[ale] Xen - further OT

[Jeff Lightner]

I've done 24 hours more than once.  Usually this makes me get a little
testy towards the middle and a little giddy at the end.

Once I was sent to do a specific task on an install that couldn't be
done (the hardware didn't have the connector we expected).  Instead they
threw me into something else where I had to stand in corner at a console
from around 9 AM to Midnight to manually enter commands being provided
by a very negative person on the phone.  1/2 hour of every hour was this
guy bitching about the fact we had to work on it (mind you HE was
sitting in his air conditioned office).  

I kept explaining that yes it sucked we'd been thrown into it but if we
would just finish it up we could bitch to management later.  He didn't
get.

Finally around midnight I called the Installation Team Lead and asked
him if he had someone scheduled to work the night shift and he said yes.
I told him he needed to have that person follow up with the guy in the
office as I was done for the day.  He told me I couldn't leave until it
was done.  I said "Apparently you thought I was asking you something.  I
wasn't.  I was TELLING you something."  He threatened to call the
Director to have me fired which just made me laugh and tell him to go
right ahead.  It was the only time I ever heard him curse.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Bronosky
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:15 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Xen - further OT

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, James
Taylor<James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> But that was only because I had flown back to Ft. Lauderdale from
Sarasota on a single engine Cessna "Air Sunshine" flight the day before,
worked all night, then drove back to Sarasota for a client dinner
meeting with my regional manager that evening.
>
> A real laid-back flip-flops environment.

Sounds rough. I bet you were "going to Carolina in my mind". (Couldn't
resist.)

When I worked for Yahoo! I would travel and my wife thought I was
living it up. I remember one trip to Sunnyvale where I was working 18
hour days for 2 weeks with no weekends. I don't know how it happened
but somehow I made 1 less trip to the hotel than nights I was billed
for. The rest of the team watched my "leave for the day" times do a
complete cycle. I lost a day in there somewhere and it took me 2 weeks
at home to stop feeling like a zombie. I could pull that off in my
20s. I think I would have a stroke if I did that now.

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