Journal RandomPeon's Journal: I am not a paralegal, definitely not a Korean paralegal 3
I have not had a good day. This whole globalization thing sucks. Email and VoIP are wonderful, but they have made instantaneous worldwide communication too cheap.
I do not want to hear of the issues a US subsidary has with its French parent's IT dept in real time. I have no desire to learn about Korean data privacy laws in the middle of the night. It might be interesting to talk to people on 3 continents in an hour. That would be a truly amazing marvel of modern technology. It's fucking hell to have to use your time zone chart to figure out when you'll receive responses to voicemails.
To summarize my complaints with the world (starting from the international date line and moving west):
Japan: Why do you guys apologize so much?
South Korea: Your data privacy laws suck. Send us the whole database NOW or quit whining.
China: No complaints. I am pleased to know that "WOW you are so early bird", but it's actually just after midnight, and I'm still trying to bail your ass out. The colloquial English phrase you're looking for is "night owl".
India: #include "std_gripes.slashdot". Also, your problems are not that bad. Production servers are not crashing, you're getting multiple fucking email notifications. Deal with it.
France: Do you want it to work by Monday or do you want it QAed? Also, why do you and Germany contain all the competent Europeans? Along with the Chinese, you get a gold star for effort, and a silver star for results. Now reposition yourself a few hours earlier in the day so you're more useful.
US (East Coast): Stop leaving so goddamn early. More importantly, stop coming in so early. Also, learn to read documentation, to eliminate France gripe #1.
US (Midwest): We used to make software here. ANd hardware, hardware powerful enough to dim the lights for a block. Is it possible for your tech support to be any less helpful? Does the legacy of Control Data, Unisys, DEC, and Cray mean absolutely nothing to you? I should not spend 6 fucking hours trying to get an NDA, only to not receive it before you go home. I'm almost literally up the street from you pathetic losers, and I'm still working!!!! Why aren't you?
To summarize, if we don't have an NDA by noon, we're going to SportMart for lunch. And buying baseball bats. And hockey sticks. And a couple golf clubs. And we're hopping on 35E and going south. You've been warned.
US (West coast): You're all assholes.
Japan: See #1. Back here already? Fuck, I wish the Earth would just stop spinning. Sorry, that was bad. Did I mention I'm very sorry? I apologize for my outbursts.
Lucy says Meeeeeooooooooow! (Score:2)
Have good day, Mr. Korean Privacy Law Expert.
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