Man Down

Medic! I came into work this morning with a server down. Well, not so much down as in dirt nap, but more like mortally wounded. I love days like this. Especially when it isn’t even a hardware problem or even an OS problem. That only leaves one thing: application problem. And for some reasons users have a hard time understanding this. No matter how well I communicate that the server is down…I still get calls from users asking if the server is down, when it will be back up, or is it up yet. Those are easy to answer: “Yes.”, “When it’s fixed.” and “No.” You can also say, “Did I say it was back up?” for the last one.

As much as I would like to use those wonderful responses…I can’t. Don’t get me wrong, there isn’t a rule anywhere that says I can’t say stuff like that. I just try to use as much professional courtesy as possible. You know, that whole Golden Rule thing. Even if I get emails with red bolded fonts telling me that the server is still down. Honestly, I think people would send me an email about the email server being down. Did you get that memo? If I knew it wasn’t more trouble than it was worth…I would shut down our mail server anytime another server went down.

As for me, back to fending off users with pitchforks and torches.

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