When it rains...

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Like an old friend once said about me "When you f*ck up, you really f*ck up!"

I'm at my second job. It's a one day a week thing where I put in six hours monitoring a radio network. Under ideal conditions the one big event in my six hours is that I have to push a few buttons sometime before 9am that connects an ISDN line, putting a show on the air that comes from a different studio.

Guess what I forgot to do today?

I was slightly distracted, as the show called and informed me that I will have to likely start the commercials myself (which required me switching computers.) I remembered at 9a that I had not yet dialed the ISDN and ran in to dial it. Instead of the normal message I was given ISDN DOWN.

Not good.

I redialed, but to no avail. One more shot and it was for nothing... By this time the show was supposed to start... I was already dialing our engineer to say "WHAT DO I DO?" Of course, I get his voicemail. I try again, then call the guy who I am only to call if fire and brimstone are falling from the sky with a herd of monkees flinging radioactive poo. He tells me "Oh yeah... The we have no ISDN lines... I guess we should have told you."

Well, at least they are all telling me it's not my fault (when it really partially is.)

It's a sad day when at 9-something in the morning on a Saturday you're wishing you had a drink...

Oh, and I wasn't even able to get breakfast on the way in. Grrr....

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

Like an old friend once said about me "When you f*ck up, you really f*ck up!"

I'm at my second job. It's a one day a week thing where I put in six hours monitoring a radio network. Under ideal conditions the one big event in my six hours is that I have to push a few buttons sometime before 9am that connects an ISDN line, putting a show on the air that comes from a different studio.

Guess what I forgot to do today?

I was slightly distracted, as the show called and informed me that I will have to likely start the commercials myself (which required me switching computers.) I remembered at 9a that I had not yet dialed the ISDN and ran in to dial it. Instead of the normal message I was given ISDN DOWN.

Not good.

I redialed, but to no avail. One more shot and it was for nothing... By this time the show was supposed to start... I was already dialing our engineer to say "WHAT DO I DO?" Of course, I get his voicemail. I try again, then call the guy who I am only to call if fire and brimstone are falling from the sky with a herd of monkees flinging radioactive poo. He tells me "Oh yeah... The we have no ISDN lines... I guess we should have told you."

Well, at least they are all telling me it's not my fault (when it really partially is.)

It's a sad day when at 9-something in the morning on a Saturday you're wishing you had a drink...

Oh, and I wasn't even able to get breakfast on the way in. Grrr....

Sounds like it isn't your fault at all. They are the ones that didn't inform you the ISDN was gone, regardless if you were sort of late to calling it.