! Oh, wait a minute. I needed to select a program to open the file. Hmm, it never asked that before. It used to just automatically open itself. Oh well, perhaps it’s the new PC.

Selected the program, and clicked OPEN.

SH*T! It opened all right, but not in any form that makes sense. AT ALL. Everything turned out as rubbish characters. A lot of good it did me. Now, I couldn’t check my mails, NOR do my work.

Placed yet another call to the IT dept.

And not long after that, I found out that my business travel claims didn’t get through. Something was wrong with the system. Yet another computer-related problem.

One more call. 3 calls, 3 completely different problems in one day. I'd probably be famous over at the IT dept today, as the biggest PC dumbwit ever.

And it's all courtesy of the wonderful world of technology. I know, I know, technology is wonderful; computers are a blessing to our daily lives. Without computers, we will not able to achieve most (if not all) of the major accomplishments of the modern age. I will not argue on that point, so just save your pro-computer/technology arguments to yourself.

All I’m saying is, when computers don’t work as they’re supposed to, they will DEFINITELY become a major source of headache, especially for less-than-savvy IT users like me.

Y’know?

Hmm ok, what to do next?
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