Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

Gods I have an awesome manager.

Had my biweekly 1on1 meeting with him and discussed the topic of me moving to Prod-Ops and on to the team internally that wants to recruit me and it was relieved more than anything because he felt bad about the fact that I've been on his team for 2 years (well 1 year, 11 months and 19 days literally 1 month after it became officially a team. I'm the most senior member other than him) and not had the opportunity to start working with some SysEng or NetEng to secure an advancement path because of geographic distance + schedule conflicts.

He was very supportive of making this transition happen and asking what sort of resources I'd need to complete my major project (getting us out of a data-center that is being demolished in September) so I could focus on training up for the move to a new team.

He was also very open hiring Aurora as my replacement, which would be great because it would get her out of a very toxic work environment and out from under a slowly collapsing company and I fully believe she could do the job.

Please give robotic dragon hands and like DNI for working with computers. Like... it's 2019.. where are my awesome cybernetics.

Gods I'm starting to finch at the sound of my phone beeping and vibrating.. it's been one of those days... on top of 2 hours of meetings that could be summed up in. "This project is so fucked and time is insanely unrealistic but the building is getting demolished.. sooo what can we do?!"

And I've gotten like none of the related to said project work done I wanted to do today because of pager fires... and ontop of that my body has decided to be unreasonably hornt... except I have work to do and my hands are in no shape to deal with hornt because pain.

Okay universe... you can stop being a huge jerk to me on dragon appreciation day. :(

So I just spent an hour working in the datacenter soaking wet...

and it was totally worth it..

because the reason I'm wet is that I spent 30 minutes before the trip talking with one of the Product-Ops team leaders (there were no conference rooms available so we went outside in the rain) about his desire to bring me into his team and if it was possible or not (it is) and how to approach making it happen.. and also if I knew anyone that we could hire to replace me since that would smooth things along...

It would be a move to a small team (3 people including me) that work with our engineering teams to bring services into an Ops ready state. Purely AWS environment, which is something I've really wanted to develop a skill set in. This comes on the heels of my manager asking me what I want to start moving toward internally and carving out time to start training/shadowing. On-top of that we wanted to work on a plan to start training my team to start taking some of the basic AWS service related tasks on.

Which seriously lifts my mood after the other lead on my team got promoted to supervisor because promoting me would cause too many scheduling issues.

GRRRRR people fucking stealing my network cap for something making me do stupid cabling because they ignored desc on ports on a switch and just saw nothing was connected to them (yet)

now I have shuffle shit around weirdly and I'm 1x10G link short with a new switch..

suddenly they are both bending over backwards to resolve the situation.

I feel shitty for literally all caps screaming on social media at them but holy fuck... it should not be this hard to resolve this issue and refund me. For fuck sake they processed a return on the GPU in the same box as the CPU but didn't acknowledge even receiving the cpu which they got got back on Nov 27th.

I feel vaguely sort of bad for this... but damn after two months paypal denied my claim that newegg made off with my money with shipping product.

They refunded one of the items in the box that was returned to their warehouse but not the other.

When I got the denied on buyer protection because item was marked "delivered" I was pissed... because the person that reviewed the claim didn't even check the address.

I made a calculated move and screamed obscenities at both of them them on twitter.

Fucking fuck I hate this shit so much. Monthly department all hands...

Oh looky one of the new guys on my team is getting accolades for "stepping up" because he volunteered to take one swing shift pager hot seat a week off me (thank the fucking gods.. I've been the only person on my team doing 5 a week since we started this a year ago.. everyone else does 1 a week and 1 weekend a month.. I do it every shift.. and get a work an awful schedule that means I get one weekend off every 2 weeks) but does this get mentioned? not really no. Atleast it gives me 1 day a week to fucking get shit done since I've got 8 months to move our legacy site and 10 months to move our entire B site in CA to a new DC that we haven't even finished locating new datacenter for and only just started contract negotiations for.. which extra fucks the legacy site move because the majority of shit in it was getting rebuilt on new hardware at the current B site which we now have to out of by December 31st 2019.

I mean I'm glad for the help and like this guy but it kinda feels like getting shit on that he is getting a fucking bonus (lol 100$ gift card okay not that big a deal) for taking 1 of my hot seats a week (doesn't fix my fucky schedule though)

And another new to our team (transfer from another department) got promoted over me to supervisor for my team... because... we can't move me from working swing shift without losing 24/7 coverage which is one our requirements.

Oh.. but we all are getting position title changes with no raise because our team is being renamed from NOC/Datacenter Operations to Operations Engineering.. lol..

But hey my boss and department director keep stressing that they don't want me to feel like I'm alone and stuck where I'm in our 1on1 meetings.
Just don't have the budget or reqs to hire help for me or relief..

Bleh and comp review is not for another 4 months. I'm sure another 2.8% QoL raise (inflation index out here was 3.5% last year) will totally help. But you know since I'm the only person on my team in CA... I already make more anyone else on the team because I'm on the California pay scale (please note I live paycheck to paycheck because bay area rent is crazy)

I had plans to start setting aside company time (manager approved training) to develop and learn AWS and teraform better but with these two massive, emergency datacenter decom and relocate projects that totally isn't going to happen.

Lazy storm dragon day... grey, steady pitter-patter of slow, soaking rain bringing water to parched earth.

Good day to relax..

gh... asus's mobo design team clearly hates dragons... it took an hour and half for me to install a new NVMe ssd in my rig... because the second slot is between the first PCIE slot and the cpu...
and even with pulling my 1070... there was a stupid aux fan controller riser that made it super hard to get the nut in for the ssd screw

it's like they expect every one to have tiny dexterous kobold hands.... now my big stupid dragon hands hurt..

Finally saw Vemon... and alll I have to say is.. DAMN...

Also LEWD!

Ugh... because I needed to be woken up by some sort of wierd ass blue alert at 6am on my day off..

Okay...I need to sleep.. been in void dragon headspace... and I started singing this to Aurora when I went to kiss her good night.
Kobold Kobold Kobold...
I sculpted you like clay..
Kobold kobold kobold..
With your reality I shall play..

She huffed at me a lot.

But also... fuck working weekends. Especially when I want to just curl up in my nest offline for a while.

Thank goodness for telepresence drones... I had a hard time dragging myself out of dry-doc-my nest this morning.

Fucking hell Jurassic World Evolution is almost as bad as Factorio for my time sense...

Ugh.. I really don't want to go to the datacenter today and beat on some legacy hardware but I probably should. Some stakeholders are really holding out hope I can revive some neglected, decade old hardware that will need to be replaced by Aug 2019 anyway.

I'm on to you brain... dreaming about getting a full night's sleep.. ha.. I see what you are trying to doo there..

I already want one badly..

okay... I can't recommend reading The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes enough.

Totally amazing fantasy Ocean's 8 (Nine if you count the Warhammer.. .and you should)