23:30 by FoxTwo
No ID, Can't Do Work, Slack Lor!
The company I work in, lost my login ID :)
Yup, it's missing from the servers, the email address books do not list me at all. I'm "locked out" from my own work PC. If anybody ever tried to email me, they'd get a "No Such Receipient" error.
Now, since I'm an IT geeky guy, one would think it would be a simple matter of me re-entering all the required credentials into the right servers to get me back into the system, right?
Technically yes. However, I'm not lifting a finger. Why? First of all, it's not my fault they "misplaced" my ID. There's a big confusion about my "end of service" date, and they keep thinking it's 29 Feb when it should be 29 March when the ID expires and get deleted (28th is my last working day, hence 29th is the "cleanup day").
So, apparently, someone was cock-eyed last year in 2007 and either wrote "02" as the month incorrectly on the form (real paper form) to extend my login validity for one more year, or the one doing the login ID maintenance went cock-eyed and read it as 02 instead of 03 (March).
Besides, I'm not part of the Wintel team. I'm designated as the "Unix guy". Since this login problem is a Windows thing, it ain't my problem man.
It's so nice being able to do NOTHING right in front of the boss, and he knows he can't do a thing about it simply because, I have no login ID to do ANYTHING! No emails, no forms, no MS Word, no Excel, nada. I'm basically sitting in the office just yakking away on MSN via my Palm and trusty 3G phone. Since I can't get into the system, I depend solely on my colleagues to tell me what pending jobs are to be executed at which times on the Unix servers.
And, my colleagues being VERY nice people, know that I'm already in my ROD mood, hardly ever tell me to do "work".
The downside is tho, I got no Internet access (however limited it is with the rampant blocking. Even Chillycrap's blog is blocked). I can't blog, and I can't visit other people's blogs. The upside is, I finally managed to find LOADS of time to chat on MSN via my Palm TX :) Yes my Palm has a web browser but I sure am not going to surf the Internet on a 320x480 screen! Besides, yakking on MSN is taking up most of my time nowadays.
Knowing the SLA (Service Level Agreement) on Windows Login ID creation is 5 working days, I'm not expecting to login anytime soon till next Monday, at the soonest. Too bad I can't not go to the office, dammit. Boss tells me I still got root access to the Unix servers so I can still do my work ("as long as my colleagues tell me what's pending", I thought to myself).
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Miss Loi @ Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:10:00 AM No wonder the shoutbox has been so quiet these few days.
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chillycraps @ Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:38:00 AM
before you go, you should raise a report asking them to release my blog... =P
still can't figure out why they wanna blog me. -
xinyun @ Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:25:00 AM so good... :P
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FoxTwo @ Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:18:00 AM
missloi - even if I had full internet access now, I'd most probably be sleeping at my desk.... ROD LOH!!!!
cc - errr.... once I ROD from here, I can read your blog from home. So, it doesn't affect me :p
xy - you wanna work here? :)
