I will be working over break. We have a day next week where no one else is going to be in the buildings yet I will be there. It's actually easier for me to get stuff done when I don't have to worry about who is going to be impacted when I bring a server down. I also have things set up so I can do most everything remotely. When my mom was having surgery done I had my laptop at the hospital waiting room and I was working while sitting with my dad. My business director reminded the boss of that when it came time for my raise.
The right people can be more productive without others around, some need to be watched though, I like the former, not the latter types. Also, it helps that the repercussions of a server failure will impact few, if any, when there's no one around. I worked for a company whose server went bang (kaput, or whatever the terminology is) and it wasn't good.
It's good to hear your direct manager was decent enough to go in to bat for you on the pay rise; that shows you've done the right thing.
We had a server die about a year ago. I was able to get things back up and running within eight hours. My goal ever since has been to shorten that time. If I had some other things in place back then I think it could have been less than an hour.
Die. Ok, so I'm assuming kaput isn't quite the right word. Lol.
I don't know how you do it, I've been setting up my new laptop for hours (purchased today) and it's driving me bonkers.
No, you are good, dead is dead 😃. Tech can be tricky sometimes. After over twenty years in the business, I am not unconvinced that there isn't a little bit of magic at play. Electromagnetic fields or something. Sometimes I can simply walk in a room and a machine starts working again that wasn't before.
It's funny that you say about the electromagnetic field thing.
I have had trouble with my Laptop Surface Pro 3 and had a tech out after getting nowhere myself over months. He suggested that it could have something to do with when it's on power not battery causing the glitch. Possible I guess. I just wrote a post about the episode which I'll publish later...and my new computer that came home from the store with me yesterday. 😇
I just read it! Congrats on the new equipment!
I can't help touching it. Lol.