Fanboy love

Recent events have led me to the conclusion that the person I almost wrote about in Wednesday's post is, in fact, probably not gay.  It doesn't mean I dislike him any less; in fact, quite the opposite now, and not because he's straight, but because he's a punk.

How do I know?  A (female) co-worker was getting ready to leave yesterday, but was hanging around a bit and commenting on this strange smell coming from the elevators.  After a while of this "discussion", I decided I had had enough of this place and packed up to go home.  My co-worker noticed I was going, and went to get her stuff so we can leave together and she doesn't have to face the scary elevator by herself

Upon noticing that she was leaving, this guy, who I will now refer to as AGC, quickly throws his own stuff together, saying, "Oh, maybe I should go now too, then."  We head out to the parking lot, I'm talking to my co-worker and the AGC isn't saying much.  Coincidentally, we go to the same floor of the parkade, where in AGC opens the door for my co-worker, goes through himself, then lets it slam in my face!!  We part ways, I'm trying to be courteous so I wish both a good night.  My co-worker returns it, but the AGC is silent.

I wonder if this is an example of the lion establishing dominance in the jungle.  Not that he really needs to in this particular example, but I'm trying to figure out why he's such a douche.  It's possible that he's not that bad a guy, but just left a bad impression.  Or maybe he reminds me a little of someone else I really dislike.  I don't know.  But until he proves otherwise, he's just another punk to me.  And he really needs to stop doing what he's doing.  My co-worker's flirty, but that's going to lead to nowhere but trouble! 

Babysitting at work

I've recently discovered another reason not to offer help to anyone here anymore. Once you help someone in something, they get it in their head that you're now the expert on the subject, and will continue to come to you despite making little or no effort to solve the problem themselves. Case in point:

The IT guys were doing some maintenance work recently, with one of the results being that the original set up for the printers no longer worked. It was simple enough to add the printers so that we can print from Windows based applications again, less simple (but only slightly so) for DOS based applications. It only involved a minor edit to a batch file I had to point the printers to the right place. I set this up for myself, and everything was fine.

I don't know if it was from laziness or sheer incompetence (I suspect the latter), but someone else here had much more difficulty with this process. She began to complain that the printers didn't work. This was already apparent to everyone in the area, but everybody else had made their own effort to solve the problem. When she was able to print from Windows again, she complained that she couldn't print from our DOS based applications. Okay, maybe she needed some help there. I personally doubted she could have fixed the batch file to do what she wanted, if she even had the file in the first place. I emailed my copy of the batch file to her saying, "just click this". I suppose this is the point where I became "the expert", because I was the one with the magical solution!

She managed to print off one thing, but came back saying it wouldn't print anymore. I looked at her screen, and it was apparent that she hadn't done anything to try to remedy the problem. She had her file open, discovered it wouldn't print, and came straight to me.

"Did you try exiting, opening your file again, and printing?"
"No."
"Okay, maybe you should try that first. Wait...did you even save your file?"
"No."

Five minutes later, she comes back. "It works!" Well, yes, it works now, and you probably could have gotten to this point yourself if you had bothered to try a couple of things on your own before coming to me. And to think they hired her for that position instead of me. Ugh.