It might as well be, right? The day after Thanksgiving is (well, I get it off), why can’t they make the day before too? I want to say about 90% of the office was empty (that’s lowballing, it’s probably higher). There were literally only a handful of us at work, it was like a ghost town. I have a bunch of vacation days saved up, and I could’ve taken the day off, but I had agreed to do some database maintenance because doing it today would be affecting the least amount of users.
Since I was doing database maintenance, the server admin wanted to do some performance tweaks, as well as the monthly Windows Updates, to the servers. So I said “why not?”, since the database would be down anyways. Well, that jackass prevented me from leaving early, that’s “why not”.
I finished my maintenance in the morning, maybe around 10am, and I immediately told the server admin that he could start his crap, in hopes that he’d finish early so that I could go home early. I had to wait for him to finish his stuff because I had to make sure his changes didn’t negatively effect the database operations. I sent an email reminding him that he should provide me with enough time to test the database after his changes, so that just in case if anything went wrong, there was still time to fix them or revert. So I was stuck playing the waiting game.
After lunch, maybe around 130pm, my boss swings by my cube and says “What are you still doing here? There’s no one here today, just take off early”. I told my boss I was waiting on the server admin, and that I’d leave as soon as I’m done testing. I soo wanted to punch the server admin in the face. Lucky he’s in the HQ building 6 blocks over. So, as politely as I could, I sent another email to the server admin to basically hurry the fuck up cause I want to go home early. For some reason, he misinterprets my email thinking that I was working from home and states that “he’s still working on it”. OMFG!! I was ready to kill him.
Well, he didn’t finish till around 3pm, and my testing took another 30 minutes. So I left around 330, which is still earlier than my usual time of 445, but it could’ve been waaaay earlier. What a jackass. I should’ve just taken the day off.
