The main website where I work has been up and down – mostly down – for the past three days. Things here in the webteam office have gotten pretty grim and our software vendors are essentially at a loss. We can’t update the site at the moment – one of my main jobs – and even the live version is unstable at best.
We’re all quieter than usual, very subdued as we try and work out what’s wrong. Or more likely the combination of things that are wrong. I’ve still got other projects I can work on, but a couple of the guys here are essentially on stand-by. Not a good week for the webteam.
On a brighter note, I had a meeting with a colleague in another department yesterday. I’m not normally a fan of meetings in general, but this colleague is super smart and very pleasant to work with. We got everything covered and assigned homework and were out the door in no time. As I was walking her out through the maze of our building, I told her that our group – collectively – was very glad she was part of UA. She does marketing for one of the colleges and through her efforts their website has improved dramatically.
She was pleasantly surprised at my comment and thanked me – saying that she sometimes wondered if she was making a difference and I assured her that she was. So, I think I made her day.