Pray for Me

I know – me the most unreligious person around, is asking you to pray for me. Well, I’m going to need it today. Let’s just say, this bad day started out yesterday when I got an email that said, “It looks like the loader might be failing I will give you a call tomorrow.”  This would be our tape autoloader at work. This would be the tape autoloader at work that does all of our backups for all of the servers we have in the building. *This is really bad news!*

 

Since that email, things have just been going down hill – and fast. I have a special eNewsletter that I’ve been working on this department that can only find things wrong. It looks great, but the company we use, for some reason has problems with apostrophes, hyphens, and quotation marks. Of course, this department does not want to rewrite their text because then it will look to “FORMAL” and they are more “informal kind of bunch”. Fine, I can try to figure this one out – it is just an email to the company, no big problems.

 

Then overnight, I got 40 messages from our antivirus software about a full quarantine and items that have expired and items that have not been able to be scanned. WTF? WTF? Yeah, so this scares me and of course no one has ever showed me where on the 10 servers we have where to go look into this. I did this once before, when I only had 3 servers to work about.

 

I have changed 4 passwords this morning and I am booked almost every second of this day with meetings and such. Add to the fact that two coworkers are after my head right now and they just want me gone – even though they were the ones that were entirely wrong. Another coworker is upset at me because I think she is breaking dress code and of course one of the people who wants me head told her that I’m the only one complaining about her clothes (ah, truth is, about 8 people say she wears bathing suits to work).

 

So, maybe I need to pray to the god of computer gremlins. Maybe I need to pray to the god of ‘just let me get thru this day’. I don’t know. But I need it – NOW!