December 3, 2013

• FBI and drama at the stalag

  alright, I told you of a work friend's computer that got tagged with an official looking FBI page virus/trojan on his computer, who ultimately paid the ransom they required to reset his browser ($300!!), thinking it was the real FBI, and not wanting to be put on some sex offender list (a little naive, but hey?). it was just a matter of time before I myself would run into it, being I frequent some seedy sites from time to time (what? yeah, you do too, admit it!). once that FBI lock screen popped up, I had to laugh; "...you ain't gettin' $300 from me!". I took it on as a challenge, but it was embarrassingly simple to fix. I shut the computer down, and rebooted it, thinking I'd get the same lock screen. nope. I hit my Firefox browser and there it was. a quick 'control, alt, delete' and an 'end task' got me back to the desktop. I then used a different browser wondering if that too had been locked...nope. so I quickly uninstalled Firefox (the browser that appears locked), and reinstalled it, then did a full security scan on my computer and a quick clean. bonk! within 15 minutes, I was back to surfing Firefox...I mean if you're gonna ransom me, it better be harder to get rid of than that. now, having said all that, watch it have some sort of timer on it that goes off at a later date that completely fries my 'puter. ya never know?

  drama at the stalag these past days, makes me take another sick day today. I can't stand how this place is run! too many new peeps leaving allegedly due to being harassed by a guy from first shift (who works 4 hours OT on our shift). I've heard him do it in the past, pushing peeps around, but now we got peeps leaving...it's not cool, and of course, I open my big mouth and get involved by saying "this ain't the army, stop intimidating people!", of which he then went on and on about saying what I told him was offensive. whatever. play the victim, you backwards dumbass. everything about this place is backwards. the other day a we were short a few peeps, so 2 of the day shifters hungover for 4 hours. by the time there 4 hours were up, there wasn't anyone to replace them, so the line came to a sudden halt. instead of maybe taking just one of us experienced peeps off, the boss (now back from maternity leave) takes 3 of us, replacing us 3 with people from other lines who have never ran ours before. it was a night mare. and yes, the 3 of us were busy putting out fires (more alarms going off due to new peeps not knowing what to do). anyway, long story longer, we got about an hour and a half's worth of work done within the last 4 hours. it wasn't pretty. I've said it before, I gotta get out of that place!

  • 10:35 pm
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