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[taleya.livejournal.com]

After all the ranting in this post....


They aborted the upgrade due to time constraints and problems with building the indexes. Until next week.

*sobs*

About priorities

[byh.livejournal.com]

First I get a call about network failure in our R&D department. Actually I expected it because network there is really really bad and should have been replaced a couple of years ago. Anyway it is very nasty because replacing the main cable is going to take time and R&D need communications as soon as possible unless we want to blew a few international contracts.

Then I get another call from an accountant complaining me that her mouse wheel doesn't work in her new program. I tell her I will look into her issue a bit later.

A ten minutes later I am called by chief executive himself. I know what he is going to say. He is about to rain death on my ass unless R&В get their communications back until lunch. I prepare to explain him that if you want something reliable you should not build it from second-hand trash and such. So I pick up the receiver and he gives me hell about the mouse wheel.

Back for 1 day, and already stupidity has hit.

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

How can you tell when it's a bad day at work?

When your customer types in "forwardslash" instead of "/" when you're trying to do "ipconfig/release"

*headdesk* Anyone have a gun to kill me with?

Well, I'm new here.

[superrodan.livejournal.com]

I <3 Livejournal, a community for EVERYTHING.

Anyways, I work or a major DSL company, dealing with a specific modem/router combination. I was on a call two nights ago, and an AIM window pops up. (We basically ll use Trillian to communicate, and so my friends can IM me too, and often keep me from committing murder)

So about 8 minutes into this semi-out-of-scope wireless call, the girl I very much care about basically broke up with me. I told her to hold on because I knew a bad conversation was coming, but she simply replied "no", and really screwed me up. Now, since then I've sorta been able to laugh at the situation, because she took it back basically, and it sounded alot worse than it was, but really. I had to go home and everything, I told them I didn't feel well.

But normally I'm pretty cheerful, and I imagine I was for the first 8 minutes of that call. I feel soooo bad for the guy on the other line, because he was talking to a perfectly happy tech and then suddenly I was on the verge of tears, and really really quiet and trying to maintain my compusure. Has anything like that ever happened to any of you? Where halfway through a call you received some terrible news, and couldn't finish?