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Microsoft

If you’re going to have tech support people that don’t know what they’re talking about, please at least train them to know when something is over their head. That way they can then forward the caller to someone with actual intelligence and not just an idiot with a script. This would be the best idea you have ever had regarding customer satisfaction.

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Management

Sometimes I wonder how retail managers get to be retail managers. I’ve seen managers who know less than employees with only two weeks of experience. Today my manager thinks that when two people call out the store can still operate normally without calling anyone in (even just having someone come in an hour early) to help.

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Apparently not…

So apparently now it is offensive to refer to anything as master/slave. Anyone who as worked on computers should know that IDE drives of all kinds can have 2 drives in one channel, one designated “master” and one designated “slave.” This is apparently improper. We must refer to them as primary and secondary. Why does it matter, really? We’re not referring to people.

It is, apparently, also improper to refer to the socket end of a cable as “female” and the plug end as “male.” These have been used for years and should not be offensive to anyone.

You would think that it would all be okay, but apparently not.

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Dinner

This has very little to do with dinner. My girlfriend and I just ate dinner at Panera. And when has a red velvet crinkle cookie. And she’s really happy about it. Like REALLY happy. It’s ridiculous, but she’s cute.

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Racism

I got set off about this at work. Apparently there are some arguments about what INANIMATE objects are or are not racist. I believe that there is no way an inanimate object can be racist. Racism is a belief. In order to have a belief you must be capable of thought. If something like a sandwich could think we would not be able to eat it, it would just keep running away. What would want to be eaten? Perhaps they meant, in the article bellow, to say that a pb&j sandwich could cause racist thoughts? But that’s just absurd, I have never once looked at a sandwich and thought “Wow, what an excellent example of white supremacy, I’m going to eat one every day to prove I’m better than everyone else!” What does it matter the bread your sandwich is on? What’s next, calling ziti racist because they don’t have ziti in China? Maybe whiteboards are racist because they don’t have them in “third-world” countries? Quit trying to blame racism on objects and place the blame where it belongs, on the people. Again, racism is a thought, so if you’re going to tell me something I appreciated in my childhood is racist it had better be a person or a pet.

Here is what set me off: Peanut Butter And Jelly Racist? Portland School Principal Ties Sandwich To White Privilege