From: Pieter Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:10:02 +0200 Subject: Based on factual details... I wake up and look at alarm clock... grrr... 06:30... and it's that day we all love... Monday. I feel like I've been blindsided by a truck. Scubadiving in 8 degree water and drinking afterwards till the early hours of the morning doesn't help. Better yet... it's the Monday that the new General Manager starts. I get out of bed, and wonder if I should wear a wrinkled t-shirt, or maybe go to the trouble of wearing a neat shirt. I decide against the shirt, and wear my nice nerdgear (www.nerdgear.com) "I want to believe" t-shirt. I mean if I wear a neat shirt he might just expect that everyday. I don't want to set a precident. [08:03] I'm early... oooh... new GM has a nice car. Mercedes Benz C200 Elegance. I wonder who or what he had to bribe/blackmail to afford that. I find it unfair that I have to drive a 2.5k Ford, while he drives a 20k Merc. I hear from co-worker he is successful version of "Stressed Eric"... this can't be good. It will mean deadlines, goals, and *shudder* work! I see beeeg shit on the horizon coming. Time to start brewing some dark roast Italian or Turkish. I'm going to need it. [08:30] Boredroom meeting. Everyone is in their best clothes... I look like I got dragged out of a gutter. New fuckwit (excuse the language) gets introduced. He used to run blah blah blah, and upped their turnover by blah blah blah. Great... like I care. And we sit and listen and listen, and yawn, and generally feel like this time would be better spent irc'ing, and downloading Quake 3 maps. Oohh... I awaken to find that he wants a "forward report" from all of us saying what/where we will doing work for at least 3 weeks in advance. Now my fellow BOFHs/Sysadmins. You know and I know how this network management thing works. Something breaks and we go fix it. Maybe someone will sleep with someone else, or will blackmail some beancounter and get the funds approved for a new laptop & such. Then we have the fun of installing that. Or we ramdomly make the beancounter fileserver fall over and replace the new equipment with our old servers equipment. And for fun we edit the firewall rules so the receptionist can't Napster her favourite mp3's. (She should be bringing you coffee in any case) THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL WE CAN SEE WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING IN 4 WEEKS TIME! I hand my nice form in with "Office" filled into every day. He's going to be annoyed. [10:00] He is annoyed. The machine in his office is slow and old. The previous occupant never used it. He discovers we use Outlook and a POP based system for mail. He wants us linked to WAN (which I've tried for a year without success to get done) and he wants us all on Lotus Notes connected to the Domino server at headoffice. I explain the problems we've had getting it done. He says "I will look into it". [10:30] Our version of Cable & Clueless is here fixing WAN link. NEVER in my life have I seen such a fast response. Seems this new pigf***er has some influence (or very black material). Seems a fibre optic cable broke. Should be finished in 30mins time. I'm off to find Lotus Notes CD. [11:00] Got Lotus Notes CD. It bites. Nice 64k link to Domino server makes for about 30 second response times when you just click to open new mail. My esteemed CAD user, who if you remember correctly found his way on nice adultmail.net mailing lists, cannot seem to find it in his head how to use Lotus Notes. 30 mins later and I told him "friggen use your brain dammit" He's not happy... I'm not happy. I've got 5 more Notes installations ahead. [14:00] Got all people changed over to Lotus Notes. They're still unhappy. I also had to move nice shiny HP 690c into new guys office from CAD users office. CAD user is now squealing like a wounded pig. I told him to go speak to boss... he won't... (but he won't shut the f*** up, and stop complaining to me). [16:00] Phoned personel agent... stupid meat merchant says to earn anything decent I need CCNA. Booked it... 27th-29th March. Oh but a few weeks then I can think of resigning. Till then I hope you will think of me and Lotus Notes, and f**kwit boss...