Crazy colleague, crazy customers

Pip Tiddlepip · Post by **Pip Tiddlepip** » 03 Jul 2008, 13:05

Sometimes I just want to grab someone, haul them over to a char, sit them down and give them a stack of material to read about PO. then I would stand over them with a shotgun until they had read each and every page.

This morning I got in to work. I work as a network techie. No sooner had I put bum to seat than the other tech was gleefully telling me about the gaming machine he's just spend the better part of a grand on; how it has two graphics cards, quad core processor, huge hard disk, etc.

"Are you nuts?" I asked him. "What did you go and blow a grand on that for?"
"So I can play Chaos," he said gleefully...

I also run my own part time IT business, doing home repairs and such (while I can). I've got another customer on Friday who's just spent ?1100 on this machine he wants me to network...so he can play Chaos.

I've just about managed to refrain from telling either of them that in a few short months they'll have all the chaos they can handle, with or without a PC. I'll be sticking to my chicken coop.

Ignorance is bliss

careful_eugene · Post by **careful_eugene** » 03 Jul 2008, 13:08

They're just getting in some early practice

christa · Post by **christa** » 03 Jul 2008, 13:10

wierd isn't it ~ at the beginning of the week a colleague was asking my advice on where to dig her garden up to plant vegetables , the next day she's telling me how she just spent ?1300 booking flights for a ski-ing holiday next year ~ she would have cancelled but felt she couldn't let her friends down.
Now thats just plain sad!

bigjim · Post by **bigjim** » 03 Jul 2008, 15:12

christa wrote:wierd isn't it ~ at the beginning of the week a colleague was asking my advice on where to dig her garden up to plant vegetables , the next day she's telling me how she just spent ?1300 booking flights for a ski-ing holiday next year ~ she would have cancelled but felt she couldn't let her friends down.

Nowt wrong with wanting to go on a skiing holiday- may as well enjoy ourselves while we can. Spending stupid amounts of money on a PC though, that IS stupid! What's the point? Get out and do something constructive.

christa · Post by **christa** » 03 Jul 2008, 15:39

Nowt wrong with wanting to go on a skiing holiday- may as well enjoy ourselves while we can.

I wasn't being a killjoy ~just feeling confused why she would spend money she hasn't got so she wouldn't lose face to her richer friends

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 03 Jul 2008, 15:42

I ordered my chicken coop yesterday

rs · Post by rs » 03 Jul 2008, 16:08

christa wrote:wierd isn't it ~ at the beginning of the week a colleague was asking my advice on where to dig her garden up to plant vegetables , the next day she's telling me how she just spent ?1300 booking flights for a ski-ing holiday next year ~ she would have cancelled but felt she couldn't let her friends down.
Now thats just plain sad!

Wonder how much she'll need to save for the surcharges by the time she comes to fly !