Today we had a major server meltdown.  Not just any server, THE DHCP server.  This single point of failure was designed by my supposed superior (in his mind).  It was a hardware failure that I warned about 7 months ago.  But would my little pissant boss listen to me?   Dont make me laugh.

But due to some due dilligence on my part (and wholly unauthorized, so I will be written up for it), we were back in Business in less than an hour, with just the clean up taking the rest of the day.

I should have let them stew in their own stupidity and played dumb!  I dont know why I jumped in and fixed it so fast when I could have done the dumb hayseed and yucked yucked my way through.  I guess because I do care for the users, even if I dont give a damn about the other senior engineer or his incestous (ours I should say, except I dont port him) boss.

Why dont we have a redundant DHCP solution?  Because Sr 1 did not want to do it that way.  Why dont we have an AD DNS?  Because Sr 1 thinks that is a security breach.  Why why why.  The manager of the help desk asked me why it was done this way today.  I told him I did not have a say in the setup (it was done before my time and my suggestions to go with a split DHCP were ignored).  He said I did not ask you that.  I repeated my answer.  he got my message.  He is a diplomat at times, a politician at others.

So inspite of having a core irreplaceable server melt down today, very few people (perhaps a dozen or more out of 1000) were inconvenienced.  And all was well within an hour.

And Mr. Roberts' captain (have you ever wondered why Jame Cagney never had a name.  just Captain?)?

He hates me!  He snarled and I am sure is writing me up.  I am going to love leaving this place.  Like none since Best Products kicked me out the door!  I hated leaving several other jobs as I really respected my boss and loved the work.  This is the second time when I am going to basically burn a bridge when I leave.  KMA10-4