Get it off your chest!

[Shalot]

My husband is a network admin and computers are his life. So, you would think that I would be happy with my computer.

But that's not how it is.

He often disconnects the internet when I need to use it. Or, he changes my settings. Or he logs onto my computer from a remote location.

I have been using a refurbished lap top. I mentioned something to him about how I wanted to buy myself a new computer. I just mentioned it in passing - it wasn't a request. It was just a statement. Two days later, I have a new desktop. I don't know if it's new, or just new to me, and I don't care about that. I just want my computer to work and it doesn't and I wish that he had just let it go and let me get my own computer.

Yesterday, it had sound and today it doesn't.

I need to use Word, but when I open Word, it will not allow me to type. As it turns out I need to activate the damn thing, so as luck would have it, he is not here so I had to call him and he explained where I needed to go to get the key and then it still didn't work. See, if I had my own computer from scratch I would not have to go get the key off his network crap and I would just have my own independent computer separate from his with my own Office software and my own software key.

I just want a computer that works and you would think that I would have one, seeing as how my husband is really into computers. But every time he redoes something on my computer, nothing works! He never takes my usage habits into consideration. He never has. EVERYTIME he puts together a new computer he never puts it together for the end user. I swear, I am going to the store and I am going to buy my own damned computer and I am going ot put it together and he is not touching it. I will pay for my own internet access separate from his stupid complicated BS network that he is always taking offline for whatever reason (I think just to piss me off).

[JuniperWoolf]

Stupid big cow that I'm working with said that I was lazy, dumb, young and had bad taste in movies. Hahaha, so I made her work in the adult room, which is 30 degrees celcius, for five hours.

I had a three day weekend coming up, but our stupid boss changed the schedule and now I have to work 51 hours next week with no days off at all. Goddammit. I wish it was August and I could just go to school, it's much less stressful.

[DanielBenoit]

Stupid big cow that I'm working with said that I was a lazy, stupid, young and had bad taste in movies. Hahaha, so I made her work in the adult room, which is 30 degrees celcius, for five hours.

I had a three day weekend coming up, but our stupid boss changed the schedule and now I have to work 51 hours next week with no days off at all. Goddammit. I wish it was August and I could just go to school, it's much less stressful.

Aww I'm sorry, what an insensitive prick, there's nothing I hate more than people who accuse me of being lazy when I work my *** off. At least you got to taste a sweet dish of revenge

[Niamh]

Stupid big cow that I'm working with said that I was a lazy, stupid, young and had bad taste in movies. Hahaha, so I made her work in the adult room, which is 30 degrees celcius, for five hours.

DO you think that was the right way to get back at her? Would you have taken responsiblity if she had collapsed because the heat Jun?

What she said was bang out of order, but i dont think sticking her in a room that was 30 celsius for five hours was the just way to get back at her.

[JuniperWoolf]

DO you think that was the right way to get back at her? Would you have taken responsiblity if she had collapsed because the heat Jun?

What she said was bang out of order, but i dont think sticking her in a room that was 30 celsius for five hours was the just way to get back at her.

Aww, it's not THAT hot. Just uncomfortable and sticky and disgusting (what with all the porn). Trust me, if you knew this woman, you'd thank me.

[Basil]

Aww, it's not THAT hot. Just uncomfortable and sticky and disgusting (what with all the porn).

Wait, what exactly is it that you do you do for a living?

[JuniperWoolf]

Wait, what exactly is it that you do you do for a living?

Haha, I work at a video store that used to be a bank. What was at one point the vault has been converted to a little porn room without ventilation (it's really a lot like a prison cell... a prison cell filled with porn). I luckily never have to go in there because I work better with customers.

[Basil]

Nice! The video store I frequent has a sign: "Want porn? Make your own!"

[JuniperWoolf]

Haha I wish ours just did that. The adult room is pretty gross, all the movies in there are sticky (everyone has a different opinion as to why they're so sticky exactly).

[DanielBenoit]

Haha I wish ours just did that. The adult room is pretty gross, all the movies in there are sticky (everyone has a different opinion as to why they're so sticky exactly).

Ahahaaha! I think I can find a reason why.

[Niamh]

Aww, it's not THAT hot. Just uncomfortable and sticky and disgusting (what with all the porn). Trust me, if you knew this woman, you'd thank me.

Dont assume anything. I manage nearly 100 staff and not all of the like me and i dont necessarily like all of them. I've hear some pretty nasty things that have been said about me to other staff, things that have really angered me, but i'd never treat them any differently to everyone else for it. It would be very unprofessional if i did.

Up until a little over a year ago we had a shop here that was a freezer during the winter and a sauna during the summer and as tempting as it might be to throw the trouble makers etc down there we didnt. Everyone got there equal share of shifts down there and when it got too hot, we'd rotate staff every couple of hours because there was a threat the lack of air and heat might make the staff member collapse. I'd even have spent time down there to give someone a break. There are not just health and safety risks of leaving someone in a breathless, hot room for too long, there are also legal issues.

If it had been the opposite way around and it had been you who had insulted her and she had stuck you in there and the manager did nothing about it, would you have though it was fair? Even if you had cast the first stone? Would you have thought that five hours of stuffiness, heat and "stickiness" was just enough for a few words? Think about it.

(Sorry... I'm in work so i have my manager brain switched on. I can get like this with staff sometimes. I like to make them think about their actions.)

[JuniperWoolf]

Hmm, I guess that's what makes you a manager type whereas I work much better alone. I would have totally tossed the dissenters in the stuffy shop and kept my friends niiice and comfortable.

"Whats that? You're hot? Aww, well it's too bad that the water fountain's broken, eh?"

(By the way, I'm mostly kidding... mostly)

[Shalot]

Nice! The video store I frequent has a sign: "Want porn? Make your own!"

[Dr. Cambridge]

My husband is a network admin and computers are his life. So, you would think that I would be happy with my computer.

But that's not how it is.

He often disconnects the internet when I need to use it. Or, he changes my settings. Or he logs onto my computer from a remote location.

I have been using a refurbished lap top. I mentioned something to him about how I wanted to buy myself a new computer. I just mentioned it in passing - it wasn't a request. It was just a statement. Two days later, I have a new desktop. I don't know if it's new, or just new to me, and I don't care about that. I just want my computer to work and it doesn't and I wish that he had just let it go and let me get my own computer.

Yesterday, it had sound and today it doesn't.

I need to use Word, but when I open Word, it will not allow me to type. As it turns out I need to activate the damn thing, so as luck would have it, he is not here so I had to call him and he explained where I needed to go to get the key and then it still didn't work. See, if I had my own computer from scratch I would not have to go get the key off his network crap and I would just have my own independent computer separate from his with my own Office software and my own software key.

I just want a computer that works and you would think that I would have one, seeing as how my husband is really into computers. But every time he redoes something on my computer, nothing works! He never takes my usage habits into consideration. He never has. EVERYTIME he puts together a new computer he never puts it together for the end user. I swear, I am going to the store and I am going to buy my own damned computer and I am going ot put it together and he is not touching it. I will pay for my own internet access separate from his stupid complicated BS network that he is always taking offline for whatever reason (I think just to piss me off).

I'm glad you managed to post this interesting story before things went haywire for you, Shalot.

You could try using a word picture to illustrate to your husband the way you feel about this problem. Ask him what he would do if he was totally engrossed in some task and all this stuff and nonsense kept happening to really bug him. Remember to mention how intelligent he is and how ingenius you know he can be when it comes to solving difficult problems that no-one else understands.

Make it plain that you being simple and unknowledgeable in these matters have to rely on his great wisdom and incredible skills to resolve the matter.

If he's anything like me that'll do the trick!

[Heathcliff]

My teacher won't take my advice and STOP WEARING THAT TIE!!