When in such situations it was amazing how often I would hear such wonderful advice as "You need to work smarter not harder" from the management that was responsible for the situation. I even had one manager, when I was working 80 hours a week as a sysadmin, suggest that the answer to my problem was to use my freetime to develop AI code to structure my work. free time(?) Sigh. The same manager who insisted we send out a mass email to explain to users that email was down.

Problem was we were trying to run a 25000 user infrastructure with 3 sysadmins one of whom managed never to be available for his on call cycle. Mangement said they could not justify the recurring costs of more staff After 6 months of that I was a wreck.

Misha/Michael - Russian student, grognard, bemused observer of humanity and self professed programmer with delusions of relevance

In reply to Re: Overtime: the "Bad News" Warning Sign by MishaMoose
in thread Overtime: the "Bad News" Warning Sign by locked_user sundialsvc4

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