Crown Royal is my friend.
Crown Royal is my friend. Work is slowly becoming unbearable. I started work at 6:30 yesterday morning and I finished at 6:30 last night. I work with some inconsiderate people that occasionally prove themselves to be borderline idiots. Example: Last night I am working with some people that are in the middle of testing their data systems (application workflow, etc.) in a DR environment. We simulate disaster by placing ACL's in various routers to block all traffic to and from production environments that would be gone in the event of a real disaster... floods, locusts, volcanoes, etc. "We" really means me since I'm the only stoop that supports our at-least-two-a-month DR tests from a network perspective. Anyhoo, the testees (huh... I said testes. Hehe.) or testers, whatever you want to call them, have systems that I don't govern. I have no access to them and I know little about them. They sent someone to the DR facility (about 3 hours away) to be there during the test. There was a problem. I show them that the problem isn't any of my gear, but they insist on making me dance for their amusement anyway, so I prove to them that it isn't my gear. Here's where they show brilliance. The device they were trying to reach was a VPN concentrator. The concentrator appeared down because it was unreachable, but they tell me that there is a firewall between the concentrator and my visible network. Ok, I'll play. I tell them they should try to console into the concentrator to check it via reverse telnet from a terminal server. "We don't have a terminal server." Ok, then remote console into the firewall since you can't telnet from the outside interface and try to ping the concentrator from the inside interface to verify it's at least up. "We don't have a terminal server." Do you have another device inside that you can reach the firewall from? "We can't get in the firewall unless we VPN into the network." Ok. Let's ee if I get this straight here... you can't reach a device on the other side of the firewall, but you can't access the firewall unless you VPN into that device. "Yes". Alrighty then... how about you have the guy you sent over to the DR site for the test console in at the physical port. "That's would be a good idea, but all the equipment is in locked cabinets and the keys are all here in Houston." Guess what Einstein... you're driving 3 hours tonight. See ya! What is wrong with people these days? This is why our country is in economic ruin. People like this are given positions of authority. Ugh! So, after EL waited in the car for my for over an hour while a VP (not even my VP) flexed his virtual muscles and demonstrated his true misconception of TCP/IP, I worked late. We finally got out of downtown just before 7:00 and headed south to Mike's house and Donna's shortly there after. Good times. N.J. made a fabulous meal and we had a superb time. I think Mike and I drank half a bottle of Crown between the two of us (the 1.75 liter version). I forgot about the shitty day. That is what's so cool about working for da man, I get to wake up and have another shitty day today. My boss cut his vacation short to come in and have individual meetings about what everyone does with each moment of their day for the Bob's. They're bringing in the Bob's around mid-month. I can't fucking wait.
That’s hilarious! What a bunch of yahoos! I wonder if any of their egos will let them see through the smoke and understand that you are their lifeline? Could you imagine the costs they would incur if you weren’t there anymore? Unbelieveable!
Dirty corporate assholes.
Today I am working with some email issues (yeah, I’m no where near as techno-savy as you). Apparently our GM can’t send emails to the Local Sales Manager. The way our email used to be set up, we had an external email system, and an internal system. The external was handled by one of the local service providers and the internal was set up through Microsoft Mail. We finally acquired some funds and are now running OpenExchange through SuSE. Now that we are running OpenExchange, both of the old systems are supposed to be phased out. To get the address book for OpenExchange into Microsoft we are running SLOX.
This is all because the GM wants to be able to type in someones name rather than their email address. This makes no sense to me because I personally find it easier to type out the email address of a person than their full name.
At any rate, the GM is typing in the name of the Local Sales Manager and the email is not getting to them. Surprise, surprise. The GM is still connected to the old Microsoft Mail system so all of the emails he is sending is going through the old internal system.
So I informa my boss about this and he just doesn’t seem to understand. He was under the impression (I don’t know where he got this impression) that it must be a problem with him having the wrong address book. In a sense I suppose it could be considered that, but in all honesty it’s the fact that whoever set up the GM’s email in the first place screwed up and didn’t remove the old Microsoft Mail. And instead of deciding to let me fix the problem on the spot, we have to now have a meeting this afternoon to determine the best course of action to handle the email problems.
So, after my story (which is no where near as frustrating as being held at work much longer than expected due to User Error) I just want to express my complete and utter disrespect for management and their usual less than average technical prowress.
Tell them to quit trying to type their emails with their penis.
What a bunch of jackasses. We all work with them though...so whatcha gonna do.
Me? I play *Whiskey @ Work*. Hey, it makes ‘em much more tolerable…
I had to sing happy birthday today to a fella that all but accused me of sexual harassment, and listen to him make jokes to all the room about reality tv shows. It’s special.
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