24.05.2003
What a crappy week
The week was not a lot of fun:
Monday - only person in my team actually at work (one is away on holidays, the other was working night shift). A rather busy day then eventuated with my back starting to play up. It kept getting worse all day and didn’t help the amount of work I had to do (creating 15 sites in AD Sites and Services and adding folder redirection into policy for those sites along with DNS entries).
Tuesday/Wednesday - wasn’t at work due to the above-mentioned back problems. Probably some flu type stuff as well as I felt like I had been run over by a train for most of that 48 hours 
Thursday - the grand restructure announcement finally happpened. Short version - I’m now back in a server support team although supposed to be doing what I am doing now. But of the 3 people in my team, 1 is now in “project services” and the other is in “server support” along with me. And this is supposed to be “compentency based” roles? The three of us have spent over two years doing AD management and implementation work and have just about succeeded in keeping things afloat. The result? We get split up and probably still have to do the same work except two of us now do all the mundane stuff and day-to-day operational tasks which the other does whatever the new role of “projects” is. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.
What this does make me think though is it is time to do something about leaving my current situation. I acquired my RHCE a couple of months ago and now need to quickly acquire at least my MCSA, then start seriously looking for a new role. This “server support” team is what I was doing two years ago, I don’t feel like taking a backward step at this stage.
Friday - fun fun, normal crap. Spent some time in the evening looking at some other mrtg things I can graph which I will look at implementing on my home gateway shortly (you can never have too many graphs 
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I’ll post again later.