T-9 days and counting…
by jirukun on Mar.16, 2007, under Holidays, Office, Travel, Work
Yep! Nine days to go till my trip back to camel land. 
To be honest I’m happy and a bit afraid… Happy because I’m going to see my family and friends that I haven’t seen in a very long time, and afraid for my own personal reasons.
Appart from that, I finished the BPI training and I need to start takling the certification soon, the training was fantastic {a bit complex with the terminologies}.
The course colleagues were great and the trainer even better 
The only real downside was my abcense from the office, the few times that I went back to my desk with the intention of cleaning the inbox I got stopped by my colleagues telling me that there were IT issues everywhere 
(I had a feeling that it would have been one of those weeks :cry:)
- Ownership issues
- System passwords
- Headcounts
- Non functioning tools and websites
- …etc… (I’m not going to bother you with the issues)
(this is how I felt)
The worst issue was in Greece; the poor guys couldn’t logon to the system, you would imagine that fixing the problem was a simple-painless-quick matter to solve right? WRONG! 
they were locked out because the new tool that was put up in place didn’t function as it was supposed 
I’ll try to explain, our partners login to our systems using accounts that our company provided for them, the only downside is that the passwords need to be resetted every 90 days. The old process was a long and not fool proof since it was done by hand (imagine resetting passwords for 380+ people :?) so our IT created a new tool that would give out a warning in the last 7 and 3 days so that we can validate them beforehand (good idea! nice tool! you would think) unfortunately something went wrong, from what I understood the accounts were recreated from scratch and the IT didn’t insert them in the tool because they didn’t recieve any request from HR (I don’t even want to talk about the new hire process).
Not a problem I said, I send an e-mail asking to validate the accounts by hand thinking that the IT guys* would do it in a jiffy… Well… The issue was solved 24H later!!! 
(* in defence of the IT guys; they are only 8 people for 1000 in office employees, not counting all the externals :?)
Now after I got that out of my chest; I need to start reading the +100 e-mails I got everyday for the past 5 days.
One thing useful that I got from the Six Sigma course is this
Putting this equation into use would give me
That would give me
Now I have irrefutable scientific proof that my work e-mails can wait till Monday (I need to show this to my boss ;))
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March 18th, 2007 on 11:55 pm
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeppyyyyyyyyyy !!!! i cant belive ur really coming over here … it’s been sosososos long
. wow cant wait .. i hope u’ll b here when the weather is stil nice ” dont tell me u miss the heat” ;p . p.s : littel cacroch cant wait 4 u 2 come .. i guess he still remembers u.
March 19th, 2007 on 8:28 am
Thanks
That’s really heart worming (I needed that)
Does he have a PSP? if he does then I have a few discs for him
March 20th, 2007 on 2:37 am
hahahaha u should have seen his reaction when i told him that u got him psp discs ” i didint expect him 2 get that exited” he tells u oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo thanks -grazie-merci-shukran .. & his asking u y dont u but in ur blog thing like south park(he had a blast with that)
March 20th, 2007 on 8:28 am
P.s. how old is he by the way? (I keep forgetting)
March 21st, 2007 on 12:07 am
8-0 ( u dont want me 2 coment on that) well his almost “”6″” ..come on how many nefuse do u have??
March 21st, 2007 on 12:09 am
8-0 ( u dont want me 2 coment on that) well his almost “”6″” ..come on how many nefuse do u have?? sorry i had 2 comment..i dont belive u 4got it (( did u 4get 2 eat .. did u 4get 2 drink .. did u 4get 2 go 2 the bathroom ))
March 21st, 2007 on 12:12 am
i posted twice Bcouse the fist 1 had half of it missing !!! but the second 1 came out right.
March 21st, 2007 on 1:57 am
hahahaaaa.. LOVED the equation, yeah show it to ur boss.. if u wanna get fired!! X)
when u mintioned the problems of logging in to the system n the passwords issues i remembered my sister.. she has this new job which it’s really similar to urs n when she first started she was angry of the MANY passwords they gave her.. she can’t choose ‘em n they’re ALOT n difficult to remember! although she’s busy most of the time even after she gets back home i barely see her but she’s happy with her job in de company
anyhow, now when u talk about ur job i understand what ur talkin about much better
March 22nd, 2007 on 7:38 pm
I’m a bit lucky, since I can choose my passwords, but like your sister there are too many applications and utilities, all with different passwords
)
The worst part is that they are not sincronized (i.e. I have to change them every 90 days for each application
March 22nd, 2007 on 11:03 pm
Camellette;
seriously 
Thank you for reminding me.. My throat was dry and I just recalled that I wanted to drink (now I know why I have a glass of water on the table)