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[nonionay]

Yesterday, I called pussinboots saying, "can we have the writing meeting at my work?"

Behind the cut is a dongle.



A dongle is a little doodad which you plug into a computer and it lets you run a piece of software. In my work's case, a program which arranges files so we can plate them and print them.

No dongle, no plates, no printing. This is bad for a printing press.

Sunday night, my co-worker, who was rushing to get as much work done as possible before he left to play in Disneyworld for a week, discovered the dongle stopped working.

Monday, I spent a couple hours on hold with Kodak finding out WTF to do. They say they'll send us a new one. We're number one priority. Fine.

Long story short, what was supposed to be an overnight delivery didn't happen, and we were jerked around by Kodak for three long days without plates. I tried to manually lay out the plates, but that was a very slow, painful joke. Someone had to stay late last night to await the courier coming down from Canada with the dongle. (The warehouse is just across the border. Our production manager said, "we'll just drive up there and pick the dang thing up." The lady he was talking to was all, "uhh..." So rather than have us busting their door down, they sprung for the courier.) The guy showed up quickly. Turns out we didn't have to have the meeting at work, to my disappointment. :-)

One day left in the week, and then my co-worker will be back. Ugh. I respect that guy, he's the one who usually has to deal with this crap. But lucky for me, we've got a new girl who knows what she's doing and is doing the job I usually do, while I wrestle with Kodak and programs I don't really know how to use.

So screw you, Kodak, and screw you, dongle.

Did I mention that today, in the mail, we got another dongle, identical to the one I'm holding, which acts in the same, non-functioning way as the original (visible in above image).

Screw you.

Comments

[bolddeciever.livejournal.com]

By the way, "dongle" is my favorite word of jargon, ever. When I worked PT last year at a tech company and heard it I thought the word had been made up on the spot, and was excited to look up and see that it's a real term. I didn't know they were still enough in mainstream use to be updated to USB (these were for a voice-mail systems, and they were a patch-through that plugged into a serial port and allowed data through so you could still plug something in the other end).

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

Were you staying late waiting for the dongle when you took that picture? You look quite wild-eyed.

[criada.livejournal.com]

No, this was taken at home in bed. But I certainly feel wild-eyed. :-)