23rd February 2006

I’m sorry

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I’ve been out. Checked out.

I installed a new mail server for work, and one thing has lead to another. It’s been going steadily downhill, picking up pace as it goes. It makes me wonder if Sisyphus had the boulder roll down on top of him, or away from him. First one thing breaks, then I break another thing trying to fix it while not actually fixing it — it’s been one of the several kinds of hell.

In other news, my boss has informed me that he’s hiring another system administrator and that I should expect my hours to drop by about 30%, essentially because I’m an incompetent boob.

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  1. 1 On February 25th, 2006, Linda Amar said:

    I’ve had days like this. System management is always this way. Any time you put a new anything into an existing system, especially one that’s been around a while, something else is bound to break. You fix that, and something else goes down. Pretty soon, you can’t tell where to step next. The best thing to do, for me, has been to sleep on it and give it another shot the next day. If your boss can’t tolerate this sort of thing, he knows nothing about systems, and he’s going to have a hard time replacing you with someone to whom this does not happen.

  2. 2 On February 28th, 2006, mom said:

    Wow! Aren’t you being a little hard on yourself? Your wife (the person who really knows you) says you’ve been struggling trying to figure this out & it’s been a totally new experience for you. It seems to me that the learning curve has been mighty steep! There seems to be little cause for you to call yourself names…besides, if you are an incompetent boob, what does this say about your mother?

  3. 3 On February 28th, 2006, rustifer said:

    That she’s the mother of an incompetent boob?

  4. 4 On March 1st, 2006, Rob said:

    How much training, exactly, did you get for this marvelous software? There’s no free lunch. You pay for training eventually, in the classroom or on the job.

    You, sir, are one of the smartest cookies in the cookie jar. You can mangle my mail server anytime.

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