Happy New Year

[dog-star-man.livejournal.com]

Server data migration ate up most of my Christmas vacation. Everything went smoothly except for a few missing shortcut links, etc. Then, databases start corrupting willy nilly.

Troubleshooting databases ate up most of my New Years vacation. Finally stumbled upon the solution of turning off Opportunistic Locking on the new servers. Worked like a charm. Then...

Both massive UPS in the server room decided to crap out...
Kewill Shipping System Upgrade went haywire...
Multiple other minor hardware failures around the plant...
One database is insisting on running slower than a two legged dog on a hot day, when yesterday it was fine....

I'm the only IT person on staff. I work 10 hours, go home and then get called at all hours of the night. Sometimes I have to make the 45 minute drive back to work to fiddle with a server or whatever because corp. won't let me VPN into the network from home.

2006 can suck it!

Comments

[inahandbasket]

they won't let you VPN in? That's messed up.
I hope you charge them overtime out the wazzoo...

[dog-star-man.livejournal.com]

I'm saleried. I get comp time for the extra time I put in, but I don't forsee using it any time soon.

[inahandbasket]

kill them.
kill them all.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

"Cranky"?!? You've got the temperment of a saint I think.

[major-error.livejournal.com]

If they don't appreciate what you do, do what the BOFH would do: Send your resume out to some headhunters (put your boss's tel# as a point of contact if you really want to drive the point home.)

Come review time, they won't have a leg to stand on ;)