Work sucked today. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the job but that doesn’t mean every day will be great. It is a job and some days just suck. Like today. Not that anyone cares about my bad day at work, but too bad. That is the topic of today’s post.

On Tuesday, one of the Novell Servers crashed. Some moron was working on the HVAC in the server room and left the A/C off for too long. The server had a meltdown. This had no direct effect on me, but did cause some excitement around the place. They were able to bring the server back up but the RAID array would not except one of the drives. With the server running in degraded mode, the decision was made to migrate everything to a new server. (Apparently, they were planning on doing this at some point in the future anyhow, but not all the engineers thought that migrating in the middle of a crisis was a good idea.)

They worked overnight, Tuesday and Wednesday to get most everything migrated. Considering the that this was the server that everyone in the main office logs into and has their home directory on, it was pretty transparent to the users. The hang up was the printers. The way the printers were set up, they were going to need to be redirected to the new server and then reinstalled on every workstation. I’m not sure how may workstations that is, but it is not a small number. So today, your fearless geek, spent the day reinstalling printers. All day long. Actually, there were about 5 of us and 2 interns (although, I’m not convinced that the interns actually moved the process forward) We got the first floor done today. Tomorrow floors 2 and 3.

Not only was it tedious work, but the tech who was spearheading this effort was doing nothing to keep it organized. I (and a few others) tried to make suggestions about how this might be done in an orderly fashion but he wasn’t hearing it. So there were techs and interns milling around saying things like, “Did you get this one?” “No, but Bob might have check with him” “Where are the interns?” I am sure that the users were not impressed with this display. I couldn’t handle it. I found some smaller offices where no one else was and just knocked them out. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do the same tomorrow.

So for now you can just call me Super Monkey Printer Boy. Hopefully on Monday, I can be a Support Tech again.