I’ve only been at work a few hours and already it’s far and away one of the roughest Monday’s I can remember having in a long, long time. I don’t know which deity I pissed off or what I did to incur this wrath, but I wish I did so I could go and set things right. It would make work a lot more tolerable.
And why has it been such an ordeal? Well, let’s start with the computer that won’t stop crashing. My usually stable office Mac got a RAM upgrade over the weekend and now I can’t even past to login screen without a kernel panic (for those of you who use Windows that’s like the dreaded blue screen of death, only a thousand times rarer). I would usually just get the IT manager to come and fix the system, but he’s out of the office until the 20th or so. So at some point I’ll have to go into my work computer and rip out the all the RAM and put them back in one by one to see which one is faulty. Or could it be multiple blocks of faulty RAM? *grumble*
Oh, and then there’s the fact that I worked through a good portion of my weekend building new screens for an upcoming product demo at work. That’s not the disagreeable part. The disagreeable part is when you’re told in a morning meeting that there is no way to integrate your work with everything else in time for the demo. The really disagreeable part is in knowing that your boss caused all this to happen because he didn’t make sure what he was asking for was techniclly and temperally feesible, and having those thoughts confirmed by fellow co-workers is jsut icing on the cake there.
It could be much worse, but not a great way to start the week. Let us hope this is all the bad juju I need face over the next seven days or so.
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