Have a mentioned that I’m not exactly thrilled with my job, lately.
Oh yea, I wrote a book about the other day.

Today, shortly before lunch, my File and Print / Domain Controller Server froze up. The display was still there, but the drives were non-responsive. This has happened before, not a huge problem but an inconvenience. I powered it down and then started it back up. It posted as usual, found the SCSI drives and controllers and then just hung. An hour and a half phone call with the Dell led to the conclusion that we experiencing a major hardware failure. Dell dispatched a technician and a boatload of new hardware. The parts arrived shortly before 4 and the tech arrived about an hour later. He replaced nearly everything excluding the drives of course.) Around 6:30 we powered it up and slowly but surely it booted. Yea.

The server had to then go through some steps to synch all the data back up on the drives. While this was going on my boss was chatting with the tech. He manged to bring up at least three times about how anyone who is unable to restore data on a server will be looking for work afterwards. Now, that may be true, but what’s the point of bringing that up while I’m sitting there waiting to see if the data is intact. I don’t know if that was supposed to be some sort of threat or if he thought it would make me try harder or if he was reflecting his own insecurities about what going on. I do know that I don’t like it. I don’t want hear about how I might get fired if everything somehow went wrong. For the record, I have every confidence that if the data on the server had been scrambled, that I would have been able to restore it from tape. If you need to fire me … then just do it and get it over with. But until that time let’s lay off the little off-hand comments cause they are messing with my Christmas Spirit.