Okay, so I’ve been a little bit grumpy lately. Part of the reason, I think, is that I have had to wear a tie for a number of days. Normally that is no big deal, but I haven’t bought new shirts since I started working out heavily again. My neck is bigger. A lot bigger. I have a 17.5 inch neck inside of 16.5″ shirts. That starts it… oh yeah, there is that matter of the GASH cut and cauterized into my nether region.
NOW… with all sorts of installations going on, I am managing teams of vendors, people in my own department along with requesting services from other departments. Maybe I’m a little extra on edge… but I think I am being somewhat reasonable.
I discuss my electrical needs with facilities. When the building was constructed, there was a closet in a major conference room designated as the “AV Closet” in which AV equipment would be installed. What’s missing? Aside from a lock on the door, there is no POWER in the closet.
So I ask for the following, discussed with the Assistant Director of facilities: 1 4-outlet wall plate on the far wall from the door before the installers get here.
What do I receive? I’ll let you guess…
A. a 4-outlet wall plate on the far wall from the door at the normal height for a power outlet
B. someone unsure of placement and deciding to go ahead and call me with questions about the workorder
C. a 2-outlet wall plate next to the door at light-switch height installed the morning the vendors got here
If you picked “C”, you are correct and you’ll understand my grumpiness. It’s only the tip of the iceberg, but this was part of my own company’s team. Maybe I expect too much.
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UPDATE: Did I mention the General will be here on Saturday? yeah, one more button to have pushed.
Okay, so I’ve been a little bit grumpy lately. Part of the reason, I think, is that I have had to wear a tie for a number of days. Normally that is no big deal, but I haven’t bought new shirts since I started working out heavily again. My neck is bigger. A lot bigger. I have a 17.5 inch neck inside of 16.5″ shirts. That starts it… oh yeah, there is that matter of the GASH cut and cauterized into my nether region.
NOW… with all sorts of installations going on, I am managing teams of vendors, people in my own department along with requesting services from other departments. Maybe I’m a little extra on edge… but I think I am being somewhat reasonable.
I discuss my electrical needs with facilities. When the building was constructed, there was a closet in a major conference room designated as the “AV Closet” in which AV equipment would be installed. What’s missing? Aside from a lock on the door, there is no POWER in the closet.
So I ask for the following, discussed with the Assistant Director of facilities: 1 4-outlet wall plate on the far wall from the door before the installers get here.
What do I receive? I’ll let you guess…
A. a 4-outlet wall plate on the far wall from the door at the normal height for a power outlet
B. someone unsure of placement and deciding to go ahead and call me with questions about the workorder
C. a 2-outlet wall plate next to the door at light-switch height installed the morning the vendors got here
If you picked “C”, you are correct and you’ll understand my grumpiness. It’s only the tip of the iceberg, but this was part of my own company’s team. Maybe I expect too much.
UPDATE: Did I mention the General will be here on Saturday? yeah, one more button to have pushed.
I tend to think expectations of others are too much, just in and of themselves, regardless of what you’re expecting of them. But then again, I generally think all people suck until proven otherwise… What? Like you didn’t know I was bitter….?
sounds like my summer all over again. people / job overlap, so nothing gets done right!
PC, I hope I’mv “proven otherwise”, however, if not. You’re probably right.
RSM… My present employer is a company that manufactures UPS’s, and all sorts of other “goodies” for computer rooms.
One day, when a production web server took a dump, we had to do some rearrangin’ and reconfigurin’ to get the shit back right.
That included addin’ a couple machines, and a monitor or two.
‘Bout the time it was all “duct taped” back together, I went to reboot all the systems, since were were down anyway, WTF.
Upon the massive restart, they all started to come back up. Until, the entire set of racks went as quiet and dime as a Christmas tree when it is unplugged.
Uckin’ Fugly. What a day. NIMDA did me in once, now, I’m an absolute computer condom wearin’ freak. Bring on the Virus software… Performance be damned. Throw money at multi-processor machines with more memory then I have.
Oh, and get “Gordy with the Beard” the electrician down here to figure out the power problem…
I feel you man.
I have been told repeatedly by people I work for, “You cannot hold people to the same level at which you hold yourself.” It is what it is. What you experienced is beyond incompetence and I’d have freaked over it, truth be told. I cannot stand incompetence on that level and too many times, in my prior career before kids, I ripped off someone’s head and shit down their necks. No kidding.
So… I do what I can to surround myself with competent people. I trust no one until they’ve proven otherwise and if they’re worth their weight, they will treat me the same way… make me prove myself.
Oh I love it when the big guns come in! That just adds just a TOUCH of stress to the entire event.
I love it even better when its a big meeting and you have to present and you take a flogging in front of everyone. That’s always worth a few bonus points… heh heh heh