It's been a stellar week at work, too. One of our security guys quit, and the server my division relies on to support all of its applications Went To Be With Elvis during the Alpha Geek Interregnum. So we have the old systems guy, who agreed to be hired back as a consultant until his replacement starts, coming in at an outrageous hourly rate - which i$ of cour$e the rea$on he left - to tell us that, yep, we need parts from the mainland in order to rebuild it better, stronger, faster. HQ FedExed us repair discs, which turned out to be the wrong ones. (Somebody please tell me why the IT guys back home even have "Migrating from NT4 to Windows 2000" discs in stock?!?!?)
So my division has been out of commission for three days now. I'm not a vindicitive sort, really, honestly, but somebody on the Help Desk had better get fired for a screwup of this magnitude.
New Alpha Geek starts in ten days. In the immortal words of Leonard Cohen, Alleluia.
About Me
- Mugs
- I'm originally from North America and I work in the travel industry. I started this blog when I was living in Baltic Europe and wanted to keep family and friends updated on my first pregnancy. I took maternity leave for a year, and came a little closer to figuring out what I want to be when I grow up - but alas, the job of "Katharine Hepburn" was taken. So after fifteen months of Stay-at-Home-Mom-hood, I returned to the workforce in January 2006. My husband and I have a daughter born in 2004 and a son born in 2006 (known on this blog as "Gigi" and "Halley" respectively). My company transferred me to a nice warm island in July 2006, where I get to spend the next three years (at least!) So why the name "Purple Scare"? Because when I created the blog, I was living behind the Rusted Iron Curtain, and I like the color purple more than red. Write me at purplescareblog@gmail.com.
