Comments | sleepyjohn00: working vacation or something

sleepyjohn00

working vacation or something

Jan 25, 2015 19:58

The Office has decided that all of us sysadmins need training in a vendor product that is used on systems that maybe three of us ever touch. The overt theory is that since we carry the on-call phone on rotation, the affected servers may go down when one of us ignorant ones is responsible, and the mail will not go through. The conspiracy theory is ( Read more... )

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makovette January 26 2015, 16:56:00 UTC

Yeah, SJC to Redwood City up the 101, about 32 miles of lane splitting fun, fun,fun, fun for me :)

I could take Cal Train, but that 2x's my costs and adds 20-30 minutes daily to the excitement.

sleepyjohn00 January 27 2015, 02:59:28 UTC

Bay Area public transit is excellent in some ways, but there are so many competing agencies with non-matching schedules, it can take a half-day to go fifty miles.

marmoe January 26 2015, 17:34:00 UTC

I'm surprised they don't charge you, after all they are raising your market value ... >=(

Sorry you'll be away from family and have to pay for the motel.

sleepyjohn00 January 27 2015, 03:02:46 UTC

Well, there's a little Karma come home to roost. My manager decided to invite herself in for the training (which she has even less use for than I do). They didn't buy enough training licenses to include her, so she's sharing a workstation with a guy whose technical competence tops out at microwave ovens. And he insists on being the keyboard jock. I finished a 40-minute lab, and they were still trying to load the sample problem. Oh, well.