Rage.

Yesterday, I got really upset at work. Well, there are many things at work momentarily that upset me. Where do I start? Let's begin with yesterday. To explain what happened I have to tell a little background so you will understand.

Beginning of the month our company introduced what they call the CitP (which I refer to as "shitpee"), a "common IT platform" that must help make bookings, check-in, etc. within our company and between us and our partners easy, faster, better, cheaper... you name it. Together with introducing this background software they also forced us to work on a different program to access this CitP. Until now, many of us used an old program provided by Unisys where you had to use codes to get the information out of the systems. The new program they now force us to use is based on a graphic user interface (GUI). You push some buttons and don't need to know codes anymore. All those managers even think this program does all by itself and you don't need to know anything anymore... which is not the case but that's a different story...

Anyway, to get to the point of my post: most of us hate the new GUI program and we all prefer to work on the old system. However, they disabled it for everyone, except for some colleagues who also work in a different department where they can't do without the old program. So though they tell us it's not working anymore, the truth is it still is. They just don't want us to use it anymore. So then don't bullshit us. And don't think we are stupid. The GUI based program is simply an interface that only "translates" the push of a button on the screen into the required code of the underlying original code based program that we would love to use... so what's the deal? Arggghhhh.

But, what made me so upset yesterday is the following. A colleague asked me if I knew why another colleague (my Jelle actually) could still use the old program. I answered I didn't know that but that I could imagine it had to do with his position (having to work in the different department as well regularly). She is in the same situation as Jelle but obviously felt jealous that he might have something that she hasn't because she immediately jumped up and went to the boss! I watched amazed and asked her what's the deal, what's wrong? She would not say a word to me, just went straight away. So another colleague and I just watched astonished and I called her again to ask what's wrong but she went away with a red head! So I said "She is crazy" to my other colleague. Some time later she came back to the counter. She did not say a word. I didn't look at her. I refused to speak to her, luckily she did not address me either. When I went home moments later I only greeted my other colleague, not her. It's the second time this girl has potentially done something on Jelle's cost just to get better herself. That's the first thing that upset me, because she only asked me, not Jelle and I even did not know what she wanted to know... how can you rely on this and make a complaint to your boss? That's plain stupid! And then, this girl really has the guts today to call me at home on my day off to aks if I was willing to change shifts with her on saturday so she can meet people that have to do with her horse... Can you imagine? My ass, your horse! Of course I refused to swap. Bad luck for her. I am better off with my late shift. She didn't even offer an apology that she refused to speak to me yesterday, she did as if everything was fine and normal today... Women, arrrggghhhh! Sometimes I feel I am surrounded by morons.

Ah, this feels good. I told you why I was upset. Another thing that had an influence on my mood yesterday.