Okay, so we just had an all hands meeting. Not sure how to classify who was there, but apparently it was the same as if Ms. Angie (wink wink) had a meeting with everyone. At least it seemed that way. They had the pictel going with DC, NYC, & Conneticut with a couple of smaller groups on the speaker phone. Went about the same way our meetins do.

I have to say that I heard a couple of problems we have dealt with and I'm going to feel like a hero kind of when I start handing out the answers on what we did. For instance, the backups are taking way to long because of Virus Scan running in the background. They are trying to get the script working in Arcserve. Hmm... sounds familiar, this looks like a call to Mr Chris to find out the exact answer!

Ok, I don't have the answers myself, but isn't the mark of a good technician to know where the answers are if he/she doesn't have them?

It's looking like that Mr. Roy and Mr. Bruce are going to be the lucky ones to go downtown (or so Mr. Dick says). I thought there was going to be an interview process first, but I guess someone made the decision.

Did a couple of installs - fun fun! I'm ready for my first contact with the customer! Of course the one I'm doing craps out and won't connect to the domain AND won't pull an IP. After screwing with it for 20 min (and doing everything that the local "guys" we decide that it has to be the image since you can connect the old machine and it works fine. FUCK! It's like that time at the spring dance and your first big date. Your all nervous because you asked Mary Lou Rottencrotch to the dance and she said yes. You look good, she looks good and then the moment she leans over to kiss you and you yak all over the front of her....

Before you ask, no I didn't whip chunks on the customer, but I might as well have. It's just the way I felt. But wait, there's more! We get back to the desk and the "local guys" start playing 20 questions like I might not know what I'm doing. I'll give that too them, but while I'm 'splaining about the IP one of them says "they are prolly out of IPs in the DHCP..." What in the BLUE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? How can you run out of IPs? How long is your lease? 7 Days. 7 DAYS? Wow, no wonder you are having connection problems.

Breathe... just breathe ..

Happy is hour is coming quickly, I need a smoke.

Dork!