It’s definitely Monday
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General, Work
First, the alarm goes off at 5:20AM. I decide to hit snooze and skip the morning workout. Unfortunately, I didn’t hit snooze. I hit off instead. Next thing you know it’s 7:00AM and I need to be out the door in 15 minutes. Thanks to a quick shower and light traffic I’m only 10 minutes late.
I get to work only to find out we haven’t been getting email since about 5pm Sunday. A not-so-quick investigation reveals the BadMail directory has used up the remaining 3GB of free space on the server. I cuss the previous Admin’s partitioning choices then install a script to clean the directory out every Sunday at 9PM. Everything was back to normal after 4-5 hours. It’s really hard to navigate a server when it doesn’t have any free space.
Oh well…job security.
Make that meal a Supersize combo, chief!
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General, Work
I feel good…da na na na na na na
like I knew that I would…da na na na na na na
I feel nice…da na na na na na na
like sugar and spice…da na na na na na na
So August 10th is my 2 year anniversary at work. Technically, it was May 10th but they don’t count the 3-month probationary period. Friday my boss came in to tell me what my raise would be for the coming year. I was expecting about the same dollar amount as last year and to my surprise it was DOUBLE that amount! Yes, Vriginia…there is a Homey Claus. Now my crack habit can continue undisturbed for at least another year. I’m really curious to see what this year’s bonus and profit-sharing will be.
I’m still trying to get back to what I was making during the dotcom heyday and this is a big step toward that. Although I love my job I’m not sure how much closer I’ll get staying here. Surely I’ll continue to get annual raises but eventually my salary demands will outstrip what the position is worth my employers paying. My skillset already exceeds what I earn by another $12-15K in my opinion but since I don’t use all those skills now I can justify them not compensationg me for them. We’ll see what happens but probably another year or so and it’ll be time to jump ship and swim for a bigger one.
Don’t you have better things to do…
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General, Phun, Work
than bother me? Holy God, I have a million things to do and every 2 minutes somebody else wants something. Sometimes I wish I could close my office door and turn off the lights for about 2 hours. Yeah….that would rock.
Anyway, here’s a video of a dancing dog. The pooch has some skillz.
http://www.dubbayoo.net/files/videos/besttraineddogever.wmv
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General, Work
Life in the big city just got worse. We were robbed yesterday in broad daylight, right under our noses. Someone walked into our office during lunch, walked right past the front desk person carrying a box under his arm, to the only office with a laptop and walked right back out with that laptop. Delivery/maintenance men are in and out all day long and since this person was dressed in similiar colors to a bldg maintenance he didn’t set off any alarms. Well, actually he did.
As he was walking out of my boss’ office the person in the next office came out to check the printer. He sees him and starts following him out to the elevator area. The guy walks down the hall and coworker calls out to him, then the guy bolts down a back stairwell that’s basically never used.
There’s a couple of things that strongly smell of inside job.
- We are on the 6th floor of an 8 story building. Our office door is solid wood with no windows looking in. For all that person knew our front door could’ve opened into a room with 30 people right there….UNLESS they had been in before. We have less than 10 employees total.
- My boss (the victim) had just left for lunch 10 minutes earlier and HE SAW THE GUY hanging around near the elevators. He thought he looked suspicious and didn’t want to get on the elevator with him so he came back to the office, only 15-20 feet, checked the door then left down the elevator.
- The thief must’ve known that a) my boss who he just saw was now gone meaning his office which is as far away from the front door as you can get was now empty b) that he had a laptop sittin in the open and that he wouldn’t raise suspicion in those color clothes.
- He was wearing white shirt and brown pants – maintenance colors – although no one got a good enough look verify if it was an official uniform. He had to know where he was going and that he had time to get there and back before anyone thought twice about him.
- Two weeks ago he and his wife (both my bosses) were robbed at knife point (okay, box cutter point) in the parking garage. He got a couple hundred bucks then. The parking space, where it happened, has our company name on it. Maybe somebody put 2 + 2 together and saw a bigger target.
- Building management has changed recently and the replacements are not well liked by tenant nor employees. Some longtime employees (maintenance men…imagine that) have left in the past month.
To add insult to injury this is right across from LAX and TSA, the airport security company, has the entire floor above us. What really sucks is that my office looks right down the hall so I even saw the guy myself. However I sit at my desk without my glasses because my monitor is so close it hurts my eyes.
The security desk to this building is about 30-40 yards from the front door, plus the building provides overnight parking for airport visitors so strangers in the building is nothing new. Oh well, at least the ass hats did the important things like lock all the restroom doors a month. Gotta stop those lunatic toilet paper thieves at all costs. No key – no pee, suckas! This probably means we’ll be moving when the lease is up so I’ll have to wire a new office in the near future….man, I hate that.
On a positive note Belle was concerned enough for my safety to call as soon as she could. Kinda neat to have someone that gives a shit, unlike in past RELATIONSHIPS (which according to Webster means “the connections between or among persons, nations….go figure) where actual feelings were more a liability and irritant than anything else.
Stop F*cking Calling Me!
Posted by swingate | Filed under General, Work
I need to call back a consultant that called me Friday. My cell phone only saves the last 10 incoming calls. I go down the list looking for the number and seven of them are from my damn roommate who calls even when I’m home and I can’t hear on the damn phone to begin with. She pushed out a number I needed. The other contact numbers I have for this person are outdated. Damn, that pisses me right the fuck off.
…..and another thing…the soonest above consultant said he could get here was Wednesday after work. I tell my boss and agree to stay since I’m leaving town Friday and it has to be fixed before then…..of course last Friday I wasn’t thinking that we were closing an hour early for THE FUCKING ROSE BOWL! There is a tv in the office so maybe I’ll watch while he does all the work…..I should tell him to pickup some wings and beer on the way.
Today is…..
Posted by swingate | Filed under General, Work
my one year anniversary at work. I’m finally eligible for a raise, the 401-K and profit sharing plan. Bitches better have my money. 
In other news last Monday was the 2-year anniversary of the first time I had sex with SBA….room 237. Maybe I’ll buy a lottery ticket with that number.
:sigh:
