OT - Bit of a work rant

So As a "Network Guy" not many people really understand fully what I do. I work in a tech company, so more understand me then usual, but I'm still kind of out on an island. My boss peripherally knows, and the people I support are mostly programmers so they THINK they know (but they don't) so in many way's my job is harder then the average IT guy cuz people want the bigger, faster, better puter (computer).

Anyway, yesterday was one of those days, our product (the thing I support) was going a bit haywire yesterday, and it was because of the company that hosts our servers. They were of absolutely no help, and our programmers were all screamin about the "network" going up and down. Of which I have no control because it's the network of the company that hosts our servers. Anyway, I spent all day monitoring and tweaking machines and watching them go up and down and up and down and being basically frustrated at the fact that I can't do a darn thing to stop it. Meanwhile we are trying to run jobs for clients that are basically being killed 1/2 through. This is infuriating. and of course the procedure goes like this: Programmer calls me and says "The network is fluctuating, killing our tests", and me calling the hosting company, opening a ticket, and of course the network works fine while I call so they say "We aren't seeing any abnormalities." Even though I show a log of the fluctuations. so this goes back and forth for about 3 hours yesterday, I'm haggard and pissed.

I got 2500 text messages yesterday (we monitor our uptime and it sends me a message every time something bad happens on our network). Needless to say I went beyond my text message limit and I'll be expensing about $200 worth of texts (which my boss will just LOVE).

And to top it off, I didn't have a chance to eat a good meal, had to work until 7 last night, AND (like a little extra kick in the *kitten*) I didn't even get to work out yesterday! What a friggin DAY from hell!

So if anyone wonders why I haven't posted yesterday (not that you did), that's why.

Sorry, had to get that out. thanks for bearing with me.

Banks, Sorry to hear of your work problems. I remember days similar to that (not that I was a techie but had like problems in my fields of endeavor) when I was working a "real" job Hang in there, bud, it will be Friday before you know it!

Of course, you could counsel yourself by thinking of people who could be having worse days at their work than yours........