Matisyahu's Blog

It appears that some of the worst people on earth have come out of the woodworks to ring up for assistance. I really have to wonder whether more people demonstrating learned helplessness or whether it is just weaponised incompetence. I always go back to when I got interested in computers where the interest in computers wasn’t simply for the sake of it but rather I wanted to accomplish something and if I wanted to that I needed to learn how to use it – kind of like buying a tool and then learning how to use it so then you get the most out of it. I also have to wonder whether there is a complete lack of intellectual curiosity by many out there for example, there is an issue with the website did they try to log out and log back in? clear cookies and cache? do they have any extensions running – what happens if they disable them for that particular web page?

I don’t know about you but in my whole time I’ve been with my bank I’ve rung them up a grand total of 3 times in 19 years, my power company that I’ve been with for over 10 years I’ve contact them a grand total of 2 times. I don’t know whether it is me but I’m always surprised at the number of people who ring up businesses on a near weekly basis as if they’re lonely and want something to talk to – am I strange in that I only ring up businesses because the proverbial has hit the fan rather than because of some dying need to talk to another human? oh well, I needed to vent sometimes because god knows I won’t get a good night sleep if I don’t get out of my system.

With rant over, I’m going to head out for a walk for some much needed exercise then come back home to watch some television series. Looking forward to the end of the first week back at work and hopefully working on new years day and the day after new years day will result in a few extra dollars in my pay packet. On an unrelated note, I realised I didn’t ask for some free hats with the order I made last night from the clothing shop I bought some items from so I did a follow up email – hopefully I’ll get a reply back in the few days.