The day of woe

[commanderd.livejournal.com]

When you look at the system clock and your phases of the moon diary (shut up I am NOT a farking werewolf) and realise that not only is it a full moon but it is ALSO Friday the 13th, then is the time to panic.

Not a moment too soon it would have seemed as the boss decided that this would be an excellent time to drag us in for another of those "How can we make you guys happier in your work?" meetings (hint: Stop dragging us into meetings would be a fuckin' start...). In that time we were in the meeing room:

An offsite power failure taking out 3 main switches occurred
A main software push failed
Instructions on how to log into a new system were sent to all users which proved to be in error since the fuckin' accounts hadn't been completed yet. And guess who they call...
A senior manager drops his mobile communications device in the toilet right before an important client meeting (I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..)
And some wag decides to give us all free 'caffiene mints' which taste like cavity wall insulation and make me FUCKING FART all afternoon.

Great, just great.

Comments

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

another of those "How can we make you guys happier in your work?" meetings

Can your boss talk to our bosses and introduce this wonderful-seeming concept? Because it seems they've been attending those "How can we royally bone our underlings to hear them squeal" meetings instead.

[commanderd.livejournal.com]

They are actually the same thing, just dressed up in prettier language.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the day from hell.

Completely OT, I know - but may I just say your icon so rocks? :-)

[commanderd.livejournal.com]

You may! Data is such a cool character.

[kalium.livejournal.com]

Wow. My day was pretty boring, really.

Guess I know where all my bad luck went to!

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

It's the theory of Conservation of Wretchedness at work.

[cs-neo.livejournal.com]

Remind me again, cd, as I think I've asked this before...how do you keep from ripping your bosses' heads off?

[commanderd.livejournal.com]

Valium.

And the fact that the blood would get all over the computers.

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

yup, Full moon, Friday the 13th struck here as well.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

ugh, I was working graveyard shift the thursday before.

Meaning I was at work from midnight on the 13th all the way to 8am. Arseholes kept ringing - I don't do phones unless it's corporate, but over the night I had to rebuild one of our backup servers from scratch (the motherboard fried) five trunks at the exchange into our PABX died in the arse, and another bloody spammer got into an exploit with our webhosting signups that we've been on technical's arse to fix for two fucking years

arghh

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

Rockin icon, could I steal that from you?

[commanderd.livejournal.com]

yup

Oh suuuuuure...blame it on the mints!

[be4u.livejournal.com]

And some wag decides to give us all free 'caffiene mints' which taste like cavity wall insulation and make me FUCKING FART all afternoon.

Buhahahaha!

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

Actually, the full moon wasn't until the 14th ;) but it certainly seems that you had a bad Friday 13th. At least there's caffeine mints *GD&R*