Back to work.. What horrors did you face today?

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Got into work to be told that I would no longer have a job at the end of the month due to company cutbacks. Spent the rest of the day making up SEO articles and marketing banners to attach to my CV, as I shall continue to do for the rest of the month :( Back to photography and contracting for me this year methinks.
 
It amazes how these oxygen thiefs get these jobs in the first place - in the places I have worked there have always been a large percentage of useless morons, a percentage of those being managers who are paid much more than me and who know nothing of their job role. I don't understand how these people get the jobs, must be all down to contacts or good bs'ing skills at interviews.
 
We had some licencing issues with some customers using our software... also one mystery which we're still trying to work out (possibly customer lying about what REALLY happened)...
 
I arrived at work yesterday with being told that I had to attend a meeting first thing and during the meeting I was told that I'm being moved into the warehouse and that I've got a 2 day forklift training course starting tomorrow, with my test on Friday! :eek:

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I just seem to fight endless IT issues at work...some days I spend 90% of my time trying to fix or work round IT related issues. It's not necessarily the IT depts fault, just a case of a fairly 'sensitive' email filing system program and lots of 'bolt on' programs/systems which can cause problems.

Doesn't excsuse them deleting about 5 years of email correspondence and data in December though....luckily they finally managed to restore the backup.
 
No Dramas, nothing. Servers survived, backup was successful and even better I only had notification emails so nothing to action, happy days!
 
Been back since Monday after christmas but there were many horrors at work yesterday.

First off the entire store smells like someone has taken a massive dump down every aisle, looks like the drains have collapsed and the stench is just wafting around everywhere :(

Secondly I was punished by being given the spare van aka the milk float or bone shaker because we have two broken ones and "somebody has to use it." Probably the worst van I have ever used, its a 54 plate Merc Sprinter and she's been ragged within an inch of her life. Wind-up windows, stereo is broken, seats don't adjust properly, auto box is knackered, chiller/freezer unit broken and the rear doors are missing the struts which stop them opening too far which can be "interesting." Its also one of the worst designed layouts I have ever seen, when you open the chiller door you also open the freezer even if you don't need to go in it so the freezer is always under more load than it needs. The worst part though? It has been physically restrained at a dizzying 53 mph!

*rant off*
 
celliott said:
I'm doing a database conversion for a client, and step one involves copying the data from (I kid you not) 2000 DVD's onto a NAS.

Before actually converting it...

That's exactly 29 days work if I sit at my desk all day every day looking at progress bars. :eek:
Click to expand...

:(:( I hope you are getting paid well fella.
 
I go back to work tomorrow to find out how long I will have a job for as the company I work for went into administration in November.
They kept on myself and a hand full of others out for nearly 4000 people as I am on the commercial team, currently chasing debts etc.
Not a nice place to work now but very difficult to find a new job at the same time.
 
Very busy Telephones and nearly 500 e-mails!

We had it under control by about late afternoon and the busiest day was the 4th January - should quieten down as the year rolls on.
 
The SQL server filled up a disk (actually the problem is with our filer but that's a different story)

However late last year I moved up to Project Manager so that's not my problem.

Return to work for me wasn't too painful although another big project has just landed on my lap... :D
 
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