1 post tagged “drexel university”

All this hot weather in San Francisco has been reminding me of Philadelphia summers. Really it's not that hot, but I'm just not used to the heat at all and, as my parents will tell you, I'm one cranky motherfucker when it's hot out and I'm uncomfortable (i.e. any time it reaches into the upper 80s). One particularly unbearable occurrence was the summer of '00 or '01 when Tom somehow signed us up for a computer job at Drexel University which, and obviously in retrospect, turned out to be the job that no one else wanted to do. We were working for one department or another and tasked with visiting every office under their command and taking inventory of the computer equipment they had. There is a certain joy that glimmers on the faces of people when they realize that they can pass the really hard, unrewarding work on to other people and these were the worst people to work for. People who barely said "Hi" in the mornings and "See ya" in the afternoons (who am I really kidding, they were mostly gone by noon) but just can't refrain from asking you if you're done with your multi-month project a couple times a day. Naturally, they wanted every number printed on the machines short of the ones printed on the underside of the processor so we spent a good number of hours sitting at various windows workstations pulling numbers from the registry or the inevitably impossible-to-view back panel and writing them down, only to return to our drab meeting room (which we were often kicked out of for actual meetings) to input them into excel. Naturally, every office we went to was air conditioned with the exception of the really obscure locations which were only twice as hot as it was outside and in the hallways. You might think the air conditioned offices were a perk and there you'd be wrong because the only thing I hate more than heat is being thrust from 90º+ heat to 70º air conditioning three times an hour.

So, now we have my three favorite things lined up in a row: