Pre-Holiday Fire

Posted on 2008/06/28 09:11:02 (June 2008).

[Thursday 26th June]
Not unsurprisingly (given that it was the last day in the office before my holiday) a huge fire erupted at work today. It was one of those which seriously threatened the future of the project. Typical really, things had been going pretty smoothly at work over the last few weeks, and I was naively hoping for a nice peaceful tail off before I went on holiday. Then this happened. Of course I can't really talk about the details, but suffice to say a very big deal was made about it by people in the higher echelons of the project, and somehow, as often seems to happen with these things, the requirement of actually trying to fix it seemed to rest almost entirely on my shoulders. Despite working until very late (again) I couldn't resolve the problem within the space of a day, and there was absolutely no way I could even consider postponing my holiday. So instead I made a start on a disaster recovery program, and left behind instructions for my colleagues for how to proceed with that. Oh well, I did my best.

Sounds bad, I thought that the internet was slow recently... How many Nasa computer did you destroy this time? :D

Posted by Lox at 2008/06/29 14:13:43.

Its the satellites with lasers that I am more worried about.

Posted by Kev at 2008/06/30 08:28:49.

... all this confusing IT-speak. I thought there had been a *real* fire!!

Glad you managed to get away - eventually! :)

Posted by Nigel at 2008/06/30 10:14:34.

So did I, Nigel! And seeing that he works on the fifth or seventh floor I would have been worried had I not already seen that he was on his way to Cornwall.

Posted by John's Mum at 2008/06/30 10:17:56.

They probably all get issued with jet-pacs or escape pods in the event of a real fire.

Posted by Kev at 2008/06/30 10:20:46.

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