Prison Break is back on FOX this week. I’m really liking this show. Good escapism until 24 returns in January.
It felt like I was in prison this afternoon at work. Our network ended up with some stupid virus that cause all the Windows machines to shut themselves down and restart every few minutes. We ended up having to turn our computers off completely and just wait for tech support to fix it. Of course, no timeframe for this fix was given. Some people figured out that if you unplugged your machine from the network, you could work on local files. Not that I really have any local files since most things I work on are out on our web servers and that requires a connection, but I thought I could backup some things or do something, but no, the ethernet cable on the back of my machine was totally jammed in and I could not get it out. So I gave up and spent nearly two hours really doing nothing at all. I had already cleaned my cube last week. There was nothing left to label or organize. I played some solitare and amazingly won after only the third game. I bounced my red rubber stress ball for awhile. David and I even played catch for a few minutes. It was ridiculously boring. And the fact that we had to just stay there all afternoon with nothing to do was so annoying. Towards the end of the day several of us were standing around discussing tv shows on dvd. The tech support chick showed up at my cube to apply some patch five minutes before my work day ended. When I left, she was under my desk trying to figure out how to get the network cable loose. I hope she didn’t rip my network card out or screw up my machine.
What is the lesson in all of this? While most of the company frittered away an entire afternoon of work, all our web designers and entire publications department kept working away, no problems at all. Why was this?
Because they all use Macs.
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