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I really don’t understand it, though it is hilariously funny. Unibrow has this thing about him, that no matter what happens, he is right. The pope could be telling him he’s wrong, but no, the pope is lying, etc.

He recently went to Dublin to do training on a new product we’re selling, so he’ll be the go-to guy on setup and installs of them. He spent 3 days there learning the thing inside and out, apparantly.

On Tuesday he had to set 3 up to be installed in a site of ours, and he spent most of the day doing it, with the bosses help on what the customer needs. Except, he couldn’t get one part of it working. The product is a weighing scale, and the part he couldn’t get working was a scanner attached to the scales, for a retail butcher shop.

He spent hours on the phone with the manufacturers here in Ireland trying to figure it out and was getting a bit frustrated with it. The boss told him to ring the manufacturer in the UK in case they had any input, but he kept putting it off until after 5 when it was too late then.

So I’m strolling around the place passing time, as one does, and pop in to see how he’s getting on. The boss is there stirring things asking about the scanner over and over, just to annoy unibrow, and unibrow is just getting stupid angry with him. I wander over to the scale and wink at the boss and start on about the scanner too. Unibrow just blows a big sigh and says “it’s a fault or something, we can’t get it to work and Pat in the manufacturers has no idea either.”

Open on top of one of the scales is the manual for them and the page is opened on how to set up the scanner. So I ask unibrow if he’s followed this exactly and get, “obviously I have, even Pat has, there’s something wrong with the scale or scanner.” I flick back to the start of the section on the scanner in the manual and go through the configuration myself. When it comes to the part of barcodes and how they should be set up, I notice the screenshots are different to how unibrow has them on the scale.

So I ask him, “this is done differently to what you have done, have you tried it this way?” And he says:

“That’s a misprint.”

Ok, sure, the manual could be wrong, but it’s mentioned more than once and includes more than 1 screenshot, surely someone would have noticed?

So I change his configuration to the way the manual has, exactly, ask unibrow to try it now, and what do you know – it worked!

Misprint, eh?

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This morning the rabbit was going on about problems with his broadband at home, it works but is very slow. Unibrow turns around to him and says, “Oh that service isn’t available in your area.” The rabbit just stares at him and says, “I have the service, it’s just slow.”

“No, it’s not available you can’t have it. Your area isn’t covered,” replies unibrow. The rabbit doesn’t know how to respond so just simply says, “I have it.”

Unibrow still replies with, “You can’t. It isn’t available and that’s that.”

That’s that! haha, I really don’t know what goes on in his head.

Ugh. I’m fit to strangle unibrow!

So today is his birthday, and being the nice coworkers that we are, we got him a cake. A gorgeous chocolate and caramel cake with yummy chocolate icing and white chocolate sprinkled on top.

Everyone gathers around the bosses office discussing some or other, while I light the candles on the cake. He’s 31 and I’ve got 31 candles! Awesome bright blue/pink/yellow and purple ones. The cake looks awesome!

When read, I walk up to the bosses office and we all start singing Happy Birthday. Unibrow actually looks happy and surprised, and everytone is in good spirirts laughing and joking.

Until unibrow decides to take the BIGGEST breath humanly possible and proceeds to blow the fuck out of the candles. Which is fine, except I’m HOLDING the cake, and candle wax flies off the cake, and all over my top.

My top is destroyed with wax. An Iron might get most of it out, but the top is done for. Not impressed.

Not only that, but it’s spread out all across my boobs! So everyone is looking at my boobs and the mess made from the wax. Yippee.

Well, almost everyone. The boss is too busy making blowjob jokes.

Ugh.

Our business caters to many different areas of businesses including retail, bars, hotels, etc. Because of this, it’s not a 9-5/6 type job but we take turns being on call. Usually a Saturday would be the busiest time after normal business hours, but it’s been pretty quiet for a while now, months even.

Until yesterday. When yours truly was on call.

71 calls for the day. Starting at 7am and my phone didn’t stop ringing til near on 9:30 last night.

Now, I don’t mind being busy or getting this amount of calls. Beats being bored, and when we’re on call we know it’s coming so usually are at home or near a PC so we can dial in to a customer if needed.

What I *do* mind, very much so in fact, is refusal of my coworkers to help me when I need it. Or, a VERY pissed off attitude when I ask. That’s just not helpful.

Now, yes I know they’re off work and it’s my job to be on call, but come on! 71 calls!!!

I wasn’t even asking them to do the calls. I’d ring with a question, like I forgot where a certain setting was and all I get when I call someone else is “why are you calling me?”

One customer initially rang one of the guys direct and got a very pissed off answer. To the point where the customer said “don’t you dare be narky with me” and then hung up. The customer told me thus himself.

The same coworker would tell me things like, “that’s nothing to do with our software” and 2 mins later ring ne back bitching about me not checking the thing he had told me didn’t exist!

Another coworker got one call from me then turned off his phone.

Yeah, again, perfectly entitled to do so and when I found out it was more of a “fuckers phone is off” and moved on. But I coulda done with his help and he always gets mine when he’s on call.

In fact they all do. At anytime. In fact, I usually just say I’ll do the call. Cause it’s nice to help out when you can!!

Apparantly, I’m the only one who thinks this in our company. Yay.

So, Monday a shit storm is gonna reign down cause seriously, I’ll be pulling my own help and support to them unless there’s a serious attitude change. That’s not arrogance, I’ve worked here near on 12 years and am second to the boss , and know the most about the software.

If they aren’t helping me on a very odd, unusual and once in a blue
moon occasion, why should I help them at other times?

Seriously ticked off.

P2P in my place of business does not mean Peer to Peer, no it means Permission to Pee. And said permission comes from Unibrow.

For example:

Me: Going to the bathroom, brb
Unibrow: Yeah ok that’s fine

(wtf?!)

Me: back in a min
Unbirow: Where are you going
Me: Bathroom, if that’s ok
Unibrow: yeah ok that’s fine

/boggle

It’s name is Unibrow.

Got a package delivered to us there about an hour ago. Unibrow runs to intercept the delivery guy, being how nosey he is, but I get there first and claim the package. Unibrow is dying to know who the package is from and what’s in it.

Ive kept it unopened for ages, really slow to do anything with it, and Unibrow keeps hovering around me doing random things and asking about the package.

Nearly an hour I kept this up for and it was driving him mad. He’s so damn nosey.

I haven’t been here in a while, lots going on and just never got around to it, but I was just outside for a cigarette and thought of my blog so I will update it more.

But let’s start with unibrow, as usual.

Outside, in the glorious sunshine, enjoying the weather having a break. The Rabbit starts going on about the colour of the sun, asking what is that big white thing in the sky. Now ok, yes the sun is yellow/orange-ish as we all know, but it’s so bright today it’s shining like white.

Not to unibrow! Unibrow starts arguing that the sun currently is yellow, yes it is but it’s so bright it’s like white.

There’s a van parked across the road from our offices, so the Rabbit asks unibrow what colour is the van, since the sun is currently the same colour.

Unibrow goes, “The main part is white but there is black,  grey and red on it too and the sun isn’t black grey or red.”

*shakes head*

On a depressing note, I turn 30 this coming Sunday. Yay?

So I still haven’t really gotten over the below note and don’t know what to do but still in my mind. Haven’t heard from him since and was considering send a text but don’t want to get caught in phone tag because I just don’t know what to say. A friend suggested emailing, and I’ll probably do that but again, don’t really kow what to say – what do you say?

Damaged my neck a few of weeks ago. Mixture of too many pillows, posture in general and being in drafts. I knew it was coming on though, I had similar to this last year and it was drafts again and I had been in drafts and did I do anything about it at the time? Noooooo, I stayed sitting in the draft! I’m smart. So a month’s dose of anti inflams, my body must love me. Nearly finsihed those though and feeling almost completly better. Still hurts on occasion but I can feel it coming on and watch what I do to help try keep it at bay.

Work has been the same as always, bit busier and Unibrow hasn’t changed, he’s gotten a bit worse with the rabbit, disagrees with *everything* the guy says, here’s an example.

Weather been rather cold so we’ve had the air conditioning on hot for a while. So the rabbit is sitting here and the following conversation happened:

Unibrow: It’s too hot in here

Rabbit: No it’s not, it’s fine

Unibrow: No it isn’t, turn it down.

So the Rabbit doesn’t turn it down, just leaves it and leaves the room to talk to the programmer in his office. I was still in their office so know Unibrow didn’t touch the air conditioner. The rabbit comes back in, knowing that nothing has changed and just stirring shit.

The rabbit: It’s too hot in here.

Unibrow: No it’s not, it’s fine.

Basically word for word, just to disagree with the rabbit, hehe.

Anyhoo, I just did a purity test and got 76%, go me, hehe

We’re so cruel.

Earlier on today, like 3 hours ago, I had to send unibrow a file over MSN that he needed. Accidentally I sent it to the rabbit but didn’t notice that and was adamant that I sent it to unibrow when they asked what happened. So unibrow asked me to send it again, and this time I delibrately sent it to the rabbit and said it definitely went to unibrow, I definitely clicked him etc. Very weird, unibrow says, but we leave it alone and don’t think on it again.

So later he asks me to send him a message to see if he gets that. The rabbit and me decided to do something funny. I would send my message to the rabbit, and he’d send it to unibrow. Then I’d ask unibrow if he got the message.

Unibrow started freaking out. All the messages I said I was sending him, he was getting from the rabbit! We kept this up for 2 hours. He reinstalled MSN, changed to his laptop to try it, reinstalled trillian, installed plain original MSN, and the whole time we kept sending messages from me, through the rabbit.

2 HOURS this went on for.  He finally deleted me from his contact list, and when he readded me I sent him a direct message and he nearly hit the roof in joy.

hehe, we’re so cruel. We also came up with something to do tomorrow with replacing his desktop image and icons. That’ll be fun :p

My, what a rollercoaster the last 3/4 weeks have been. Everythig from births, to deaths, to marriages to assaults. You name it, it happened.

The bad shit, because I really have lingered on it long enough IRL without going on and on here online about it. My aunt, mother of 6 kids, passed away last Monday. She was only 55. I think we’re all still in the stunned and shocked phase, along with the crying not stop phase in full swing.

A friend of mine’s son, aged 7, passed away during the week from a water clot in the brain. I just still can’t get over this.

Another friend of mine, one of my best friends in school growing up and we’ve kept contact her brother was killed in a road accident 3 weeks ago. My younger brother was very good friends with her younger brother too so it hit everyone in my family hard.

My cousin was assaulted, there’s *war* over that at the moment, and will be for a long time. Her brother, who’s now a commando in the British army, knows and is due home this Friday. There’s going to be some amount of shit next weekend. I’m so staying indoors.

The rabbit’s mother in law is very sick at the mo’ and not altogether doing too well.

Short and brief ’cause I hate lingering on bad news, and I am doing it enough IRL.

My cousin, the above commando, is getting married at the end of this month. Mega rush since they were due to get married in Feb, but he’s being deployed somewhere in Feb and this is the only date before that they can get, so it’s all hands on deck.

I’ve helped a ton. Photography is sorted, flowers are sorted. I did the most gorgeous invitationsfor them as their gift from me, then addressed them for all coming. Seating arrangements was done last night. It’s not 100% done as to where the tables will be situated, but overall who’s where is done.

And his new son, Daniel, was born and will be baptised at their wedding too

Can’t even begin to imagine how conflicted and confused that whole family is right now.

And I had a wonderful week in Spain. Visited Valencia-ish area for 6 days, and then only Barclona for 2 days. I wish I had more time in Barcelona, such a beautiful city and so much to do. Crammed as much into 2 days and we could, the church/aquarium/nou camp/maritime msueum/shopping, hehe/drinking/food/sleeping/etc.

My cousin, another one, got married so we made a trip of it, about 18 of us. Man was that ever fun

One of the restaurants we went to, altogether, ran out of vodka hehe. They were seriously fretting it didn’t know what to do!

Driving everyone here at work crazy by playing Christmas songs all day, every day. Unibrow tried to stop me, but I’ve been doing it for 10 years and it ain’t possible to stop me now! So everyone else pretty much told him it wasn’t worth the effort. hehehe

Annnnd currently putting up the most tackiest Christmas decorations at work, EVER! So much so that unibrow just said it’s like walking into a brothel. Except I’m the madam and I’m renting them out. Not going to make much there! hehe

Also, how does unibrow know what walking into a brothel is like?

the rabbit NEVER gets on AIM unless I ask him to when he should be on AIM/MSN for work purposes and it’s annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And my work purposes I mean talk about and bitch about unibrow, but still. argh!