Night Crew check in v2.0

[Goodburbon]

Interesting. Do you like it?

Sorry, I missed this.


Yes and no.


The requirements are constantly changing, which I don't like.
The pay is good, which I like.
I work alongside someone who does less work, has less education, and gets double pay, (the directional driller) which takes some of the wind out of it for me.

Pretty often the entire operation can be waiting on you, which can be stressful.
Most of the time though, we are watching TV.


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[brutal]

Rough morning. Computer failure and a co worker demanding to know how long it will take every 5 minutes. Then I get chewed out for telling him to leave me alone so I can do my job.

At the end of it, it took an hour for a 5 minute operation.

Lessons:
1. Be courteous to coworkers even when they are annoying you.
2. When someone asks how long something will take and you have no idea, make something up that will keep them at bay for a long time. Being honest with them only has them calling every 5 minutes saying "what's going on?"




Glad to hear the wife is OK.

Do your best to estimate how long it may take given the worst case outcome, double it and add 50% and tell them that's how long it will be.

When you come in under the wire, you look like a hero.

Any time someone stands over me and asks how long something will take to fix, my initial response is, "Longer if you ask me every 5 minutes or stand there and watch me. Please find something else to do and I will let you know the moment it is resolved."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't yet know the answer, but it will be the last thing I check, now go away and let me continue looking."

[Goodburbon]

Do your best to estimate how long it may take given the worst case outcome, double it and add 50% and tell them that's how long it will be.

When you come in under the wire, you look like a hero.

Any time someone stands over me and asks how long something will take to fix, my initial response is, "Longer if you ask me every 5 minutes or stand there and watch me. Please find something else to do and I will let you know the moment it is resolved."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't yet know the answer, but it will be the last thing I check, now go away and let me continue looking."

that's pretty much what I told him the second time he called.

I can't give a worst case because they would panic. Worst case was lose 12 hours of data, take 18 hours to reacquire it, 1 day in there to get a new surface unit shipped in and hooked up, restore the data I have. I can't go around telling them it'll take 4 days to fix, and still look like a hero when I've got it going again in 55 minutes.

"I just had a computer crash I'll let you know as soon as it's fixed " was my first call

"I don't know yet, I'll call you. The longer I spend on the phone the longer this will take." was my second answer.

"leave me alone and let me do my job" was my third answer.

"look, the more you call me, the longer this will take, I do not know how long this will take" "What am I doing?, right now I'm opening a database, loading the data, clicking on the data, scrolling through it to verify( hear him hand the phone to the Lead, "see if you can talk to this guy") (asks how long it will take) " It could take 5 minutes, it could take an hour, I don;t know yet" (so you're saying you don't know....). "YES!, you wanna come hold my hand while I do this?"



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[BuffCyclist]

Do your best to estimate how long it may take given the worst case outcome, double it and add 50% and tell them that's how long it will be.

When you come in under the wire, you look like a hero.

Any time someone stands over me and asks how long something will take to fix, my initial response is, "Longer if you ask me every 5 minutes or stand there and watch me. Please find something else to do and I will let you know the moment it is resolved."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't yet know the answer, but it will be the last thing I check, now go away and let me continue looking."

I thought that answer of "double plus 50%" was only the answer you gave to the wife when she asks about a project. And the money aspect of it is twice as much as it'll really cost, yet half as much as a contractor would quote.

[Goodburbon]

I used double plus 50 for gulf of mexico offshore projects. Worked pretty well.


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[BuffCyclist]

Wait, isn't double plus 50% just triple the actual guesstimate?

Man, how did I not see that before?!

[BuffCyclist]

I guess everyone is sleeping their hangovers away for the start of the work week tomorrow... There's usually some people online at this time of night though...

[GilpinGuy]

I'm here! Bored out of my freaking mind.

[GilpinGuy]

I'm so f-ed. I discovered the Orvis flyfishing podcasts. I have 3 years worth to get through.

[BuffCyclist]

Awesome! 3 years worth of episodes of something is always a glorious thing to look forward to!

My luck is that I always get hooked on shows that only air for 1 or 2 seasons and end on a cliffhanger, that really pisses me off!