What Are You Doing Right Now
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Afternoon coffee time
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Time for client visits.
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Oh the fun of driving across the country to see clients. That's what @g-jacobse is doing this morning too.
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Played about half an hour of BioShock before going to bed. It took a bit to get it all set up as we can't play it while the kids are awake, so needed to wait for my daughter to pass out from playing Dust all evening. Then we had to set up the Mac which we finally got sort of talking to the television, and set up my wife's laptop and streamed BioShock from the Windows laptop to the Mac laptop. We were both amazed that somehow it actually worked. Not great, but worked.
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Sitting out on the balcony getting caught up here waiting for some onsite work to begin.... turns out we had a tech drive eleven hours just to restart a switch that had crashed before no employee at the site, including the on call local IT guy from another firm, was willing to just power cycle some devices before putting someone in the car to drive two states away to just power cycle things!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sitting out on the balcony getting caught up here waiting for some onsite work to begin.... turns out we had a tech drive eleven hours just to restart a switch that had crashed before no employee at the site, including the on call local IT guy from another firm, was willing to just power cycle some devices before putting someone in the car to drive two states away to just power cycle things!!
Send the client the Bill... Mileage + 11 billable hours for their laziness.
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Oh we are, no question there. They had a staff of three on a five hour call yesterday trying to troubleshoot an issue that was hardware failure they could have determined in minutes.
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@scottalanmiller lol. For that customer, they should get the IT Crowd voicemail: "Try turning it off and on again and then call us back"
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They wanted to. I can't believe everyone at that site isn't fired today.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sitting out on the balcony getting caught up here waiting for some onsite work to begin.... turns out we had a tech drive eleven hours just to restart a switch that had crashed before no employee at the site, including the on call local IT guy from another firm, was willing to just power cycle some devices before putting someone in the car to drive two states away to just power cycle things!!
Mileage + 11 Hours Billable Hours + System Troubleshooting and Recovery Services ($500 Minimum)
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sitting out on the balcony getting caught up here waiting for some onsite work to begin.... turns out we had a tech drive eleven hours just to restart a switch that had crashed before no employee at the site, including the on call local IT guy from another firm, was willing to just power cycle some devices before putting someone in the car to drive two states away to just power cycle things!!
Mileage + 11 Hours Billable Hours + System Troubleshooting and Recovery Services ($500 Minimum)
OH MUCH More than that!
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Overall, looking like it is going to be a good day.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Overall, looking like it is going to be a good day.
Except for the customer who gets yesterdays bill, lol.
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Heat index is already over 100 here!!
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I think my email address has been sold by an IT company... I'm getting dozens of "meeting requests" a day from various IT contractors/developers/maintainers.
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UGH that sucks!
That happened to me 2 years ago after spiceworld. So last year everyone here used a alias email to put on prize stuff. Worked great.
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@Minion-Queen said:
That happened to me 2 years ago after spiceworld.
Yes, avoid giving out your email there and don't let them scan your badges. The whole thing is a collection for spam.
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Is it sad that I saw this:
And Immediately thought it was for a Live Action Role Playing group?
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That's the first thing that would pop into my mind!!
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