AIEEEEEEEEEE.

[camwyn]

11ish this morning: "camwyn! I think we need you!"

Doooooown go the computers, one by one by one. Off to the closet I go.

Three 48-port 3COM switches are blinking at me in evil unison.

2:33 PM, post-switching to TWO 48-port backup switches, switching extra cables to 16-port hub, switching old firewall that is not responding to any pings for shiny new firewall: "Praise Buddha!"

We still have several machines not on the network and some people unable to print, but my fellow IT worker (whose name I shall not give, but who is a very nice Aussie gentleman who bears a weird resemblance to Bill O'Reilly's Not-Evil Brother) is fiddling about in the server closet and I've yet to eat my lunch.

So I'm eating lunch. It's a crab cake sammitch, which the office provided. And the traders are thanking me.

I think I'm going to cry.

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Isn't it nice to be appreciated?

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

"It's a trick! Get an axe!"

[camwyn]

It's freaky. And I haven't even finished getting everyone back up and running.

Then again I haven't finished my sammitch either.

[camwyn]

*looks up phrase in quotes, 'cos I know I should recognise it* Oh, Ash, okay. Yeah, at one point someone came along and asked if they could get something that I could use to get them specifically back online. I told them 'an old priest and a young priest'...

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

I like your new company. Have a musk ox!

[quintus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good place to work... People realising that you've just got 90%+ of an utterly downed network back up sharpish.
That sick feeling is a bitch though... I know it only too well.

Much huggage

[zou.livejournal.com]

Oooh, cool people at the new job! That's so great. I'm glad for you. :)