Ok. I have a project…
Doing said Project I have to interact with:
A: IT Manager who was supplanted by her enemy.
B: The Enemy of A, who sucks up to me cause the CEO wants me in, don’t know a Processor from a Network Cable.
State of the Network:
Imagine 50 unraveled balls of yarn + 3 Crackhead cats + 15 LSD Monkeys.
Why ??
Object A =
No thinking out of Box at all..
Basically a 1/4 step above the “We do it that way, cause that is how my forefather’s n their forefathers did it.” mentality..
Drivers from 1989 are fine, bug fix = “what is a bug ??”
Checking Error logs on Servers = “ehhh??”.
Windows Update for Servers = see above.
Servers have no Anti-virus.
They have cool *** imaging software for real-timebackup. Does anyone check that it is running ?
Of course not, so last image = When Dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Array Controllers use Battery Backed Cache for performance = Battery Dies (Array kills cache to preserve data in case of power failure= Huge Performance Penalty), pointed out 1 month ago. Found part online, suggested to get two, since both servers use a battery, and lifespan of battery is 3 years, which is up for both. Reminded Object A everyday.
A = “I forgot” x 1 month.
Got into big argument with A, cause I was told that without SP2, Windows XP cannot create dial-up connections.
Suggestions to check X or Y to get Servers and Network online = “Ask Object B, THAT is the Manager” ( A is carrying major belly for B, and vice-versa)
Switches on two floors have collisions
No one knows specs on machines at remote branches…It was suggested to DRIVE all over island like a noob to get machine specs, info that “My Computer” can tell you in 10 seconds.
Installed an app to monitor Server HD space on a system running low on space. NOT ONLY INSTALLED, PUT ON DESKTOP, POINTED TO, RUN FOR FIRST TIME, SHOWN HOW TO USE. Nester-san then says to A:
“Check this, every couple of days”.
A = “He means whenever the moon is in alignment with Jupiter and Venus”
So of course, a useage trend which would take 1 week to see, takes a month and a half.
B had a brilliant solution to “GO LIVE” with the new application package. Yes, utterly brilliant if you bear in mind she only told CEO and a handfull of the users. (HANDFULL = 15% of Staff)
I can’t write no more tonight….Me stress, mi a grey…
A = my friend, but #$%@#$%@#$%, I want to go postal on them %@#$%@#$%
Skillachi said,
7-9-2007 in 08:00:03 at 65.183.4.86ROFL lawlers… d00d, hears wat you do, get a video camera and tape this shit, post it on youtube and lets all laugh at it.
Ok heres the worky thing to do (though it may suck, i’d stick with youtube). With my limited years working experience i’ve always known this much… the biggest heads (CEO) normally has avg computer xperience but has links to some very knowlegable people….
since the biggest heads rates you, go straight to him and tell him about the problems u r seeing with the server and wat to do about it. If u want try not to include the part that person A is slightly retarded and person B is a Dee Dee Dee. That should at least clear up some of the problems and get u even more rated from biggest heads.