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I have a new job as of Jan 04.

New Boss leaving the country for 6 weeks, Jan 19

So I’ve had little time to train on the environment.

Probably the second largest environment I’ve worked and I had to learn it in a matter or 2 weeks.

First day he’s gone Thursday a guy system crashes (I do a rebuild, install his apps he’s good).

Building Facilities comes in (There’s a leak on the first floor, it’s coming from your server room we think) 30 minutes looking for nothing.

HR says I need Laptop and XYZ on a Whim, I stress out and find the stuff and use my own stuff to help out, she needs it for a Monday meeting.

Friday’s HERE!!!

I’m in D.C and it’s INAUGURATION DAY and it’s all F’d up here in D.C Everything is shut down.

I come into the office anyway…

Going fine…

Email and calls that (We can’t RDP into our workstations) no biggie, give them the other RDP server, all is well.

That RDP server DIES…WTF.

Now remember I’m only here 2 weeks to learn a Boat load of SH&T

We never covered all the VLAN’s and IP Schemas

So My IT Director says cool you gave them the other RDP Server then we’ll figure it out Monday BUT Alas, the 2nd one goes down.

So we figure out it was a Core Switch that died, there was a laptop hooked to the Console on another switch same rack so I moved it to the Switch that’s down.

I see that it’s logmeinresue ready, tell him… he get’s in

Flash card is wonky, he runs some magic from putty and gets it back up.

Last thing is to get the public IP’s to the 2 servers up, I do some weird crap and find the cables and Voila! we’re up.

A Slow day I could have gone home turns into a nightmare…

Thank god I came in anyway…

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Yikes, what a cluster fuck of a day. No thank you.

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Way to go! For not knowing the environment, you jumped right in, knew who to ask for help and solved some big problems!

I hope you have a relaxing weekend!

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That is pretty bad day for all those systems and you!! Glad you got things worked out!

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Better than being bored. But only just. Sounds like they hired the right guy.

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Do you have any documentation regarding the environment? Patching schedule, VLAN schema? IP address schema? Naming conventions? Layer 1, 2 and 3 diagrams? Work instruction on how to complete regular tasks? Daily checks list of activities?

Going by the number of issues you are having, I’ll guess not and that may be one of the reasons you’re having these kind of issues. Maybe you should start to write some!

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Patching yes, servers and applications yes, backups yes, IP Schema and VLAN’s kind of.

What switches do what, No

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Sounds like your new employer hired the right guy for the position!

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At least you got to enjoy the weekend to get over that! Hope this week is better!

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A challenge was given to you and you walked away victorious learning new stuff in the process. Why a bad day?

Also, now you have an excuse for that extra beer keg if you know what I mean. :slight_smile: