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colin called me yesterday and gave me a job offer, one of his friend’s company had no IT department and they needed some help with outlook.
they were willing to pay me $50 per hour and an additional $30 for transport (the office is in tuas) and it’s not like i’ve anything on so i agreed to help.
took a cab over in the morning but the driver lost his way, didn’t realise tuas is so HUGE, taxi fare…$16.00 including peak charges.
the first thing i felt when i went into the office was the heat, it felt like a fucking oven…and i found out later than the air-con wasn’t working properly.
at the back of my head, i somehow knew that a company won’t be paying someone $50 an hour just to fix outlook and how right i was…
the outlook problem is probably a hdd or windows problem, outlook kept hanging and refuses to import whatever backups i place in it.
finally managed to port all the old emails and contacts in but outlook was still hanging frequently, told the person incharge that it is probably a hdd problem and told her to get someone else to replace it.
next was a problem many users encounter, they needed to enter the network drive but somehow, the server refuses to map the network drive and so i had to manually pull a shortcut into the desktop and save the administrator’s password to the shortcut.
well, it worked for all but 3 computers that refuses to let me save the password.
gave up and told them i’ll get someone down tomorrow to something to work on it.
it’s probably some permission rights on the windows server but i don’t know windows server.
next problem…user A could not receive emails from both user B and user C but user B & C could receive from A, weird right?
checked the junk folders, checked for bounce messages, checked for rules, checked everything but still can’t locate the email, since their email server’s hosted by singnet, i told them to contact singnet instead, it’s impossible for me to troubleshoot stuffs like this.
the next problem was a shocker!
the user was telling me how she could not access the internet and check her emails, also told me that her speakers weren’t working…
the first thing i saw was “please activate windows to proceed further”.
wtf???
i asked her when she got that message and she told me she got it ever since she start work…6 months ago.
i really wanted to ask her what she was doing for the past 6 months.
without the windows cd or license, how on earth do they expect me to activate windows for them? i told them to refer back to acer.
the next and final problem was really an eye opener, i was really shock when i found out what happened,
a manager (an ang mo) could not send new emails out but could reply emails perfectly.
weird? not really…
i realised after clicking on his outbox that some of the emails he’s sending out are over 11mb but there were no attachments, and then it hit me like a tsunami wave, his signature file was over 11mb…
yes his god damn signature file is over 11mb!
i gave him the wtf look after explaining to him and he still had the nerve to ask me “then what should i do to get the other party to receive my huge signature file?”
type out the email, print it out and send it via snail mail
told them i was in quite a rush and needed to go but i’ll either come back tomorrow or send someone else over,
no way am i going back there alone again!
took a cab down to jurong point for lunch, was crazily hungry and now blogging via sg@wireless in mcdonalds while waiting for trond to pick me up to expo.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Heya no offence, Jack, but if they paid you that wage, it’s not too bad afterall
May 6th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
i know…but just playing a little hard to get…anyway, i just got news that they are giving me the pay i want so…
lol!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
WOW 11mb signature! He win!
May 7th, 2008 at 6:58 am
The size of the signature file is directly proportional to the size of the ego. Or whatever else your imagination tells you….
May 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am
gosh… 11mb signature.. can you explain how the hell can a signature be that freaking big?!?!?!
May 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Wow, eleven MEGABYTES! What is in the signature? Company logo in 2 zillion colours?
May 7th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
he has this huge number of pictures under his name and i think there’s even a video clip or something…