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selenayDear World,
Today is apparently destined to be a Very Bad Day.
It was going great until around 7.30am, when a police car zoomed up behind me on the motorway with lights and sirens going and thirty seconds later the traffic stopped. Completely. No moving. For half an hour. Obviously, I was late to work. So late that I couldn't park in my carpark and am hoping that nobody in the building over the road (which is also one of the company's offices, but a different office...) notices that my car doesn't belong to their people and orders it towed.
Finally got into my office, through the amazing levels of wind and rain that funneled down the road, to find that our data warehouse had crashed to a halt. Even my super-duper, amazingly fast new reports are struggling to run. Which means that I'm likely to have a mad afternoon and not get out of here at a sensible time, even though I'd been really hoping to get home early 'cos I'm tired and need to do my Christmas shopping on Amazon tonight.
To top it all off, Outlook has frozen up in the process of sending an email so any data that has come in for my afternoon reports is not going to be available until I can unfreeze Outlook. Which won't be until all my other reports have run (or not...) so that's my only other job for the day gone.
I refuse to speculate on how much suckiness can still happen today because I fear that you, World, will jinx me for it.
No love,
Me
PS. Can I go home yet?
Today is apparently destined to be a Very Bad Day.
It was going great until around 7.30am, when a police car zoomed up behind me on the motorway with lights and sirens going and thirty seconds later the traffic stopped. Completely. No moving. For half an hour. Obviously, I was late to work. So late that I couldn't park in my carpark and am hoping that nobody in the building over the road (which is also one of the company's offices, but a different office...) notices that my car doesn't belong to their people and orders it towed.
Finally got into my office, through the amazing levels of wind and rain that funneled down the road, to find that our data warehouse had crashed to a halt. Even my super-duper, amazingly fast new reports are struggling to run. Which means that I'm likely to have a mad afternoon and not get out of here at a sensible time, even though I'd been really hoping to get home early 'cos I'm tired and need to do my Christmas shopping on Amazon tonight.
To top it all off, Outlook has frozen up in the process of sending an email so any data that has come in for my afternoon reports is not going to be available until I can unfreeze Outlook. Which won't be until all my other reports have run (or not...) so that's my only other job for the day gone.
I refuse to speculate on how much suckiness can still happen today because I fear that you, World, will jinx me for it.
No love,
Me
PS. Can I go home yet?
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Date: 2006-12-11 11:40 am (UTC)1. The place I'm working at today, IT in Miami decided to reset all the password of the new users in Frankfurt. The guide they were sent said "Your password will be WELCOME1!!" when in fact it's "WELCOME1"
2. The place I was supposed to be going to but one of my glorious colleagues went instead, someone has taken the power adaptor from the office firewall (to power their Playstation with or something?) so nobody can get on the Internet. Also, the office manager who would know where any of the bits that were supposed to have been install are, has gone missing. But that's less of a problem than it might be because the 15m network cable sent to them last week to connect one of the new PCs, has gone missing as well.
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Date: 2006-12-11 01:18 pm (UTC)A couple of my reports have come back, with the important part being the big Thing that has to analysed and commented by 5pm this evening. Although it's unlikely that I'll have the big Thing ready by 5pm, at least I'll be working on it rather than staring at half a dozen blank, locked-out screens.
Sensibly, I took my lunch break before Thing finished running so I've actually eaten something before doing my monster, mad analysis thang. And they were giving out free chocolate brownies (probably testing out new products on unwitting staff) down there so I now have a very gooey, extremely chocolatey brownie to munch as I attempt to divine reasons for the unreasonable. Good chocolate brownies always improve my mood, if not my opinion of the day :-)
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:23 am (UTC)