Haven’t been to the office in close to 6 months and had to oversee some after-hours network maintenance this evening. It went well for once, and I was home by 11pm. Usually we exceed the maintenance window and have to roll back and try again.
Always nice when things go smoothly! Is the maintenance window because you have servers hosted on site?
My workplace was completely optional, only come in if you want to since 2020, until three weeks ago. Now it’s required two days a week. In the meantime, I don’t have a car anymore (haven’t needed one for a few years now), and it takes 90 minutes to get there on the bus.
But think of the increased synergy from all the mandatory in-person team building! The synergy, tuckerm!
I have not needed to eat for three weeks. I am sustained by pure synergy now. I exist in the infinity of time and space and AI chatbots, perfectly connected by the ultimate quarterly objectives.
Truly you most post this epiphany to LinkedIn
Yep, we’re fortunate enough to still have on-prem servers (we’ve also got co-located and cloud assets as well). So those plus the IP phones and all the routing since we have a few satellite offices that routed through the main office. Breaking the field offices out of that was part of the changes were were doing.
Oh man, so I just realized “maintenance window” exists and how that applies to websites shutting down for maintenance… that sounds stressful.
Meh, you get used to it. It’s only stressful when the end of the maintenance window is approaching and you still don’t know whether you’ll wrap it up in time. The odd hours are more annoying though. Often late in the evening or during the weekend. Long weekends are actually perfect for large maintenance operations, but you (and the other people doing the maintenance) give up that long weekend in return. And I learned over the years that a compensation day during the week does not equal a weekend day, because you can’t do anything with your buddies for example or when you want to sleep in, there might be roadworks in front of your house.
Pretty much. We have a maintenance window of X hours starting at Y o’clock and a schedule we follow. The last hour to 90 minutes of the window is the decision point where we either finalize things if they’re on track or rollback and re-schedule after breaking down what went wrong.
Office jobs are so alien to me.
What do you do?
Obvious from the username: Plants VS Zombies pro-gamer
Currently bicycle repair, formerly restaurants and tourism. Lots of obvious things to do because otherwise people will yell at you.
Well they are not an alien for sure 😄
