What a sh1tty day!

[DerekJ]

What a sh1tty day!

Went into the office early as the Telecoms Engineer was going to “fix” all of my connection problems by fitting a new card into the router. No problem, he even arrived on time!  I should have known things were going to go down hill as when has that ever happened before?

He powered down the router, replaced the card and powered back up. I tested some PCs and all was well, the sun was out, birds singing….what a lovely day. The engineer left humming a merry funeral dirge and went on his way. My friend came in to the office for a chat and I told him how, the previous night at home, I’d  installed a new RAID card in my server,  installed virtualisation software and had a couple of test virtual machines running.  

IT God me!

Then my day really started

Suddenly, most PCs on site stopped working. All production (most of which relies on my software) ground to a halt.

Angry production managers knocking on my door.

The MD pops in for a nice little chat about how he is just about to present the quarterly board meeting in the conference room and why has his power point presentation stopped working?

Ring the corporate help desk who have sole access to the routers and report the problem but the wheels of the Great Machine that is corporate IT grind slowly…..

Think fast….. IP Conflict! Start powering down every PC on site. Isolate network switches. Connect a couple of PCs and try to get the LAN stable.

Wife rings to remind me that I’ve just missed an eye test and the next one is months away, unless I can be there in an hour.

Two PCs running, now so slowly get the others powered up…. three, four.   Fifth will not log in!  Power them back down and notice that my PC has the same IP as the router! How the hell can that happen?

Remember to breath… and start again.

Reset the router (DHCP server) and restart PCs…

Corporate IT ring to ask if I still have a problem. So I explain what I’ve done and they say that they will contact the network team and the wheels grind on….

PCs coming back on line now, and so I ring round and restart everything….. and it all comes back on line.

Run to the opticians to get the eye test, only to be told that “at my age” I should expect my sight to deteriorate and I should think about wearing glasses when driving.

Running back to work and someone from my moonlighting job rings in to ask for remote support as she can’t get something to work.

Drive home for lunch and start remote support but the support request from the remote PC fails and she has to go for lunch now anyway so I’ll have to pick it up at the end of the day.

Drive back to the day job after a wasted lunch hour to find a queue of people wanting their PCs sorted as various shortcuts had vanished or “something weird” happened on their machine.

Corporate IT ring to say that they see that the problem has cleared now and the wheels grind to a halt…

It’s at about this point that I’m questioning my doctor’s advice to quit caffeine, and make yet another cup of decaf Earl Grey, then slump into my chair (yes it’s broken and squeaks when I move) to see what the e-mail fairy has dumped on my in-box…..

My flat screen is flickering so much I can hardly see it. Juggle some monitor cables to find that the KVM switch that I use to switch between PCs is giving up the ghost.

Through the flicker I see an automated e-mail to tell me that last night’s backup has failed. So I take my almost cold tea up to the backup server and start to poke it with the software equivalent of sharp sticks to see if I can wake it up. The result is that my backup tape drive (almost £3,000 worth of hardware) died last night.

It’s now time to go home but the MD pops back in for a very nice chat to find out how my day has been and tell me how his presentation to the board did not go as planned. As a result I’m more than half an hour late for a date with my wife and a VERY large glass of beer.

So I’m typing this up to :-

1) Affirm that pride DOES come before a fall

2) Stop me doing anything else significant with computers today

3) Allow me to drink enough alcohol to put me to sleep without dreaming about today’s events.

I’m going to bed now to try and try and try to believe that I did not wake up this morning and it was all just a dream. Hay! … it happened in “Dallas” so why can’t it happen there?

G’night

DerekJ

[cliveboy8]

90 views and no replies/comments. I wonder why.

Yawn, yawn.

[sailing]

So other than that you had a nice day?

Tony

[echoz]

No empathy Clive?

Sometimes it's nice to just rant things into a public space.

[Blatman]

[dombanks]

a date with the missus.... blimey you really were having a bad day

lets hope today is better

[Cleggy the Spyder Man]

good to get it off yer chest  

[lippydave]

A spot of ranting is cathartic... Hope you have a better day today....

[Mark Williamson]

QUOTE

a date with the missus.... blimey you really were having a bad day

lets hope today is better

         

Mark

[Richgm]

I went to a meeting that told us there are 34 people at present and within the next 12 months restructuring means there will be only 20.

I'll still have a job but do I really want to end up on nights doing something I don't want to do

[DerekJ]

A spot of ranting is cathartic... Hope you have a better day today....

Oh Gods yes....

Thanks, I just could not face doing anything else as everything I did turned to S***. Some days it's better to just stay under the covers and not get out of bed to get more done.

Just getting it all off mm chest made me feel better, but at least my day was not as sh1tty as Rich's. Sorry to hear your news mate.

Cheers

DerekJ

[Mat Jackson]

Having a date with the wife............

That makes the day, all the rest is inconsequencail (brave typing that without spell checker!!)