i'm surrounded by strange people at work...
they give the vendor a hard time and the vendor bends over
backwards for us..
i have the solution but they do not want me to do it... insisting
that the vendor must..
thursday, they transferred a couple of videos into the notebook so
that they can use it.. but they want a CD of the videos instead...
the vendors who have bent over backwards are also idiots.. who
encode 13 minutes into about 740MB... who the hell rips 13 minutes
of DVD into 740MB??
it doesn't fit into a CD so i use the only DVD drive to copy it
into the HDD and use a thumbdrive to move it over to the
notebook...
the vendors find an error in the final product and will deliver the
discs on monday, so i let it go...
today, they want to use it and are in a panic.. i give them my
thumbdrive with the stuff in it but they decide to bring the
notebook..
something i don't get... i offer to teach them and tell them the
difference between a DVD, a VCD, an MPEG rip, all kinds of
technical things which they will need to know if they want to play
the thing, but noooo.. they insist on being idiots and want a
'one-size-fits-all' which cannot be delivered.. but they insist
anyway...
i tell them that if they really want a high quality picture, we
bring our own things like a cheapo DVD player ($36 at Giant) and
the DVD disc.. but they refuse saying that the places they go
'cannot hook those things up'
i hope the next guy who comes in on monday doesn't have this
attitude where he insists on being dumb and insists he's
right..
i never understood what they want with a notebook when they don't
want to carry it around.. it's a sure way of delivering the
video...
btw.. they called me when i just fell asleep... 
