This post was prompted by my coworker telling me she had asked if they had a cable to connect her laptop to her home computer for quick file transfer; Ty had told her "there is no such thing"; she came back ten minutes later with a catalog page, and he then said "you don't need it." She went out and bought a cable, but it was symptomatic. These are the people who, when I reported a problem and quoted the error message in which IE had said there was a problem with the FTP server, told me they didn't support IE.
Then there are backups. Or rather, then there aren't backups. When I started there, I was told to put my work on the server rather than my desktop, because the server was backed up nightly. I wound up working on the desktop and copying it over at the end of the day, if the server hadn't crashed at 4 or 4:30 as it was doing regularly for a while. Somewhere in there, I needed something from backup. It then transpired that "every day" meant "once or twice a week." And they couldn't find my file from anywhere in a three-week period. I now have everything on my hard drive, backed up to both the server and a flash drive.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
What
From:
no subject
Then there are backups. Or rather, then there aren't backups. When I started there, I was told to put my work on the server rather than my desktop, because the server was backed up nightly. I wound up working on the desktop and copying it over at the end of the day, if the server hadn't crashed at 4 or 4:30 as it was doing regularly for a while. Somewhere in there, I needed something from backup. It then transpired that "every day" meant "once or twice a week." And they couldn't find my file from anywhere in a three-week period. I now have everything on my hard drive, backed up to both the server and a flash drive.
From:
no subject