Following the Sun... Even When It's Dark Here!

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deanwebb

August 12, 2021, 07:29:30 PM
FUN FACT: 7PM-11PM my time is 8AM-Noon in Singapore!

I'm shadowing a team member who's delivering services in APAC. I like helping out, but thank goodness I blocked out 11PM-7AM my time so I can sleep!
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Otanx

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August 13, 2021, 12:05:01 PM
You take the idea of shadowing very seriously. You get the entire continent in shadow.

-Otanx

deanwebb

#2
August 13, 2021, 05:48:32 PM
Quote from: Otanx on August 13, 2021, 12:05:01 PM
You take the idea of shadowing very seriously. You get the entire continent in shadow.

-Otanx


You know it! But, yes, even on the vendor side, we can wind up working all kinds of odd hours, thanks to the world being round and all that.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Otanx

#3
August 16, 2021, 09:28:07 AM
It has been many years, but I remember those days. Coming in at midnight to support the first day of a European deployment. Also on the other side when working overseas, having to be in the office super late just to call support because they only worked 9-5 US time.

-Otanx

deanwebb

#4
August 16, 2021, 07:06:31 PM
This is my last day of the APAC calls, fitting that I'm responding here. :D

And my planned afternoon "break" didn't really start until everyone in the USA stopped bugging me... around 5 PM or so...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

config t

#5
August 18, 2021, 09:51:56 AM
Quote from: Otanx on August 16, 2021, 09:28:07 AM
It has been many years, but I remember those days. Coming in at midnight to support the first day of a European deployment. Also on the other side when working overseas, having to be in the office super late just to call support because they only worked 9-5 US time.

-Otanx

Oh yeah. When it was up to me I used to go to the office early so I could catch the west coast team before the end of their day.
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

deanwebb

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August 18, 2021, 10:13:31 AM
As a manager, I'm having 2 team meetings, one for EMEA/USA East/Central and the other for APAC/USA Pacific.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Otanx

#7
August 18, 2021, 11:50:49 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on August 18, 2021, 10:13:31 AM
As a manager, I'm having 2 team meetings, one for EMEA/USA East/Central and the other for APAC/USA Pacific.

The fun of being a manager. I used to do two meetings, but for shift workers. One at the days/swing transfer, and another for the mid team. Always take notes on what I wanted to cover, and check it off for each meeting. Make sure everyone got the same information.

-Otanx

deanwebb

#8
August 19, 2021, 09:05:50 AM
Yeah, that's always fun times, making sure you got the same info to everyone.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#9
August 19, 2021, 12:56:05 PM
must be a fun time for a manager to have those team building events, with everyone so spread out.


unless you play a multiplayer online game that supports teams.
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#10
August 19, 2021, 03:27:18 PM
Quote from: icecream-guy on August 19, 2021, 12:56:05 PM
must be a fun time for a manager to have those team building events, with everyone so spread out.


unless you play a multiplayer online game that supports teams.

That would be fun stuff, though!
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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