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Aug. 28th, 2009|03:42 pm |
Today was a bad day for Uni bureaucracy.
I kept falling asleep in the data mining lecture. When I went to the tutorial and the Windows XP VM refused to give me a network connection, I said "Screw that" and went hunting in search of naps. I then did some of the assignment in the CompSoc room. I discovered that the network port has been disconnected or is broken or something.
*Mm goes to the tech desk
Mm: Hi, the network port at CompSoc is broken. Who do I speak to?
Safa: *takes down the details* I'll go check.
*Safa wanders off, and then returns a while later
Safa: You need to go to this address and submit a ticket.
Mm: Sigh.
So I go back to CompSoc and write up a ticket. Half an hour later, I receive a response. "Hi Catherine, go talk to the tech desk. Your ticket is now closed." Sigh. So I traipse back over there.
Engineer: Sorry, Safa's just stepped out. Why don't you email this top tier guy and ask him?
Mm: Sigh.
*Mm forwards the response to the top-tier guy.
Later, I happened to be walking past the ITD tech desk, so I go and ask them.
Mm: Hi, the network port in the CompSoc room is down. I went to the FIT tech desk, and they said I should submit a ticket to you guys. When I submitted it, the response was "Go talk to FIT". ...And, by the way, it was directed to my middle name. But anyway, what should I be trying now? They suggested emailing top-tier guy, which I've done, but I have a feeling he won't get back to me.
ITD Guy: Yeah, he probably won't respond unless you've gone through the proper channels. See, what you should do is ask FIT to open the ticket, because they probably control the room.
Mm: You know, it would have been helpful if the email could have said that...
ITD Guy: Anyway, I'll reopen it for you and say that you know it might need to come from higher up.
Mm: Thanks.
...Later, I visit the Union to check ProgSoc's mailbox.
Mm: Hi, can I grab the key to ProgSoc? It's either number six or number sixteen.
Girl: Go check.
Mm: ...Six?
Girl: Go check.
Mm: ... ... ...Fine.
*Mm thinks: I gave you two choices. It would almost certainly be quicker for you to look than for me to go around the corner and come back.
*Mm goes and checks, and then comes back
Mm: Six.
*Girl collects the key, and carefully examines the tag before handing it over
Mm: ...
Less a Uni-fail story, but still:
*Mm wanders into the Mac-fanboy computer shop to take a look around
Mm: *to the shop assistant* Y'know, I went into Harris Technology the other day, and they'd hooked up an Intuos to a Cintiq. You could sort of go, *scribble scribble*, *scribble scribble*.
Shop Guy: That would blow my mind. ...That says a great deal about Harris Technology, now I think about it.
Mm: "More money than sense"?
Shop Guy: ...Something like that.
*Mm turns to leave
Shop Guy: Y'know, ah, Snow Leopard came out today...
Mm: Right.
Shop Guy: ...Only $39, for a single user licence...
Mm: ...Y'know that thing where my Macbook is permanently booting Windows?
Shop Guy: Well, Snow Leopard isn't much good for that.
Mm: Not really, no.
Shop Guy: Do you dislike Macs?
Mm: Not really - I was raised with Macs, because my father dislikes Windows. But I haven't used really them regularly in the last ten years or so. I'll probably be getting a new laptop at some point - my machine's taken a few beatings. But not right this second. I don't know what I'd pick, actually.
Shop Guy: Well, if you're a Windows user, there's not much point in getting a Mac, I suppose.
Mm: Yeah, the reason that I got the Macbook I have at the moment was that I went into Dick Smith, and they were having 15% of all Macs at the time - which negated the difference in price point. Without that, I don't know if I'd bother.
...And now I should go do some more of the data mining assignment. Whoo, party on.
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