{"id":830,"date":"2007-06-22T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/22\/it-sob-story\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T20:45:26","slug":"it-sob-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/22\/it-sob-story\/","title":{"rendered":"One of those days to cap off one of those weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the kind I mean…sat down at my computer this morning and not only is the new server the IT folks are supposed to deliver still not working properly, but the SOL*R server<\/a> was down, AND EdTechPost<\/a> had inexplicably blown up. And my first hour of trying to fix things seemed to only make matters worse.<\/p>\n

I left IT because I got frustrated spending so much time on things which, while they were necessary to make the systems work, felt like they added so little actual value to people’s lives, my own included. Seems like I cannot get away from it though.<\/p>\n

If you work someplace where the servers don’t inexplicably go down all the time and where you don’t have to wait 6 weeks for someone to edit a configuration file for you, go give someone in your IT staff a hug. If you have this AND<\/em> they actually allow you do what you<\/em> want to do, go buy them a case of beer. And if they let you do all this AND<\/em> continually delight you by actually improving the service, and smile at the same time, then please, please, call me and offer me a job \ud83d\ude09 I’ll tweak widgets and find the missing semi-colon when I know the result is something that adds value. But so much fiddling to just get simple infrastructural issues solved – lord, give me strength! – SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know the kind I mean…sat down at my computer this morning and not only is the new server the IT folks are supposed to deliver still not working properly, but the SOL*R server was down, AND EdTechPost had inexplicably blown up. And my first hour of trying to fix things seemed to only make … Continue reading “One of those days to cap off one of those weeks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,196,372],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-bofh","tag-it","tag-self-pity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}