The wet blanket of subordination
This week I have been attempting to dominate; I’ve been furiously working away at my PhD, owning the gym, writing and generally taking care of business.
However, I’m also getting dissapointed. There is a large, wet blanket of subordination trying to soak the efforts of the tomandzoe.com readership. Be warned, IT professionals, sales-people and administration beauracrats are out there and they want hamper your domination.
The month is but young, and already I’ve been witness to at leat two, powerful instances of subordination!
Terrible acts of subordination I
I’ve been attempting to register for the conference that I’m going to in Alaska. Talk about red tape. Here is the process:
1. get money to register
2. go online and fill in forms for registration on conference website, but don’t submit them
3. print out all filled forms
4. go to JCU website and fill in a purchase requisition form
5. assign funding to the purchase from research account
6. take hard-copy of filled in forms to purchasing officer
7. purchasing officer goes to step 2, fills in forms, adds credit card number and deducts the amount from research account.
How about instead, I pay for the registration, email the confirmation from conference organisers to finance and have them add the cost electronically to my pay next week - or some other, much simpler option. Talk about redundant positions wasting my fucking time!
Terrible acts of subordination II
I’ve also been trying to go wireless with the purchase of a notebook computer. This has required no less than four (4) trips to The Good Guys shop, some 15mins drive away. Their subordination has cost me 1 hour of my life. One hour that could’ve been spent dominating. As Henry Rollins says, “It’s like murder with a tiny little knife”.
The reason behind wanting to get a laptop is that inadequate computing facilities are provided by the university - and it’s basically impossible to get research funding to buy depreciating assets like electronic equipment (that might actually make you more productive).
So, sick of the BS, I went and got my own - more about the computer tomorrow - thinking that I would be able to have the IT guys here at uni install the stats programs and so on that I need. Sound simple? Yes, it does, and that’s the problem. Nothing is allowed to be simple, or quick.
Apparently, if it’s a personal computer, the IT guys can’t use the software licenced to the uni. Instead you have to pay for it yourself. So, they won’t give you a computer, but they will give you grief.
Still, there’s a ray of hope. If you have a staff number you can go to the book store and buy MS Office and XP Pro for the reduced rates of $22/each. Not bad. So…. I walk across campus and ask the guy at the shop. He says, “No, that only applies to full-time staff members”. WTF??? So, only the people who don’t need the discount can get the discount!!!!
Now I have to go and find unstable pirated software and fuck around for God knows how long installing it and generally being a knob. I bet the admin people have laptops and the library staff have all the fucking software they want.
It’s time to lay down the law. I’m taking domination from the physical world to the beauracrats.
serenity now!
….. ahhhh…
August 5th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
and there’s still people talking out of their asses and in need of straightening out. (Note my comment at the bottom of the second link - come, on!
August 5th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Nice domination on the comment front, very inspiring indeed.
I suppose the only armour against such callous acts of subordination is to burn so intensely with domination (like a disco inferno), that the wet blanket never touches the hot, hot, heat of your pure, unassailable domination.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
this is why I got in and got out of Uni as quickly as possible!!
August 5th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
you’re right, i’ve never come across red tape when dealing with banking institutions. maybe i could become a teller - i’m ever so good at filling in forms!
August 5th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
You should try being an architect!
We have to deal on a daily basis with clients, town planners, building inspectors, builders, structural engineers, heritage consultants, hydraulics engineers, mechanical services engineers, acoustics consultants, kitchen designers, interior designers, cost planners, facade engineers, lighting designers, electrical consultants, lift inspectors, building maintenance managers, lawyers, project managers, surveyors, landscape architects, fabric suppliers, furniture suppliers, traffic engineers, fire services engineers, civil enginers, stone consultants, programmers, food and beverage consultants, real estate agents, development managers, access consultants, audio visual consultants, water feature designers, perspective artists, modelmakers, fire brigade officers, photocopier salesmen, waste management consultants, breweries (they’re all right), postmix suppliers, point of sale suppliers, tenants, building owners, and the odd student!
They all have their own really important red tape and want to dominate!
It’s not surprising architects are such nice cute people
August 5th, 2005 at 4:39 pm
ps Jennifer Marohasy looks kinda cute too
August 5th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
Not to mention other bloody architects!
Here, here YLD. Tomo, dry your eyes, mate, and simply spit in the general direction of these uppity nobodies. This is the IMD! The time is NOW!
By the way - don’t you just love the definition according to dictionary.com?
up·pi·ty (adj. Informal)
Taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one’s station; presumptuous: “was getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down” (New York Times).
August 5th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
“needed to be slapped down” ahahaha LOL
please refer to my previous statement, “It’s time to lay down the law.”