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My server room is bereft of servers. For 4 years it's been humming with
computers and switches, routers, a KVM switch, various tape robots, and
so forth. Now it is empty, and silent.
I no longer have the server room key next to my front door key. Now my
keyring holds only a single key.
Everything I've been maintaining has now been either boxed up for
shipping to America, or carted away to be recycled as waste electronic
equipment. (That includes a perfectly functional Dell PowerEdge
rack-mount server with a dual-core Xeon "Woodcrest" CPU, dual-redundant
PSU and hot-swap SAS with 2-way RAID-1.)
I just drove home from my office, which now no longer contains a desk,
chair or computer.
Everywhere the building echoes with emptiness. I have seen my colleagues
of over a decade for the last ever time. (Including the rather cute
accountant.)
Officially, my last day is tomorrow. But I no longer have an access card
to enter the building with. And even if I did, my office is empty,
everything I ever worked on has left the building, and there aren't even
any chairs of the tea room.
The end of an era, my friends, the end of an era.
Considering I don't even *like* the frigging job, I feel oddly
melancholy... :-(
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:34:46 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Considering I don't even *like* the frigging job, I feel oddly
> melancholy... :-(
It's natural when something ends to notice it, and that's probably what
you're doing.
It'll pass.
Time for the next thing. :)
Jim
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On 30/08/2012 02:34 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> I no longer have the server room key next to my front door key. Now my
> keyring holds only a single key.
I would like the record to show, I was the last UK employee to hand back
my keys, and the last person (by about 160 seconds) to leave the
premises - with the exception of the UK site manager himself. (He
presumably needs to give the keys back to the landlord, etc., after
we've all gone home.)
Also: I am now *officially* unemployed. Yay, me. :-/
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