One more day, one more step…
by Slack, on November 15th, 2002
So, Wednesday, I found myself at work until 4am. I volunteered to help reimage machines at Spacely. Of course I imagined this would be a much easier task than it turned out to be. See, we have around 1000 machines. It only takes about 20 seconds to begin imaging a machine, so, I figured with three of us, this would go real fast. The problem is you have to do it in blocks of around 20 machines at a time due to bandwidth… Each block took about 30 minutes to complete. Ugh, how frustrating. I left at 4am, and the two other people there stayed! I felt so bad for them.
Also, I’ve decided to relay some of the humor I find at work from day to day. Seeing as how I have an Operations job, I’m often approached by the teeming millions who work there to fix their multitude of computer problems. Every now and then you get a real gem. So, I will share these gems with you as they come. This week’s gem is:
Floortech: Hey, are you Ops?
Me: Uhh, sure. What’s up?
Floortech: Well, can you tell me where the printer out here prints to?
Me: Uhhhh… Well…. What tha hell are you talking about?
Is it a gem if you have to explain why it’s a gem?
Perhaps I should have told him that the “printer” prints to the top output tray? ;-)