Back to Normality?
Posted: Tue 2 January, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Travel, Work-related |2 Comments »So, back to work, and all that goes with it.
Train journey in went OK, but then I had to renew my season ticket for another month. Simple, you’d have thought – but you’d be wrong. The drongo in the ticket office printed the season ticket on the wrong ticket paper, which means that it looks like it’s invalid. So that’ll be fun for the next month then. I questioned it at ‘customer services’, who agreed it looked wrong, and said to take it back to the ticket office. Doing so, a different drongo completely failed to print out a replacement for it (I’ve no idea why, other than general incompetence), then wrote the photocard identifier on the (dodgy looking) ticket, and assures me “that’s all it needs”. Suffice to say, I’m not convinced.
Getting in to work, my pass has expired (as I was initially due to only be here ’til 25th Dec) and no-one’s bothered to extend the authorisation. Hopefully that’ll be sorted today, so that tomorrow can get back to some semblance of normality.
Other than that, because other people have used the laptop that is my main work computer, I’ve now spent most of the morning reconfiguring it to how I want it. The tossers didn’t even charge it up, they left it with a completely dead battery – and in hibernation.
All in all, not a great start to the working year…
Reconfiguring it how you want it?
No separate user accounts?
Yep, different user accounts. Unless someone changes bits in the ‘all users’ section – like how the touchpad works (or doesn’t), and the settings that graduate across all users (keyboard, mouse, display, so forth, so fifth).
The joys of people who know not what they do.