Windoze/IT is a Makework SCAM!

With apologies to my friends who work at Micro$oft, but I must say that Windows is a huge makework scheme!

Getting one new user set up on a SBS machine and migrating the settings of an older user today plus interruptions and waiting for machines to reboot and take their sweet precious time doing whatever it is Windows machines do, took the greater part of 3 hours. Here's how it started...

• Get an urgent call to add a new account and move older settings to it.
• Login remotely to SBS.
  
• Wait for login to complete.
  
• Add the user. Power user template. Oh that was quick, not so bad so far.
• Attempt remote login to desktop that new user will use. Machine complains about desktop in use. Do I want to log them off, potentially causing loss of data? Uh, no.
  
• Call company. Nope, no one is using it. Please, sir, restart this machine, it's saying it's in use.
  
• Wait. Attempt to login as machine restarts. Not yet. Wait. Play Hearts.
  
• Attempt remote login to desktop again. OK, now I'm in.
• Muck with Control Panel: allow new user to log into this domain? Yes, please!
  
• Company calls back with some other Windoze issue. Spend 20 minutes walking them through something.
• OK where was I?
• Oh yeah, now log out of desktop.
• Log back into desktop as old user.
• Figure out data to copy from old user.
• Company calls with some other lame request...
  

OK, so now you g33ks will think I'm coming to the punchline where I say all this would have been so much easier/faster/better on Linux or *BSD because of it's superior X, and Y, and Z...

And yeah, true. I'm faster on the commandline than clicking and groping my way through the visual cacophony of Windows and yet...

I'm getting paid on Windows to fuck around, and even play hearts, while I wait for mysterious processes to churn away on obviously near-intractable problems.

Long live the Software Industrial Complex!