PessOptimist
Well-known member
Maybe this should be in day job. Not in PUI as I have to work tomorrow.
I had to work today as a long discussed, approved but waiting for funding and scheduling personnel move suddenly started happening.
Suddenly yesterday, just before quitting time of course, people started showing up to look at the available infrastructure for network connections. Suddenly I was asked to come to work today. Just outside the hours that would make it unscheduled of course.
It appears to me that a few GS-13/14/15s are playing oneupsmanship with the "make it so" thing.
This morning, I find many busy people moving in to new digs and asking if they should submit a request to move the phones. Well, I am old and crabby but I am also a pragmatist. I said yes but you won't have to wait for the system. Just let me get a cuppa and my **** together. I did the new programming and wiring moves for 15 phones. NBD. While I was doing this, a very nice IT type showed up to move my computer to my new digs, recently vacated by one of the previously mentioned busy people. I mentioned I had submitted no HEAT ticket and was told "we did it". I need my desktop because it has an asynch connection to the PBX that I use to move the phones around. Well it got moved and I am back up operating. I did not get to move my drawers or the stuff in the book cases. I can only hope there is not a newly scheduled yet unpublished task to demolish my old cubical. It is scheduled for demolition because it is too small.
One upside of this is I move to a "bull pen" with three other techs and this thing must be 30x50 feet. My old cubical was 4X5.
My original purpose for working today was to remove 20 years of abandonded cables under a raised floor in a former "computer/server/switch" room and try to figure out where the new wiring should be for the new cubicals for IT types who need THREE network drops each. Plus telephone of course. many of the floor plates have access holes in them and many are perforated for the old HVAC system. Which is still operating BTW. The big plan is that we will find uncut floor plates so they can glue down carpet. Then the new cubicles get built. Then we get to install three network cables and phone under the now unacessable raised floor to each new workstation. This room is also a main wiring closet for a portion of the building. Don't matter, the carpet must be laid so the only resident SES can be shown progress. And lest I forget, value added!
I am sure most have left the lounge by now. Whatever, finally on to the subject.
Hey engineers and IT types. Did you know that that if you get an emergency request for x2 the network drops available in an area you can run two 100BaseT connections on the same cat 5 cable? Cat 5, I did not leave out the E. I have gotten away with using the blue pair for telephone in the past on an ethernet cable. Never tried using blue and brown for a second connection. So far so good. I found that splitters for that are available on the interwebthingie but since this was a new "emergency" a communications craftsman created a splitter to do this.
Of course every IT type in sight is screaming "giganet, giganet". They have yet to get 100M to work with the few Windows seven machines we have. I am priveledged to use one of them. Click on something to open a file on the server, take a break or go work on something else. In a minute or two it will open. Giganet will fix this!
Another amusing thing I find is that if you mention 10/100/1000BaseT or the term ethernet, you are met with blank stares and mumurings about ignorance. I am really sorry no one saved a piece of that old thicknet coax from the 10Base2 system we used to run.
I will get off dissing IT types for now but will wonder about a certification that tells you it is always a transport problem and gives you a login to read manuals.
So, to all you mega managers out there, saying "make it so" likely gets you a shot at SES land but it is not as simple as you make it and the order you decree things happen does effect many people. In some cases it impairs the operation of your domain.
Perhaps I should change the subject to "PO whines" Nah. Did you know is good.
Gotta go. Work tomorrow to "make it so". I'm just not sure what to charge it to and the time sheet is due tomorrow.
PO
I had to work today as a long discussed, approved but waiting for funding and scheduling personnel move suddenly started happening.
Suddenly yesterday, just before quitting time of course, people started showing up to look at the available infrastructure for network connections. Suddenly I was asked to come to work today. Just outside the hours that would make it unscheduled of course.
It appears to me that a few GS-13/14/15s are playing oneupsmanship with the "make it so" thing.
This morning, I find many busy people moving in to new digs and asking if they should submit a request to move the phones. Well, I am old and crabby but I am also a pragmatist. I said yes but you won't have to wait for the system. Just let me get a cuppa and my **** together. I did the new programming and wiring moves for 15 phones. NBD. While I was doing this, a very nice IT type showed up to move my computer to my new digs, recently vacated by one of the previously mentioned busy people. I mentioned I had submitted no HEAT ticket and was told "we did it". I need my desktop because it has an asynch connection to the PBX that I use to move the phones around. Well it got moved and I am back up operating. I did not get to move my drawers or the stuff in the book cases. I can only hope there is not a newly scheduled yet unpublished task to demolish my old cubical. It is scheduled for demolition because it is too small.
One upside of this is I move to a "bull pen" with three other techs and this thing must be 30x50 feet. My old cubical was 4X5.
My original purpose for working today was to remove 20 years of abandonded cables under a raised floor in a former "computer/server/switch" room and try to figure out where the new wiring should be for the new cubicals for IT types who need THREE network drops each. Plus telephone of course. many of the floor plates have access holes in them and many are perforated for the old HVAC system. Which is still operating BTW. The big plan is that we will find uncut floor plates so they can glue down carpet. Then the new cubicles get built. Then we get to install three network cables and phone under the now unacessable raised floor to each new workstation. This room is also a main wiring closet for a portion of the building. Don't matter, the carpet must be laid so the only resident SES can be shown progress. And lest I forget, value added!
I am sure most have left the lounge by now. Whatever, finally on to the subject.
Hey engineers and IT types. Did you know that that if you get an emergency request for x2 the network drops available in an area you can run two 100BaseT connections on the same cat 5 cable? Cat 5, I did not leave out the E. I have gotten away with using the blue pair for telephone in the past on an ethernet cable. Never tried using blue and brown for a second connection. So far so good. I found that splitters for that are available on the interwebthingie but since this was a new "emergency" a communications craftsman created a splitter to do this.
Of course every IT type in sight is screaming "giganet, giganet". They have yet to get 100M to work with the few Windows seven machines we have. I am priveledged to use one of them. Click on something to open a file on the server, take a break or go work on something else. In a minute or two it will open. Giganet will fix this!
Another amusing thing I find is that if you mention 10/100/1000BaseT or the term ethernet, you are met with blank stares and mumurings about ignorance. I am really sorry no one saved a piece of that old thicknet coax from the 10Base2 system we used to run.
I will get off dissing IT types for now but will wonder about a certification that tells you it is always a transport problem and gives you a login to read manuals.
So, to all you mega managers out there, saying "make it so" likely gets you a shot at SES land but it is not as simple as you make it and the order you decree things happen does effect many people. In some cases it impairs the operation of your domain.
Perhaps I should change the subject to "PO whines" Nah. Did you know is good.
Gotta go. Work tomorrow to "make it so". I'm just not sure what to charge it to and the time sheet is due tomorrow.
PO
