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I submitted a ticket to my host awhile back telling them that the sendmail on the server was not working. They kept manually sending a test mail to my Wordpress mail address and saying that it is working.

I kept trying to explain to them that wasn’t my issue, and it was the website that was unable to send mail, because the ’sendmail’ on the server was FUBAR.

I swear they hire any regular Joe off the street and call them tech support, tech experience or not.

Well, finally after a dozen or so tickets, somebody’s burnt out light bulb above their head went back on and they forwarded my ticket to a higher level.

FINALLY! They got the send mail working again…..

So now I’m getting all the comment notifications that were made from as far back as June 21st.

So if you’ve made several comments, and I replied to them all. Chances are that you are getting all of them at once too. Sorry

I wish I had a direct line to the upper level support tier. It seems that I have to submit tickets till I’m either blue in the face or so frustrated that I flame them with frustration and want to jump through the computer and strangle the living shit out of them till they submit into forwarding my issue to the higher support tier that know what the fuck their doing.

I could go on about the other issues I have with them, but that’s an entirely new post.

I have to go to work now.

TTFN

This is just a random post just to say what I’ve been up to the past few days.

First off. Work. Shitty shifts keep me to burnt out to do anything. I’ve been getting one day off and then work a few and get one more day off. My days off are split up and it really sucks because I don’t feel rested at all when I have to go back in. So I’ve been pretty burnt out lately. Why I haven’t been chatting on Messenger or Skype lately folks.

Seems that the new training classes are set to start on the 8Th of July. So I’m hoping that will mean better shifts since they’re based on seniority.

The assholes are still the same though. I was going to apply at a different place, but I want to wait and see how things work out when we get some new meat on the floor. So I’ll put up with the assholes for a bit.

Last Saturday I had to hang up on some asshole because, well… he was being a real asshole. One of those people that ask a question, and when you go to answer it they cut you off. That evening was flooded with assholes and my nerves were shot after working 9 hours and it was time for me to go home in ten minutes. I was getting so frustrated with this fucker that I just said, “Fuck it!” and hung up. I’ll probably get in shit for that but fuck em’. It was either that or blow up at this fucking asshole and tell him to take his freaking F*do Phone and shove it up his ass.

Then the past few days were spent fighting with my web host. Don’t want to get started on that one. Lets just say I’ve had enough of my share of false promises and excuses.

I got a little constructive today. I finished off a Canada Day Flash Animation for July 1st. So check that out when the day starts. I have Canada Day off too, so I’ll go out and catch the fireworks. I’ll take pictures and video too. Hopefully I can do a better job than I did last  time.

I uploaded a crap load of new games to my Free Flash Game Site. I also had Richard Dows help me out with getting a link to the site in my page list on this site using the Word Press code so it fits in with the other website pages. A simple anchor text link didn’t seem to look right.

That reminds me. I have to apologize to my Twitter followers because I didn’t turn off the Twitter Update Plug-in when I did the massive update, causing a crap load of updates to show up on Twitter.

Well it’s late. I’m tired.

TTFN!

Last night was an easy night for me.

The iPhone 3Gs went on sale yesterday and the call volume spiked so high that it caused the phone server to crash.

So for five ours of my shift I did Sweet F*ck All!

People were so impatient that they couldn’t wait for it to be delivered and wanted it right then and now when they were ordering it over the phone.

Now I know that the intelligent people out there are probably wondering how that would be possible, getting something delivered on the second when ordering something over the phone. Maybe they have teleportation devices at UPS now?

Well, smart people dont call in asking stupid things like that. It’s always the ass hats and idiots.

So hopefully today will be the same for me. Maybe these assholes will still be calling in so much that they break the phone system again. Maybe they’ll flood the system looking for their;

Fucking
Idiot
Device
Objects

Well, it’s my 9 hour early shift tonigh. So I have to get going to catch my bus to hell.

TTFN!

Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that the Mosquitoes are gigantic this season?

Just the other day I went out to enjoy some of the nice weather that we have been getting while on my break at work and all day it was fine, but as soon as the sun started to settle the Mosquitoes started coming out and swarming all around the place. I swear that if I let them they probably could have carried me away.

But it’s not just at work either. Just last night I was sitting outside of my place relaxing after work because it was a really nice evening, OK that should actually be night because it was after 10:30pm when I got home. But anyway, it was really nice out and I really didn’t want to sit around in the apartment.

I was fine till them damn Mosquitoes started to eat me alive.

I don’t have any Mosquito Repellent, so I had to end up going in because I couldn’t swat them fast enough. Plus having all the bug guts all over me was not very nice either.

Normally if I don’t have any Mosquito Repellent and have a few oranges in the place, rubbing the orange peel on you and getting the citrus on you will repel them for a bit. I’m not kidding, it actually works! Plus you smell good too. I actually learned that little trick from the Internet.

You can even build your own Mosquito Trap too from this site called Mosquito Info. There you will find out everything there is to know about Mosquitoes and how to get rid of Mosquitoes. If you live around where I am or have a bad case of Mosquito infestation around your place them this is the place to learn how to combat against them.

But this is just my opinion and you’re entitled to it.

Today at work I got a little piece of news that made things seem a little bit better.

The part of the company I work in has been dwindling in staff because they are either quitting or being fired. Before today rumor had it that the company wasn’t going to hire any more agents meaning that I would NEVER get a better work schedule because the scheduling was based on seniority. If there wasn’t going to be any replacements, my seniority would never change either.

Well news received today had me jumping for joy. Well not really that extreme, but it gives me a good reason to use this neat flash animation anyway.

The news was that there will be two new classes being trained to do the job I do next month, so that will mean day shifts for me. At least that’s what should happen anyway. But I’ll have to see it to believe it before I get my hopes up.

It was news that just came out of the blue too.

All I care about is getting days shifts, and having better days off. I don’t really give a shit what days I get off, but just as long as they are together and not split apart like mine are now (Thursday and Sunday).

So to celebrate the somewhat good news, lets sit back and enjoy watching the shadowman jump for joy.

 

I don’t know if it’s just the folks I work with that hate their lives so much that they have to make up shit in order to make themselves feel better about themselves, or make up shit to try and impress other people.

I know the job I have is probably the shittiest jobs on the go, but I let people know that. I don’t hide the fact that I work in a crappy call center. It sucks that I work in one, but I don’t go around making shit up to try and make people think I’m better than they are.

I guess what I’m saying is, I am not impressed with what you did or what you SAY you did or can do. Not a lot of things impress me by just somebody saying they did this or that, or that they can do this or that.

However, if you said you could do 40 back-flips and then demonstrated that you can do 40 back-flips by actually doing 40 back-flips in front of me, then fuck yea! I would be impressed. But if you just say you can or you could do 40 back-flips without showing that you can actually do it, then I don’t really give a shit and don’t want to hear your bullshit.

If it makes you feel better to make up bullshit stories then you have self esteem issues you need to take care of or you’re going to end up feeling even shittier wen you realize you’re bullshit stories are just that…. Stories. And you’ll realize that you wasted your time bullshitting instead of actually doing.

That reminds me of a saying my Friend quoted on Facebook. “Grow, or go”

I realize that I don’t have the most glorious job in the world, but I don’t go around denying that with bullshit stories. I have done a few things in my past that have actually impressed people. But I showed proof of that. I just didn’t say shit and not provide proof or demonstrate what I said I did or have done. I wish I could get a real job doing the stuff I want but I haven’t gotten lucky with landing a job doing that. YET.

I’m hearing people, or I have people telling me that they are Aviation Instructors, have several businesses and are setting up other people in businesses, some say they’re Super Models, some say their actors, and so on. All these people have these alternate glamorous lifestyles or have these very rare talents or degrees and yet they work in a fucking call center.

I know I say I design web sites and stuff, but yet I’m working in a fucking call center, but I am applying for jobs that I qualify for and unfortunately never get because there are a lot of other people with the same experience or have more. But these people have experience or talents that are rare and could probably land  a better job than a fucking call center. OH, and I should mention that some of these people are kids, or look like they just got out of prison, or are an extra in some Redneck Trailer Park Beer Movie.

You just know they’re full of shit. But you refrain from telling them that and let them live in their little fantasy world. But lately, I’m getting overwhelmed with bullshit stories that I might eventually just tell them to shut the fuck up and stop talking bullshit to me.

The GERD has been acting up really bad lately. So bad that it has been waking me up in the middle of the night from massive chest pains, and during the day the burning acid makes it way up to my throat and burns the hell out of it.

To make matters worse, I have just two pills left and I have nothing to buy any more. I’ve been popping them like candy which is why I ran out way sooner than I should have. But the pain gets so intense, I can’t help pop them like candy.

I would make a Doctors Appointment, but that would be pointless for a couple of reasons. One would be that I don’t know my work schedule from one week to the next and by the time I do it’s to late to book one. And two, I am flat broke and wouldn’t be able to buy the prescription that I know she will prescribe me anyway.

They say stress doesn’t really make it worse, but I’m thinking people who say that don’t actually have the condition in the first place. Because when I’m at work and I get some asshole on the line (which is about 99.9999% of the time) and they start ranting about some fucked up thing which is their fault or is because of their impatience and stupidity, I can feel the burning sensation make it’s way up my chest and start to burn and cause chest pains.

It’s so bad now that even burping burns like hell.

It’s going to really suck when I take my last two pills. I’m going to be so screwed. Probably end up going to the hospital by the end of the week..