In Remembrance of Me: Character Flaw

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Character Flaw

I know I have a character flaw. Ok more than one but I have one really major one that I can't seem to correct. I have no patience for stupid people. I mentioned before the hell I went through at the beginning of the church year when they gave me 4 days to completely overhaul the content of the webpage. Over the summer the newly formed "IT" committee decided that we needed a new domain name. We've had allenavenueuu.org for going on five years now with no problems but now they feel it's too long so they registered aauu.org with Network Solutions. Previously, we had everything in a hosting package with one company which was being partially donated to the church by the ISP. Now, they have the domain name in one place, the email accounts at another place with the DNS pointing there, and the webspace in yet another place so that I can't redirect the DNS to the existing webspace without screwing up the email addresses. They did ALL this without my knowledge or input. Obviously, because they wouldn't be in this predicament if they had actually CONSULTED ME! I'm the "webmaster". I manage the website. I know about these things. That's my job, that's what I do. They do NOT know about these things, they just think they do because they know how to operate a computer. The put ABSOLUTELY NO THOUGHT into this reorganization process.

It's the same way with the electronic version of the newsletter. I know how to do this. It's not brain surgery. We need an application to convert Publisher files into PDF files, load it to the website and send an email with a link to the subscriber list so they can download it. They are making this into a PROCESS, it is going through 6 different people who have NO IDEA what they're talking about. The "IT" committee is made up basically of "hardware" people. People who know how to tear into a tower and set up a network. I do websites. I couldn't open a tower if you paid me $1,000,000. I know that and I don't pretend that I can. I am reasonably knowledgable about peripherals but if a hardware question comes up, I keep my mouth shut cause I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

Why can't other people just realize their limitations and stick within the bounderies thereof. Why can't they accept the fact that there are some things they just don't have a clue about and that there are people who are more knowledgable than them who should be AT LEAST consulted before decisions like this are made. Because who has to deal with the mess when they do stupid stuff like this? ME!

So you see, herein lies my character flaw. As a good Wiccan and a good person I should be understanding and forgiving of other people's foibles as I would expect others to be of mine. But I can't. I've tried. I really have, it's just no use. Stupid people just bug the C**P out of me.

*deep breath* One day at a time. Peace out.

posted by Unknown at 11:20 AM :: ~#~
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4 Comments:

This might just be me being stupid, but you could always tell them that you are too busy to do this any more and wait for them to come begging back because they realize they are clueless. Of course, since it's a committee, that may never happen...

By StSquirrel, at 6:32 PM

LOL John said the same thing. I suppose I'm a glutton for punishment, but I really care about the church and I want this thing to work. It's just frustrating. I got an email from the lady I'm most in contact with at the church and she said they had the same problem last year when they were trying to get the computers in the church networked. It took them about a year to realize that the person they had doing the job was completely clueless. *sigh* Committees suck.

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