Kevin DeGraaf’s Blog

I recently turned down an employment offer. I would have been in a Linux architect role, far away from my current position that includes heading a department (okay, it’s just me and a junior sysadmin) that supports Windows users. The reasons for turning down this job are varied and complicated, but a point was added to the “bail out” column today upon receipt of a particularly whiny email from a sales droid.

“Whaa, whaa, boo hoo, I want administrative access to my laptop! Boo hoo! Whaa!” Okay, moron. The last time we bent the corporate I.T. policy and gave you access, you installed all manner of crapware onto a company-owned laptop (games, widgets, toolbars, P2P filesharing apps, trojan horses, etc.) and physically beat the same laptop almost to death, requiring us to replace four major parts.  I believe I speak for pissed-off I.T. guys everywhere when I say: screw you.

This same droid also complained that a laptop recently assigned to his sales droid colleague, a Dell system, was “unbearably slow”. Mind you, this is a brand-new Dell laptop with an Athlon 64 X2 processor, a gigabyte of RAM, and a clean Windows XP installation. It’s not a dream machine, but it’s no bargain-basement clunker either. Many people, including a number of our own employees, do just freaking dandy on a lot less.

Why must people be stupid?  It burns!

Well, I haven’t posted anything in a while.

It hasn’t been due to a lack of time, because my life is (by design) not very busy.

It hasn’t been due to a lack of stuff to write about, either — cool tech stuff is still happening at work, the presidential campaigns are in full swing, I’m still enjoying shooting at the range, and delusional crackpots are still pissing me off. In other words, I could add to my “Tech”, “Politics”, “Guns”, and “Religion” categories fairly easily.

Honestly, I just haven’t felt like writing.  If my (admittedly small) audience would post more comments, maybe I’d be inclined to spend more time writing. 

Until next time…