It's a Monday alright...

As I came in to work this morning, right before 8:00 AM, my coworker H poked his head around the cubicle wall and said, "No R today, he's seeing a doctor."

Surprised and a bit concerned I inquired further, and found out that R sent H a text Sunday night (they're friends outside of work) to let H know he has a bad eye infection and will be in on Wednesday at the earliest, and that's if the doctor gives him effective antibiotics.

Ah well. There's only four of us on the Level 2 Tech Support team, so we did just lose 25% of the active members, but a regular Monday is nothing the three of us can't handle.

At 8:30, half an hour before the most recent addition to our team, U, is supposed to arrive, he calls in sick. Very high fever. U hardly ever stays home sick, so it's a fair assumption this is perfectly legit, just with very bad timing. H and I exchange a look, and then play rock-paper-scissors on who gets to move their lunch to an hour later, before we go ask our supervisor if someone can help out with the tech support calls at least over the lunch breaks.

By 9:30 AM the hard drive in H's work computer makes several loud clicking noises, and then it dies. When he clocked out at 4:00 PM it still hadn't been replaced.

It's going to be a long week.

 

Feel bad for you, but also feel pretty good.
(Always thought I had a Lock on that type of Luck)
Good to see I was mistaken.

 

We all get bad days, but just wait for a week or so, and then you and H and R and U can play LAN games as all the computers will suddenly work perfectly when all staff are present.

 

I don't like Mondays comes to mind ! Rock, paper, scissors, indeed ! Mims, you must have a lot of time on your hands :-D

 

I didn't... lunch was one hour late.

 

OUCH! Sounds like a rough Monday, Mims! Hopefully, you have a better week now..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSUC_ldud8w&feature=related

Tough day! Hope the rest of the week comes ironed out

 

Don't ya just hate it when that happens?

 

Always make sure you sort the straws out so that you win, it's easier that way ! :-D

 

Mims on a Monday morn : Is this about right Mimsy ! :-D

http://www.foundshit.com/pictures/food/havent-had-coffee.jpg

 

She even has my haircolor! LOL

But I think MG's auto-censor function censored out your url, I had to quote it to get to the picture. Still funny though.

 

I don't think Thursdays are any better..rolleyes Had to get brakes and rotors put on the van today..:cry Never fun, no matter what day it is for that...

I missed that one Mimsy! Sounds like it was cute tho:-D

 

It's back up there. And it's now in my Pictures folder on my computer as well.

 

Good things have happened!

After the fun, fun work Monday (note the thick sarcasm) I come in to work Tuesday morning, expecting roughly the same experience. H greets me with a grin from U's desk, telling me the two sick ones are still sick, and his computer is still dead. He proceeds to tell me that he has taken care of all the support emails already (he can access his computer data from any computer in the building, but not take phone calls), and is considering taking the day off now since he can't get any more work done anyway. I reply that if he does, please stop by U's and R's houses and kick them both from me.

Before leaving H heads over to the field service people's office and talks to them to get a status update, since the online case monitor for support cases is close to worthless, but from the wrong side of the scale. He comes back and tells me and Supervisor (S) the field service people have been told the replacement hard drive will arrive late afternoon, and though they would love to help him (they like us, since we're not morons) they have no spare drives they can give him.

S frowns and says, "No. We can't have another day like yesterday." I nod fervently in agreement. "Thank you!"

S then tells H that he will not get the day off after all, since we can't have only one Tech Support agent taking calls, and heads over to the Department Manager(DM)'s desk. We see them have a brief conversation, and then DM reaches for the phone. Twenty minutes later our favorite field service tech shows up with a replacement hard drive, and a very amused expression on his face. Apparently DM called the people providing spare parts and, ahem, "upgraded" the priority and emergency level of H's case. So the tech was handed a replacement drive and told to drop everything else and fix this computer right now, before more displeased senior managers called and complained.

The tech of course thought this was hilarious.

Wednesday morning, U came in to work. He looked like crap, but his mind and personality where their usual selves, and this morning, R was in as well. The whole team is back, and it is a glorious, grand, thing.

 

THAT is definitely a HUGE PLUS Mimsy! I am happy for you
Sounds like everything is working out finally!

CONGRATS!

 

So Mimsy, your a firey redhead, Uh Oh ! now i know why people don't like to upset you :-D ! On another note TeeCee sounds like a a quite little mouse, so she must be a fair haired girl ( BLonde ) :-D ! Only joking T !

 

Here it is for everyone to see what Mimsy says on a monday morning ! :-D

 

I am right now. My hair color changes every time I go to have my hair done.

 

And if you ruin TeeCee's monday morn this is what happens ! roflmaoroflmao

 

Hi there, Rusty, "a mouse"? Not by a longshot !!! I can hold my own
Eee Yup! you have my Mondays right! My birds do do that ! Darn near nailed one of my neighbors too! But, she was in my yard...roflmao It was quite funny to watch, too! :-D:-D

 

A bit like this then Mimsy ! :-D:-D:-D

 

Hey Rusty, I don't see any "Blondes" in those pix!!! :-D:-D:-D

 

Excuse me will she do, :-D:-D i think she's saying Ooops i just farted or something ! :-D:-D
And Sarah Palin is just totally disgusted ! :-D

 

Well, if that is the best blonde you can find, I guess it will have to do. Yeah, I think Sarah is a little put off... That cat does look like it just :***
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