Oh, wha ta far king daaaay.

Or,

What I did on your summer vacation.

Oh-kay. So now even CNN has a story on the likely wormage. The client at which I'm working is probably 5-7 days ahead of most companies in addressing the most recent MS vulnerability issues. They are coordinately performing triage, seeking to escape the potential damage wave. Great! But everyone's working 12-hour shifts to patch... oh, 1000 or so servers, and 10,000+ user systems.

So, with our staff exhausted, working overtime to deal with little issues (like one of the critical patches *can't* be installed except by hand), it didn't really help when our Microsoft rep missed the status call yesterday, because he and the rest of the local MS team went to a baseball game.

No, really.

What arrogance.

Our VP of systems asked MS when they expected to release an enterprise class operating system, today. No, really.

It's as if using MS products is a small taste of an abusive relationship. *WHACK* Oh, oh, I didn't mean that. *WHACK* Oh, well, I mean you get what you pay for, but so sorry. *WHACK* Oh, well, come on, where else would you go? *WHACK* I mean, you NEED us. *WHACK* Oh, quit your complaining. What would you do without us? *WHACK* Hey, no one's perfect... you probably can't even imagine life without us.

Cripes. I'm scaring myself here.

The sheer frustration of dealing with (and paying for) belligerent incompetence upon incompetence is, I begin to believe, a significant drain upon the economy.