Walking Shadows

Day to day I come to work, I gradually repair what is broken, I fix what never worked in the first place. I do this because I enjoy what I do on some level. It is a thankless, mind numbing job. But occasionally I have a problem that challenges me so much that I begin to lose sleep until I realize I have been overlooking a simple solution.

For anyone that does not fully understand what I do, I am an IT Desktop Engeneer/I.T. department of one. I work in a call center, I maintain all the systems in this building. And I work alone. There are nearly 650 PC's. And everything in this building has suffered from lackluster matinance before my arrival. Before my company bought this building it was operated by another company, and the IT department that had in house was not happy to be bought out. They sabatoged systems, they destroyed documentation, and they took equipment. At that point, an incompitant technician was placed in charge of all things IT here. He didn't care, he didn't know what he was doing, and he let everythign continue to degrade and slip, untill he was replaced. He was replaced with someone that was reliable, and could mantain all the systems, but had no mind for coming up with creative solutions to the mounting problems. He was eventually replaced with a good techincian that was too nice to people that would not work with us. This is where I came in.

Now, I hope you understand that when I tell you to SHUT UP it is because you annoy me more than anything in the history of mankind, now get the hell away from my office.