My work PC has been giving me problems lately. Actually, ever since I got it last year.Being a very traditional company, my company don't believe in upgrading PCs until it no longer works. In other words, until it goes kaput laah. Hence, when I was transferred back to the main office, I had to choose between a very old PC and a not-so-old-but-still-outdated one. So of course I picked the latter, which was actually used my former MT colleague who has left for a greener pasture.
For the last few days the PC has been throwing tantrums. It keeps changing windows on its own. Imagine you are busy preparing a template when out of the blue the screen just changed to another window; be it your internet explorer or email window. 1 time ok lagi, 2nd time sabar lagi.. after the 4th time it just gets to me.
I spent the 1st half of the day on Monday just to clear off my hard disk (not that my files occupied that much space pun). Deleted all the temporary Internet files, deleted all the unwanted files, and even defragmented the hard drive. Nevertheless, things still remained the same. It still took me 20 full minutes just to start-up the PC, and another 10 minutes to open up my Outlook window. That does not include the hassle that I have to go through while working on my spreadsheet, with over 1000 linkages to other worksheets. Urrggghhh...
The climax was yesterday when Uncle Dan suddenly came over asking me to ammend his presentation powerpoints. He needed it to be done urgently and asked me to emailed it to an analyst. Changing the slides was no problem. However, things just went bonkers when I pressed the send button on the Outlook.. Suddenly the PC goes.. "kreeekkk kreeekkk kreekkkk krekkkk..". It took me a full 20 minutes just to send it across and another 30 minutes to retrieve an error message that the mail didn't go through.. Arrgghh.. By that time, Uncle had already left the office and I was 15 minutes late for class.
Now I really wish I could do this...
or this...
Either way, I'll be very satisfied.
"I need a new PC!"
binx: plugging off the wires...
7 comments:
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Norzu:
i've thought about that for a long time.. but am afraid that it'll fall on the CEO's head and knock him dead.. coz the balcony os over looking his parking space..
Dear Aunty Binx,
Plz sign a check to bonx for a new computer!
On my order,
THa King Himself!!!!
you could make a case for a new pc on the basis that your pc crashes XXX times per day on average, resulting in unnecessary work thereby impeding productivity. investing in a new pc would easily double your productivity and pay for itself in month.
King:
since when am I an aunty?
and who is bonx?
:p
oreos:
hey.. thanks for the input.. will put it in my notes and argue it with my boss the soonest..
3six7:
hey dude.. dun curse me laa.. how in the world am i gonna do consol on ledgers? it gives me shivers just thinking about it...
:p
i suggest u throw it out from the window or put in on uncle don's workstation :)
you're welcome. let me know what happens!
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