Liveblogging the Clusterfuck at Work

[tyrannosaurus vex]

No fewer than 3 conference calls about this mess. Finally I had to inform all the "let's talk about this" people that being on a conference call sort of distracts from, you know, fixing things.

Welcome to my world.  If I didn't dodge meetings about how to fix shit, nothing would get fixed.

I'm starting to wonder if the same people who build your facility went on to build education technology companies.

My facility wasn't "built", so much as it "grew" as they invented the technology.

In other words, it was designed by chemical engineers instead of plant engineers.  Which is kind of like having your brain surgery performed by a proctologist.

Yes. Sort of like our network, which has more layers than a love child of Venice and Pompeii. It actually grew by "Test Environments" becoming "Production Environments" by executive decree.

[Trivial]

[Bu🤠ns]

HAhaha this tread is fantastic.  Either that or the Paxil is talking.

Srlsy, this whole this parallels a particular clusterfuck where I'm at....although it's less concentrated and more detached.  It's like watching someone slowly die by the way of tickling.

[Telarus]

 

[tyrannosaurus vex]

UPDATE!

Back in NYC to install a new wifi network. This has been previously configured at HQ and shipped here, so it's just plug and play.

Unbox components. Nothing broken! Hooray for FedEx!

Plug in. Lights up! Well, that's a good sign. So far, so good.

Connect to wifi. It works! Holy shit we did something right!

Now to check the guest network.

It connects!

Internet access is GO!

Wait...

There is no password on this guest network.

WAIT.

I can reach the entirety of our internal network this way.

CONGRATULATIONS! We have just opened a completely unsecured, unencrypted wifi network that leads directly to our corporate intranet (including mission-critical production systems)! In the middle of Midtown Manhattan! With equipment powerful enough to drive out all the interference from the surrounding networks!

Fuck.

[Reginald Ret]

UPDATE!

Back in NYC to install a new wifi network. This has been previously configured at HQ and shipped here, so it's just plug and play.

Unbox components. Nothing broken! Hooray for FedEx!

Plug in. Lights up! Well, that's a good sign. So far, so good.

Connect to wifi. It works! Holy shit we did something right!

Now to check the guest network.

It connects!

Internet access is GO!

Wait...

There is no password on this guest network.

WAIT.

I can reach the entirety of our internal network this way.

CONGRATULATIONS! We have just opened a completely unsecured, unencrypted wifi network that leads directly to our corporate intranet (including mission-critical production systems)! In the middle of Midtown Manhattan! With equipment powerful enough to drive out all the interference from the surrounding networks!

Fuck.

Let me guess: The only off-switch also turns off every other system?

[tyrannosaurus vex]

UPDATE!

Back in NYC to install a new wifi network. This has been previously configured at HQ and shipped here, so it's just plug and play.

Unbox components. Nothing broken! Hooray for FedEx!

Plug in. Lights up! Well, that's a good sign. So far, so good.

Connect to wifi. It works! Holy shit we did something right!

Now to check the guest network.

It connects!

Internet access is GO!

Wait...

There is no password on this guest network.

WAIT.

I can reach the entirety of our internal network this way.

CONGRATULATIONS! We have just opened a completely unsecured, unencrypted wifi network that leads directly to our corporate intranet (including mission-critical production systems)! In the middle of Midtown Manhattan! With equipment powerful enough to drive out all the interference from the surrounding networks!

Fuck.

Let me guess: The only off-switch also turns off every other system?

No, I can disconnect it. But since I'm not "The Juniper Guy," I'm not allowed to reconfigure it myself. "The Juniper Guy" is in another state, and must log in remotely, which means everything must be turned on and connected. Oh, and he's BUSY, because he's one of the peers that are currently designing my company's "Values Blueprint."

Good thing there are a lot of bars in NYC.