Dear reader,
the past week was brief but full of things. Brief as it lasted only three days, the first three days of the week. Full of things because in three days there was more.
trip there and back, evenings spent in the office to fix the last things, lunches at risk, meetings, conference call, video conference, San Valentino, San Faustino, announcements of weddings and happy events.
A week is so messed up that in order to participate in Food and Wine event, organized by myself, I had to send an invitation to all blocking at least one hour on the corporate calendar. Nevertheless, my participation was endangered by a series of events that served to remind me that the engineer and his famous Murphy law is not just a slogan on a shirt that reads or title of some book series.
But first things first. Monday departure accompanied by the usual bad weather. I think to review a bit 'of the landscape will have to rely for now on the internet and some memory.
Arrive at the office and now down to produce. I have to fix everything before the beginning of the video conference. I have to store all the mail last Friday and the first of the week. There are people on Monday morning just can not sleep.
The video conference with Luxembourg go, but as usual the other team does not even try to propose to write the meeting report, although the claim. So I have to finish this even write the minutes of the meeting.
When I return to my position here is the phone ringing. Turkey seems to need me and not only them. The Spaniards are felt.
At some point I run at lunch. Mine is a real escape. Seeking a little 'breathing but the colleague I was with him the quarrels of the Milan office.
The afternoon is spent to accommodate the various flights of fancy of the users.
Luckily I cadge a dinner, which helps me in this day of celebration of love in a less acrimonious.
Dinner connects a bit 'ashamed, thinking that whoever looks at us could take for a couple, maybe even from the regular ones. The stress that is fortunate to have dinner with my colleague the most fascinating of the whole office.
brings us to Tuesday.
there to finish the test with the Turkish people, who pull out of the hat a couple of puzzling questions. The people of Luxembourg and Spain, I do not want to be outdone, throw them too. The tenor of the questions is "because the total is wrong?". Response. "Why summands are wrong!". I wonder what the crystal ball has been thrown out some numbers.
The afternoon is then welcomed by yet another web-ex (in words understandable to all is a presentation that Internet is a new feature. A kind of virtual classroom), where the only lesson that was to follow the PC inoperable.
When this event here is that the phone rings. The manager of another team called me to tell you that strange requests coming from Turkey. I asked what we told him to do that activity, so badly.
Here, the user has invented a procedure, wrong, and then wonders why it does not work.
Yet I am sure that I had identified the right steps.
answer to the request and then I go to check. Here, I was right. The procedure addressed is the correct one! but then what I write to make thousands of manuals if then do as they please?!?
patience, patience.
Take the fire alarm, except that there are no fires. The sound is so annoying that what little patience I had left goes up in smoke. It is now late. I'm going back in residence.
up early Wednesday morning because I have to support users for a task. Even if we did all the tests in test environment into production smoothly popping one thousand. Seeking to address them in a positive way, without me taking anxiety, when I find that a part of a program has not been brought into production. I go to the person who had to do to ask for explanations and she tells me that his head did not give him the go ahead for transportation.
Ok, then we call on the head, but this is engaged in a phone call, I'll find to my cost, is a phone call river. Meanwhile, a group of people of the teasing starts with the sentence: "So you can not do." The character is the same one that made me delay the loading of data in August. I look at him wrong at the beginning, but he did nothing and continue. In the end I have to threaten him: "if you do not do it, I pluck out all my guilt, but you are sure they will go down the first line the car and then I'll break your windshield, so the hell with that you go home." What Did I been repeated a few times and luckily have taken his colleagues to take it away.
Anyway I finally brought into port the result, I got Food and Wine event, which was a lunch at the Japanese restaurant, a little late. During the event, a colleague gives us the wedding invitations. Afternoon
hallucinating as usual, but even with a delay time and passes the road to take home and everything else is ... Dear Reader
I leave you now and stop bore you.
... chasing the sun ...
