Thoughts of a book

Age.

I am 66 years of age as I write this. No, not 'old'. Just 'of age'. I'll leave it to other people to be 'old' at 66.

Next year I'll retire from the day job in IT. After a bit more than 8 years with Cambrian Technologies.

8 to 9 years has been my average stay at a place, which is kind of fitting. And no, this has nothing to do with the title of this post.

Thoughts of a book.

During my working life (which will be 49 years when I finally retire) I've seen, heard and met a lot of weird things.

Things like:

Customer: "Something is broken and I need it urgently!"
Me: unbreaks what they broke. "Can you check if it's okay now?"
Customer: "I don't have time for that."

People returning a work laptop like this:

and telling me they did nothing special with it. If this is 'nothing special', I don't want to know what happens when they do something special.

Another nice one:

Customer asks about a powerpoint problem. She wants to change some images in the image library and shows that page to me.
I tell her to click "Open Folder". She closes the windows that has the "Open Folder" text and link on it, and asks where I see that.

See? Reading is a skill. Too bad this person works in the Communications department of a company.

It's things like that which once made a manager tell me I should collect all of them and put them in a book.

I wonder if people would like such a book. I might write it, if I remember enough madness to put in there. Yes, I should have collected all of them, in hindsight this is obvious. I'd write it, only for the fun of it.

We'll see how that works out in a while. There is still so much to write...