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So I come in to work today and there is a computer sitting on my desk with a note on it.
It's already configured, it's all ready to go it just needs me to go up and replace it.
So I shrug, punch in, listen to the phone messages, grab the PC and schlep it to the Doctor's station on the third floor.
Total swap out. Get rid of the crappy and clunky 21 inch CRT Monitor and replace it with a new 21 inch widescreen LCD, new keyboard and mouse, and hook it all up to the new PC.
This is important to the story later...everything that was removed was dingy IBM Beige colored. ALL of the new equipment was shiny Black and Silver.
Easy and quick. However before I can leave I'm flagged over to the nurses station to fix a [smurf]ed up printer. It's a simple fix, they had just replaced the toner cartridge with a "new" (and I use the term loosely) one from a company that re-conditions (and I use that term even more loosely) HP Cartridges, refills and resells them.
And like all the other carts from this company...it was a jammy piece of [smurf].
So they replaced it with a real, genuine HP cart and low and behold...it works.
But that's not the suck here. That came from the doctor who was standing in front of the new computer and next to the cart that had all of the old crap that I was removing.
He tore into me demanding to know when our department was going to do something about this worthless [smurf]ing computer and get something that he can actually do his work on.
And yes he pointed at the new components sitting on the desk while ranting about the crappy old computer, how lazy our department was, and I think he even said something disparaging about my mother and my breeding but most of it was in Hindu so I can't be sure.
I just calmly walked over, grabbed the cart and pointed out the fact that the contents of the cart were the old computer that admittedly had issues and what was on the desk was brand new equipment and that if he was still having any problems he could call me with details of what is wrong and I'll gladly address those issues.
Then I walked off.
Honestly? Is the first prerequisite class in becoming a doctor "Arrogant [smurf]sucker 101"?
It's already configured, it's all ready to go it just needs me to go up and replace it.
So I shrug, punch in, listen to the phone messages, grab the PC and schlep it to the Doctor's station on the third floor.
Total swap out. Get rid of the crappy and clunky 21 inch CRT Monitor and replace it with a new 21 inch widescreen LCD, new keyboard and mouse, and hook it all up to the new PC.
This is important to the story later...everything that was removed was dingy IBM Beige colored. ALL of the new equipment was shiny Black and Silver.
Easy and quick. However before I can leave I'm flagged over to the nurses station to fix a [smurf]ed up printer. It's a simple fix, they had just replaced the toner cartridge with a "new" (and I use the term loosely) one from a company that re-conditions (and I use that term even more loosely) HP Cartridges, refills and resells them.
And like all the other carts from this company...it was a jammy piece of [smurf].
So they replaced it with a real, genuine HP cart and low and behold...it works.
But that's not the suck here. That came from the doctor who was standing in front of the new computer and next to the cart that had all of the old crap that I was removing.
He tore into me demanding to know when our department was going to do something about this worthless [smurf]ing computer and get something that he can actually do his work on.
And yes he pointed at the new components sitting on the desk while ranting about the crappy old computer, how lazy our department was, and I think he even said something disparaging about my mother and my breeding but most of it was in Hindu so I can't be sure.
I just calmly walked over, grabbed the cart and pointed out the fact that the contents of the cart were the old computer that admittedly had issues and what was on the desk was brand new equipment and that if he was still having any problems he could call me with details of what is wrong and I'll gladly address those issues.
Then I walked off.
Honestly? Is the first prerequisite class in becoming a doctor "Arrogant [smurf]sucker 101"?
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