Dense

I know this is gonna be wayyyyyy too long for most of you to read but that's okay.

So, I have a new job for the winter. I am doing computer work, basicaly setting up computers and configuring network.. stuff.. for a hospital/medical company. They are getting all new computers so they hired 4 temps to help them with the migration. I'm one of the temps. It's me and 3 guys.

The first thing they said when they saw me on my first day was that "last time they had a girl with them she quit after one day"

I'm also the only girl in the whole department

so of course i HAD to prove myself and make sure I do my little job well and show them that just because I'm a girl doesn't mean that I'd rather be doing my nails and playing with puppies.. geez...

Apparently in south jersey the only career choice for most girls is being a cocktail waitress in a casino or maybe, if you're lucky, someone's secretary

Anyways

One of the other temps is a young guy, in school for computers, he knows what he's doing. He has been a temp there since late September. Let's call him Mo, cuz that's his name.

Now, the other two "guys" they are actually old men. They have been there for I think 2-3 weeks. They are in their 40's, probably late 40's. One of them just recently lost his job as a programmer, he was working on really old programs like Fortran and Cobalt which really no one uses anymore so yeah he lost his job. But at least he has somewhat of a thinking brain and some computer knowledge. But still he knows programming, not hardware, not networking... it takes a while to explain stuff to him. And he drinks coffee out of a jar. Yeah. He drinks it black, out of a jar. The jar has a handle like a mug, but it also has a regular jar lid.. and .. that's what he drinks his coffee out of. At first I thought it was moonshine. haha and he looks like an old cowboy with a grey/white beard and big belt buckles.

Now the other old guy... wow. First let me paint this picture - he is very tall, lanky, balding, and has a huge nose. He basically IS the dumb condor from the cartoons. He is just one of those guys that probably smoked a lot of pot when he was younger, did absolutely nothing with his life, and worked in fast food his whole life because he is completely devoid of all motivation, drive, and intelligence. I don't even understand how this guy got the job. He must have lied at the temp agency interview. He is the dumbest person i have ever met, and I feel bad saying this because maybe it's something, I don't know, inherited, I really don't understand. This guy just ughhh he makes my brain twitch. He is SOOOO DENSE. I have so many stories that I tell Chris about this guy it is just amazing. One of them was, for example, Thursday, it was 4:00, and we leave at 4:30, and there was one more computer to set up, and he goes "well, it's almost time to go" and then he just sat there doing NOTHING for the next half hour. WOW WOW WOW WOW

Anyway, it was pretty easy to prove myself at this job.

Friday we had to install 15 computers in the hospital's pathology department. First, we were given instructions by the IT guy, and I wrote down detailed notes which I then had to type up for the dum dums because they were very confused even though this was the easiest stuff ever. Stuff like "change computer name" and "change IP address" was apparently rocket science to them, and my instructions had to be as detailed as "right-click on my computer, go to properties, go to Computer Name". YEAH.

So we had about 4 hours to set up these 15 computers. At the end of the day, the tally came to

Me - 6
Mo - 5
dum dum #1 - 2
dum dum #2 - 2 (actually just 1, he was juuuust setting up the 2nd one when i was leaving)

IN ALMOST FIVE HOURS those guys set up 2 computers.

haha

And amazingly, even though I haven't even THOUGHT about doing computers/networking/etc. since like 2001, I was able to cruise right into this job and do it better than everyone else who has been there longer than me.

And I'm a girl.

YEAH BOI what's up now?!??!
hahaha

yeah i'm tooting my own horn... but i never do.. so i'm allowed to do it once in a while, right?!

i love computers, I love the work, I really like the other guys in the department they seem cool, I think it's gonna be a pretty easy and fun job, and it's only for like 2-3 months so by the time I get sick of it it'll be over and weddings will start up again in March so I'm just really excited about it

but yeah I need another outlet where I can tell dum-dum stories, because... they are just amazing