OT: Winning at work.

[ThrustMaxwell]

I often brag about the perks of my job, so now I'll bitch a little about the downsides. For the third time in (2) weeks I've put in over 30+ hours in a <48 hour period. No big deal, just part of the game.

Anyway, without getting into too many details I had a storage issue at work sprout up yesterday that was causing some business and operations critical applications to fault and lag. Started working on it at 2pm yesterday afternoon, as soon as I got home from leaving work early due to the worst sinus infection I've had in a while. I ended up on support calls to Ireland, India (x2) and good ole North Carolina before I finally had everything "working" and an action plan to finish cleaning everything up.

Email the boss at 4am this morning (21 hours in on the day at this point) and say, woohoo, I'm getting some rest now.

But I didn't. Fuggin' technology did me in.

PRO TIP: If you use a phone system at work that simultaneously rings your office line and cell phone during business hours, TURN IT OFF if you're planning on getting any damned rest. 7am rolls around and I get my first office call of the day. Yay me.

Anyway, I'm up now so I might as well make coffee. And I'm a loser so I might as well work.

Fast forward 4.5 hours, I finish cleaning up the residual clutter and I close the Ticket with this:

Hey boss, fugg you, I'm getting some sleep now. Issue is resolved.

I didn't even know animated gifs worked in our ticketing system until today. A whole new world has opened for me, but that's for another thread.

Anyway, I lied. I'm not going to sleep. I've drank (2) pots of coffee and will probably work the rest of the day. Thank you for listening InstaFace.

 

[Fillup Marschell]

I feel ya. Had a microsoft patch fail to load into the WAUP. Some guy decided to open a suspicious email and bam been fighting a banking trojan. Life in IT sucks some days

 

[thompgk]

Take solace in the fact that people working half as hard are going to get to glom a little off your work.

 

[Harvey Specter]

You work for a small company or a large company?

 

[ThrustMaxwell]

You work for a small company or a large company?

We'll go with medium size. We're in the top 5% of companies in our field nationwide by most metrics.

We're not extremely well staffed but over the last year management has done a 180 and I'm slowly getting a handle on things. Right now I'm riding the line between full time management and full time in the weeds work. All for the greater good.

 

[Harvey Specter]

We'll go with medium size. We're in the top 5% of companies in our field nationwide by most metrics.

Thought you would say small. Pretty insane hours for being that big of a company. Good job security though

 

[ThrustMaxwell]

Thought you would say small. Pretty insane hours for being that big of a company. Good job security though

When half of our departments staff is replaced it won't be so bad. 2-3 years. I keep getting folks moved under me and things get a little better.

Great position to be in, imo. One of the reasons we set down roots.

 

[bprockman v2.0]

I often brag about the perks of my job, so now I'll bitch a little about the downsides. For the third time in (2) weeks I've put in over 30+ hours in a <48 hour period. No big deal, just part of the game.

Anyway, without getting into too many details I had a storage issue at work sprout up yesterday that was causing some business and operations critical applications to fault and lag. Started working on it at 2pm yesterday afternoon, as soon as I got home from leaving work early due to the worst sinus infection I've had in a while. I ended up on support calls to Ireland, India (x2) and good ole North Carolina before I finally had everything "working" and an action plan to finish cleaning everything up.

Email the boss at 4am this morning (21 hours in on the day at this point) and say, woohoo, I'm getting some rest now.

But I didn't. Fuggin' technology did me in.

PRO TIP: If you use a phone system at work that simultaneously rings your office line and cell phone during business hours, TURN IT OFF if you're planning on getting any damned rest. 7am rolls around and I get my first office call of the day. Yay me.

Anyway, I'm up now so I might as well make coffee. And I'm a loser so I might as well work.

Fast forward 4.5 hours, I finish cleaning up the residual clutter and I close the Ticket with this:



I didn't even know animated gifs worked in our ticketing system until today. A whole new world has opened for me, but that's for another thread.

Anyway, I lied. I'm not going to sleep. I've drank (2) pots of coffee and will probably work the rest of the day. Thank you for listening InstaFace.

#dontmissthatshit

 

[midnighttulips]

Glad to know I'm not the only one that doesn't get any sleep.
Got 3.5 hours of sleep on the 6th. Took a depo from 8 am to 7 pm on Tuesday. Got home, got my computer booted up and worked straight till Friday at 2 pm. Went to bed at midnight. Got up at 5:30 am Saturday morning, caught a flight at 8:30 am, drove from Bham to Boogville for the game, drove back to Sylacauga and was out with friends till 4:30 Sunday morning. Went to bed at 5:30 am Sunday, got up at 10. Went and visited the fam. Caught a flight at 6:30 pm and got home around 9:45. Finally went to bed at midnight and slept until 11 am Monday morning and then went to bed at 6 pm that night.
Worked all day today and the transcript expedited for Thursday delivery.

The only saving grace is I get paid by production, and if I'm working like that, I'm making serious jack.
I don't plan to work again till December.

 

[ThrustMaxwell]

Glad to know I'm not the only one that doesn't get any sleep.
Got 3.5 hours of sleep on the 6th. Took a depo from 8 am to 7 pm on Tuesday. Got home, got my computer booted up and worked straight till Friday at 2 pm. Went to bed at midnight. Got up at 5:30 am Saturday morning, caught a flight at 8:30 am, drove from Bham to Boogville for the game, drove back to Sylacauga and was out with friends till 4:30 Sunday morning. Went to bed at 5:30 am Sunday, got up at 10. Went and visited the fam. Caught a flight at 6:30 pm and got home around 9:45. Finally went to bed at midnight and slept until 11 am Monday morning and then went to bed at 6 pm that night.
Worked all day today and the transcript expedited for Thursday delivery.

The only saving grace is I get paid by production, and if I'm working like that, I'm making serious jack.
I don't plan to work again till December.

Livin' the dream.

 

[Weagle1492]

I had to work back to back 16 hour days. That's when I decided to go get another degree, now if I ever have to work those kinds of hours again I'll be making money for myself and not someone else. Nothing worse than being a wage slave and working a 60+ hour week.

Unfortunately, at least in the short term, I'm busting my ass to even get the grades pre rec classes done for the classes that have about 60% fail rates and I'm older than most of the students....but it will be worth it I'll skip all my friends in the work force once I'm through even though they will make a little more in the short term I'll be their boss in 5-10 years if I'm successful.