ljplicease | Reboot

The Company has this evil spyware installed on my work notebook. It downloads new software and reboots every day without asking first. I commented to Adil yesterday that I thought the systems at work were all designed to make work as difficult as possible, because it is really hard to think of a software product that I have to work with which is actually easy to use, or isn't buggy. We sell most of this shit too, so it astounds me that we are in business at all. Come to think of it, the shit which isn't overly complicated and impossible to use is second rate. Our instant messaging system [1] is in all ways inferior to Jabber. We are also required to change all of our passwords (and there are a lot of them) every three months so I can't remember any of them. I would seriously like to calculate the amount of lost work due to the (in)security measures that they have put into place. Some executive somewhere decided to make it a bureaucratic nightmare to get access to new systems, and require us to change them constantly once we do get them, so guess what? People write down and share their passwords all the time. Security is a joke exactly because of the insipid security measures.

I think it is time to take the Micro$oft technical support approach and press the reset button and start over.

[1] Which we sell, bundled with some other second rate shit.