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Hmm.. I got up this morning at 8am hoping to get myself out early and thus avoid queues at the petrol station and beat the traffic on the chaos that is the M25 in Hertfordshire right now.
It's now 10:30 and I'm still sat here half dressed. So much for that plan.
My get up and go has well and truly got up, gone, and sent me a postcard. I can't even be arsed to brush my teeth at the moment (and I've got an ickulent taste in my mouth at the moment and everything).
The cause of this apathy, the past few days at work. I have something of a reputation for picking up an apparently simple call, and then somehow it turning into a horrendous piece of gak. A new shared area on the network should take about 10 minutes on our network (create a folder, create a usergroup, put the people in it, apply it to the folder - simple). Yesterday, I picked up a call to create an area called "Facilities", sadly they hadn't told me where on the network they want it, but that's not usually an issue for a quick call to the requestor tells you where it should go. This was not so yesterday. Upon sussing out where this thing should go I discovered that there was already something called Facilities, and that whoever had created it had managed to utterly balls up the above mentioned 4 simple stages. So I ended up picking the whole thing apart and putting it back together again properly - turning a 10 minute job into a 4 hour horror involving report generation, cross-domain access groups, emails to users warning them they're about to lose access to something, checking for open files and who's got them open, etc.
And that's just an example of the shite I've trawled through this week.
Thus I sit here on my day off really procrastinating about getting into the car and sitting in a traffic jam in warm weather for gawd knows how long.
It's now 10:30 and I'm still sat here half dressed. So much for that plan.
My get up and go has well and truly got up, gone, and sent me a postcard. I can't even be arsed to brush my teeth at the moment (and I've got an ickulent taste in my mouth at the moment and everything).
The cause of this apathy, the past few days at work. I have something of a reputation for picking up an apparently simple call, and then somehow it turning into a horrendous piece of gak. A new shared area on the network should take about 10 minutes on our network (create a folder, create a usergroup, put the people in it, apply it to the folder - simple). Yesterday, I picked up a call to create an area called "Facilities", sadly they hadn't told me where on the network they want it, but that's not usually an issue for a quick call to the requestor tells you where it should go. This was not so yesterday. Upon sussing out where this thing should go I discovered that there was already something called Facilities, and that whoever had created it had managed to utterly balls up the above mentioned 4 simple stages. So I ended up picking the whole thing apart and putting it back together again properly - turning a 10 minute job into a 4 hour horror involving report generation, cross-domain access groups, emails to users warning them they're about to lose access to something, checking for open files and who's got them open, etc.
And that's just an example of the shite I've trawled through this week.
Thus I sit here on my day off really procrastinating about getting into the car and sitting in a traffic jam in warm weather for gawd knows how long.