{"id":567,"date":"2020-06-02T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2020-06-02T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T21:09:30","slug":"who-was-that-disembodied-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Who Was That Disembodied Voice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0977D6EF-D018-4A17-8C0B-6AAAA903D964-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-571\" width=\"420\" height=\"306\"\/><figcaption>*Woman<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As often happens, because he thinks for nearly everybody in his company up to and possibly including the CIO, DMc gets called onto a bridge after hours. This one is to help estimate the time to build some new alleged emergency servers for a group that has escalated up to the C-level because they failed to plan ahead while IT resources have nearly disappeared and now they have a massive, costly vendor-based timeline problem. (So, just like nearly all companies ever, amIright?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMc\u2019s Manager: DMc, I need to know what your thoughts are on how to handle cloning these servers and how long it would take you, Co-worker A, and Co-worker B to get it all done and handed over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMc: *asks a few pertinent questions for background* Well, assume 30 minutes research on names, IPs, patch levels, non-standard installs on each box. Then at least 2 hours per to clone&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TMc: (calls from the kitchen) <em>Assume NO interruptions!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMc: Yeah, that\u2019s per box, effort NOT duration, because you gotta assume zero interruptions but that never happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMc\u2019s Manager: Yeah, yeah, she\u2019s right, no interruptions or we\u2019ll have to what, double the estimate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TMc: (calls from the kitchen) <em>Yes, I\u2019d double it to be safe, you know how interrupt-driven the team\u2019s days are right now!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly Everybody on the Bridge: Yeah, yeah, that is SO true!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Random DMc Co-worker: Wait. Who was that lady talking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMc: My wife. She absolutely knows what she\u2019s talking about, and she\u2019s the only reason I\u2019m still working here. Just roll with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMc\u2019s Manager and Co-worker: Fair enough, OK!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TMc: (in the kitchen, sotto voce) <em>Damn skippy, children.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At any rate, I\u2019m still trying to decide if it\u2019s less fun, or <em>more<\/em> fun, now that I\u2019m not getting paid for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As often happens, because he thinks for nearly everybody in his company up to and possibly including the CIO, DMc&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}