Well I’m sorry dear reader, but I’m in need of a rant. My days at the moment are filled with sitting at a computer writing various bits and pieces of software for people. Nothing out of the norm there then. However, since the start of term I’ve had this strange feeling that I have been becoming a grumpy old fart in the office, and whilst this still might be true I’m finding clues that actually it’s not just me.
Today was a casing point after dealing with a number of difficult people, one was moaning about having to pay for software and another about the fact the printer wasn’t working and how it was going to mean she couldn’t write her essay or something (errr printer not working doesn’t stop your fingers from pressing keys). One of my co-worker turned to me and said “is it me or are the students this year moaning about anything and everything?”. I have to say that it made me smile to hear that it wasn’t just me.
So that leaves the question as to why, what is causing all of this moaning? Is it something to do with the economical down turn that everyone keeps talking about (also referred to as the credit crunch)? Maybe this has both direct and indirect affects on some of the people especially people have particular money issues. However, for the vast majority of the people I’m currently dealing with I wouldn’t put this in that category. Sure I know the saying never judge a book by its cover and all that, but I’ve generally found people living those situations are generally really friendly, which considering some of the emails I’ve received recently at work just doesn’t tie in with. I personally wonder if it is more a case of scream and shout loud enough about anything and maybe you can get something out of it. I guess if I was to put a name to it, I would refer to it as the small injury claims syndrome. Yes, you’ve seen the adverts on TV we’ll sue anyone for you even if it was your own stupid fault for not looking where you were going. Of course this is only a theory and nothing has been proven yet. I just hope that in the near future that whatever it is that is wrong corrects its self so we can return to a more happy state of mind up here.
Sorry about that, rant over now. Oh and I need to thank Anna-Lena Majkovic who has just brought me some smarties. She must be a mind reader bringing me smarties at a time like this. Thank you!
The last thing I have to say is, has anyone spotted the irony of this post? Moaning about people moaning, I guess this means my headache has finally kicked itself into the highest gear and I now need to go and seek some help.