I just spent 15 working days in solving a problem at work that had to do with email routing. That’s about 24 calendar days. Something that had been working perfectly for years suddenly stopped delivering email.<\/p>\n
It was all caused by human intervention into a system that has become highly fragmented when we became a part of a global business giant and having to work with their old but dominate email systems.<\/p>\n
These email systems and routings have become so complex and as I stated fragmented, that no one person can understand the complete system at a high enough resolution to be a single source expert on fixing what goes wrong,<\/p>\n
Last Thursday I was center attraction in a global voice conference involving support people in India, France, east coast USA and several here in Dallas plus myself.<\/p>\n
I had already spent at least 12 working days trying to communicate with this \u201cteam\u201d via emails, phone calls and a direct request to a real IT support human who happened to stick his head in my door. This real human did the most to get the right people together for the teleconference.<\/p>\n
After the call on Thursday, I thought we had the problem nailed, but we didn’t. The one person that needed to be in the call wasn’t and I just spent two more days this week and one last week, still working on the same problem.<\/p>\n
Today it is finally working for real.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t just one issue, it was several and each one affected the other.<\/p>\n
I liked the days when I could fix anything. I guess I still can but now it may take a complete support team. I also wasn’t fixing global systems in those days. That’s progress I suppose and I did learn a lot. So much for DIY. I just can’t afford all the time it takes to figure out who belongs on the team.<\/p>\n
That’s why I can relax in my workshop or these blog pages. I control everything. Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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