They broke it
As is obvious from previous posts, we use Citrix here at work. Well at least we used to. We've been working to get things ready to change from using Citrix, to using a normal WAN. Let me make it clear that I knew this was going to hapen, just not when it was going to happen.
So a couple weeks ago I had 5 days off, three of them working day. Had to use up the rest of my holiday before the end of the year. No big deal right. I really needed the break before my head broke.
Well unbeknownst to me, that is the weekend that the almighty IT Director and my coworkers decided to switch the network around from using Citrix. Not a big deal. An IT Director who has supposedly gone through this before should know what he's doing. If there are problems then they should be minor cause he has a nice plan of action and this shouldn't be a problem. You'd think that, but no.
So I return to work last Tuesday to my phone ringing off the hook, my cowrokers nowhere in sight and our old servers sitting under a desk next to me. Answer phone to find out that the network isn't working. No surprise there. Try to call boss, no answer. Try to call coworker, no answer. Answer phone a million more times and get an idea of what the heck is going on. They changed the whole network over and didn't tell anyone how to do anything. Lovely.
Call boss yet again, he answers. Claims to be stupid, not really a lie. Call cowrker, finally get him on the phone and find out what the heck is going on. As I suspected, the network has been swapped. Okay time to start sorting through the mess and get people working.
Que that day being a mess and me working with my nose to the grindstone getting people sorted out. Duplicate for this for the rest of the week and the following monday too. But for Wednesday, add in that my whiny boss leaves around 2pm cause he's got a sore throat and is icky. Man Flu. So this continues and I manage to fix most of the bigger problems and things begin to slowly calm down.
It's Wednesday again and the boss finally decided to come back. Not that he's needed much now. Only smallish things left to fix. I've got most of it under control now. Have gotten a few accolades from managers in the other offices, which is nice.
I'm looking for a new job. I need outta this place. The mmess above is the straw that broke the camel's back.
So a couple weeks ago I had 5 days off, three of them working day. Had to use up the rest of my holiday before the end of the year. No big deal right. I really needed the break before my head broke.
Well unbeknownst to me, that is the weekend that the almighty IT Director and my coworkers decided to switch the network around from using Citrix. Not a big deal. An IT Director who has supposedly gone through this before should know what he's doing. If there are problems then they should be minor cause he has a nice plan of action and this shouldn't be a problem. You'd think that, but no.
So I return to work last Tuesday to my phone ringing off the hook, my cowrokers nowhere in sight and our old servers sitting under a desk next to me. Answer phone to find out that the network isn't working. No surprise there. Try to call boss, no answer. Try to call coworker, no answer. Answer phone a million more times and get an idea of what the heck is going on. They changed the whole network over and didn't tell anyone how to do anything. Lovely.
Call boss yet again, he answers. Claims to be stupid, not really a lie. Call cowrker, finally get him on the phone and find out what the heck is going on. As I suspected, the network has been swapped. Okay time to start sorting through the mess and get people working.
Que that day being a mess and me working with my nose to the grindstone getting people sorted out. Duplicate for this for the rest of the week and the following monday too. But for Wednesday, add in that my whiny boss leaves around 2pm cause he's got a sore throat and is icky. Man Flu. So this continues and I manage to fix most of the bigger problems and things begin to slowly calm down.
It's Wednesday again and the boss finally decided to come back. Not that he's needed much now. Only smallish things left to fix. I've got most of it under control now. Have gotten a few accolades from managers in the other offices, which is nice.
I'm looking for a new job. I need outta this place. The mmess above is the straw that broke the camel's back.
posted by Kostika at 5:34 pm
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