The Chaos at Work

BaggedLancer
BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
edited January 2007 in The Clubhouse
Well, so far I absolutely love my new IT job for Procter & Gamble. However, I guess this is a wake up to the real world and those on salary, lately I have been putting in early mornings and late nights in order to get work done. No big deal.

Well today, my boss recognized that I had been doing this all week and told me I could go home at around 1230-1.

However, about 45 minutes ago we had an employees lotus notes ID files go corrupt from the server in Cincy, OH. After speaking with them over there it is going to take a minimum of 4 hours to recreate his new ID.

Looks like I'm stuck here till 3-4 today.... *sigh* :mad: :mad:

I guess welcome to the real world, eh?

Sorry for the vent, but this forum keeps me sane during the day when work gets insane.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited January 2007
    At least your boss sounds like nice guy.....which can hardly be said of mine.
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited January 2007
    just wait until it gets to the point where your boss comes to you in September and warns you not to make any plans for the holidays :o
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited January 2007
    Too bad you can' t get OT for the extra hours. At least today is Friday.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Danny Tse wrote:
    At least your boss sounds like nice guy.....which can hardly be said of mine.

    Boss is awesome. He had me looking up the new interns on facebook for more pictures :) Totally hilarious assignment.

    wingnut4772 wrote:
    Too bad you can' t get OT for the extra hours. At least today is Friday.


    yea my boss said the same thing, which is why he was going to let me go home early :mad:
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2007
    Salary comes with it's perks, at least it does here. My employees can pretty much come and go as they please, and nobody abuses it.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited January 2007
    Sorry to hear that Mark. But yeah welcome to the real world! It will just get worse from here!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2007
    And don't forget paid sick days and vacation!
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    bobman1235 wrote:
    And don't forget paid sick days and vacation!

    No sick days but I do get vacation days.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited January 2007
    Danny Tse wrote:
    At least your boss sounds like nice guy.....which can hardly be said of mine.

    Danny, update your resume. It was time to leave the nest a long time ago.
    Never Forget
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  • Lsi9
    Lsi9 Posts: 616
    edited January 2007
    I feel guilty for posting in the friday thread after reading this...
    Hard work is good for the soul, makes friday night all the better!

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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited January 2007
    And just think...if you worked in California... and you felt left out or unpopular at your new job..you can sue.
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  • jkn
    jkn Posts: 133
    edited January 2007
    Leaving early tends to get derailed a lot - hopefully you enjoy what you do and it sounds like you have a decent manager. Wait until the best time to do something is midnight to 3 am in order to not disrupt most of the users... ;)

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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited January 2007
    Lotus Notes...I just puked all over my keyboard!

    My last job we used Lotus Notes and I absolutely hated it along with every employee in the company. We switched over to Exchange Server and Outlook about 4 months before I left. All was fine and everyone was happy!

    Sorry you didn't get to leave early. Those are the breaks in the IT world.

    John
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2007
    I'm with you StrongBad. We use Notes FOUR POINT FIVE at my work. It's ABSURDLY out of date. It doesn't even understand HTML. Infuriating. I use it only when absolutely necessary, which luckily for me isn't that often. I don't know how the managers deal with it, sending emails all day.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited January 2007
    Why wouldnt buisnesses just stick with Outlook? Its easy.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2007
    They wouldn't "stick" with Outlook in my case because Outlook wasn't INVENTED when they started using Notes. Or at the very least it wasn't anything close to an industry standard. I'm pretty sure the base version of Notes we're using is from 1996 or so, with patches from up to 2000. Outlook started becoming popular in '98 or '99.

    The reason they won't switch, aside from the hassle and just regular old inertia, is one of my crazy bosses fear of viruses associated with Outlook. :rolleyes:
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Luckily this afternoon after I had posted this my manager came back and said "f&*^ it, go home, he can wait till monday for his email to be fix." So in my leaving happy I decided to go have my battle you all have been hearing about with comcast.

    I will update that thread soon, but I must say, the comcast issue is OVER.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited January 2007
    Enjoy you weekend Bagg
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Oh, and FWIW, Lotus Notes....SUCKS.....they are talking about changing to Exchange/Outlook by August, we'll see.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2007
    Take it out in a match of GoW tonight, Bag!? :D
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Definately, add me as a friend
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited January 2007
    bobman1235 wrote:
    The reason they won't switch, aside from the hassle and just regular old inertia, is one of my crazy bosses fear of viruses associated with Outlook. :rolleyes:

    My first boss at my old company thought this way. She was the ONLY one that liked Lotus Notes. She left and the new boss convinced the big wigs to migrate over to Exchange\Outlook.

    Ya gotta make sure you have a nice Mail Firewall and Spam Box to catch the nasties that nerds are sitting around creating all the time.

    It's not that Exchange\Outlook is more succeptable to viruses than Lotus. It's that most of the corporate world uses Exchange\Outlook, so why would a nerd sit there and create a virus for something that hardly any company uses. Their whole intent in creating that virus is to affect the most people and companies as possible. Same thing for Windows. Why would a nerd waste his time creating something for Unix.

    Have a drink for me bud! Enjoy the early weekend!

    John
    No excuses!
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2007
    BaggedLancer wrote:
    Definately, add me as a friend

    I'm already on your friends list. :p
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  • MSALLA
    MSALLA Posts: 1,602
    edited January 2007
    I don't want to hear any of this. This is my first night in a month that I'm not working a double. 103 hours last week and 96 this week. They are trying to get me for this weekend but I'm standing my ground. The next two however I will be working. I worked out a deal so I do get paid (in addition to my salary) for the extra hours since what I'm donig at night is no longer in my job discripition.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,602
    edited January 2007
    Sounds familar.
    Good news is by some quirk I was pulled off salary exempt(No ot)
    a couple of years ago. I was working all weekend every weekend.
    I still work a lot extra, but the money is there. Thank you salary, non-exempt:D
    Still, either way, I don't mind woking the hours if its productive.
    Even better when your boss knows you're going above and beyond.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Demiurge wrote:
    Take it out in a match of GoW tonight, Bag!? :D

    Demi, get ready, soon as I finish cooking my pizza,if its edible im gonna eat it so ill be on live in like 30ish......
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2007
    All right, but I suck.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Demiurge wrote:
    All right, but I suck.


    I'm just as bad, so it wll be fun.

    My pizza is barely edible, i dont think i cooked it enough, but im gonna eat it anyway...so ill be on after this.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2007
    <<<< Worse. :D
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    lol that was fun i suck
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