Posted by
ellipse, around August 2006:
woo for the second weekend in a row it's free drinks at work!!!!
plus we're screening pirates of the johnny Deep 1&2 back to back
what's everyone else doing?
Ugh! Working ... or should I say Trying To Look Like I'm Working.
Can't "be arsed" today. Had a very delicious lunch in a swanky hotel yesterday; (Financial Year-End lunch) so today feels like a non-event.
On the weekend I have to visit friends and a sister who complain of my scarcity. Sheesh, people, there's only one of me and so many of you! ;)
Lipsie, don't turn into an ALKIE, now. You don't want to end up like Brock, do you?
Posted by
Emma, around August 2006:
Omg that's a good job - free drinks and good films, what is it exatcly that you do ellipse?
I start my new job on monday as an office assistant (general dogsbody) woo. I think we might get a free cup of tea but that's about it.
Good luck for your new job, Emma.
I've got the day off as I worked an agonising shift pattern this week. Just got up. Have to rig up my aunts wireless broadband which infuriates me because I'm of the opinion that people who break PCs so often shouldn't have wireless broadband that I have to fix every couple of weeks. Still, you cant sniff at a long weekend. Though I do wish I was working at ellipse's place.
No sign of the parcel? That'll cheer you up!
Posted by
WarHead, around August 2006:
I shall be working late tonight as our phone system is being VoIP'd this week end. And working all day tomorrow. And probably working Sunday as well. Over 400 phones to replace on 11 floors, miles of patch cables to remove or repatch.
And it makes me sad because this is the last big project I'll ever do with my old IT Team before they're scattered to the four winds when our IT Support outsource contract kicks in at the end of September.
Posted by
Emma, around August 2006:
Thanks Syl
Poor warhead :( maybe haribo would make you feel better?
Posted by
WarHead, around August 2006:
The sight of the overtime payment on my payslip will make me feel better, but thanks for the thought.
And good luck with the new jobby.
Yeah, I vote that you should send them to warhead because he's lully.
Posted by
ellipse, around August 2006:
oh sul i just found an email from you
promitey on it way
maybe
if i rememeber
hurhurhur
congrats and good luck with your new job emma!
Posted by
WarHead, around 16th August 2006:
Bloody hell.
We cleaned out the old patch cables on Friday night, so I didn't leave work until 9:30.
Arrived at the office at 7:45am on Saturday to be told the lifts were shut down for two days for maintenance. We could use the fireman's lift, but that isn't automatic, so we had to get someone from on-site security to operate it for us, which meant either phoning them or trying to get them on the walky-talky whenever we needed to move up more than a few floors. This seriously slowed us down during the day.
Started registering phones at 8am and finished at 5pm, with still four floors to do on Sunday.
Started again on Sunday at 8:30am (cos I thought it would be nice to have a lie in), but things didn't go well, and there were problems with the links to the 19th and 25th floors. We buggered about trying to fix it, and most of the staff went home at around 5pm, but our consultant stayed on to try to solve the problem.
He spoke to his cable guys and asked them if they could come in at 6am on Monday to investigate the link problem, and maybe put a copper cable up to the non-working floors as he couldn't work out why the fibre wasn't working. They said it'd take around 5 hours to install copper and asked if they could come out on Sunday night and work through the night.
He asked me what I thought, and I said it was a better option than having two floors without phones for nearly half of Monday, but that one of our staff was required to be there while the contractors were on site, and as I was the only one left, it would have to be me.
As it takes around 90 mins for them to travel up from Telford, I said I'd go home for dinner and they could call me when they were 20 mins away from the office so I could drive back in and meet them. They called at 10:30, so I was back in the office at 10:45. By now the lifts were back on, so we could move around much more quickly.
They started installing the new cables, and I carried on snagging and preparing user guides. It took them until 6:30am to finish the install, and then I had to go and register the phones on those two floors. By then I'd decided there was no point in going home as there would loads of queries from users about the new phones, plus all the analogue stuff (faxes and the occasional modem) still needed to be patched, so I ended up working through Monday until 5:15pm.
I was in bed and knocking out zeds like nobody's business by 9:30 last night and didn't resurface until 7:15 am on Tuesday, for another full day of snagging and user queries.
Admin training for me tomor..... I mean today, so I'll know more about how to keep the thing going.
I only have to make it to Sunday (working Saturday to remove all the OLD handsets) and then I'm off for two weeks R&R.
They're going to LOVE my overtime claim.
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 16th August 2006:
Shitting hell! I don't think I've ever pulled an all-nighter! Good heavens! You must be knackered!
Posted by
ellipse, around 16th August 2006:
Dude at least you paid the overtime