Any other normal human being would piss his pants on the spot as he would run in a panic towards the car and leave in any possible manor and fashion,
But not duckie,
He’s got an eyepatch. Bitch.
Hahaha, I saw the shotgun (actually I thought he’d have a rifle) from a miiiiile away as soon as I read Hill Country and lost. This is Texas brah! What was you thinking? Perhaps, good ol’ fashion longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates will help you if there is a next time.
Wait. Hill Country region of Texas? I’ve been through there once a long time ago. If RabidDuckie was in the area I think he was, he’s possibly leaving out something else that might have sucked about his day. Maybe it has changed since I was there, but I distinctly recall a lot of really, really bad briars, stickers, and other thorny plant-life. Bad enough that while ‘having a shotgun aimed at you’ is easily the worst thing that happened, the thorns would be a semi-close second place finisher.
That really, really sucks. I hope the pay was worth a really awful day!
Duckie and Fishjie should team up and fight crime.
Damn bro; stay safe Duckie. Can’t let this thread die!
So with all the hubbub from last week I forgot to talk about something really heartwarming that happened.
I was doing another one of those ID card terminal installations for a day care center, and I was told there was a person who wanted to meet me. I turned around, and one of the workers was holding a 4-5 year old boy in her arms who was wearing a little leather eye patch with a train on it. He’d injured his eye a few months prior and was feeling very self-conscious about having to wear one.
Well, when the kid saw me, his mouth hung open in genuine surprise. He’d finally found someone else in the world just like him. He ducked down and looked a little nervous, and the worker carried him back over to the other children. When I was training the staff on how to use the card reader, that same lady looked back over at him, and he was playing happily with the other kids. They said he hadn’t been that cheerful since the injury.
I’m just glad they were turned around, because I was seriously fighting back the manliest of tears.
Your story is so sweet that I…
The feels man, the feels.
So did you guys like rub eye patches? Did you channel some of your Duckie life essence into his eye?
where are the rest of misadventures?
Yeah Duckie where you at? Hopefully you didnt get locked in someones basement answering a repair call.
Or if you did I hope its a really cool story.
Actually, it’s been fairly non-crazy lately.
Did get to meet a ridiculously gorgeous Iranian woman, but that’s as far as that went.
pics or it didn happen
Funny how I talk about how normal things are getting, and then I have one of those shitty days.
Today was the first day back at work after having to go on light duty after the car accident where I sprained my shoulder. I was doing another one of those card reader installations at a day care center, and I was preparing to go through the training procedure that I’ve now done at least forty times.
Every time I would show the lady how to do something, she’d say “I was told I’m legally forbidden from doing that” or “that’s not legal for me to do” or something of the sort. I rarely use this word, so when I do I mean it: she was being a real bitch. I’m pretty patient (or at least able to tolerate a lot), but I almost walked. I took a deep breath and said “Ma’am, I get that you’re not responsible for what I’m telling you. However it’s helpful for you to know because it can help you not waste ten minutes of your time calling us over a thirty second issue and making your customer angry for wasting their time over a simple question.”
She kept bitching about it not being legal for her (this is bullshit, otherwise it would have come up the other thirty nine times I trained people).
Finally, I looked her right in the eye and said “Ma’am, you’re telling me you’re legally unable to do this. That’s fine. I respect that. I’m not telling you TO do this, I’m showing you how to tell the people who are responsible HOW to do it so you can get paid. I’m contractually bound to explain to you each item on this list I showed her a list of what I’m training her on or I don’t get paid. If you want to initial each one of these and then lie to the program supervisors and tell them I trained you on it, then I’ll leave right now. If you want to just let me do my job though so I can do what I’m legally supposed to do, I’d appreciate that. May I continue?”
She nodded her head. I noticed that she was very sweet and kind after that.
Alpha male, bitches.
god y cant there b a win button?
She’s lucky that the Power Patch didn’t come off.
Spoiler
Zaraki Duckpachi?
Why was that the first thing that came to my mind?
How about Hatake DuckDuckshi?
If there is one thing I cannot abide, it is being made to look incompetent.
I’m good at my job. Really good. I get called if senators need IT work. When dispatch calls and they say my name, I usually hear at least three more in the background saying “Tell John hi!” or “I’ve got some work for him, too!” So yeah, I know what I’m doing.
Today, though… today I was assigned to upgrade some PCs at a car rental place at an airport. I have nothing bad to say about these people. Absolutely nothing. They are hard working people who got far too much shit for stuff that wasn’t their fault. Folks, never use Priceline or another third party vendor for car rentals and expect to get a cheap price AND good service if there’s a problem. You lose all your flexibility when you use a third party for car rentals. ALWAYS go straight to the vendor. If something happens, you can’t get help from the car rental place. You aren’t their client. You’re the third party’s client, and you have to talk to them, and from what I saw today it’s very, very painful.
So that affected me and my ability to work. I needed to replace five machines. I could only work on one. So on paper it looks like it took me six hours to replace one PC. For comparison, the next one took an hour and forty minutes, and that’s because I had a small problem.
Anyway, I needed help for something else. My contact was out of the office. Right here was when I knew I was fucked, because project managers should never leave for any reason on the first day of a project with new documentation. There were several issues with the documentation. Several. They were all stupid shit like
– Mentioning an important step during a process they told you to skip if it already had something nonrelated, but needing to use that step afterward and encountering issues because that important step was skipped. It should have been before the skip since it needed done regardless.
– Not mentioning that computers could have different naming conventions that would interfere with things. My site had weird computer names that the new ones didn’t take to, so they aren’t useable as they are now until this is resolved. I saw seven hundred people pass through the line today. It would have been a disaster had I set up all five PCs and then found this problem out when the the staff couldn’t run orders through because a two-letter difference.
The first one was the big one.
Anyway, since I was in an airport, I had shitty reception, so my client couldn’t call me to get updates for their client and we had to use email (thank God ATX has free wifi). I’m getting questions I can’t answer from all fronts, and I can’t get the answers I need because my support docs are shit, everyone is out of the office for one reason or another, and the one guy I CAN get a hold of is just as lost as me. He was awesome, at least. Lives in San Francisco and plays Street Fighter. That guy was cool.
Oh, and I’m broke since the car accident I was in last month left me unable to work, meaning all I had today was a glass of water and some pop tarts.
I’m kicking tomorrow’s ass.