One Day @ Work
Alright, by looking at this post title, you guys can tell that I am definitely bored right now. Right? Absolutely!
Okay, let’s see what usually happens at work? My shift starts at 6.00pm, and ended somewhere between 1.00am – 4.00am.
Why is there such weird end time? Well, because this is a cybercafe, and usually I’ll keep it open if there’s still customers :) Plus the fact that I wouldn’t mind sitting here, in front of this terminal, in an air-conditioned premise!
Ok, let’s see what’s in for me today,
6.00pm
I arrived, saw the owner manning the CC (the morning shift dude went to KL or something till Monday, so the owner mans the shop in the mornings). Chatted with him about the new Full Metal Panic! – The Second Raid episode (which is episode 2, I think – I haven’t watch it). Then he went back and I take over the console.
A man asked me to transfer files from his diskette to his terminal. As I’ve figured, this must be the dude that’s using PC01 – Damn Right! Someone smart enough, stucked something into the floppy drive on this PC, resulting, well… DUH! the drive’s unusable. I shifted him to PC06.
Now he called me and asking me why Hotmail have server error. Like I know. Made a joke of asking him to dial 1-800-HOTMAIL, he almost bought the joke o.O; Then I asked him to try and refresh first, before he attempt to make that call, and phew it works. For once, I thanked MicroSoft for resolving their server issues. Hehe.
7.00pm
The new Ragnarok Online “Trinity” gang just loggen in, lots of people checked out at this our daily though, and there’s one kid keep adding half an hour every (err yeah) half and hour. He’s been playing close to 5 hours now. Rich kid. He almost here everyday.
Oh this is the most controversial hour as well, as some kids “pray” in this CC. Yeah, you know what I mean, full with baju melayu, some with track bottom, some wear slacks, songkok, but playing Counter-Strike:Source here to what me and my colleage call “Jihad” (yeah right, Jihad @ de_dust2 ._.)
8.00pm
The CC’s getting hot. Its full and have like 10 kids on the waiting lists. Lots of them still playing Counter-Strike:Source. Lot more seen to be playing Ragnarok Online Trinity server. I think the server’s cursed! Why? ever since the first kid who asked me to install this patch into the PCs, a whole lot of them started playing! Even the grown ups are playing it! (yeah, I snooped once and this uncle pretend to be a 16 year old girl.. eww).
Oh yeah, there’s 24 PCs here, and bloody Windows XP only allow 10 simultaneous users to connect at once. Which means only 10 PCs can run the shared games. What do I do about it? I unshare the game! Mwahaha!
Okay, okay, im not THAT evil. I made a self-extracting RAR pack for the game, which kinda forces the kids to install the games on the PC that they wanna play on. Oh I forgot to mention the PCs are equipped with a restore tool – something like those “Just-Reboot” cards. You reset the comp, Voila! all changes GONE.
Thought of installing the game into the PCs rather than letting them install every single time they want to play, but I have to knock the owner and give me the passwords for the reset tool, so I can disable it for a while and install them damn game!
10.00pm
By this hour, the amount of kids decreases, one by one left the premise and go home (I’m guessing they probably get scolded because they go home late, tomorrow’s a school day anyways).
The crowd changes, now the late teenagers begin to come, some people in their 20s and a fwe adults. There’s a couple of factory workers (foreigners) here too, always see them Yahoo!-WebCaming with someone. There’s no webcam here though, they just watch.
Few people come and asked me to type their letters. Resignation, Appeal, MC letters – oh and some Invoice again.
There’s one weird uncle here, he keeps printing one-page document and then quickly grab the paper, fold it in half and rush back to his terminal. Oh, the printer is right next to me by the way. To kill my curiosity, I decided to check what’s hes printing, so I routed the print via fineprint and voila! I see the page (mwahaha, I am evil!). This dude prints 4D Magnum results! Man @.@. Not to say its bad, but he don’t have to act that obviously suspicious!
12.00am
Signboard lights off, main lights off, music volume increased. By this hour, only regulars stay. Those usually in colleges and those Counter-Strike freaks keep battling non stop, yelling and stuff. Oh well, I’m with my Smooth Jazz LAUNCHCast, I’m happy. Usually at this hour I’ll start burning my downloaded stuffs (mostly my anime episodes that I’ve missed in the past weeks).
2.00am
Very few people left here, I’ve pulled the blinds halfway down, indicating we’re no longer accepting new customers, and are about to close the shop for the day
2.30am
The customers finally left. I checked out all the PCs, calculate the sales of the day, and shutdown every terminal, except this one because I’m opening BitComet at max speed! Hehe :p
I guess that’s all for today. I’ll be back here 6pm later :)
Oh don’t ask me what ‘MySAS’ stands for. Only the owner knows!
