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Relative normality has finally been restored. It's *so* nice to sit
around and do nothing for a while...
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>>> I though she left, or am I confusing things?
>>
>> I posted a message a few weeks ago saying she was *going* to leave.
>> Tomorrow is actually her last day. (Hence, cake.)
>>
>> And I'm going to be spending all day with my head in the server room,
>> so I won't even get to say goodbye...
>
> take a break and step out to say goodbye
>
> 10 minutes isn't going to kill anyone
Well, I saw her a few times today. All my attempts at talking to her
more or less failed. She more or less blanked me.
And now she's gone forever. I guess I'm stupid to miss her... but I do.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> Last time we had a catastrophic server failure, I was the only one
>> with a copy of the software already installed, so it was a red-eye
>> flight at 2AM with a sparcstation in my carry-on backpack, flying
>> cross country to a locked down machine room the size of a couple
>> football fields in the middle of Bumfork, Ohio, for 72 hours of
>> awakeness keeping it running until a new one showed up.
>
> Uhuh. And tell me, did they pay you good money for that?
Yes. For one thing, they paid off my house.
> Did they
> appreciate what you did? Because my employer does neither of those
> things...
Oh, I know. I just thought it was an amusing story.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:19:31 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Relative normality has finally been restored. It's *so* nice to sit
>around and do nothing for a while...
FYI
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7915212.stm
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 2/27/2009 9:42 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:19:31 +0000, Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
>> Relative normality has finally been restored. It's *so* nice to sit
>> around and do nothing for a while...
>
> FYI
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7915212.stm
I actually agree. If you're bored at work, you aren't earning your keep.
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Chambers wrote:
> I actually agree. If you're bored at work, you aren't earning your keep.
I think we've already figured out that I'm in the wrong job. :-P
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:14:59 -0800, Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>On 2/27/2009 9:42 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:19:31 +0000, Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>
>>> Relative normality has finally been restored. It's *so* nice to sit
>>> around and do nothing for a while...
>>
>> FYI
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7915212.stm
>
>I actually agree. If you're bored at work, you aren't earning your keep.
I've had one job where if I was bored then I'd earned my keep.
Seriously, in almost 40 years of working I've had one job where the bosses were
pleased to see any of us reading or watching TV. That was when I was working in
the newspaper industry as a maintenance engineer. If we were working it meant
that there was a problem. It is the way it should be but seldom is.
--
Regards
Stephen
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scott wrote:
>
> For something so important you should probably look into getting a
> backup server to switch in if one fails in some way or another. Even
> our *email* server has a backup that supposedly automatically switches
> in if the original one fails for any reason...
>
On top of that we have a cold-stand by -machine for each different
server hardware (also active devices) we're using, so if some server eg.
loses a motherboard, just swap the disks to c-sb and continue working,
so there's no rush for 1hr oslt response times from the service.
-Aero
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Stephen wrote:
> I've had one job where if I was bored then I'd earned my keep.
I know one guy who got a job watching for light bulbs to burn out - in
particular, the lights that tell airplanes not to run into things.
Apparently, having an automatic mechanism to tell you the red lights on
radio masts and buildings and such have burned out isn't sufficient. You
also have to have someone in the room to make sure the automatic mechanism
doesn't fail.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:17:35 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> I've had one job where if I was bored then I'd earned my keep.
>
>I know one guy who got a job watching for light bulbs to burn out - in
>particular, the lights that tell airplanes not to run into things.
>Apparently, having an automatic mechanism to tell you the red lights on
>radio masts and buildings and such have burned out isn't sufficient. You
>also have to have someone in the room to make sure the automatic mechanism
>doesn't fail.
I'm quite sure that I wouldn't like that job, being bored and having to be
attentive. I prefer jobs where you can do home jobs when there is nothing
official to do. As, I'm sure, you can imagine. ;)
--
Regards
Stephen
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