alop's Journal: Progress

Stack it up! Give me a queue to work on, and I can hammer it out with a smile. I like work, I like doing stuff...I don't like things that impead my progress, however. For example, we have a new datacenter access policy. basically, sysadmins are no longer allowed in. we have to hike to the otherside of the building to the NOC, and sign out an "authorized" badge. Ok, fine, I don't mind, except that this badge ONLY has datacenter access. If you step outside, you're stuck! So that means that I have to trade my badge for the DC badge in the morning, back out for lunch, back again after lunch, and at the end of the day. Now, I like the guys in the NOC for the most part, but the fact that for each task I have to add 4 trips down there, at about 10 minutes each, it starts to add up! Silly! Someone on the board of Directors decided that they knew what our job entailed... Well, I suppose this is a perfect example of the Peter Principle... You get promoted to your highest level of incompitence...