Working From Home
I’ve got rather a lot of work on at the moment, and it’s slow going. The fuckup fairy is visiting production systems which my development environment depends on a little too often for my liking at the moment[1], so I’m having to bring work home with me.
I’m looking at next weeks “Bank Holiday Monday followed by a University closure day” and instead of thinking “Yay! 4 day weekend!” I’m thinking “God that’s tedious, I could really do without a short week this month. I might have to work it anyway.”
Work life balance? What’s that then? “Paid overtime” or “time off in leu”? Not sure I’ve heard of those either.
[1] Last week, the database team scheduled some maintenance to our production database server, in office hours. It over ran by about 14 hours, meaning I lost almost 3/4 of a days development time. Today – a change made to one of our authentication services locked out my dev box (and some live applications) for the whole afternoon – more time lost. Fuckups come in threes, something is going to bite me soon.
Quit your wining! I could start and you don’t want that!
Just think not long to go before you can relax with your mates at Woodhouse Park….
Cocktails a go go! Big thumbs up from me, Cathy and Lardy!
You missed a good party up North at the weekend, was really surprised not to see you.
Unfortunately my relaxation at Woodhouse Park will be no longer than 2 days in length, hardly enough time to break up a pallet. Work’s getting in the way of that as well, and work was the reason I couldn’t make it up North.
You know I said disruptions come in threes? I’m at 2.5 at the moment, trying to work from home and my vpn client is screwed.