Pretty useful when the Exchange host shuts down due to high temps.
That happened to me some years ago. It was a Sunday morning, it had been a very hot few days (40+C) and I was heading to a mate’s place to help him out, but on a whim dropped into the office to pick up something that might have been beneficial. Noticed the server room was very noisy even behind the double-glazed windows, so opened the door and was blasted with very hot air. One A/C unit had failed completely and the other was blowing warm air (compressor not coping). The temp sensor had its FAULT light on but hadn’t sent us an email. Later analysis determined that the A/C failed at around 3am and the temp reached 45C in that room just before I got in at 8:30am.
Some of our virtual hosts had already shut down. A couple were still running. Fortunately the A/C in our department had also failed a couple of years before, and I was able to drag 2 portable units into the room until we could get the failed unit fixed.
I would be more okay with working straight 0700-1500 if:
we could actually start on time
we didn’t have to stop classified discussion at least twice an hour for some moron’s personal calls
airmen weren’t just randomly walking through the middle of our class discussion all day long
I were not having to go slow and repeat myself because I’m YELLING OVER THE NOISE OF THE SERVERS
you weren’t all completely brand new to this
any of you had done any of the pre-requisite reading I had directed prior to arrival
you all came back from your breaks on time and
you didn’t need a 90-minute (!?!) lunch every day
Seriously, WTF Air Force? You guys are killing me. I know this is a lot of material, but you are paying for me to be here. I feel like I’m cheating you working a straight 8-hour day, and I’m not taking lunch. Can’t you, like, work hard for just a few short weeks?
And STOP taking the personal phone calls? Can we just unplug the damned phone while I’m TEACHING A CLASS?
PS- Stop calling me sir. I get that you do that to your senior NCOs. I’m clearly not one of them; that’s why I am wearing a different uniform. Try “Sergeant.” It’s easy.
PPS- Stop saluting me. The light is not that bad and you are not that dumb.
For a moment there I thought you were talking about my old department. Then you said “Air Force” and my ship didn’t have Air Force guys on it.
One of the guys in my company in boot camp was an OSVET from the Air Force. He decided not to re-up because he was tired of guarding large airplanes,by himself, in the dark, in the middle of nowhere in the US, in a blizzard.
Then he joined the Navy, which made it better because he had to guard airplanes on an aircraft carrier, in the dark, in freezing cold.
That’s a very important job, you know. Until they instituted that policy, people were sneaking onto carriers & removing the planes, undetected, for years.
You tell me at 4:45 that you have a new hire starting tomorrow? He’s going to be twiddling his thumbs because I’m still working on all the other short notice crap you’ve thrown at me this week. I rolled with all that and made it happen, even though it was a pain in my ass. I’m out of here at 5:30 and give zero fucks if this gets done before then.
Woodman, continuing what I said a month ago. Internet Explorer on the laptop is not that perky to begin with. Opening a new tab that’s set to display a blank page can take 10 to 20 seconds. When the computer security kicked in about two weeks ago, I timed it. 82 seconds for Internet Explorer to open a blank tab.
That right there tells me they’re digging too deep into the laptop in an effort to be secure.
Listen, if you have a current rate of X for insurance for your group, and just had an ass of a year where the total claims on the group were X+30% then I’m going to have problems coming up with anything under X+30+15(trend)% unless you can show me your renewal and it’s under that number.
Someone isn’t going to walk up to a group that’s been a net loss over the last three years and just volunteer to lose even more money than the current carrier is losing. If you don’t provide the renewal then everyone assumes it’s shit. So yeah, the competition I can give you is shit. Stop playing coy and provide the number, then maybe I can beat that. You aren’t going to get me to commit one of my carriers to losing hundreds of thousands of dollars on your disease ridden client. You might be able to get me to talk an underwriter on taking a gamble on possibly losing tens of thousands of dollars on the chance to make the same.
If you are also going to insist on giving the current carrier last look at my numbers, then you better give me a look at theirs. Fair is fair after all. You’re making $50k on this deal, least you could do is put a bit of work into it by forwarding a couple emails.
It’s not like none of us have done this shit before, stop wasting my time with the RFP if you don’t actually want to play the game.
While I am holiday, I do not mind if you SIT at my desk but you really need to stop stealing my mouse, keyboard, webcam, headphones, and USB cords/chargers. Just because yours is lost or broken and mine appears to free at the moment does not give you the right to take it.
Please stick to stealing pens and paper like everyone else.
Ok, I’ll admit that I’m the bitchy one. The upside is that people rarely jack with the stuff on my desk, because they know I’ll bitch about it and be generally annoying.
I’ve decided I like my students (more or less); it’s their bosses and their environment that fills me with rage. The poor kids don’t fully realize how messed up their situation is. I had barely 65 hours to teach an 80-hour class and of those 65, we lost probably 4-5 to system outages and operational needs (where random people just come in and kick us out of our completely inadequate “classroom” for “mission”). It’s beyond ridiculous; it’s infuriating. They’re being set up to fail. Fortunately, I am flexible and they are pretty bright and motivated; a civilian agency instructor probably would have just gotten back on the plane and gone home.
Good thing I’m flexible. Just found out that when I get home I’m on a different team and my hours are changed and they probably evicted me from my desk again. This happens almost every time I go TDY.
One A/C unit had failed completely and the other was blowing warm air (compressor not coping). The temp sensor had its FAULT light on but hadn’t sent us an email. Later analysis determined that the A/C failed at around 3am and the temp reached 45C in that room just before I got in at 8:30am.
