games for days

my boss got a bit ratty with me today because i couldn't find the right path to some files on a SAN disk attached to a vmware ESX server. jeez sorry. its bad enough that i have to do it on a command line from esx and the forward slashes (/) are making the whole thing look a bit strange already, with out my boss tutting and getting impatient when i asked him to check it.

he came over and then just typed away quickly and when he ran the command it still didn't work. he then went away and i searched some forums and found the answer. i am not a complete idiot. i managed to do what i needed to get done, but just needed a little help. i have been here around 10 months and am familiar with everything, but i can recall when i worked somewhere for years and its then you get to know everything inside out, because you were the one who built it all. i think maybe my boss sometimes forgets that he has a few years start on the rest of us and was here when it all went in.

i suppose thats the thing that stops people from moving around in jobs a lot. you go somewhere new and you have to ask lots of questions about where they store stuff or how they do particular things. it can take months and months before you even start to get your head around some of it and there will be situations like today where you will be asked to work on systems that you have barely touched since you got there.

no two places are the same despite the fact that they use a lot of the same systems. in a way it comes down to whether your ego can take being the newbie and having to ask for things and having to deal with some occasionally difficult characters. i have found i can do it and its the fact that i know that i can move on to somewhere new in a few months, that makes tolerate working with some difficult people. not saying my boss is difficult, because he is not, but when you are contractor you need to be able to just be able to let a lot of things slide.

anyways, whilst working on how to solve my problem i began searching google and forums and this amused me.

someone asks a question about a problem and then someone else goes to the trouble of replying on a forum saying he doesn't know the answer. what a fucking idiot. don't reply if you don't know the answer. whats the point of that. if i ask a question i want to know the answer, i don't want to hear from people telling me that they don't know the answer. that doesn't help me.

anyway it did make me laugh out loud when i read it.

today i have mostly been listening to julien plenti - games for days. this is mr paul banks who is lead singer of interpol who are a wicked band and i really like this video.