Work and Pirates...
17 Mar 2011 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatWork has been hectic since I went back on Monday.
I walked into my office and went "That's not my computer!"
My black laptop had been replaced by a shiny silver one... "Ah," said office-mate, "we've been upgraded to Windows 7 whilst you were off."
And it seem the person from the tech dept thought the easiest way to do me was just to give me a new Windows 7 laptop - except that they didn't do anything about transferring links, icons, programmes... I switched it on and once logged in to the intranet there was a screen with nothing on but the recycle bin - my links to my diary, patient notes, etc. etc. are all missing.
So it took until about 10.00 a.m to get some of that restored - then they discover that they needed to make a programming change in the data base that covers a lot of the delivery of equipment to patients to make it compatible - and they hadn't done it. That took until Wednesday.
That was on top of the usual pile of letters and the 20+ messages on the messaging service - oh, and those included a message to say the messaging service would also be updated in the next week or so, sometime, and all our outgoing messages would be wiped... whenever they did it... sometime. Yeah - thanks!
In the middle of all this, of course, I had clinics to run, home visits to do... I think I need a week off to recover!
You might have thought it would figure in my nightmares, wouldn't you? Seems not. I woke up before the alarm this morning with a song in my head and I've been singing it all day. I came down and told S2C what I woke up singing, and he thought it really funny that, clearly, I had been dreaming about Gay Pirates.
I was humming it when I went up to 'head office' this afternoon and kindly shared it, via Youtube, with a couple of the main office staff - who fell around laughing, said they may never look at me the same way again, and were humming even as I left.
I think you should all share with me - so here is Cosmo Jarvis -
Yo! Ho! Sebastian!
Fans of Tolkien may never think of the Corsairs of Umbar in the same way ever again.
Come to think of it - Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Caribbean, um - you might not see Legolas without thinking Yo! Ho! Sebastian either.
I walked into my office and went "That's not my computer!"
My black laptop had been replaced by a shiny silver one... "Ah," said office-mate, "we've been upgraded to Windows 7 whilst you were off."
And it seem the person from the tech dept thought the easiest way to do me was just to give me a new Windows 7 laptop - except that they didn't do anything about transferring links, icons, programmes... I switched it on and once logged in to the intranet there was a screen with nothing on but the recycle bin - my links to my diary, patient notes, etc. etc. are all missing.
So it took until about 10.00 a.m to get some of that restored - then they discover that they needed to make a programming change in the data base that covers a lot of the delivery of equipment to patients to make it compatible - and they hadn't done it. That took until Wednesday.
That was on top of the usual pile of letters and the 20+ messages on the messaging service - oh, and those included a message to say the messaging service would also be updated in the next week or so, sometime, and all our outgoing messages would be wiped... whenever they did it... sometime. Yeah - thanks!
In the middle of all this, of course, I had clinics to run, home visits to do... I think I need a week off to recover!
You might have thought it would figure in my nightmares, wouldn't you? Seems not. I woke up before the alarm this morning with a song in my head and I've been singing it all day. I came down and told S2C what I woke up singing, and he thought it really funny that, clearly, I had been dreaming about Gay Pirates.
I was humming it when I went up to 'head office' this afternoon and kindly shared it, via Youtube, with a couple of the main office staff - who fell around laughing, said they may never look at me the same way again, and were humming even as I left.
I think you should all share with me - so here is Cosmo Jarvis -
Yo! Ho! Sebastian!
Fans of Tolkien may never think of the Corsairs of Umbar in the same way ever again.
Come to think of it - Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Caribbean, um - you might not see Legolas without thinking Yo! Ho! Sebastian either.
