The vent

Well if you have superuser rights, then reboot it for her (shutdown -r now)
That outta shut her up..

Oh, I do wish I can wave a magic wand at her and shut her up. She just talk and talk and talk even when I'm absolutely disinterested. (After this, I don't aspire to work in the technical/helpdesk aspect of IT anymore!)

Fucking technology issues are driving me bonkers.

This week:

Internet has been fucked at HOME (Telekom) and at work (different company). Working at home now but still semi-fucked at work. Home connection now will not work wirelessly anymore. Now all phones are all fucked at work today (Telekom). Got a new NAS hard drive at home - setup is a nightmare and cannot get to work. Even the new friggin TV control lost its connection and had to be reprogrammed again. Motorbike carbs are fucked. Macbooks takes 10 minutes to boot. Wireless keyboard at home keeps losing its connection (replaced already). Worldpay connections semi-fucked for websites.

I just don't have the mental strength to ring Telekom. I am a broken man. I just can't do it. Gonna go home and creep back into bed and hope it all goes away.

@JE, Don't start on to me about Deutscher Fuckin' Telekom. Bastards, the lot of them. Dante has a whole chapter in Inverno dedicated purely to the level of Hell anybody with anything to do with Telecom companies will burn on for all eternity.

I was happily working away in the orifice on Monday, in a hugely demanding week ahead of a major once-every-two-years exhibition, when BANG! at 14:40 no internet connection. It has taken hours and hours and hours of haranging and shouting down a phone over the past 4 days just to get Telekom to get me to the "We'll get an engineer to look into it" stage. Obviously they kept us going for two days with the classic, "It's your provider. Nothin' wrong with our connection". Of course, the provider always answers, "Not our problem, everything is fine. Must be a Telekom problem" and you go round and round in ever decreasing circles, spending most of your time waiting on machines to offer you two totally inappropriate choices and then asking you again to choose because they didn't understand your initial choice of, "I'm goin' to come round your office and stick your fuckin' machine up your arse!".

So, you're not alone. I've been working from home for most of the week. The nights are somewhat restless. I awoke in a sweat last night after having dissembowelled an entire Telekom marketing team. Still, I did feel a little better.

We got all that on the phone. Must be the modem. Must be the splitter. Will cost if we send an engineer and it is your problem - but we can't do that anyway 'cos they are on strike.

I was like "it's the line, the modem is happy as a kraut in a beertent - please fix the frigging line".

Turns out the line was down.

My one dealing with Telekom - "Hello - my phone line won't let my dial out" "It's your phone" "No it's my line" "It's your phone. We'll send an engineer"

Engineer arrives 3 days later. "It's your phone" "No. It's my line" "Ok, I'll prove it." Rings switchboard "Ah, it's your line - why didn't you say". Wanker.

Where is that rock again? I need it to crawl under it.

What a prick! A colleague wants the name list to be translated into German "because we are in Germany, the official language is German." How the hell should I translate German names?! There are too many people sitting in their gardens doing nothing than talk to the birds!

I just got out of a 1 hour meeting to discuss the new 'organisational structure' of our department. Not once, but twice was a chart posted with each team in the department listed and with each team member on it...except me! The manager and he 'vice manager' (I'll call him Mini-me) both apologized but it pissed me off. I guess I'm not so valuable to them anyway. Maybe it's time to start looking for another job.

I think that was perhaps what is known in the trade as a "hint".

We rung Telekom from home. They say "Have you got a light on the dongle?" and we say "I don't fucking know, because I have just come home to ring you up 'cos the frigging phones don't work"

They say it might be the dongle. We say it is the line.

They rung us back. The line is busted.

Please stop the world, I want to get off.

I forgot to sign my new cellphone contract. (Well I did sign it two times, but missed one.) Luckily I sent it by e-mail in a PDF so my mistake was fixed quickly. Duh!

Guys on the B13: Maybe you can wait blocking off one of two lanes citybound until after rush hour? Not to mention turning off two main traffic lights. Coz I took 50 minutes instead of 25, was 20 minutes late for work and the boss called me on the cell phone with instructions after no one answered in the office. (Waiting for his Outlook to synchronize, that's why I have time to post here.)

Dear client: I would appreciate it if you do not call 15 minutes before kick-out time requesting me to scan 100 pages of agreements and send them out asap. They take forever as the scanner sends them to HQ in TX from whence I receive the e-mails about 3 hours later (20 minutes acutally, but it seems longer).

Fucking Deutsche Bahn.

There is no excuse for taking 10 days - yes, ten - to transfer the bonus points I've picked up for an award. How is it that with air miles it is still possible to transfer them on the day of departure?

And then when I complain, don't try to convince me that the process takes 10 days. I'm not stupid. The main attraction of rail is spontenaity. So fucking use your advantage. I will even give up extra points for an express ticket. But no, zat iz not possible, and I have to spend €150 on a ticket whilst my points fester in your crap system. Thanks a lot for the flexibility you offer someone who has bought a bahncard 50 (now 100) every year since 2001.

Fuckers - and they wonder why everyone flys nowadays...

Hazza, should I send that little rant to my colleague who's wife works at DB?

AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH! I hate fucking Telekom in strike. They managed to cut my old line, but the guy who is supposed to link up the new line is on strike. So no telephone and Internet for at least a week.
But at least I heard they finished the strike. Couldn't they have agreed yesterday?

Bloody Lufthansa cancelled my bloody flight back and there are no other flights getting out of here today. Aghhh!!

I am in a state where I don't know what to do. Cry? Yell? Eat a lot of ice-cream? Run 50 miles (or attempt to, anyway)? Move back to the States tomorrow? Pretend nothing happened? Maybe just go to sleep. I can't write about it as I know unfriendly eyes are watching me. But let's just say that a situation which I had no idea was precarious has now suddenly turned into a bus teetering on the edge of a cliff. I feel like I have a different grasp on reality when speaking to the others involved, and a completely different language in which conversations are taking place on so many different levels that saying anything is screwing things up more than clarifying anything. There are certain things I have faith in about myself...not many, but I have them. And now one of those things has very unpleasantly been scrutinized and announced lacking although I don't see it.

Frickin' stupid two-faced manipulator.

Keep hangin in there girl, soon be Shrek time

Frigging S1 10 to 12 minutes delay coming from Freising/Airport. Miles of empty track and it can't make it? WTF?

Just shook hands with the 17th person this morning in my office. Arrgrghrghhrgrhgrhrg!!!

Just want to shout "F*CK OFF!!!" at the next one.

Thankyou.

Some stupid f**ker is too selfish and/or lazy to park causing the tram to be diverted!

aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm so bored!!! I'm actually too bored and unmotivated to even be angry about it... just frustrated at sitting at my desk looking at the screen,, achieving practically nothing for the last 6 hours 10 weeks!

don't worry. You would get used to it.

I have been doing that for the last 5 years now.

Don't think I can get used to it... not good at being bored or tired at the best of times but 8-5 five days a week is killing me. Decided to sack it in for the day and go at 4.30 today- we'll see how that goes down tomorrow but at this moment in time I quite frankly couldn't give a flyin f**k

Stupid MVV Netz bullsh*t - I have to pay €6,40 for a Tageskarte to go 6 friggin' stops (because of the stoopid zones.) OOOOoohh, I cross over a ZONE... that should cost big bucks.

Blah Blah Blah!

Where are you going? There are often ways of fooling the system to reduce the cost, e.g. going to the airport should cost €8,80 but can be done for €7,20.

How that? Even if traveling alone?

Yes, you buy a normal ticket for the innenraum for €2,20 and a tageskarte for the Aussenraum which costs €5,00 = €7,20

Great tip, thanks!

Actually it can work out at €7.10, if you buy a Streifenkarte (€10.50 for 10 strips), stamp 2 of them for the Innenraum journey (€2.10) and then buy an Aussenraum Tageskarte for the rest.

Of course that only makes sense if you travel regularly to the airport so you can use up the other strips, or if you plan to use them for other journeys (only figured this out after reading one of Small Town Boy's useful travel posts though).

For F**ks sake!!! You try and help someone out, doing their work for them to save them soem time and because they're German and proud or something they don'T like it!! Wouldn't mind but it's not like I stepped on any toes i asked before I did it- then obviously everything I did should have been done differently!

Sorry... just needed to get that off my chest!

The weather. Its dripping wet outside & the forecast for the weekend is rain or alternatively thunderstorms.
Why do I have this stupid weather-dependent hobby?

Move to Bayern my son, lovely down here.

Yes papi - I only had the "threaten" to come down to the schwäbische Alb over Pfingsten for their whole Pfingstferien to be washed out.

The locals are saying they should loan the "Fische" out to those areas suffering from draught...

AHHHH! found the perfect fricken apartment, arranged my kaution, checked with my landlord if I can move out early as suggested by the fricken people who are renting the new place only to call up today to be told I can't fricken have it caus I'm to young...WTF!!!

Grumble ... tummy-ache ... grumble ... rain ... grumble ... work ... grumble ... etc.
EDIT: Not to forget the unspeakable Deutsche Bank that debited my sub-account on 30 June and 1 July for not exactly low transfers to the main account but didn't credit it there until 2 July.

I just can't read a certain other thread any more. Shite. Shite. Shite. unbelievable bullshit on a massive scale.

Thats better.

Yesterday on my the to city park for some of the festivities of the fourth we stop at Silver Creek (local little brewery/pub) to get a beer (it’s next to the park). I went to order the drinks while my boyfriend goes to the bathroom. While waiting to order I realize I didn’t have my id…. So I go up and say I don’t have my id, but I swear I’m 25! Could I please order a beer for my boyfriend and myself. (then while not pausing to let them say no I had an idea). I said fine I’ll get a root beer since I doubt you’ll give me a beer and can you get a beer for him and when he comes out he’ll get his beer and you can card him. The guy said no. I respond with, fine he’ll get his own beer can I just get a root beer? He said no and I couldn’t even be in there. It’s noon!!! And there are kids in there!!! Yes, I know they’re with their parent’s so they can be, but still! I said I’d leave once he returns. I tell him what’s up and he goes to order his beer and my root beer. The guy looks at him then looks at me and comes around the corner of the bar to kick me out! I said I’m just standing here. He goes “you can’t be on the premise, not even outside on the patio!� I looked at him sooo mad and said, “fine! How come they’re here?!� (some women with kids in a stroller) and push past the ugly people with babies (and yes, I know why they’re allowed in- the kids, not the woman) and went and waited outside. While I was waiting for bf to come out of the bathroom there were 2 guys at the end of the bar who kept saying we’re her guardian she’s of age and fine. They were funny and giving the barman shit for being an ass. I guess once I left the guy didn’t even want to give my boyfriend the root beer since he knew it was for me! How freaking ridiculous is that!?!?! So he responded that, “it’s hot there I’m thirsty� and so he got. AND they didn’t even card him!?!?! What the hell? I’m 25 and you won’t take my word on it, but then he goes up to get a beer and root beer and you don’t card him? Grr stupid alcohol laws and ridiculous people!
I told this story to my friend who’s a cop in the neighboring town and he agreed it was ridiculous and said that the guy saying he’d get a $500 fine for me being there is legit, but if the police could look up that I’m not underage if they came in to check then they would’ve been fine and considering it was the 4th and the festival in the park the open container law was ignored for the day. Basically, the guy was just being a jerk and it had nothing to do with legality.

DAMN DATIVERGÄNZUNG

Why is it raining everywhere??? Pisses me off!

Tell me about it. This whole having thunderstorms almost every f*#@king day business is well and truly getting on my tits. I wish the storm clouds would just piss off somewhere else.

Just been speaking to my brother in UK (the South) - weather vile there as well. Parts of UK (like Hull) seriously flooded.
The reason being apparently is that the Jet stream is lying over Scotland instead of being far further North...

Up before 7, off to the airport and on a plane to Toulouse, hang around for 3 hours then sit through a 1 1/2 hour presentation, hang around for another 4 hours and plane back to Munich getting home at gone midnight.

17 hour day for a fucking 90 minute presentation?

Main topic of the presentation for the 100+ delegates dragged from all across Europe? How can we and our suppliers improve efficiency and save on costs?

Well, for a start you can stop making suppliers buy a 1000 euro flight ticket and dragging them away from business for a whole fucking day for 90 minutes!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr

Oh yeah, 5 fucking euros 90 for a pint of bleeding Heineken piss in the airport too!

Darn, I wish I had to fly to Toulouse for a 1.5 hour meeting and spend the day there...

Ask a colleague "How was lunch?". Get this reply.
"How do you mean 'how was lunch'?"
I'll rephrase that: how was your lunch?
"Oh normal. They have mostly meat. But normal."
Colleague stares at me. "Why do you ask?".
Because it's polite.
"I don't understand."

Jehovah shat a unicycle.

did anyone say that ?

Fuck vodafone