IT, You See

I miss my gtalk.

Last week I received sequential emails from the IT department at my (MEGADEATHDESTRUCTORUMBRELLAFRAUD)corporation, telling me I had illegal applications installed on my 'company-owned laptop' - By illegal, they meant unauthourised by them - No, no, I didn't download limewire to take advantage of the office T3 connection. No, I wasn't porn surfing and downloaded some "video chat program" that skimmed every keystroke and compromised data security.

In 2005, I downloaded Google Earth and Google Talk.

Seriously, that's it - google talk and google earth.

I think the ability to interact with one's fellow office-drone friends while stuck in a cube for what often comes out to more than 8 hours per day is a fucking inalienable right. There should be a goddamn amendment to spell it out.

I'm still pissed about this. My colleague spends all day on the phone gabbing with the steno pool in our Pittsburgh and NYC offices, finding "funny" things from The Office to forward to me even though he knows I don't watch the show, and writing comedy scripts.

Corporate America is so appalling.