Two calls this evening. One deferred to tomorrow, the other will be a gamble as the operator couldn't speak much English
and sought a “dump and run”. The machine will “phone home” if it's a field replaceable part, if it's down hard
-systems crash and other groups become involved. All is quiet, so minor issue.

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No calls. In the office at 7am. One call while in the office, known issue leftover from the weekend ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at 11am, I begin my first on-call for ShizerW0k ( Read more... )

No escalation calls. I slept as normal people do.
Always nice to be assigned a job you don't end up doing.

No escalation calls. I slept like crap.
In bed at 0230,gave up at 0300 for TV, 0400 to sleep, 0724 weird phone alert,
back to sleep till 0930. I could've slept longer but many things to do today.

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No escalation calls. I slept as normal people do.
Death Star duty tonight that should be short due to small scope of work but it requires me to be on site
to supervise the cabling vendors. Maybe I'll get out by 1am if all goes well.

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Breckenrbew is on vacation and I'm acting manager today through the weekend.
Main duties are escalation point for break/fix and if changes go south.
Not a lot going on or scheduled but you never know when the machines will strike.

No real issues carried over from the weekend. Semi busy start to the week, needing to be in the office but Wednesday
on, I'll be working from home.

Vomit, Regurgitate, Leftovers -It's All the SameBig Urinal and his peers held a “town hall” meeting today; wasting three hours of many people's time ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept oddly [on/off/slot machine] but won't attribute it to anxiety over the machines manipulating Operations
to wake me at odd hours. Probably a combination of gym/running and jalepeños from the pico de gallo I whipped up that evening.

Useless Meeting is UselessThe year-end all-hand's meeting took place today. Since I'm working from ( Read more... )

What you promise gets whittled down versus the intended. Sure, there's the extra mile but I know the difference
between that and a death march.

Given the duties these past two weeks and people being out, I'm going to limit progress to what I can
comfortably accomplish. No more 12-15 hour crunch time days. Since we have no real job candidates
for our “ ( Read more... )