One of the perks of working for small companies is that they trust you because everyone knows everyone’s name and there’s no hierarchy of management to traverse, especially when it comes to installation of equipment and access to the buildings.
I’m not saying that I take advantage of this for malicious intent (I really don’t) but it does help make things a little bit more comfortable when you’re pulling a weekend shift in an empty building.
I was doing a fairly standard job, migrate SBS2003 to SBS2011, easy job, but I knew when I decided that I’d be doing it that it was going to be my Saturday gone, so I decided to make the most of it - I was alone in this old building with access to a kitchen and internet, what else do I need? That’s pretty much the exact same set up I have at home.
When it came to the long part of the SBS migration and I had done all the work, all the boxes were ticked and the I’s were dotted, all that was left was the waiting.
My shoes came off, my feet were up and I loaded up Netflix on my little Lenovo Thinkpad T61. I had been planning to watch a movie for a while now so I pretty much just sat and watched that, ordered a pizza to the place, and abused the hell out of their Nescafe Gold Barista, it was one of those huge >£15 tubs, so I didn’t feel too bad.
With my pizza and my coffee, I proceeded to enjoy watching some Tom Cruise flick, it was pretty good from what I remember.
After that day, that Nescafe stuff became my regular go to coffee for when I can’t be bothered brewing some of the nicer ground stuff that I’ve got.
The server that I put in has been running solidly since the install - no issues (apart from the obvious one: it’s running SBS2011), and the client has been fairly happy.
Remember, if no one’s about, as long as you do the work you can be as comfortable as you want. It’s your life after all.
-X
