Can I go home?

[jsbowden]

Between the electric lake (is there supposed to be a couple inches of standing water here?), the randomly functioning keypads (how come, if all these fucking doors are supposed to use the same fucking control panel, my badge only works on one?), and the failed AC unit in the data center (Oh fuck, why is it 110^oF in here?), I'm already done. This is all from the exciting weather we experienced overnight Saturday. I was here at 11:30PM Saturday to deal with a dead mail server (Oh look, Win2k3 Server sucks shit through a straw, SURPRISE! Here, have a kernel deadlock for your trouble!), and everything was still fine at that point.

I don't even want to know how many machines we'll end up replacing, but at least two very hard to replace SGIs in one of our classified areas are sitting with their surge suppressors halfway submerged. They're still on, as well as several PCs and at least one printer. I don't even want to know how, but the only way to shut them off is to kill the circuit remotely, which is always fun and exciting (that or risk walking through the water to get to the wall to pull the plugs, but fuck that noise). If we're lucky. If we're unlucky, they'll look like the PC whose surge suppressor appears to be somewhat less waterproof, and whose state is currently unknown as it's not currently showing any signs of life.

Fuck you, Monday.

Comments

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

*wince*

Sympathies, man. That sucks.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

It doth suck mightily.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

That all sounds so very... fun. Exciting! Nice.

(Or something.)

(Please don't hit me.)

(Or ask my username.)

(Which you already know here, though.)

(Ooops.)

(Did I manage to make you smile a little, at least?)

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Smile? Not so much. But we won't hit you, so no worries.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Don't you have an intern to wade into that water and pull the plug for you?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Uh, no. I don't even have a coworker I dislike enough to send them to their doom. I'm sure the BOFH would disapprove.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a job for management.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

What, to send someone to their doom?

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I would actually suggest that you get management to go in and try, one by one. Eventually there'll be enough corpses in the room for them to walk over that they'll be able to safely pull the cord out of the wall without a drop of water touching them.

It should be reminiscent to them of their rise to their current position, even.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Most of our managers are physicists who have had management thrust upon them, so they aren't your typical middle manager weenies who went to business school and thus live under the illusion that they can manage anything and everything.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Ho. Lee. Shit.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my morning has been spent dealing with this shit. Fortunately, it looks like we're pretty much done with the hard stuff.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Oh really? No harm?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I think we might have one casualty PC, but the water has been removed, the endangered machines safely powered down, the AC unit has been repaired and brought back online, and the rest is Someone Else's Problem, so where I'm standing, the hard stuff is over.

[cerebralsilicate.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, shit. Failed AC unit cause the lake?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

No, surprisingly. The AC unit went offline due to brownout conditions caused by the severe storms passing through during the overnight Sat/Sun period. The source of the water is still a mystery.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I imagine the source of the water is from the severe storms passing through the overnight Sat/Sun period.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

We don't normally get flood waters from the Potomac up here on the 10th floor, and with 10 more floors above us, a leaky roof isn't gonna do it either.