10/19/2011

This has been the shittiest day ever. First off, I get a call from the Board Room saying that the projector keeps shutting off. I had “installed” a set of fans just yesterday to try and alleviate the heat in that cabinet. Apparently that didn’t work. Now, the kicker of this particular shut down issue is it was a CEO meeting this morning. Yeah, that kinda sucks. Well, I get reamed for my company not having the problem fixed yet, and am told, “We’re working on it,” is not good enough. Well what the hell else am I supposed to tell you? Then, I get a call from the TOB saying they are having issues. I head back across the street to see what’s going on there, by the way I was in the TOB when I got the CEO call and came across the street to see about that. Now I head back across to check on them. Well, turns out my control system has crashed and nothing I try fixes the problem. One room is “fine” and able to continue but the other is hosed. They bring in a projector and we get them up and running, sort of. The group in the “A” side, the one which is “working,” finishes up and I get the next group up and running in there. Fortunately they don’t need the telephone system because… well, it’s fucked along with the rest of the controls. Unfortunately, I'm informed that there is a Town Hell in the morning and it will need the phone. I'm going to have to go over and finger out how to combine the rooms and make a phone call through the system without the control panel. Yea! Then, to top things off, I'm looking forward to having Chicken Tikka Masala in the cafeteria for lunch. I've helped another group get their presentation up and running, half assed I might add, in the Grand Canyon room and am about to get on the shuttle to go to the Employee Center with Larry. Oh no, that ain’t gonna happen. I get the call from the pipe and drape guys saying they are here and ready to pick up their P&D. CRAP! I call Larry and tell him I'm driving over to the TOB and we’ll have the Tikka Masala there. I let the guys in to strike the P&D and get in line for the CTM. The lady in front of me says there is one piece of chicken left. I'm about to lose it. Fortunately for all involved, she only got an order of rice. I got the last Chicken Tikka Masala. I called Larry to tell him if he wants CTM he’ll need to go to the Employee Center because I'm eating the last order in the TOB. He says he’ll bring in his lunch from home. I apologize but go ahead and eat it in front of him anyway. Yeah, I'm in just exactly THAT shitty of a mood. When the guys are done packing and loading the pipe and drape, I head back across the street in Fiona and take my usual parking spot. Now I'm back here at my desk telling y'all about the morning. I'm going back over to the TOB in about half an hour to see if I can use some Afro-American Engineering to make the Town Hell tomorrow work. I'm afeared I'm going to have to come in tomorrow and make sure they are up and running before heading out to east Texas… if I go at all. I'm so pissed off right now that I'm not even sure I'm going to. I just asked John what we’d do if I did skip it. I'm waiting for his reply. I guess that’s about all I have for today.