AM:
40 min elliptical machine
So. These engineers. And a series of curse words in there. Yep. So I get into work and the ONE problem child engineer sent an email he needs us to VERIFY every Offsite network connection for his latest project because THEY are having issues with connectivity. Well he does not get in until 9:30 or 10:00 AM. I make the call to drive out there at 7:45 am so I can beat traffic and work on 3 other requests I had planned on going out there for next Tuesday. I get out there ans start my other work and get an update for the knucklehead, the copper connection is not working. SO I check it out and it is showing link light. I relay the information. SO now there is a problem with a fiber connection. Well that is an easy one. You asked for port 22 to be used based on the section on the form where you told me to use port 22, but in the description section you said to use port 23. Why did I not ask for clarification? Because I was connection 4 cables and it made no logical sense to used 19,20,21 and 23 skipping port 22. Plus where you tell me which port to connect to, you wrote 22. easy fix you change the configuration to the port you told me to connect to on the form! Now there is a different problem. I ask a question and make a suggestion for a trouble shooting solution to eliminate one possible cause. I don’t hear back from you for 30 minutes? 45 minutes? I write back to say, hey I am almost done out here, I DO you want me to try it or what? Still no answer, so I finish and pack up and go. Later I see you wrote back to try it. Yeah Buddy, that is going to be a Monday project. maybe next time you bring a million dollar piece of equipment on line you “go the extra mile” and actually go to the site ( that you just expect me to drive to to identify your problems!) and work on the equipment locally. Folks are lucky they are not working for me, there would be some serious ass chewings and maybe some firing. These jobs and tasks are not hard. STOP making them hard. I know my stuff, Each time you try to blame “the cabling” we show it is a networking problem. You would think you would get tired of looking bad and wrong. Ah much better. Rant over. And yes, I really do enjoy my job.
