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CRRAAAAZZZZZZZZZYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Enitrely work update. Update on other stuff will be along eventually. If you don't care, don't read :P
So, it's my last day before vacation. My boss promised another team that they'd have a certain circuit block *cough*oneofmine*cough* done by the end of this week. It's not done--and not my fault. The fricking extraction keeps changing, so the test run that I thought had finished yesterday was incorrect (bus delimiters FTL!) and the one that I kicked off again today has not finished. This means that it will likely not be done today. Which means I will try to get VPN access set up, and check it over the weekend. If I can't get it set up, I will check it by coming into the office. Yay.
There is a chance it won't be done before Monday, given the way our compute block keeps resetting my jobs (thankfully so far it has been resetting the non-critical ones). If that's the case, then I'd better have VPN figured out. If I do, I can access work from NY (not so much of a vacation, but whatever, like I have much better to do *cough*otherthanrelax*cough*). If not, well, we're just SOL. Which would be sad, since I really like my boss and hate to make him go back on a pledge like that, and hold people up, but... like I said earlier, not my fault. And not his fault either, really, but the people committed to won't want to hear that. In the grand scheme of things, we shouldn't be needing to do this stuff anyway, but the people whose fault that is... meh, I won't go into that. It was a different project, and there was a lot of fallout with that project. And by that I mean people FALLING OUT OF THEIR JOBS.
Not that I'm personally in any danger if my manager or, now, my 2nd level manager, have anything to do with it. They like me! I got a good performance review. Verbally, anyway. My numeric rating doesn't come out until later, but I'm sure it will be very good.
Anyway, as the first part of this post suggests, I'm ready to be out of here. The level of stress and amount of work in these last couple of weeks has totally skyrocketed. I feel like the stress isn't even bothering me too much, and I almost like having a lot of work when it's this kind of work--stuff that I know how to do and just have to chug through it. It's a lot more computing resources than brain resources. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy thinking. I enjoy learning stuff and doing circuit studies and all that. Just not all the time. I don't do well thinking hard the whole workday long.
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(about 2 hours later, this remains unsubmitted because I got sidetracked doing more work, so I add) I'M LEAVING!! I'll still be checking on stuff this weekend, but one of the critical jobs did just get killed and re-queued. Bastards. No wonder things are late when our systems SUCK ASS! G'bye...
CRRAAAAZZZZZZZZZYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...
Enitrely work update. Update on other stuff will be along eventually. If you don't care, don't read :P
So, it's my last day before vacation. My boss promised another team that they'd have a certain circuit block *cough*oneofmine*cough* done by the end of this week. It's not done--and not my fault. The fricking extraction keeps changing, so the test run that I thought had finished yesterday was incorrect (bus delimiters FTL!) and the one that I kicked off again today has not finished. This means that it will likely not be done today. Which means I will try to get VPN access set up, and check it over the weekend. If I can't get it set up, I will check it by coming into the office. Yay.
There is a chance it won't be done before Monday, given the way our compute block keeps resetting my jobs (thankfully so far it has been resetting the non-critical ones). If that's the case, then I'd better have VPN figured out. If I do, I can access work from NY (not so much of a vacation, but whatever, like I have much better to do *cough*otherthanrelax*cough*). If not, well, we're just SOL. Which would be sad, since I really like my boss and hate to make him go back on a pledge like that, and hold people up, but... like I said earlier, not my fault. And not his fault either, really, but the people committed to won't want to hear that. In the grand scheme of things, we shouldn't be needing to do this stuff anyway, but the people whose fault that is... meh, I won't go into that. It was a different project, and there was a lot of fallout with that project. And by that I mean people FALLING OUT OF THEIR JOBS.
Not that I'm personally in any danger if my manager or, now, my 2nd level manager, have anything to do with it. They like me! I got a good performance review. Verbally, anyway. My numeric rating doesn't come out until later, but I'm sure it will be very good.
Anyway, as the first part of this post suggests, I'm ready to be out of here. The level of stress and amount of work in these last couple of weeks has totally skyrocketed. I feel like the stress isn't even bothering me too much, and I almost like having a lot of work when it's this kind of work--stuff that I know how to do and just have to chug through it. It's a lot more computing resources than brain resources. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy thinking. I enjoy learning stuff and doing circuit studies and all that. Just not all the time. I don't do well thinking hard the whole workday long.
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(about 2 hours later, this remains unsubmitted because I got sidetracked doing more work, so I add) I'M LEAVING!! I'll still be checking on stuff this weekend, but one of the critical jobs did just get killed and re-queued. Bastards. No wonder things are late when our systems SUCK ASS! G'bye...