Discrimination @ work...

The boss was pissed...

Just got the bills from a new server install project in Hong Kong...



Almost 6 grand...

I guess this is a good lesson, next time you would not do things in such a hurry...

And maybe next time you would just send me instead for the job overseas...

LOL....

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So one of the things with working with IT is that you are subjected to long hours, weekend works as well as break or lunch time that is often uncertain. You normally need to work on something when everybody else is out lunch so that you can get actual work done.

Well in my workplace, it's a bit of a different story...

• I started to get pissed off seeing how some of the people here get their lunch delivered daily. There's a designated person here that ask everyone around "What do you want for lunch?" and then she would brought lunch to every office to my left and my right, but not mine. Mind you I have been working here for more than 2 years... Why discriminate? Was it so hard to ask me for what would I like to have for lunch?
  
  
• The company charge me almost $1000.00 last year for the so called "cafeteria plan" in which I assume, cafeteria plan includes food, for me, TO EAT. Apparently it only covers for coffee (suck-ass coffee) and tea. If I would have my own coffee maker, and just buy one of those Folger's ground coffee I would probably would not be able to spend $1000.00 for the whole year...
  
  Well then another thing that the cafeteria plan covers apparently is the birthday celebrations, where everyone just say happy birthday to a bunch of people they do not know and do not interact with. First of all, I do not ask for my birthday to be celebrated, especially with people I do not even talk or need to talk to, this is just a waste of time, so can I at least opt-out and get some of my cafeteria money back?
  
  
• Bloody hell, everyday I worked about 9+ hours with no breaks. Every time I went to lunch, they called and urges me to come back (IMMEDIATELY) so often times when I am enjoying my meal, DURING LUNCH TIME, I have to urgently pay and take it to go.
  
  
• They call me after hours, 7 pm or later. First of all, I barely got home at 7, then what I do mostly is spending time with my wife and of course, have dinner. Well my retarded supervisor often times call me during this time to troubleshoot retarded issues. I cannot believe what is so important with freakin BlackBerry, that you have to get your email working this instance. So nowadays, what I do, I just keep the phone on silent.
  
  
• They call me weekends, no matter what time it is... Again to troubleshoot trivial issues. My Wi-Fi does not work, or how do you turn on audio on a Mac laptop? I always think at the back of my head, why the fuck do people bother me on the weekend? Can just people get a fucking life on Saturday and Sunday and comes back to work on Monday?
  
  
• The primadonas, these are the FAKE people, who are full of shit and ready to backstab you immediately upon anything you say or do. What they do is they like to forward your emails to your supervisor just so they can get you in trouble. I hope these bitches rot in computer hell...
  
  
• People who doesn't do shit all day, but they looked very stressed and they tell people that they are stressed. They need like numerous "smoke breaks" just to focus and calm their selves down. FYI you do not need smoke to calm yourself.
  
  
• The company never supplied me with a computer for work, and yet I need to work on a COMPUTER. So I actually have to bring one computer from home and utilize it as my work computer. It is amazing how the company spends thousands on brand new laptop for others but left its IT person dry like Sunkist raisins...
  
  
  Just suck me dryyyy like raisins...
  
  
• So based on my opinion and findings, I found that I have been discriminated badly at my work place. I do not know whether it's because I am Asian, or because I am retarded, but maybe mostly because I am both...
  

Jury Duty... Why oh why....

Another "love letter"

What a retard...


Since when do you need an "admin privileges" to cycle display output?

All you have to press is the Function key + F8.


You gotta love this shit when people who doesn't know shit, acts like they know shit. Where do you learn about "Admin Privileges" anyway?

I'd have to ask, what have you been smoking?

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So I have to take my wife for a "mandatory" jury duty. I figured since we are good tax paying citizens, we should at least make the trip.

The jury summons letter set the time of meeting to be 8:45 am on Tuesday morning. I woke up this morning around 6:30 am, not that I am ever a morning person. Then we set out and leave the house around 7:00 am.

For those of you who live in the LA area surely know that the 405 freeway is notorious for its traffic jam, we were thinking that if we leave early enough, we can surely beat the traffic; plus using the carpool lane would also speed up things.

So we have to drive from San Fernando area to Beverly Hills courthouse, why they don't schedule the jury to serve on a closer courthouse I could never understand. We have the Chatsworth courthouse practically 5 minutes away from where we live, yet we have to drive over to Beverly Hills.

Well, it took us about 1.5 hours to drive the 15.7 mile from San Fernando to Beverly Hills, we were not late but we were not early either. Then what was annoying is that, they do not have any case for the day, so my wife was let go 10 minutes after the initial summons. So we literally drive for 1.5 hours in traffic for nothing.

Now I do understand that jury duty is one of our civic duty and I do not think the idea is bad at all. I just think some improvements could be made:

• The Jury Telephone line should be upgraded, and at least have better functions than simply taking your registration and then rudely (randomly) hangs up on you--it feels like playing "hang-up roulette". Have you ever noticed how hard it is to get a hold someone from any of the public service telephone line? They are overburdened, and hardly anyone is ever on the other line. If you think calling the Jury Duty line is tough, try the welfare office... (I thought so).
  
  
• I think the courthouse should be open 24 hours, so that busy people can report for Jury Duty during off hours. For positive revenue, the courthouse can also open a Yoga center and Gym membership.
  
  
• They should have some kind of Internet registration, in this day and age where everyone is carrying iPhones and BlackBerries, it is just a common sense to be able to complete your Jury Duty registration online and even check the status of the summons.
  
  
• Fees, fees and fees... There are no motivation whatsoever to perform jury duty. You do not (hardly) get paid to serve, your company often times don't reimburse you for that, plus on top of that you would have to spend money on gas (maybe bus/ train fares) and parking (since those snotballs won't allow you to actually park in the courthouse, you actually have to pay to park across the street for 8 bucks whole day). Totally a waste of taxpayer's money and resources. I am doing my civic duty, in the courthouse out of my own willingness and yet I cannot park in the courthouse? That is totally absurd... I think the courthouse should implement a parking system as well as vallet and concierge services.
  
  
• When I go around the courthouse, I see cops everywhere writing tickets and checking you out, the courthouse should be more friendly by rolling out the red carpet and allowing Starbucks to open a drive thru besides the courthouse, not only this will generate revenue, it will also create a friendlier environment. Integrate that with online ordering from point 3, then you will get a slam dunk!

Here are just some of the improvement ideas that I have noticed, now if we can get the ball rolling that would be great!

Picking up people from the Airport, why is it such a hassle??

Apparently someone likes to read my mails...

I just got this letter left on my desk, with my name on it and it's completely opened.

To the bitch that read this mail, with my name on it, directed to me, FUCK you and your ass-wipe self. You should at least have some decency to admit your doing...

It is fuckin' rude to open and read others' mail.

I hope you chocked on dicks tonight...

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So, I have a friend of mine going back from visiting Indonesia.

I don't understand why Indonesian people are so picky about going travel abroad. Someone will always have to be there to take them to the airport and pick them up from the airport.

Last I check, there are several ways to arrange your travel plans to and from the airport to minimize the headache for people who needs to drop and pick you up.


Driving on the 405 Freeway to go to the airport is like a suicide...

You could literally use a "lay away" system meaning you can use the bus to and from the airport, to your nearest city. You need to shell some money, but overall it is not bad.

There is airport shuttle, to and from the airport that will also take you there.

I just do not understand why Indonesians need to have "special favors" drop off and pickup service from their doorstep to the airport and vice versa?

And that is not the end of the story.

Apparently, my friend decided to wait until the last minute to tell me that he needed me to pick him up. Why cannot you be more responsible for your needs? People, you need to be considerate of others as well when you are asking for others' help...

I do not care how busy you are, call, text, email, or IM-me... Certainly you can at least let me know with so many methods of communication available...

And to think I have to do this on a Monday night, and I still have to pay for airport parking...

Review: ABCToys4me.com Anime Store

Collecting toys are now becoming more and more toxic, since recently I just started to expand my toys search (from Chinatown and Little Tokyo, LA) into the realm of Westminster and Paramount, CA


On the map, that's about a 60-mile radius.
A= my place
B= Anime Jungle - Little Tokyo
C= ABCToy4me - Paramount
D= Anime King - Westminster

So today, I decided to visit this anime warehouse store ABCToy4me, which is located in Paramount, CA. I inquire about their warehouse on the phone, and a very friendly guy just told me that I can just come into the warehouse to see and pick up what I want anytime during weekdays from 9 - 6.

Apparently they do not have a storefront, most of their transaction are done online via Amazon or eBay, and thus they save more overhead cost by not having a physical store.

When we came to the area, it was a pretty strange setup, a bunch of guys just hanging around in front of the warehouse playing Yugi-Oh! cards, one of them just directed us to go inside.

Once inside, it was a very big place with pretty much toys everywhere, arranged in racks. Although they tried, it doesn't seemed that much organization exists. I am an open minded person, so I do not mind the setup at all, as long as the price is right.


Racks and racks of toys...

So we immediately being greeted by a fat cow lady that was eager to sell us stuff, she was asking which items that we'd like. I can't help that I felt like being watched and pressured to pick the stuff and get the hell out, seemed like every turn I made to a different isle she was busy watching and following me.

I stumble upon a few figures and ask her for pricing, she went and took the items and come back in a bout 5 minutes or so, telling me about the pricing. I'd say it's a bit higher than the normal market price, but if they are good I will take it (she also promise me a 10% discount on my order).

Then I was looking at several figures more, well there was one figures that has a price tag of $19.99 on the bottom, and so I think SCORE! I gave her that figure with 2 others to her and told her that we are ready to go.

To my surprise she came back after another 5 minutes with the pricing for the figures. Outrageously they were written in post-it notes and the prices were at least 3 times higher! I told her that this is not the price they have online, and that one of the figures had a $19.99 price tag on it.

What got me so mad is that she apparently took off the original $19.99 price tag from the figure and told me that she is selling it for $80, a 60 dollar mark-up on the spot. Where the fuck does this come from? The rest were not doing so great either, they were marked as $40 and $75 for a $20.00 each, top!

That moment on, I realized that they are doing a shady business practice. We decided to cancel and leave the place almost immediately. Now I do not mind pricing much, but the fact that she marked up the price on the spot plus taking off the current price tag is FREAKIN SHADY...

I may not come back and deal with ABCToy4me.com after my experience, but again other's mileage may vary...

Here is their current info:
15962 Downey Ave.,
Paramount, CA 90723
Tel: 562-602-0888
http://www.abctoy4me.net/

Rant: What I hate about Facebook...

So yes,

Everyone is trading out their old fashioned blogs and stuff, and here we are, we've got Facebook. One of the best ways to keep communicating with people that you want to be BFF with, as well another way to show other people that you are doing better than them.

The phenomenon seemed so viral, that everyone is getting a piece of the action, even computer illiterate people nowadays tweet and FB their status via their smart phones. Back in the days only IT. people have smart phones, and they do serve a purpose (instead of watching YouTube all day).

This are some of the stuff I hate about FB users:

1. People that are social media whores, they posted their status and urges people to "like" and comment on their status. It's feels like calling your friend and saying "Hey, why don't you ever call me?" Well, here a clue: I don't want to talk to you, or "like" your retarded statuses. Maybe I just don't want to talk to you period...
   
   
2. People that posted waaayyy too much details, either about their personal life or about their beliefs system.
   
   
   Yeah... wayyy to much details, nothing that I want to know or think about... Or even people who kept saying God this and God that... "I love Jesus and all his cronies", it's just "lame"... You can keep your faith and religion and I respect that, but to shove it down others' throat is just plain wrong.
   
   
3. People who pretends they are your friend, added you on FB but actually do not even communicate with you. They just want an "update" from your news feeds and laugh at your misery.
   
   
4. People who likes to post or re-post quotes and encouragement words. If I am looking for words of encouragement, I would talk to my psychiatrist or my doc. It is not cool and not even original. Once or twice it is okay to do that, but posting it on every chance you get is uberly lame...
   
   
5. The Farmer people, whether you like farmville or farmland or dick-farming, you should stop posting your achievements on FB on my walls every 15 minutes. You should try to go out and get a life....
   
   
6. People who suffer lame photos syndrome, which means people who took the same picture and style over and over again and posted it on their walls.
   
   
7. People who posted their pictures with their car, just to show how nice their car/ possession are. The truth is, almost everybody here has one (if it's a BMW) and you are not that "special".
   
   
8. People who are trying to be comedian by posting funny comments, that aren't actually funny.
   
   
9. People from work that wants to be your friend, I mean fuck, I've seen you almost 8 hours per day (email, phones, IM), why would I still want to see you on FB?
   
   
10. People who tags you everywhere on their stupid pictures, why would you tag me on a picture of a dog? or picture of a dog's ass?
    
    
    Tag this, biyatch...
    

Rant: about 2011 (Another Glorious Year for IT)

So finally it's 2011, it comes faster than I could imagine. Lately I've been just so lazy about writing, I think of the relationship between me and my blog just like "off and on"...

But anyway, here we have the new year 2011, work sucks as always. Here are some of my rant about my workplace:

In 2011 I still have to deal with these shit(s)

1. People who constantly nag nag nag, about their emails being slow. These are the people with Giga-jigabytes of mailbox and they use email to communicate with other people 2 desks apart! Absurd, but yes I do not see the fucking point of sending email where you can just easily come over and spill what you need to say.
   
   
2. People who constantly nag nag nag, about their computer crashing or their applications not working properly. For some reasons we have people installed WoW and StarCraft II in here without permission, and then they complained to me when shit doesn't work. Some people actually spill water on their keyboard and expect the company to pay for the replacements. The sense of entitlement for some of these people are just waaayyy of the charts.
   
   
3. Retarded supervisor, someone who doesn't understand what you were doing, but totally trying to get into the "knowing of everything" deal. They want you to set up mini classes to teach them of how networking works or how to install and operate servers operating system. Scuse' me, if you want to do that you should go to college and earn your degree, not fuck over people that needs to do their job. Worst of all, they disappear and bail on you when you're trying to help them.
   
   
4. HR, is another retarded department who doesn't know how to do "Jack"! What they do in my company is they talk shit about other people all day and then order some fancy food like caffee latte or chocolatta ya-ya and some spring rolls from India. Worse of the worse, when they have a new hire, they tell me to prepare a new workstation like a few hours before the due time.
   
   
5. Some top level people, who felt that they have the utmost sense of entitlement, they put their family members to work in the same company so daddy can teach you about business, which is horse shit. What you're doing is that you're encouraging them to slack all day without doing nothing, what the fuck do they do all day anyway, never seen them available to do jack shit.
   
   
6. Some top level people who ask you to fix their personal computers, fuck dude I do not want to see your son's porn collection (because he is a porn addict). And guess what, not a single penny was ever given as a payment, but the IT guy gotta do it because his life depends on it.
   
   
7. Fake people, people who pretends to be all nice with an all cute smile and giggles, ouch just hate that shit. These are the types of people that looks nice, smell nice, but only being nice when they need you. They are ready to stab you with a samurai the minute you turn your back on them.
   
   
8. People who thinks that you're a maid. They ask you to fix the ceiling, to mount a whiteboard, and grab groceries from your Range Rover in the parking lot. I go to school to work on servers and network equipment, not your bag boy from Smart and Final. They tell you in a nice way, that you are a master of "everything" but in reality, they never give you raise for that. Heck If I am a master of all talents I would have a harem right now and a squad of prostitutes licking my balls.
   
   
9. People who uses the intercom to page people out loud, it is fucking annoying and dehumanizing. You use that to page announcement in emergency situations, not paging people to check and see where they're at and what they're doing.
   
   
10. People who thinks that you should work on their computer during lunch time, heck I haven't had lunch time in well over a year. You need to stick a sign in their thick skull that IT people also would like to take lunch and have a LIFE. They also expects you to be available 24-7 even weekends and holidays. GO FUCK Yourself...
    

Anyway, here are some of my rants in 2011, they said nothing beats starting the new year with a bang!

I really hope that I can write more on this blog, I kinda miss the sharing opportunities, or making fun of other and their inabilities-lacking thereof.

Now I can just find some "me" time....

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Honorable mention of 2011:

• Cafeteria plan,
  In 2010 they charged me almost 1 grand for a cafeteria plan, apparently this is the money that they charged you for your shitty-ass coffee in the morning as well as the birthday celebration shit. First of all I do not drink a total of 1 grand of coffee per year, I do not understand which part of the "cafeteria plan" does not include food? And lastly, who the hell ask you to celebrate my birthday?
  
  
• The recycling trash can business,
  Some genius thinks that it is a good idea to change all the regular trash can in the office and turn them into "recyclable" only. Now you could only put "recyclables" materials in there, so where the fuck should you go to throw out your other 99.9% non-recyclable trash?
  
  
• People who talks "this stuff is below your pay grade",
  Excuse me, how would you like me to rate your wife or girlfriend above or below their fuck-able level?
  
  
• People who brings their family members to work,
  These type of people will bring their family member to work, and actually encourage them to "visit" everyone and have a chit-chat. So I have to stop EVERYTHING that I am doing to converse with your family member. If I want to do that I can just do it at a bathroom stall in a bar after drinking...