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[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the same at where any of you work, but there is a constant turf battle going on at my place of work. You'd think that having a bunch of Unix admin geeks working in one office and a bunch of Cisco network geeks in another would lead to some kind of well-oiled machine with geeks working hand in hand to make things work.

Well, you'd be wrong. My place of work is more like something out of The Warriors, with the two gangs consistently tearing strips off each other (verbally and textually D:).

Let's say the admins have a developer box running in the server room. Now, let's say that it's running slow. Do you:

a) Make sure that nobody is performing any tasks that would increase load on the box to the point where you're going to see lag

or

b) Declare loudly in public IRC that the problem is clearly network related and fix your shit, goddammit.

It's a never ending battle.

Edit: Uhhh, when I say public IRC I mean on our own public channel on an internal server - basically, the channel that ALL employees are part of (including top brass...CTO, CEO, etc. etc.). Then there are seperate channels for different things...

Not "public" public. :)

Aside: I tried to post this as a response to a comment - but I kept getting an error! LJ SYSADMINS FIX THY SHIT PLZ

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[the-paco.livejournal.com]

My GOD man.
( YOU RUN LINUX )

( And another thing: )

Dear users...

[jecook]

Yes, the proper way to greet me when I've gotten back from three days on the road, have a stack of work orders to slog through, a heap of gear that was randomly tossed in the office at 7pm the night before after getting back, and a machine from another site that was picked up on my way into the office is to camp out on my office doorstep to ask when the hell I'll be at your site.


Hence, the rather harsh answer I gave her, which boiled down to "bring the machine in if your don't want to wait for me to schedule you in 15 minutes."

Gee! I need to call her. Guess I'll do that after I get back from the off site that was sent to me via email about 20 minutes ago...

Playing hardball with me will get you _my_ version of hardball. How hard? Let's try wrecking ball hard. ::annoyed glare::

::goes back to eating soup with a fork::

NTL tells is like it is?

[lordstorm.livejournal.com]

Think your company's IVR message is a little blunt? Maybe give your customers the wrong idea that's all is right in the world, even in the midst of an outage? Then have a chuckle at this, from a creative - yet ultimately pissed off - customer of NTL's:

"....NTL customer services, we don't give a fuck about you."

If only we could be so blunt with our customers. *wistful sigh*