Serves me right for trying to be productive
This morning I got a phone call from IT telling me that my wireless connection was causing someone’s computer in another building to not be able to boot (excuse me, what? Somehow I just don’t buy that) and that I was violating company policy, so that it had to go. I knew I could move my laptop over to an unused cube that had a hard-line, uncut ethernet connection, but before I could say I would do that so I could keep working I was informed that there were serious concerns about me having a personal computer on company grounds. Again, another policy violation of some kind. I love that this news came from the same guy that yesterday morning said that what I was doing was fine and that it was appreciated that I was doing whatever I could to stay productive. But no, 24 hours later and the higher ups decided that I was endangering the whole company network by using my own Apple computer on our network. Yet we didn’t even have spam filters or decent virus software on our windows network until sometime last year.
The vacation time here is great and my boss is awesome, but man, the tech support/IT dept. leaves something to be desired somedays.
Basically, I was told to ‘Cease and Desist’ doing my job.
When I questioned what exactly I was supposed to do in the meantime, I was told “clean your desk.” To which I replied, “I already did that on Tuesday when I was waiting for a technician to come look at my computer.” I was getting very irritated at this point. My boss had already told me to keep cool about all this yesterday, but I will admit, I didn’t do the best job at that. I basically told the IT guy that this was all ridiculous and I was being punished for trying to be a good employee. How frustrating is this? I don’t have a computer, I won’t have a new one for at least a week, so instead of letting me be productive on a system that I know and is already set up to do web work, I have to sit and wait for someone to come install a temporary machine that will then take me the rest of the day to get configured to my normal working space.
The last time my system crashed and I had to rebuild my web analytics part, I had to work weekends for a month to catch back up and its not like I get overtime. I am not amused by the prospect of this, especially with my two weeks of vacation coming up in five weeks. I already had a lot of extra stuff to do just to get ready to be gone for that time, so now I have all that extra stuff, my regular projects, plus rebuilding my system to do in the next month. Its just disheartening.
This was half an hour ago, and I was told I’d have a new machine setup “within the hour.” I’m not holding my breath for that. I’m on an extra PC on which I can check my work email and surf the web and that would be the end of what I can do here. I don’t even have a phone over here. Guess I’ll get caught up on my web surfing this morning.
Update: the guy came with my temp machine… but it needed a different keyboard. I’m sure I had a serial to USB adapter in a drawer, but he ran off to get me a new one before I could say anything. Oh well, my old one was all crusty anyway. He’s supposed to come get me when my new setup is ready. *tick tick tick*
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I had a much more eloquent response to your plight, but it can probably be summed up better with the words “that sucks.”