07:38 PM
Working for a Living Broken...

Late this morning, we find we cannot send out email, message that disk is full. IM my boss, he's determined that's the webhost's fault. However, it's more likely because he never deletes his mail off the server and has now filled up our 2 gig space (website is tiny). Boss goes off to call webhost, I go to get office supplies and to lunch. I come back, he's IM'd me that he's sent me some invoices by email. I check email, nada. He says impossible, he's sent me three emails! I suggest that perhaps if the disk is full, it can't receive email anymore than it can send out email....

This place is so broken.

Monday night, we had heavy thunderstorms here and lots of wind Monday night and into Tuesday afternoon. Some trees across the freeway werw leaning on the power lines and our power kept blipping out again and again most of Tuesday till they got all the tree branches chopped down. Since TPTB here thought it was a waste of money to put a UPS on the server and workstations, we got virtually no work done at all that day. The power would blip out, the server would turn off. I'd turn it on and by the time I walked back to my office, it'd blip again. Or I'd get to my desk, reboot my PC and the power would blip again and so it went all day.

Then my boss (one of those TPTBs) sent a nasty email to everyone whining about how someone restarted the server without warning him and he lost 1 1/2 hours of work! I explained that it was the power going out for 2 seconds that shut down the server and if we'd had even a $40 UPS with five minutes of battery power, he wouldn't have lost all that work. Sixty seconds later, I get an email from him telling me to buy a UPS for the server.

Soooooooooo broken.

TPTB decided that I should also buy one $40 UPS for one PC so they could see how that worked the next time the power went out. (This was the third serious power problems since I came here last March, one was because they didn't pay the bill on time and the other two were from storms.) The one the company is buying goes on the PC of the CRM database administrator and I'm spending my own $40 to get one for me, it's worth it to reduce the stress of working here.

Broke, broke, broke. And no-one wants to fix it.