So about a month ago I answered a CSJobs posting (mailing list for university jobs) about sysadmining a lab, the majority of the setup to be done in August. This had to be set up before classes started (heh...today). Keep in mind that I've done basic networking with a server but am by no means experienced, I just figure it's about time I learn a bit more about it.
Long story short, they only gave me a few days to do a solid weeks worth of work. And now after various issues with their network, software, etc, I've found that the version of Norton Ghost they bought 3 days before the class is not the corporate version and I'm stuck here trying to get the lab ready for the first classes tomorrow. The corp version lets me ghost an image from the server to every computer at the same time, where the version they gave me has to do it 1 by 1. At an image of 2.5gb and 12 computers, thats at least 5 hours time, not to mention editing some settings.
As it is a professional could have done the other stuff faster, but they're paying me $12 an hour, so that wouldn't be so bad except for this. It's not that serious a lab - it can probably wait a few days, but I feel a bit guilty getting paid for hours I spend trying to troubleshoot and workaround errors that could have been avoided had they given me more time.
Should I account for every hour I waste trying a solution and failing at it? And what about killing 5 hours with the $40 software they bought me rather than them buying the $250 real version?
cliffs: networking blows.
Long story short, they only gave me a few days to do a solid weeks worth of work. And now after various issues with their network, software, etc, I've found that the version of Norton Ghost they bought 3 days before the class is not the corporate version and I'm stuck here trying to get the lab ready for the first classes tomorrow. The corp version lets me ghost an image from the server to every computer at the same time, where the version they gave me has to do it 1 by 1. At an image of 2.5gb and 12 computers, thats at least 5 hours time, not to mention editing some settings.
As it is a professional could have done the other stuff faster, but they're paying me $12 an hour, so that wouldn't be so bad except for this. It's not that serious a lab - it can probably wait a few days, but I feel a bit guilty getting paid for hours I spend trying to troubleshoot and workaround errors that could have been avoided had they given me more time.
Should I account for every hour I waste trying a solution and failing at it? And what about killing 5 hours with the $40 software they bought me rather than them buying the $250 real version?
cliffs: networking blows.
