What I did on my weekend

I have a new job.

I think I mentioned that before… my last boss couldn’t manage his way out of a wet paper bag with a map in a brewery next to a brothel, but because he was a clinical psychopath this didn’t stop him from from ignoring the tax office’s increasingly strident and panicky demands, various software vendor’s legal demands for actually *buying* thier product that we use to mmake our stuff, and the complete lack of any actual business income to wank on to anyone that’ll listen about how rich he’d be, just as soon as the business took off.

So, like CinnKitty (not the same kitty as before, it seems) I jumped ship, to a lovely environmental monitoring company.

Or so I thought, the guy who had the job before I, was either a madman or a genius, had coded eveything to work, exactly as it was, forever.

Which was fine, unless you wanted to put something that wasn’t XP on the network, or upgrade to Office 2007, or, god forbid, change an admin password, killing the lovingly hand-crafted Intranet which had the domain admin password in plaintext in it, to gain write access to a protected directory.

So, it was out of the pan of evil bosses, into the fire of a place that has to be rebuilt, essentially from the ground up.

But, I not only have the might of God on my side (I’m rebuilding with Linux boxes ) I also have a new co-worker with a powerful weapon…

Spiceworks, which, amongst other things is a ticketing system for help desk requests- and it’s seriously amazing how the help requests drop off when it’s discovered that just dropping in for a chat, and by the way the printer’s running slow again, can you just pop round and have a look? is logged and reported and accounted for.

Plus the more serious issues stay remembered- no more forgetting that you were workign on a site-to-site vpn that’s worth $20,000 a day in production for the company because someone’s 100 mb email attachment has clogged thier outbox.

Add the full time parenthood (5 months now, seems like a lifetime!) to the mix, with no respite, as his mum has actually been deployed (who’d have thought there’d be a need for short, slightly manic medics in far north Queensland? But apparently there is) and all of a sudden, I have no time for this blog..

But there’s much to tell, so very very much…

~ by mildlyannoyedaussie on June 25, 2009.