My already too short weekend has been obliterated by the joy of weekend callout. A seemingly minor customer test taking place over the weekend should not have required any support, yet I find myself being called into the office at 11am. What started as a simple VPN not working, became a SecurID authentication nightmare and the result? My bosses involved and me being at the office until 1:30am this morning! Pants.
I completely missed all of the days Rugby and spent the day tearing my hair out over something relatively trivial. My only salvation is that ITV will be broadcasting the Australian Grand Prix at 3pm today so I will be settling in to watch this before preparing for work this evening (dear god, I feel as though I have never been home).
Rant over, time for coffee...
Comments:
Some things never change…
I’m guessing that if your employers are still as paranoid; the internal SecurID server fell over, you couldn’t authenticate to do anything and the whole place ground to a halt until one of the only 100% trusted individuals came in to fix it.
If a company focused on maintaining the networks of other companies can’t keep their own infrastructure in order, it speaks far far more about their competency than any press release they may put out saying how great they are.
Still good to hear that you very very happy there though
Love,
Mr. T
LOL Mr T!
“I pity the fool!”
Unfortunatly my learned friend, Mr. T could well be right on that front…
Right, shmite! Weekend callout still sucks but could be made somewhat less depressing if appropriate access to systems were given, to enable us to actually do our job.
I suspect that this is a paranoia throwback from previously providing overly generous trust to one or two individuals who then had free reign to do whatever they wished to the network. As always, the minority ruin it for the majority…
I’m guessing that if your employers are still as paranoid; the internal SecurID server fell over, you couldn’t authenticate to do anything and the whole place ground to a halt until one of the only 100% trusted individuals came in to fix it.
If a company focused on maintaining the networks of other companies can’t keep their own infrastructure in order, it speaks far far more about their competency than any press release they may put out saying how great they are.
Still good to hear that you very very happy there though
Love,
Mr. T