10/29/07

If I could save time in a bottle

They dicked around with daylight savings time again. For some reason our government decided to break with tradition and instead of setting the clocks back an hour on the last Sunday of October, they're going to do it next week. I never got that memo and this morning I had a dozen people tell me they didn't know when to start working because there was no buzzer. (I shit you not) Two years ago I installed a new ultra modern, solid state timeswitch at work to control the buzzers. The selling point of this whole thing was that it would adjust itself when we spring ahead and fall back. It didn't get the memo either. Remembering how to navigate hidden menus is not my strong suit. I usually drive around for about a week with my car clock an hour off until I finally break down and dig through the glovebox for the owner's manual, then I dig through that tome of pointless information to find the sequence for setting the clock. I'm sure you get the point. To find the instructions for resetting my new ultra modern, solid state timeswitch, I have to dig through my filing system. Anyone who knows me can guess this would confuse Indiana Jones. Last year when they altered the fall back schedule I thought "I'm smart, I can figure this out, I don't need no stinking manual." For about a week we had a buzzer that went off 10 minutes after the start of the shift. I had to delete the entire program and start over. Even with the manual it's a bit of a chore. I do learn from my mistakes and today I had the time straightened out before the first break buzzer. Next Sunday I'll just drive in and turn it back again, should be no problem, then I have another year to forget how to do it. Best laid plans of mice and men...

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