It seems that as of late, I\'ve been putting more \"rants\" on this blog than anything else. (As noted by the giant middle finger next to each entry). The problem is I can\'t figure out why...I\'m generally in a good mood most of the time but lately, my 8 to 5 has been the last place in the world I want to be.

So first let me go thru the steps to take if you want to piss off a normally happy employee, and then maybe I\'ll get to explain some more. (For those of you waiting for Olivai update, I apologize...I apologize in general for not bloggin more, but I\'ve just a shit ton of things to do lately and blogging has fallen way way low on the list). That being said, let\'s start shall we:

1. Take 1 hard-core linux lover/user/advocate/veteran and throw everything Microsoft centric at him. Better yet, hurl him into it completely.
2. Tell this person that they are now to become MS SQL experts to work some view magic for a client that has the wrong people writing reports against data stored in said SQL Server databases
3. Give them no real direction on where to go once he is there..(okay this is the clients fault, not my companies fault) and be very slow with whatvers response you do send back
4. Once again, tell this same person who already has less-then-stellar SQL skills that he needs to learn Crystal Reports so we can right reports for the client if need be. (Most likey WILL be, since the magic that I believe the end-user is expecting doesn\'t exist).
5. Pretty much make that person feel like he\'s hungry for a big shit sandwich and has to take a bite so the team can survive

Now those aren\'t in any given order, and I may or may not be the person referred to above...okay...fuck it, its me! Anyway, I have to ask myself several questions here. Am I just that badly disrespected in my place of employment to catch shit-in-bucket on my head all day? Is the company in THAT much peril that we can\'t afford to tell the client the \"right\" thing to do is find themselves a Crystal Reports expert? Did the horrible decisions made on the previous project kick our asses that much that we can\'t afford to let this one slide to someone else, perhaps a company that KNOWS what they\'re doing with this?

The final way to piss off a Happy Employee...answer YES to all the above.

I haven\'t been this frustrated with a job since the last consulting firm I was with stuck me on a helpdesk for two years while the world moved on forcing me to re-tool, _on_my_own_ just to catch up.

Ya know what...fuck it...just fuck it...I\'ll be there ass whore since we need the benefits and the money so my daughter can eat healthy and have clothes on her back...isn\'t that the American Way after all?