I'm gonna get me two of these for my office: one for me and one for my team lead.
I found out where to get 'em from here.
The fallout continued from my screw the pooch episode. I got in to work this morning and I heard my team lead on the phone talking about passwords. It seems we reset a bunch of passwords after our last backup, and our RACF database was on the volume we restored, so all the passwords for some users in Malaysia didn't work. He got called at home and had to reset them last night.
From the comments posted, I see I have a few MVS sysprogs who read this stuff and understand what I'm talking about.
My team lead's mother-in-law died Tuesday and he was supposed to take all week off, but he said it has sucked so bad at home that he decided to come in on Friday. Talk about sucking, we're getting ready to go through The Audit, and his number one job is making sure I don't fuck up The Audit. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I sure do feel sorry for him.
My manager and two of his project managers are treating The Audit like it was the Spanish Inquisition. We had an all hands conference call on Tuesday that lasted for over an hour. What a bunch of bullshit! I call this the waste fifteen minutes every other Tuesday call. I usually take this call at home while reading the paper. I normally only get through the first section of the paper during the call. This call is only for regulars, but this time everyone had to attend so we could hear about The Audit. I was able to read the entire paper. The call dragged on and on and on and on and on. Arggghhh!
We have another two weeks until the Audit Gods descend upon us, but half the department is working at making sure the other half of the department is ready. Everyone is so serious it's comical. Three different people stopped into our office to talk to my team lead about The Audit. It's bad enough that he has to share an office with me. It's even worse that his mother-in-law died this week and that's on top of some other shit that has happened to his wife's family. Now he has to put up with all the Chicken Littles running around worrying about The Audit.
Normally only the regulars have to worry about bullshit. The contractors go about their business fat, dumb, and happy and don't have to put up with the petty bullshit that we regulars do. That's not the case with The Audit. They have to encrypt databases on their PC's. One of our contractors in Dallas encrypted a database that he wasn't supposed to and couldn't get into his e-mail. He told me that this must be a pretty common problem 'cause when he called the (No) Help (Whatsoever) Desk, they were able to fix the problem in about five minutes. I guess a lot of people have been doing this to get ready for The Audit.
I'm pretty much ready. I got everything encrypted on my PC. I can clean off my desk in about five minutes. The only thing I'm missing are my coffee cups.
I'm ordering them tonight.
I hope they arrive in time for The Audit.