So after a lot of wrangling and their techs connected to their laptop on my network, maybe 14 hours worth, they still had no idea what was going on but could see the randomness. A shot in the dark the phonetech suggested replacing the equipment on both ends of the fibre strand with newer updated gear, well that pretty much fixed everything immediately.

So this has been troubling me for about six months. I'm going to lean on the billing department with the argument, this is a commercial connection and if you expect the customer to keep an eye on the health of your equipment, you're sadly mistaken. Business pays extra for such services as well as guaranteed networking speed to the backbone. not to the first router. I'll lean on the finance department for six months of fees, else I suppose a well drafted letter to the states atty general may prove to be useful.


In other horrid news, a few years ago we had a horrid manager four layers up that said he doesn't believe in data centers... for a development org... WTF, dumbass, well we moved divisions to get out from under him and this week, blammo, we get the announcement, he's moved back into our chain, is pissed that we avoided his axe last time and now we've got till Q2 to vacate the lab and relocate all the data and equipment.

Now the upper mgmt says there are internal jobs we can apply for and after the migration we can get placed in new spots. Honestly that's all a huge truckload of bullshit, slathered with a spatula and they're calling it cake. No currently open job req is going to wait six months to be filled and no upper management is gong to approve a transfer ahead of getting their data moved. My manager thinks she can approve some stuff but at some point, it'll be blocked. A giant fuck you because some upper manager has this check box on his annual goals. Where the data is moving to, both sites, neither has duplicate power or even generation capacity, so yeah, great idea.