Ah Tuesdays! For some unknown reasons, at the end of each Tuesday, I would be drained up like an RC car battery. Tuesday’s have always been one of the busiest day of my work week. There’s a lot things going on and almost everybody is in our office to attend our weekly meeting. Speaking of meeting, ours is one of the most boring meetings that you’ll ever imagine. I am not sure why we are waste 30-45 mins of our work week listening to stuff that does not even concern us or might not even affect us. I am pretty sure most of my co-workers think the same way. I think nobody just have the guts to speak their minds out, and I wouldn’t be the stupid fool to speak my mind out either.
And so today I got the “honor” to assist two of our so called special and intellectual Mac users. I was still sitting on the john doing my daily routine when I got the email on my iPhone requesting me to assist a doc in setting up VPN on her Mac. The other request came during the course of the day. One of my team mates at our so-called Mac group asked for a favor to assist another doc to migrate her applications from one laptop to another. I call it the so-called mac group because there’s only about 4 people in that group who really does know about Macs, half of them don’t even have macs to work on. I became a member of this “group” because I had this notion that I’d learn something from this group. I do admit I learned something but I probably learned more researching solutions from Google, and not from being a part of the group but using my initiative to research stuff and learn things. Being a Linux user also helped a lot. The concept of troubleshooting macs is actually somewhat similar with Linux, it just so happens Macs have a flasher GUI. I do feel that if my workplace intends to continue seriously supporting mac users, they would have to provide us the necessary tools and training and not just throw us to the pits. Honestly though, I do not see this from ever happening so for now, Google will be my best friend in finding solutions to solve Mac problems.
On to another note, a question pop in to my mind today. With all the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter popping up like mushrooms, I am wondering if there is a “code” somewhere as to the limits on how much work related stuff we could discuss out to the rest of the world. I know that the people who reads this “status updates” would be your “friends” but shouldn’t things be kept on some levels? I just feel if you have gripes or rants that you want to express, I think it is best to talk first with your superiors instead of posting it in your status updates. If anyone ever does read this, share me your thoughts. What do you think?
Peace!
