In the last two weeks our network at work has crash 4 times. When it is not crashed everyone's email is inundated with SPAM. Multiple email about Viagra, saving a nation from bankruptcy, private photo galleries, or the need to update my banking info with a establishment I do not even bank with. When the computers were working and not crashing everyone needed to sort through their mail black list any junk mail. We do have an IT guy that comes in when we need, well is supposed to come in when we need. He was in and out during the last two weeks but never that long. As soon as it was fixed and he would leave the systems would crash again. Not really sure if it was actually fixed or not.
I believe the reason why were are having some many problems is because we are running such old equipment and old programs. Some computers are still running Windows 98. The big check in and registrations software we run is no longer supported by the vendor (it is 4 editions behind 6 years old). If something happens in the program and we call for help we get nothing.
For my own work computer I am worried that the hamster is a 100 years old and sometimes the wheel turns because he broke his hip and is falling or the computer is slow because he is sleeping.
One morning this week I arrived at about 8 to my office. The accounts lady greeted me as I walked past her station and then told me the computers were down yet again and not to turn on my computer. We went to the front area to inform all the other office people not to turn on their computers’ and that IT support was already informed of the situation.
Just then the Marketing Director walked in. We told her what was going on. She throw her coat and bag down and started ranting. She started walking up and down the office hallway yelling about all the work that she had to do. She was going on and on. Almost made me think that she was the ONLY person in the entire organization that did anything at all. Do not worry that did not last long because I remembered how hard I work.
She came back over to the accounts lady and myself. She asked if IT support was called. We answered and told her he was but she was still in such a rant she did not hear us say YES and asked two more times. I realized that not only is she CRAZY she is hard of hearing. She then said she was going to call our General Manager.
Well then the accounts lady lost it on the Marketing lady. She asked what the GM could do in her car about the crashed computers here at work. I thought i was a great question…what could she do from her car? NOTHING! The Marketing director screamed as she ran (or should I say quickly waddled) into her office. It was definitely a exhibition of true professionalize if I ever saw it.
The GM arrived and we explained the situation to her. She very calmly walked into her office and tried contacting IT support again. The marketing lady heard that the GM had arrived and STORMED out of her office, pushed me out of her way in the hallway to get to the GM’s office and then told her in her outside voice what we had just told her. Again she said how much work that she had to do and suggested that if she cannot get her work done then the organization will stop functioning, have no money.
Sure Sure she has obviously not seen the profits that my portfolio has brought in. WELL past what I forecasted.
She walked out of the GM’s office like a heard of anger Rhinos. Then got to the area that the accounts lady and I were sitting and announced to us that she will be leaving early and claiming a full days hours. Then she said that she has do it every day that the system has been down. she has claimed a full week of hours and not worked them.
The said party is the she is considered “elite” and thus nothing will happen. She is falsifying the amount of work she is doing and claiming hours and NOTHING. She conducted herself VERY unprofessional and verbally abused a co worker and NOTHING. If anyone else were to do that they for sure would have been fired. In a real business environment she would have at least been written up even fired but at my place of work NOTHING at all she will get away with everything. Not a good business practice and not a good place to work.
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