Of Pens and Swords

I think I solved the problem of the day though. It seems two servers were having replication problems for the past three weeks. I didn’t really know to what extent this was, because my supervisor was working on the project.

The story is, I got counceled last night for what I’m going to be evaluated on for the next year. It was a bit of contention for me, because Im being evaluated on my ability to show up on time (which, finally, after almost two months, I have been given hours to work…whew), doing PT, and just being smart. Crap, that last one is in comparison to what? How do you define smart? Who is defining it? anyways. I sort of bitched him out for that, saying that is something that should be on a developmental counseling, not on my annual counseling checklist. I should be evaluated on my specific tasks that I have that authorizes me to be in this shop. He argued that that part is on the actual Evaluation report. I said, uh huh, and the two should sort of mirror each other. Plus, I pointed out, that the evaluation counseling instructions were, in fact, printed on the same page as the initial counseling…and it says to counsel the NCO about job description, standards, and the such. I guess I was spelling out too much common sense for a day, and just gave up. I digress. The point to this mid-point rant was that I also complained about how he says that I know sooo much more than him, yet I sit in the office all day long without a damn thing to do but answer the fuckin’ phone. I hate, as much as I do my ex, that goddamn phone…or more the people and really silly questions that call in on that phone. He said he had a few projects that he’d been working on for a few weeks, asked me which one I wanted. One, a server replication error, or two, helping in designing a webpage. I really don’t like web design, so I took the replication problem.

Back to that. My supervisor gave me a folder with which he’d been working on the server issue with for the past 3 weeks. I opened it today, to see if there was actually anything in there. Nope, it was a folder with about ten pages of SQL Server terms. That’s it. Well, not knowing much about SQL Server, I decided to do a little research. First, I knew that it worked 3 weeks ago. Second, I know that they deleted profiles off the machine right before the replication stopped working. The problem seemed to be that the user they deleted, then re-added, didn’t have the permissions to send out the replication requests…It would seem it’s fixed. We’ll see.

Now, I think I’m going to be bored again. I do, however, get a lot of time to study. That’s always good. Uber Geek-batize me baby.

Enough for tonight. I’m tired.

Hasta.