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Wasting Time at Work
« on: April 29, 2003, 06:23:40 PM »
... is not right.

Is wrong if it's not MY choice of time wasting.

I just spent 5 hours realizing I don't really want to be in IT support for a company. I was running queries and macros in Access. The SAME queries and macros. For five hour. Each took between 10-20 minutes to run.

Granted, they were on different data tables, but they were all from the same two databases and followed the exact same procedure. Then I pasted some info into Excel.

Yes, it was in ACCESS.

Call me crazy, or tell me if I'm wrong, since I have little experience with this, but could we have just set up a cron job or a Perl script to run this from a Unix machine and had it do all the work without making a human being stare at a screen all day?

Sigh. Well, that's my rant. I'll make up for it by spending the evening reading RPG books between phone calls.
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2003, 08:43:38 AM »
Start a game store. Some columns up over at RPG.net are all about that.
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2003, 09:23:12 AM »
So I can be the fat, obnoxious guy everyone complains about? Sorry, no thanks. Also, I don't know if i believe there's a big opening for that.

Besides, I'm already fat and obnoxious, I don't need everyone complaining about me.
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2003, 09:03:47 AM »
Incorperate with me and our games will rule the Universe. Eric I am your father!!!!
And stop wasting time at work.  :D
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2003, 08:06:15 PM »
Get back ta work, ya lazy goldbricks!
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2004, 01:19:12 PM »
Why are you working there if you think it's boring? Or was it just that day that was boring...
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2004, 01:35:18 PM »
Hey!  I like the fat annoying guy!  He supplies me with gaming tools I need to not be bored to death!

And yes, you should not have had to look at a screen all day.  Boo hoo.  I have to stare a chalkboard 6 hours a day, everyday, and I can't even listen to music or anything.  All you need to do is pump on some rolling stones and you're good to go for five hours of underworldish pain... :P
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2004, 01:42:56 PM »
That rant was posted about a year ago. Since then he's gotten a new job.

And you'll quickly learn once you're in the working world that sometimes you have to work somewhere you don't like simply because you need the money and no one else is hiring. Go watch Joe vs. the Volcano. That's how I feel about work sometimes. And any job you get will have times like that, whether you enjoy it most of the time or not.
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2004, 01:46:06 PM »
Yup, Jobs, like school, are required and not meant to be fun.  If you find a fun job LUCKY YOU!
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2004, 01:58:48 PM »
Thats the key, though, you gotta find a job you like that pays well. That's true success...
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2004, 02:00:12 PM »
Joe Versus the Volcano is one of the coolest movies EVER. EVAR! But yeah, that kind of sums it up. you gotta do what you gotta do, then you get trapped, and you fail to notice when there are new options. Fortunately, I found another option, which is much better
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2004, 02:49:06 PM »
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So I can be the fat, obnoxious guy everyone complains about? Sorry, no thanks. Also, I don't know if i believe there's a big opening for that.

Besides, I'm already fat and obnoxious, I don't need everyone complaining about me.


So, I was browsing your misc folder so I could show my husband a picture of you, and got to look at a lot of pictures of your girls. They are very, very cute.
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2004, 03:43:29 PM »
And you needed to quote for that because...?
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2004, 04:07:25 PM »
Stop being obnoxious Gorgon. Nobody is impressed. Politeness is a virtue.
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Re: Wasting Time at Work
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2004, 04:21:36 PM »
Dreadfully sorry, sarcasm is the flavor of the day.  Please, go on.
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