Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:23 PM
Just now, I got word of a friend of mine who smashed his printer to bits because it didn't cooperate with his Snow Leopard-setup. :o
Obviously, there were other circumstances which added to his frustrations, which caused him to go Office Space and thus ultimately ended in the printers' demise, but I can't help but thinking that he could have picked something else to vent his anger on. A vase, perhaps. :)
The last time I smashed something to bits out of pure anger was about ten years ago.
I lived in cramped quarters at the time, it was hot and humid, and I had a dial-up connection provided by WorldOnline.
This ISP managed to disconnect me for the strangest reasons, and there were days I couldn't get online at all, like that particular evening. So when I called their help desk once again to find out what's wrong and to give them a piece of my mind in the process, I was already agitated.
After being kept on hold for over 30 minutes (damn, I had patience), the clock indicated 20:45 (15 minutes to closing time) and me being the first in line for about ten minutes, the WOL switchboard told me that they would not be able to help me that same day, and disconnected me.
I snapped my keyboard in half out of pure frustration.
After diggin up another one, I rang a different ISP, which picked up the phone at the second ring, and 10 minutes later, I was connected through Cistron.
The cancellation letter to WOL was sent the next day, and I was glad to never hear from them again. :)
I've managed my anger since then; of course, I occasionally get angry, but I draw the line at non-functional hardware. ;)
Cheers, K.
# re: Anger management
11/5/2009 8:23 PM by
Whoa, a printer... Expensive joke :/
I have the same problem though and have so far kicked the crap out of a fan, two keyboards, a vacuum cleaner and many more appliances. Even a bike I think.
Maybe we should pick up boxing :)
# re: Anger management
11/6/2009 8:07 AM by
I guess that friend of mine is in need of some lessons, yeah.