New Computers

Getting new computers in the office has been an ordeal that makes me want to return to chiseling in stone.  Not only do I need to deal with the CWA union workers employed by AT&T who are way more interested in checking out places to eat for lunch and receiving their scheduled breaks (on the new couch in my office, I  might add) than installing my Uverse and making sure it's working, I also need to deal with the IT guys trying to get everything up and running and making my network operational.

The bounce back between the ATT technicians and my IT guys as to whom does what is never ending.  Each side is blaming the other as being incompetent idiots who don't know what they're doing.  Each side is saying that it's "not their job description nor scope" to deal with the problem going on.  Passing the buck is a staple now in the computer-internet-network world.  The real issue is that everything is so interrelated and complicated that only the most dedicated will stick by you to figure it all out.  We all know that type of dedication is lacking in today's work environment -- even if willing to pay for it. 

All I know is that I don't have internet access, network access, and I'm pissed off.....Is it really worth the hassle?  I'm beginning to think it's not worth all the:  upgrades, operating system bugs, software conflicts, network configurations, hardware conflicts, device drivers, firewall issues, potential security breaches,  BEING ON HOLD FOR TECH SUPPORT FOR  ETERNITY, etc. 

Just yesterday I was speaking with a business owner who is thinking of ditching cell phones and internet.  Why?  Scattered attention and information is pointless.  Keep things concentrated and efficient like a laser beam.  The point was you could do 1,000 things half-ass, or do 100 things with precision and detail.  We are all on circuitry overload.  There is a lot being passed around, but nothing is getting done.  When you start to add up the lost productivity for system failures and the time and resources to fix and maintain it, a business owner may be money ahead in simple, stand-alone desktop computers.  Email is a cluster-fuck time waster.  Use snail mail.  Only the truly important stuff gets snail mailed.  The rest is just noise that sucks up time. 

Eliminating internet access also releases a lot of employer liability with downloading porn, going on Facebook, shopping on Amazon, etc. and the time employees waste using these sites.  Granted, you could hire IT to block usage and monitoring of such sites, but that also has a cost.