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Jul. 13th, 2004 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miz_annelieseI am absolutely exhausted from trying to keep up with the expected stress levels at work, and I've barely done anything over the past 2 days.
See, the main server that went down last week? Well, it crashed twice on Sunday. They were running checkdisk on it Monday. Half the files on it were corrupt. We programmers were limited in what we could actually accomplish. So today, our IT department was working on restoring all the files from a week ago from the old server to a brand spankin' new server, and the rest of us were anxiously waiting to get everything done that had been delayed since Sunday. Well, we needed a set of files from another department, which was in turn waiting on information from a third department, which was processing a HUGE amount of data manually, since our new server has a new address that doesn't match the hard-coded server name in all of our automated processes.
Got it?
So. Everyone's chugging along, slowly but surely, and I'm in high gear, anticipating the huge amount of time it's going to take me to catch up. Now guess what happens. At 2:50 PM - before the restore is done, before anybody has had a chance to do anything to mitigate the workload - the power goes out in our entire section of the city.
What timing, eh?
So whole departments of our company leave. There the programmers sit. Some more departments leave. I play euchre with a couple co-workers. The rest of the other departments, except for IT, leave. Our boss says if the power isn't on by 4:45, we can leave, too.
Guess what? Power comes on at 4:39. I'm not even kidding.
Of course, it'll take another half hour for things to be close to online... eventually our boss says we can leave if we want to. I do. Fuck that.
So all of the high-level stress I thought would be over with today? Is pushed till tomorrow. Tomorrow will probably be the absolute worst day of the year as far as work is concerned. I have 7 projects I am now behind on, 2 more tomorrow that I have to deal with, and 3 for the following day that I haven't even looked at.
Our department is NOT having a good time of it.
See, the main server that went down last week? Well, it crashed twice on Sunday. They were running checkdisk on it Monday. Half the files on it were corrupt. We programmers were limited in what we could actually accomplish. So today, our IT department was working on restoring all the files from a week ago from the old server to a brand spankin' new server, and the rest of us were anxiously waiting to get everything done that had been delayed since Sunday. Well, we needed a set of files from another department, which was in turn waiting on information from a third department, which was processing a HUGE amount of data manually, since our new server has a new address that doesn't match the hard-coded server name in all of our automated processes.
Got it?
So. Everyone's chugging along, slowly but surely, and I'm in high gear, anticipating the huge amount of time it's going to take me to catch up. Now guess what happens. At 2:50 PM - before the restore is done, before anybody has had a chance to do anything to mitigate the workload - the power goes out in our entire section of the city.
What timing, eh?
So whole departments of our company leave. There the programmers sit. Some more departments leave. I play euchre with a couple co-workers. The rest of the other departments, except for IT, leave. Our boss says if the power isn't on by 4:45, we can leave, too.
Guess what? Power comes on at 4:39. I'm not even kidding.
Of course, it'll take another half hour for things to be close to online... eventually our boss says we can leave if we want to. I do. Fuck that.
So all of the high-level stress I thought would be over with today? Is pushed till tomorrow. Tomorrow will probably be the absolute worst day of the year as far as work is concerned. I have 7 projects I am now behind on, 2 more tomorrow that I have to deal with, and 3 for the following day that I haven't even looked at.
Our department is NOT having a good time of it.
