I am KNACKERED
I work at our companys main datacentre, it is a state of the art tier 4 datacentre, very shiny and very cool if you are a nerdy techie as I seem to have become.
This summer the big project the company has on is to open another one on the other side of London, we are actually just taking space in a much bigger building and starting out with a single medium sized computer room. Our main base of operations will continue to be the original site where all the third line teams and management will still be based. The new site will have 5 staff on shifts to cover it 24x7.
In May before the project started they offered me the chance to be the team leader at the new site but as it is a 2 hour commute I turned it down and they hired someone else to do it.
Turned out the someone else was a bit of a tosser, he had real attitude problems so 2 weeks ago they fired him. 10 minutes after that my manager asked me to take the job again, I told her no way could I make it my place of work but I would take one for the team and be up there as much as I could (3 days a week) untill the fit out phase was complete and the first few customers were safely installed.
So for the last 2 weeks I have been living half the time out of a hotel in Docklands, working 12 hour (minimum days) and generally feeling exhausted. The other day I arrived onsite at 8am, we had a change control starting at 8pm and I eventually left site at midnight, never has a bed seemed so wonderful.
When I said I would help out I told my manager that all I cared about was it being a minimal hassle, asked the company to pay for the hotel and in exchange I wouldn't bill anything except extreme overtime. They have messed me around and so they are getting every hour extra I work billed.
Still next months pay cheque should be nice.
Tonight is a big deal, we are introducing the new place to our Metropolitan network and bringing its internet presence online, the second part of that should be OK and starts at 1am, the first part could be nasty, this is the same change we tried the other night and had to back out of at 11pm.
So I get to take my wife out for dinner then leave her and go to work for 11pm till about 4am.
Still it is more interesting than my usual job (which I am still trying to do by the way) but I am getting way too tired.
So that is why I haven't been around for the last couple of weeks and why I won't be about much for the next couple.
Ohh on a side note, of the 5 staff that will be based there we have so far hired 1, the rest start onsite in 2 weeks time and we already have 2 customers moving in at the moment.
JOY
This summer the big project the company has on is to open another one on the other side of London, we are actually just taking space in a much bigger building and starting out with a single medium sized computer room. Our main base of operations will continue to be the original site where all the third line teams and management will still be based. The new site will have 5 staff on shifts to cover it 24x7.
In May before the project started they offered me the chance to be the team leader at the new site but as it is a 2 hour commute I turned it down and they hired someone else to do it.
Turned out the someone else was a bit of a tosser, he had real attitude problems so 2 weeks ago they fired him. 10 minutes after that my manager asked me to take the job again, I told her no way could I make it my place of work but I would take one for the team and be up there as much as I could (3 days a week) untill the fit out phase was complete and the first few customers were safely installed.
So for the last 2 weeks I have been living half the time out of a hotel in Docklands, working 12 hour (minimum days) and generally feeling exhausted. The other day I arrived onsite at 8am, we had a change control starting at 8pm and I eventually left site at midnight, never has a bed seemed so wonderful.
When I said I would help out I told my manager that all I cared about was it being a minimal hassle, asked the company to pay for the hotel and in exchange I wouldn't bill anything except extreme overtime. They have messed me around and so they are getting every hour extra I work billed.
Still next months pay cheque should be nice.
Tonight is a big deal, we are introducing the new place to our Metropolitan network and bringing its internet presence online, the second part of that should be OK and starts at 1am, the first part could be nasty, this is the same change we tried the other night and had to back out of at 11pm.
So I get to take my wife out for dinner then leave her and go to work for 11pm till about 4am.
Still it is more interesting than my usual job (which I am still trying to do by the way) but I am getting way too tired.
So that is why I haven't been around for the last couple of weeks and why I won't be about much for the next couple.
Ohh on a side note, of the 5 staff that will be based there we have so far hired 1, the rest start onsite in 2 weeks time and we already have 2 customers moving in at the moment.
JOY