@Dave@lemmy.nz just working from home while my Company figures out why they've decided to block half of NZ's Local Authority GIS sites when working in the office 😆

[–] Dave 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh man I remember the days where IT would screw up and you'd get to go home early and do nothing, or go to the pub with colleagues while they worked it out.

These days everyone just gets sent to work from home. I guess you win some, you lose some.

[–] luke@ika.social 4 points 1 year ago

@Dave@lemmy.nz lmao. Yup very true.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As "IT", no. I don't remember those days. 😔

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your sacrifice.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've actually just reminded me of the opposite:
I can think of one occasion where we (the IT nerds) were down the pub after work on a Friday evening when the authentication servers died. This was in dial-up days. All a little tipsy, and minus the expert on this system we had to go back to the office, learn how radius worked and figure out why users couldn't get online. The backlog of them was large also, so the radius servers were getting hammered. Not a fun friday night.

Then there was another occasion where we (same IT nerds) were down the beach on a Sunday afternoon. Being at the beach, none of us were answering phones. I forget what was wrong this time, but we weren't popular the next day work. Given that none of us were being paid to be on-call, I don't feel at all guilty about this incident. I think it actually lead to the company making up a formal on-call roster.

So, computer stuff breaking leads to IT people being called in to the office. It sorta sucks, actually.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your problem is you're IT support. IT projects, for the most part, are Monday-Friday 🙂

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I was 20 years ago. I'm in project land today. And yes, it's a Mon-Fri gig. 👍

[–] Ozymati 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least I can WFH in extremely comfortable but very unprofessional clothes while lying on the couch.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

I can remember reading all the memes about people wearing business shirts and no pants for their online meetings.

I remember reading these, and realising when COVID hit and everyone was suddenly working from home full time, I did not consider, even for a second, that I might be supposed to wear business clothes. Straight to jeans and Tshirt. I didn't even think about it until the memes came.