Today is a bad day

Odd gremlins in our interface with the printer's computers, a cock-up by
our contracted-out support services that meant a big delay in online
publication and muggins here, being the honcho, had to stay after hours
until it the support services got it sorted (because that sort of thing
comes with the salary) and so missed our St George's Day dancing.

And 'had to let someone go' which, whether it's entirely justified or
not, does **** all for general morale.

No sympathies required (nor expected....). Just getting it off my chest,
with the aid of a bloody large G&T and a bottle of claret.

 

rounded with a fine port

--
Steve Parry
BMW R80RS, 03 BMW R1100S Boxercup, 07 K1200GT SE
00 BMW R1150GS (awaiting delivery), 95 BMW F650 (being sold), 87 Yamaha FS1,
Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50,
BMW 330Ci
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

If it makes you feel any better, I started at 7am & I'm still working.
I hate this time of year :-s


--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

I stopped at 6pm, but I'm starting again for a bit in half an hour.

Rubbish.

 

If it helps, I had the day off, and spent all day riding my shiny new
motorbike.

 

I'm not feeling helpful.

 

Nor do I, TBH, but I feel less bored now than when I worked.

 

Good, I hate helpful cunts. And I'm *still* fucking working.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Um, she was. Still don't like doing it.

 

Busy day yesterday. MoT on the Voxan in the morning, then an hour's,
roof down, canter in the MX5 to a lake for 5 hours of fishing. Lovely
afternoon, partly spent just sitting quietly in the sun scanning the
water for rising rainbows. Home by a slightly longer more interesting
route, with a fresh supper in the boot.


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| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" |
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I've never minded *firing*[1] people, because there's always been a
bloody good reason.

I recently put two people through a redundancy process recently, and
that was about a million times more stressful.

[1] well, prematurely cancelling contracts, which I know isn't quite
the same thing - I've never "fired" a permie[2].
[2] though I did go to some lengths once to dump one into another team
where there was much less chance of them doing any harm.

 

If it helps, I'm off in 45 mins to meet Ogden at the pub for a
reasonable long lunch, and then off home to sit in my back garden and
drink bloody marys.

 

Sounds like a long lunch with Ogden is pretty stressful.

 

Whereas I'll be coming back to the office to train a bunch of TAs on
VMWare Capacity Planner though a Bass-induced haze.

My cup of joy couldn't runneth over any more if it tried.

 

Train? Surely an ability to read and understand the word utilisation
is all they need.

 

He said TAs though - they don't to be the sharpest tools in the box.

 

Well, there's the matter of what's peak and what's average, what might
have been missed due to sampling frequency, what the IOPS figure
actually means when a machine's swapping like a motherfucker because it
doesn't have enough memory, how to run off reports that actually contain
the information you're after and don't look like shit, how to install
and configure the collector tool and all the things the report *doesn't*
tell you, like which machines can't be virtualised in the first place
and how to size things for redundancy.

<takes deep breath>

I reckon it should take about 15 minutes.

 

Sounds like it's a good job you'll still be pissed.

 

"What did he say?"

 

AOL. Even if they're crap, I'd always think that it's at least
partially my fault for hiring them in the first place (provided I
didn't "inherit" them with a team).