Walking out straight into a daiquiri. Or libation of choice...
Sometimes it's really hard communicating with my team. Table tags, the difference between ping and tracert, just...things I thought were our commonish language, you know? And when it's the business saying "Hey, I ran a tracert and it looks kind of dodgy once it hits the data centre..." I'm cringing listening to them not understand the call or my manager trying to make sure a cascade of half-rights didn't start up (She knew it wasn't really a network problem, but the language to say the tracert was misleading? NSM).
And I just looked over my shoulder to see the anti-virus software pop up with a hit on one of the developers' machines--he's just sailing through his emails and clicking on stuff not one week after a virus took down our entire shared storage. At least it caught it--if not, he'd have been the third dev in our group to get his machine infected, totally aside from the network.
The org charts in Smart Art are for an org chart with like 20 people. If you have twenty people, why do you need a chart?
Alas, for me the answer is "because clients keep asking for them with each new proposal even if we've worked for them before, and things change just enough to require a new one each time instead of using what I made 6 months ago."
Consuela, can you just think about what you need right now to get to tomorrow? And then do that? Whatever it is.
I'm with Jesse. That actually might be my life motto.
And if that is, "Go to the airport and get on the first plane out of town," and that plane is going to Cincinnati, totally call me. I'll even let you sleep on the good mattress. We can go to the good indie bookstore tomorrow, and you can help me review NEH digital humanities grants.
You know, the whole "I sent you that email already" thing is much better with proof, because then I'd have the information I (might have) emailed you twice for.
But because I'm that person, my reply to your email that didn't tell me how to get into the system contained print screens of searches for your name and the system name, as well as lists of the other ways and places I looked for the info. This is very exciting for both of us, but I am actually thinking of leaving before 5:00 today, so let's get on with it.
Co-worker has mad PTO she needs to burn off, so she's taking Thursday and Friday off for the month, despite not being able to finish her work in three day weeks, and it also means she's not able to support the way-in-the-red upgrade project. I can't force her to not take PTO, and I'd never suggest management do anything--it's just frustrating because her time management skills are for shit and I'm where the buck stops.
Consuela, can you just think about what you need right now to get to tomorrow? And then do that? Whatever it is.
I wish I knew what that was. I don't think I've ever felt this overwhelmed before, except maybe once, back when I lived in Baltimore and my boss stabbed me in the back and threw me off the bus (metaphorically).
this is worse, because half of it is family.
We've just been told to log off the network by 5 pm, so I'm doing that and going home.
Go climbing? Shut everything off and read a book? Call a friend for dinner?
I would say go to an animal shelter and let puppies crawl on you for a while.
I'm going to let the dogs play, and then go see Wreck it Ralph, I think. It's about my speed tonight.
