In ur server room, fixin ur emalez
May. 25th, 2007 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesWell now, there's a thing. Next week I'm the mail guy. The other two main mail guys are off, and so is the demi-mail girl. The team-leader go-to guy is off for half the week too. We have a gazillion mail users local and remote, and I'm the new guy. Real "So X, just how is our mail set up?" and "Hey Y, what are the sending limits again?" levels of newness.
I don't actually mind carrying the thing. Baptism-by-fire is a kinky sort of geek adrenaline sport and nothing trains a chap up better than some long hard days in the saddle. But I'm appalled that such an important service, with so many things to go wrong and so many quirks and wrinkles, is being left to the new guy alone. That's unprofessional to our users, and that does piss me off.
I don't actually mind carrying the thing. Baptism-by-fire is a kinky sort of geek adrenaline sport and nothing trains a chap up better than some long hard days in the saddle. But I'm appalled that such an important service, with so many things to go wrong and so many quirks and wrinkles, is being left to the new guy alone. That's unprofessional to our users, and that does piss me off.
