So… today I turn 34…. joy. Perhaps it may have been better if I wasn’t the “on-call” Windows Server admin this week…. because we lost a server in New York and I’m having to rebuild it from scratch.
It’s no big whoop to build a server, but when the server is 1,100+ miles away… it tends to put a damper on things.
This week has been pretty quiet overall with me not getting paged for too many large issues, it’s just so aggravating when it cuts right into the weekend you’ve been looking forward to. 
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So, as of today, I will have put in at least 18 hours of overtime…. tomorrow, who knows what may come up for me to get paged on at 1:00am in the morning.
Anywho…. sorry for the rant. I just felt like bitchin’ while the array config disk loads up for this NY box.
Hope your weekend is better than mine!
Cheers.
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June 4th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Son,
Like I said last night – insanity rules. I’ve been trying to work out projections versus emergency production limitations for 10 days now (averaging 12 hour a day) to keep body armor available to issue to Soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve been battling bureaucrats and politicans all the way plus those senior officers who’s primary focus is on what “makes them look good”. Just as soon as I had a solution that would minimize any shortfalls and rapidly fill any backorders, they changed the requirement numbers on me. It would be so bad except that the new “projections” exceed what can be made! ANd, on top of that, these same officers failed to act in time so I could initiate additional delveries for that hard armor plates to cover for gap between the current contracts and when new contracts can be completed. It didn’t do me any good to show just how critical the actions were. It’s more important for them to look good and make nice with politicans that to care about the safety of the Soldiers in combat. So, like you, frustration levels have gone way over the top.
Dad