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Two Strikes

Strike One:

When I asked that the fragrance be removed from the bathroom at $Job, I was told that it wouldn't be, people had complained that it smelled. All three sets of bathrooms in this building will be getting stink bombs designed for 6000 cubic feet. The largest bathroom is approximately 900 cubic feet.

I was told, by no less than CS (a VP), that my needs were accomodated by the fact that there were unfragranced bathrooms in the other building, so there were unfragranced bathrooms in the facility. In other words, if I want to be able to breathe while I use the commode, I need to go out a door, walk over to the next door building, go in through another key-fobbed door, and use the restroom there.

Thanks, a$$holes.

Strike Two:

One the servers on a customer site has a memory leak, somewhere in Java. Therefore, when the nightly backups kick off at 2 am and 4 am, the "Swap Percent Free" drops below the critical threshold, and I get paged. Then it goes back to merely "warning", so I get paged twice in the middle of the night, EVERY F*CKING NIGHT.

My solution, of course, was to put that one service into downtime for the next week. SR, who I've complained about here before, said "No. It's a problem, we have to get the notifications." SR gets text pages. They don't wake him up. He cares nothing about me and the first tier support person's (DB) sleep.

So now both of us, who have trouble going back to sleep when awakened, get two hours chopped out of the middle of our night. I don't know about DB, but I get... nasty... when my sleep is screwed up to much. This crap takes my nightly allocation from 8 solid hours to 6 broken hours, with no segment bigger than 3 hours. Double plus ungood.

Bases Loaded

I can take a lot of shit in a job. Really. But three types of thing are big, fat lines in the sand for me:
1) stuff that f*cks with my health,
2) workplace bullying (which affects my mental health), and
3) attempted rewriting of my personality or threats (yet another form of bullying)

I will be updating my resume over the next week, and actively looking for sysadmin/perl hack jobs. I've gone ahead and joined SAGE.

Posted by ljl at August 11, 2003 12:36 PM | TrackBack