Userstrusted co-workers, or other peoples children?

Userstrusted co-workers, or other peoples children? Chris Louviere I submit to you that usersall usersno segregation or discrimination hereall users are essentially other peoples children. Not just other peoples kidsbut those other people whose houses have car parts in front of them, tires for flower pots, and a last years Christmas lights still up. Okaythey may be the same lights that have been up since the Ford administrationwe arent sure.

Other peoples kids always act just like yours. They say the same dumb things; they do the same dumb-ass things over and over againjust like yours. Whats the difference? You cant beat other peoples children. Simply put, when your kid ask you the same question three times in a rowchances are you have either yelled at him/her (causing him/her to run in fear), beat him/her about the head and shoulders (also causes him/her to run in fear), thrown around some well needed time out (makes him/her think about not wasting anymore time asking dumb questionsPokemon being more important than staring at the wall), or simply ignored the childturned up the TV louder and they eventually walk away. And watch out if you had to tell him/her how to do something the right way...more than once.

You really cant do these things with other peoples kids. I mean physical abuse is obviously out. Who needs the added headache of being responsible for little Johnny from down the street not getting into Harvard? Once his mother finds out you beat the childall of his future transgression will no doubt fall at your feet. Yellingor any other kind of verbal abuse (to include, but not being limited to well deserved isolation from the other children) will only result in the same said childs failure in lifea mountain of therapy billsand since you already have the understanding that you will most likely mortgage your own home in 15 years to pay for your own childrens therapyyou figure you should save up and not pay for more than your share.

What is the point? Glad you asked. Seerecently we (meaning the financial company I baby-sit and I), have gone back to locking out users after three failed login attempts (I knowsound policybut the children I baby-sit require government sponsored social workers to tell them what to do). Thisas every other professional baby-sitter knows does a whole lot of great security conscious things. It also causes more messesspilt Kool-Aiddirty diapersetc. Well, since then I have been repeating myself more than any of us baby-sitters likes to. There are only so many times you can say if you had typed your password correctly once within the three attempts, you wouldnt be locked out. After telling the same childrenthe same thing for the last weekI have decided that the only course of action is to just accept that they are other peoples kids.

Because, if they were minethey would be able to read an error message, report it accurately, and remember how to spell their password. The same password they have had for the last 4 years (you know what I am talking aboutI dont need to give examples). If they were my kidsthey could remember how to spell their boyfriends nameor their dogs nameor heaven forbid that they forgot how to spell their childs namethe bastard is only 25 years old, how long before you can spell the name you gave him...all those years ago?

I digressthe fact is if they were my kidsand not someone elsesI would have beat them a longlonglonglong time ago.

Chris Louviere