If I was responsible person I would be mowing the lawn right now. I'm telling myself that I can't because it is too windy, but really I just would prefer not to.

Wrong 'uns gonna be wrong.

Things got so fucked up I had to call my boss ON VACATION to get her to make the necessary players stand up and take notice. Y'all know me, I'm not really a shrinking violet, it was that bad. But when we can't ingest data, the next step is informing the mission and that is BAD.

So she conference called everyone in on their personal phones (since they were not responding to me on the usual lines-they'll answer a boss calling from vacation) on her cell while she was driving with her visiting sister to Annapolis and we at least got things fixed enough we can limp through the weekend. Come to Jesus and FIX THIS Monday meeting, including chief engineer who will be really unhappy because he doesn't want to allocate more scant resources to us, but something is seriously broken.

And I'm frustrated because it feels like I couldn't even hold up my end, but part of the problem is that people didn't take seriously that I was making executive decisions. And no one else wanted to take responsibility. IT kept saying the infrastructure looked fine. Well, it wasn't working, so no, it isn't.

I ended up staying 2.5 hrs late. Swam 2 very necessary miles and now I'm headed straight to the bourbon.

Relax and deal on Monday, sara. Glad you boss had your back.

Oh, man, sara, that is a lot of suckage.

I'm real! Jesse and Tom can vouch for my very recent existence!

Her brother-in-law posted "when has he gleefully encouraged hate crimes".

I think my favorite part of this response is how blatantly it assumes that there's nothing wrong with racism, sexism, lying, and bribery.

I'm real! Jesse and Tom can vouch for my very recent existence!

The problem is that it was Tom asking the question, so.

Uggghhhhh, sara.

I hate feeling impotent. In most of the other sub-projects I'm designated head, people hotstep when I cry foul. But the same people who see me as expert in xyz, wouldn't take me as the same authority as my boss for big ops. It's frustrating. Partly tied to everyone being overextended right now, they wanted to be able to ignore it (big build for the other mission is in dev production the next 2 weeks and they're behind.)

But I had people in my own branch doing the opposite of what I told them and pushing back when I told them no. Which, I mean, I got them to do what I said eventually, but it wasted time. And made more mess for me to clean up. And is demoralizing.

Pretty much a horrid day on so many levels, not just the actual computer shit that went wrong. I'm gonna need a talk with my boss. After she comes back from vacation. After Memorial Day.

Her brother-in-law posted "when has he gleefully encouraged hate crimes".

I think my favorite part of this response is how blatantly it assumes that there's nothing wrong with racism, sexism, lying, and bribery.

I was just about to say that.

I think my favorite part of this response is how blatantly it assumes that there's nothing wrong with racism, sexism, lying, and bribery.

Yup. sigh.

On the plus side, wine & sushi for dinner tonight

Sorry for the craptastic day, sarameg. Go bourbon!