The kind of shit I’m doing here
is pretty dull and drab. Compared to what I’m used to, this is all no-brain stuff.
However.
To the people I’m working with, it is almost indistinguishable from magic. I have a fucking entourage, futhuchrissakes. I feel like Siegfried. or maybe Roy. Minus the tigers and buttsecs.
Every damn day man…
Sometimes it’s like entire multi-million dollar projects, with dozens of six figure salaried “technical professionals” involved comes to a screeching halt unless I’m there to hold hands, give warm fuzzies, and tell people what NOT to do.
Oh wait, it’s not “like” that, it IS exactly that.
Over and Over and Over again…
This really isn’t rocket science. I mean, you can’t just walk in off the street and do it, but it doesn’t take a world class mind to do 80% of this job (the other 20%… ok. That’s what justified my salary)… But for some reason, if I’m “the guy”, it’s like everyone elses brains leak out of their ears.
… Sorry… Had a 12 hour day of gross stupidity today…
Oh well… Job Security.
No where near up to your level Og, but I just wish that our product engineers actually had a freaking clue how to make our damn product.
When I have to run the computer sim for the guy who probably makes twice as much as I do, then explain in really small words how the sim HE was supposed to run shows the machines can’t run a part the way he routed it, then explain again how it needs to be run (and why… at least twice), and then explain it again while he oh so condescendingly tells me I must be wrong…
Yeah, I’ve almost given him a colonoscopy with his rolled up engineering degree. In front of the owner.
You’d think after being made a fool of at least a dozen times in front of the guys who sign his check, he MIGHT just listen when I and the other experienced machine jockeys SHOW him he’s wrong but no: he has a degree and an office, so naturally he has to be right.
Asshole probably voted for Obama.
(They have him doubling as an IT guy too. I had to show him how to set up a computer to use double monitors. Gah.)
An entourage? :D
I have several guys following me around like I’m the Messiah.