August 24, 2007

Microsoft owes me $4,368

Category: Technology, Business Life — Dave Conklin @ 12:53 pm

OK… So, yet again I sit here completely frustrated because some code that I have implemented on a site doesn’t work with Internet Explorer.  For those of you who don’t know, Internet Explorer is the program that you use to browse the internet.  Microsoft has it automatically installed on every computer that has windows.  And, well… to be blunt… it is hated by about 95% of all tech people.

There are 6 people (including myself) that deal with web development in different ways at work.  I am going to estimate that I deal with an IE problem at least once a week.  Once I find one, it usually takes about an hour to fix.  Sometimes it takes much longer.

Anyway, if my tech team deals with the same problem, that’s 6 hours per week that we’re dealing with crap that Microsoft has blessed us with.

OK, so 6 hours times 52 weeks = 312 hours of wasted time.  Let’s say the average tech person makes $14 per hour.

Microsoft, please send a check, payable to Dave Conklin in the amount of $4,368.  I’ll send a bill for next year.

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