Office Move/Iron Man IT

[rwmidl.livejournal.com]

Got to work Friday: 8am
Took: 30 minute lunch break
Left the office: 11:30pm
Dinner break: No
Coffee: Gallons

15.5 hours, no dinner, on my feat, have nasty blisters. But the T1's are up, internet/internal routers are on the rack, Baytech is up. Just have to get the internal network up today and install new Switches) and bring up the servers. Oh yeah and it's 6am.

It's times like this I get a chuckle thinking of people in the office who say "I want your salary". They are out having a good time, while I'm in a small phone closet, hot, little lighting, holding a Cisco 7200 series router with one hand and a power drill in the other trying to mount it on a rack.

Comments

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

been there, done that... i know what you mean... and as weird as it seems i actually mis the work, 15-21 hr shifts aside.

[kubap.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean, i spent thursday and friday upgrading the infrastructure at the high school i work, 11 new Extreme Networks Summit 48i switchs and additional modules for the BlackDiamonds. not a fun week, but man did i get a work out pulling out the old LANNet MULTINET LET-36 rack mount hubs, never knew i could bend that much - wouldn't have either if it wasn't for our space saving IDFs.

[akage.livejournal.com]

Hell, I envy you. You get to play with hardware. The closest I get is hooking up a co-worker's PC because they're too stupid to know how. I used to do the hardware migration/office move stuff at a couple of previous jobs, and I actually enjoyed the late night/weekend migrations.