Every now and then there will be a system wide IT failure. People won't be able to log on or, if they can, it will be slow and they won't be able to access certain programs or secondary email accounts.
When it happens it's like the gopher undead with public servants rising into view above their waist-high partitions to look at each other with a 'you too?' expression.
So ... what to do when an entire building's IT system fall over? In the good old days when I was a mere speck in the machine—an APS1 no less for I joined long enough ago that there were APS1s still employed—they'd actually give up and send people home when the network failed. Alas not so now so people end up doing largely pointless busy work—tidying desks, attending to paper filing (what little remains) and so forth.
I was feeling in a jolly mood and I crave attention for my shtick. What can I say? I am a shameless attention seeker. I needed to ask someone on the other side of the floor—about 30 metres walk away—so I decided to chair canoe it. You know where you push yourself along in your office chair but you're going backwards, trading safety for speed.
Only I chair canoed past our OH&S officer.
She actually came away from her desk and looked at me and asked what I was doing.
There as no defence for that. And with shame I had to wheel my chair back to my desk, a single wheel squeaking as if to remind the world of my safety transgression.
Still ... it did momentarily liven things up so it's was worth it for that. However it did kind of undermine my reputation for being Mr Safety and trying to get obvious OH&S issues rectified.
Nice one, mimo. You sacrificed a hard-earned rep. as Mr Safety for a five minute hijink involving a chair canoe.
And I'd do it again! Workplace comedy rules.
Seriously, having a dour grey workplace sucks the wang. And I will forever attempt to shoot a wad of colour into it whenever and wherever I can; great wads of Mikey colour all over the place like Jackson Pollock and Pro Hart had a fight over who got to shoot paint from a tennis ball gun.
When it happens it's like the gopher undead with public servants rising into view above their waist-high partitions to look at each other with a 'you too?' expression.
So ... what to do when an entire building's IT system fall over? In the good old days when I was a mere speck in the machine—an APS1 no less for I joined long enough ago that there were APS1s still employed—they'd actually give up and send people home when the network failed. Alas not so now so people end up doing largely pointless busy work—tidying desks, attending to paper filing (what little remains) and so forth.
I was feeling in a jolly mood and I crave attention for my shtick. What can I say? I am a shameless attention seeker. I needed to ask someone on the other side of the floor—about 30 metres walk away—so I decided to chair canoe it. You know where you push yourself along in your office chair but you're going backwards, trading safety for speed.
Only I chair canoed past our OH&S officer.
She actually came away from her desk and looked at me and asked what I was doing.
There as no defence for that. And with shame I had to wheel my chair back to my desk, a single wheel squeaking as if to remind the world of my safety transgression.
Still ... it did momentarily liven things up so it's was worth it for that. However it did kind of undermine my reputation for being Mr Safety and trying to get obvious OH&S issues rectified.
Nice one, mimo. You sacrificed a hard-earned rep. as Mr Safety for a five minute hijink involving a chair canoe.
And I'd do it again! Workplace comedy rules.
Seriously, having a dour grey workplace sucks the wang. And I will forever attempt to shoot a wad of colour into it whenever and wherever I can; great wads of Mikey colour all over the place like Jackson Pollock and Pro Hart had a fight over who got to shoot paint from a tennis ball gun.
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