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Day Jobbery Annoyance
Aug. 21st, 2017 09:07 amSo.
Friday morning one of the Day Job's server systems went kerflooey. It caused me to lose internet access to said server. I had no idea there was an outage at the time, and I've been having connection issues off and on lately (I found out later on that it wasn't just me but numerous people). I figured, OK...let's do the reboot, that should reconnect me, yes?
Except for the fact that my PC chose that very moment to push through a system update.
Which, as I would find out a little later, was doing more harm than good to a lot of people's systems.
So...upon rebooting, the bad update not only borked my connectivity, it also completely crashed my VPN software. And considering that I work at a job that needs that as a safety precaution (not to mention needed for compliance), I pretty much had no work internet for the rest of Friday. The last hour or so this morning I've been with our support team to get it fixed, and just now I was able to reconnect.
This was all on top of a week's worth of wasting time manually sorting emails because my department's Outlook rules had completely vanished. One of my managers is working on rebuilding those this morning.
The bizarre thing is that this really underlined my annoyance at Plans Thwarted. In reality I'm fine with having to adjust when things don't go as planned; it's the 'I'm just trying to get something done but THIS BIG FAT OBSTACLE KEEPS FUCKING IT ALL UP' that aggravates me to no end. Suffice it to say, last night's stress dreams were all about dumb obstacles. Including an incredibly fat man trying to sit on me. (Yeah, I'm not quite sure about that one. That one was just weird.)
Anyhoo, the work PC is back to normal and I can finally get back to work.
Friday morning one of the Day Job's server systems went kerflooey. It caused me to lose internet access to said server. I had no idea there was an outage at the time, and I've been having connection issues off and on lately (I found out later on that it wasn't just me but numerous people). I figured, OK...let's do the reboot, that should reconnect me, yes?
Except for the fact that my PC chose that very moment to push through a system update.
Which, as I would find out a little later, was doing more harm than good to a lot of people's systems.
So...upon rebooting, the bad update not only borked my connectivity, it also completely crashed my VPN software. And considering that I work at a job that needs that as a safety precaution (not to mention needed for compliance), I pretty much had no work internet for the rest of Friday. The last hour or so this morning I've been with our support team to get it fixed, and just now I was able to reconnect.
This was all on top of a week's worth of wasting time manually sorting emails because my department's Outlook rules had completely vanished. One of my managers is working on rebuilding those this morning.
The bizarre thing is that this really underlined my annoyance at Plans Thwarted. In reality I'm fine with having to adjust when things don't go as planned; it's the 'I'm just trying to get something done but THIS BIG FAT OBSTACLE KEEPS FUCKING IT ALL UP' that aggravates me to no end. Suffice it to say, last night's stress dreams were all about dumb obstacles. Including an incredibly fat man trying to sit on me. (Yeah, I'm not quite sure about that one. That one was just weird.)
Anyhoo, the work PC is back to normal and I can finally get back to work.
