What is it with Friday?
Where do the people who spend the rest of the week on the internet go? Is it because they’ve spent the whole week on the internet and are now madly dashing to do the work they were supposed to?
I can understand that. Back in my office working days we had a ‘management’ meeting every week in which we had to present our stats. The other conscientious managers would come into work in the morning, do the stats from the day before, and keep up to date.
Generally speaking I was left an hour before the meeting trying to catch up, so I’d simply make up some numbers that looked not too bad, not too good. In a mind numbingly tedious job it was the one vague thrill I got. What if they actually look at them? The office equivalent of shoplifting for thrills.
Also, while one of the best things about the internet is the fact that you have so much information at your fingertips for free, one of the worst things is the expectation of freeness. People want more and they want it faster, better, nicer looking and compatible with all kinds of formats and devices. Ask people to pay for it though and it won’t happen.
Are we building an internet bubble that could collapse at any time?
Mon – Thur. Switch PC on and spend all day on teh internet trying to look busy.
Fri. Don’t even bother to switch PC on.
I agree Twenty I understand that people want a lot for their money in the current economic climate but you have to be fair and pay for what you get. I mentioned this yesterday. I have a ws that has taken considerable time and money to build. And trying to get someone to manage it competently has been next to immpossible unless I pay an obscene amount of money. I am a reasonable person and I don’t feel I have ridiculous demands. Primarily I wanted three end user pages, a couple of search engines, storage space and crucially someone to manage it. It has been a nightmare, being told yeah thats no problem, agreeing a price and then been told a spiel and asked for more money, the maintenance guy is nowhere to be found, I part paid a pro forma invoice for him foolishly thinking he’d be good. It’s one O Clock and I am decidedly fucked. I don’t mind paying but I do mind paying someone in good faith when clearly they are not providing the service they agreed to pay.
What amazes me is how hard some people are willing to work to make things seem as dull, uninteresting and repetitive as possible. And not just Fridays, but 24/7 all through the week. It must be very tiring.
About 80% of ‘work’ in corporate offices is built around spreading the blame for any initiative wide enough so that no single person is responsible. Thats very nearly a fact that is.
Yes, I think the crash is coming one way or another. The Friday Phenomenon is a strange one, alright.
I spend a fair bit of time on t’internet but then again I’m a researcher so thats natural. Also I love the internet because now I can manage to keep a small group of friends who I’ve known for 20 years for offline sociability and human interaction and can keep the rest at ‘fuck off’ distance.
And I don’t do Arsebook or Twatter. About three forums, 5 blogsites, 10 websites and then real people. We who cannot help being attractive and popular by default have to guard our time jealously y’know or we’d spend half our lives writing letters, ‘helping with’ CVs or otherwise fending off cunts who wouldn’t be alive if they didn’t have instructions on how to breathe.
Its to protect our modesty.
I’m sure it’ll all end in another “soft landing” so relax would yiz.
Stuck indoors in a sudden and massive Friday evening snowstorm with downwardly plunging temperatures and howling winds, the only respite is the torment of choosing between the lesser of the two evils.
Freeze my nuts off out there, or bore my whole bollocks off in here?
Fuck the crash. Its all a metadata problem anyway. Will trees fall over? No. Will mountains crumble into the sea? Unlikely.
In every country purely because of the population size there will always be a minimum level of economic activity. Everybody is terrified of banks collapsing. Let ‘em go I say.
Mowl there’s your cue. Don’t be bored. Hate us. Love us. Take issue with our words you cute little Abominable Irishman you.
Twenty said: Are we building an internet bubble that could collapse at any time?
The dot.com bubble was the birth pangs of a phenomenon which struggled to find a business model. If people and companies (aside from the obvious successes) continue to believe that the Internet on its own is the holy grail, then they deserve to fail. Will the present internet bubble collapse? No, it will continue to evolve. There will be successes and casualties as with any endevour, and Ireland will still be broke and I’ll still be poor.
Nothing worse than a 23 year old twit trying to tell you’re too expensive. They weren’t even fucking born when I started working.
I say in here, but I meant in there, if you get my snowdrift.
It’t turned cold today.
time for stout
I’m sure it’ll all end in another “soft landing” so relax would yiz.
Nonny – what does your website need to do?
HM – 23 year olds are such cunts. 23. Pfff.
Mowl – you’re better off.
Of more concern – the mutterings about the collapse of the Euro continue. In this area we are definitely being softened up. This will not end well.
http://www.newswhip.ie/national-2/is-the-euro-about-to-collapse-27948
I’ve decided the best thing to do is not give a shit about any of it. There’s fuck all I can do, and what I can won’t change a thing.
OTD has it right.
Time for [insert alcoholic beverage here]
Mon-Thurs we can justify a bit of wasting time on the Internet with ‘ah sure if we finished work in time we’d just get stuck in traffic/suffocated on Dart etc’.
Friday we all want to go out early so the pressure is on to finish up. As Twenty says time for [insert as applicable].
Also, because there’s less phone calls on Friday it’s possible to do concentrated work – Mon to Thurs there’s more hanging around, no point in starting anything because so and so is going to ring back & so forth.
Captain Con, I liked your comments over on boards.ie on the Gilmore’s Girl thing.
The bottled stuff is the best I find. Throw in a toasted toenail sandwich as well.
Not these lousy trendy beers mind you, the classic, black stuff.
politicalworld.com, not boards.ie
my very sincere apologies.
Twenty, I agree that there’s no point in worrying about what we can’t control. What I object to is being thought of as being unaware of a process that our political masters have embarked upon. There is a plan for the Euro. We will return to the Punt. It will further impoverish us. It is inexorable.
Just don’t think we don’t know what’s going on.
“I’ve decided the best thing to do is not give a shit about any of it.”
No. Fuck that. Not me. I’ll be like that head still sword-fighting in that Monthy Python film is it?
“mind numbingly tedious job”.. As the yanks say I can eye-dentify with that
No. Fuck that. Not me. I’ll be like that head still sword-fighting in that Monthy Python film is it?
Yeah, “just a flesh wound”.
The Euro project has been lucky it got this far. Without political union, we are doomed to one crisis after the other with the Euro amongst things. I could go on forever. I will not.
What about Euromillions?
Haven’t bought a ticket. My chances of winning are only marginally decreased.
SDaedelus I hear you and thanks for saying … we’ll get there in the end alright. A poster on politics.ie called ‘LordGod Almighty’ (heh) has just solved the North Tipp/Lowry problem which might also cheer you up on a Friday evening (post 104) http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/156673-red-necks-north-tipperary-11.html
Made me laugh out loud.
Sorry, was up to my eyes must be the Friday thing. Basically, i want users to be able to upload data and also search that data. There is very specific formats for both uploading and seaching. Then, there is a top line reporting application for exporting. My three problems are I think the search engine is not set up right and is not capturing all the information from the uploads, the site doesn’t seem capable of high volumes of traffic and finally I am really unsure if the website is capable of allowing a signifigant amount of uploads. I also need someone to maintain the site. Quantifiying the expectations of such a site in monetary terms would be really helpful as my knowledge in this area is really poor, I don’t want to get ripped off nor do I want to rip anyone else off. I have an appointment with data tech company on Monday and I am heading up to Belfast tomorrow to get a guy to look at it. Hopefully I will get a better picture. Really thought we’d have got going this week am so dissapointed.
Good riddance:
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-times-columnist-resigns-498694.html
The “Sarah Carey” model can be found all over the place. Thirty-or-so, awfully so correct and TRENDY, first batch of kids, first BMW, or Volvo or dose of chlamydia. Not to worry, both are loud and can’t wait to “establish” themselves.
The Renaissance taught us something, the enlightenment also, are we back to this level??
Where’s the stout (bottled).
If the Sarah Carey’s of this world actually trained as Journalists and did the hard graft working on real news storys then maybe we would’nt end up with the drivel driven shite in the newspapers.
When do the papers get it. Easy on the eye does not mean logical balanced truthful news. Give me the hardened hack any day.
Then there’s Twitter, for all those amateurs out there spewing verbal shite all over the net thinking they are writers or journalists with aspirations to make it to the ‘A’ list of celebrity status. Stupid cunts.
Sile Seoige’s tweet, orgasm at The Kylie concert was amusing though.
please tell me how colin farrell was a close friend of liz taylor she was acting a 100 years and him 5 years …..darlings
That fella would ride anything…
lol’ prick try to join boyzone for fuck sake
Good. I didnt leave a drunken ranting message last night.
Liz roded everything too
She rode them also
fuckin typo’s, too many beers last night. My fingers won’t ingage with control central
http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/queernews/2010/article9099.html this is very true
I blame it all on Lara Croft. After she appeared with impossibly large boobies and hourglass waist nothing went right.
OI! Where are you all today??
Is it called a Fucking Tree?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qh3CpfdKwy8/S4Sqry_ijWI/AAAAAAAAAHI/cdONBxhWfYQ/s320/butt-fucking-tree.jpg
Heh!
http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1150798/vagina_tree_fullsize.jpeg?91c651f8
I’m getting wood.
Hey on the dry,
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/7145661.html
It’s all yours, maybe you’ll get the big win.
I see, things have sunken to this piss-poor niveau. God bless you all in non-political-correctness-parlance.
I am going to listen to the Skids now.
This was my 1797 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43crIjaOgGY&feature=related
That should have read 1979 or perhaps not.
Silla should remember that. :)
Typo’s again. Guess I was’nt the only one on the piss. I did’nt get the Skids though
Tis true Kapitan Kon, the Lord God Almighty speaks the common-sense truth. It shows how fond the government is of the gombeen system that they don’t teach a lesson to “constituency-only-and-fuck-the-rest-of-the-country” voters like the NTipp crowd and their cousins in Healy-Rae country.
did I see right? Are the banks looking for another 27 billion? I mean… are they fucking kidding? Not without a referendum, I say. I wonder would the masses actually agree?
Oh but Jo, we might be able to negotiate a reduction in the interest rate! What a fucking joke it all is …
me fucking head
Yay! A Bubble
Maybe we should give the bastards every cent we have, go back to living in mud walled thatched hovels with the pigs, kids everywhere, bare foot ,eating spuds plague and famine and for 2016 have a real centenary revolution.
We don’t need a referendum. Fuckkit we’d be voting ourselves to hell either way. We need an Arab style revolution to get rid of the cunts who got us here.
“We don’t need a referendum. Fuckkit we’d be voting ourselves to hell either way. We need an Arab style revolution to get rid of the cunts who got us here.”
There you have it.
“Villagers are apparently unsure as to why the lump shines.”
They should move it over here to Rathkeale, we’ll have it not only shining but performing miracles and spitting out secrets of Fatima.
If wse have to have a revolution, can we have one without the indiscriminate firing of guns into the air please. Don’t these people know that what goes up…?
You have a heart of gold Krank – those sapphire projectiles are meant for the head.
For OTD (Courtesy of Raymond Chandler):
@Kapitan Kon
Yes, LordGodAlmighty is one of the best things about politics.ie, he cuts through the spin there like a raper
This comment of his below, from http://www.politics.ie/fine-gael/156756-fine-gael-td-hires-his-wife-25.html was very funny too:-
I could be wrong however and backbench Irish TDs stride tight-lipped from teleconferences with Hilary Clinton on a regular basis but I doubt it.
he cuts through the spin there like a raper
ah fuck it, I meant to type ‘rapier’.
I am so sorry.
Really, so sorry.
Freud would be proud of your slip.
Yep more typo’s. And there was me thinking it was the booze
@Crank
Freud would be proud of your slip
and well he might, but we ladies don’t wear slips these days, they went out with the suspender belt, Freud will just have to make do with something else.
So – what is the collective noun for 3 cunts ?
That would be conti I think Maggot
… or more specifically quadraconti
A Fianna Fáil of cunts ?
It’s Monday, I’m bored in work.
Tap, tap, tap, tap..