all nighters! ..and ----deadlines-----
no more rañts on this subject from me.
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montana on Jun 26, 2007
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lparziale on Jun 26, 2007
hmmm.... you seemed to have worked it out by yourself...
montana on Jun 28, 2007
oops sorry... I was showing someone how easy this site is to use (when it's not miserably slow)
and faux pas'd by double posting on my own topic
still pushing the limits of any given deadline. for sure with more looming on the horizon. it's like space harrier...hows that for an obscure reference?
iqon on Jun 28, 2007
Sega! (space harrier)
Since I work nights a tight deadline for me means an all dayer.
JBVisions on Jun 28, 2007
Thank heavens it's many years since I had to do that. Worked for Local Govt and end of year runs usually meant being there from Friday morning right through till Monday evening. We used to take sleeping bags in and try to catch some sleep on the desk waiting for processing to finish or crash.
3am was always the worst when the heating had switched off and the place was freezing.
iqon on Jun 28, 2007
the place was freezing
ARRRR, for years they shut off the HVAC around 21:00 (9PM) and we'd be sweating it out at over 90°F (32°C) for about 7 hours. The pointyhair manager excuse was they couldn't run it on one floor - it required the HVAC on four floors. I finally rattled the health issue sword (co-worker was involved in heavy duty treatment) and they moved us to an empty conference room with its own HVAC. Fast forward a decade and I'm in a command center where the pointyhair boss keeps it at 65°F (18.3°C).
montana on Jul 02, 2007
"an all dayer"! oh the worst feeling in the world to be working graveyard and greeting the morning crew after dealing with server crashes and corrupt databases all night.
hated that.
FallenAngel on Jul 02, 2007
Oh yep, been there, done that. Company I used to work for had a witch as the MD who even when we were rushed off our feet refused to hire more staff. Many a night I remember phoning out for a pizza in the early hours of the morning. We found the best way to keep 'em from going cold was to put them on top of the photocopier that had been running since the previous morning. Difficult to explain to clients though why there were cheesy greasy finger marks on their otherwise shiny reports.
Trying to restore a file system from a tape drive at 5am when your eyes are barely open's equally not good. Why I put up with that place for 7 years I don't know...
montana on Jul 03, 2007
bawhahaha! tape drives. oh man i even got to play with microfiche for a while.
we had a process that eventually ended up taken about 8 hours of solid runtime to complete with a couple hours of prep on either side.
i see the pirates are out in great number as of late.
i may have to pull out my peg leg and eye patch soon.
FallenAngel on Jul 03, 2007
Arrrr!