Rise + shine

Truth be told, I’d fallen asleep around midnight and was rudely awoken at 4a.m by the early-bird engineer. A good trick I learnt a while back was to close your office door and scatter a box of paper clips on the floor. Then lie down with your foot pressed against the door and have a nice bit sleep. Should someone walk in, the door is stopped by your foot, you get woken up by the bashing of wood against bone, and it looks like you’re just trying to pick up all the paper clips. Of course, a comfortable floor helps.

Still, my cross-over cabling caused chaos. The early-bird engineer replacing me didn’t perform any routine checks (I knew he wouldn’t), so it wasn’t until a little after 8a.m the problems started. The helldesk were overloaded by 8.30a.m apparently, and they’d actually called me by 9a.m. I managed to wangle an additional call-out bonus since technically I was off-shift, and rocked up half an hour ago to what looked like a scene from War of the Worlds.

All sorted now though. Everyone thinks I’m wonderful by getting it all resolved so quickly. The helldesk look like (even more, if possible) incompetent fools. Plus, it’ll be lunch time in a little over an hour.

Now then, where’s those paperclips…