Lovely Friday....
Here when I thought life was picking up speed, I had finally found a job that lifted me above the fray of stupidity that graces the halls of our fair government. I thought that I had finally found the freedom to work efficiently and effectively, and skirt around the bull.
But then I find myself sunk into a 6 month hole at the department of justice. They want an expert on site... ahhh an expert... yes that makes sense.... You are implementing a complicated SAN based Exchange environment, and you need my expertise to pull it off effectively. 6 months... no I don't think you really need 6 months... what are you going to do with me for 6 months?
Well now I know... For the past 3 weeks I have been stuffed into an office with 3 other contractors, without any cell phone reception, email, or internet of any kind. I didnt have access to the building I work in, or even access beyond the cubicle farm of a room in which I reside. I needed an escort in order to use the bathroom. I couldnt read books, I can't use any computer beyond my laptop which I cannot hook up to any network.... WHY?!?! What is the point... so for 3 weeks I've sat in my chair and stared blankly at a diagram of what the solution is going to be, that I'm not allowed to work on, that I was hired to work on.
WTF PEOPLE?!?! This is ridiculous... finally 3 weeks later I have email... and access to the general building... but still no bathroom privaleges, or access to the environment I was hired to work on. The prime contractor manager guy walks into my shared closet/office and asks me to send him a progress report from the last 3 weeks.... WTF PROGRESS?!?! WTF are you talking about?!?!
I all but laughed in his face... what the hell are these people thinking?
-Max
1 week later and the stupidity continues...
I finally have solid access to the internet, and email.... however I learned yesterday that they screwed up my email account creation so that whenever I send outgoing mails my last name is horribly misspelled.
I have been asked to write "Standard Operating Procedures" on the administration of our storage appliance. Ok thats easy... boom download all of that from my company document library... why reinvent the wheel? I drop a 26 page admin guide on their desk and say voila.
Well yesterday, we had a meeting with my boss, 2 other guys from my company and the guy running the show here. Apparantly people had been complaining that I was sitting around doing nothing, and they were questioning why I was brought in. My boss quickly jumps in with... but you sat him in a room with no internet, phone or access to the outside world.... what did you expect him to do during that time?
The guy responds back, well we really want Max to tell us what he should be doing.
ARE YOU FVCKING KIDDING ME?! What I should be doing is anything other than sitting in this stupid building wasting my time... I still don't have access to the systems we're supposed to be working on... and even when I do, it's been made clear that I will be over the shouldering only.
So now not only am I on a bullshyt 6 month assignment with no real work to do, but now I am on a bullshyt 6 month assignment with no work to do, and they're getting upset with me for not having work to do.
I guess now I'm supposed to try my hardest to look busy for the next 6 months.
I need to find some rope.
CLIFFs: The government are some money wasting, idiotic, assanine, asshat, poopoo heads
UPDATE 8/2:
Said SAN based Exchange environment implementation has been delayed 1 year.... and yet I am still required to be onsite everyday... and now I *officially* don't have anything to work on.
sheesh
Here when I thought life was picking up speed, I had finally found a job that lifted me above the fray of stupidity that graces the halls of our fair government. I thought that I had finally found the freedom to work efficiently and effectively, and skirt around the bull.
But then I find myself sunk into a 6 month hole at the department of justice. They want an expert on site... ahhh an expert... yes that makes sense.... You are implementing a complicated SAN based Exchange environment, and you need my expertise to pull it off effectively. 6 months... no I don't think you really need 6 months... what are you going to do with me for 6 months?
Well now I know... For the past 3 weeks I have been stuffed into an office with 3 other contractors, without any cell phone reception, email, or internet of any kind. I didnt have access to the building I work in, or even access beyond the cubicle farm of a room in which I reside. I needed an escort in order to use the bathroom. I couldnt read books, I can't use any computer beyond my laptop which I cannot hook up to any network.... WHY?!?! What is the point... so for 3 weeks I've sat in my chair and stared blankly at a diagram of what the solution is going to be, that I'm not allowed to work on, that I was hired to work on.
WTF PEOPLE?!?! This is ridiculous... finally 3 weeks later I have email... and access to the general building... but still no bathroom privaleges, or access to the environment I was hired to work on. The prime contractor manager guy walks into my shared closet/office and asks me to send him a progress report from the last 3 weeks.... WTF PROGRESS?!?! WTF are you talking about?!?!
I all but laughed in his face... what the hell are these people thinking?
-Max
1 week later and the stupidity continues...
I finally have solid access to the internet, and email.... however I learned yesterday that they screwed up my email account creation so that whenever I send outgoing mails my last name is horribly misspelled.
I have been asked to write "Standard Operating Procedures" on the administration of our storage appliance. Ok thats easy... boom download all of that from my company document library... why reinvent the wheel? I drop a 26 page admin guide on their desk and say voila.
Well yesterday, we had a meeting with my boss, 2 other guys from my company and the guy running the show here. Apparantly people had been complaining that I was sitting around doing nothing, and they were questioning why I was brought in. My boss quickly jumps in with... but you sat him in a room with no internet, phone or access to the outside world.... what did you expect him to do during that time?
The guy responds back, well we really want Max to tell us what he should be doing.
ARE YOU FVCKING KIDDING ME?! What I should be doing is anything other than sitting in this stupid building wasting my time... I still don't have access to the systems we're supposed to be working on... and even when I do, it's been made clear that I will be over the shouldering only.
So now not only am I on a bullshyt 6 month assignment with no real work to do, but now I am on a bullshyt 6 month assignment with no work to do, and they're getting upset with me for not having work to do.
I guess now I'm supposed to try my hardest to look busy for the next 6 months.
I need to find some rope.
CLIFFs: The government are some money wasting, idiotic, assanine, asshat, poopoo heads
UPDATE 8/2:
Said SAN based Exchange environment implementation has been delayed 1 year.... and yet I am still required to be onsite everyday... and now I *officially* don't have anything to work on.
sheesh
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