So hell IS real

Fucking this.

Every single person in this story above you in the org chart catastrophically failed at their job; but I would say your direct manager deserves most of the blame.

The main priority of everyone directly managing individual contributors should be to make sure they can all do their respective job with as little interference as possible. Asking you to waste time by drafting an e-mail for them (aka doing their job for them) is bad enough. But the real failure is not shielding you from all those other nosy idiots afterwards.

Really hope they pay you well enough to make dealing with this shameless display of incompetence across all levels worth it for you.

So I wasn't expecting to be assaulted this early in the morning but apparently you're my coworker.

I've had a similar situation. In my case it was people helpfully stopping by to suggest things, and my boss telling me to needed to work on something else that was less critical. Then I was like, hey, I'm going to telework because I can't focus here.... Oh no, you need to be here...

Great, let's work Saturday. Sigh.

You show your manager your call log.

All those things are logged for a reason. Use it.

Delightfully creepy.

Well what else what you call what Geordi’s rocking?

Hahaha, amazing!

And each of them want at least a 15 min 1 on 1 meeting to ask what is going on and how long until it's fixed.

Juan is the one digging and everyone standing around are the ones saying he's just a lazy DEI hire...3 of which are cousins working at their family business who were hired to a 2nd tier position straight out of high school.

I worked digging ditches for pipe for a few summers during college for a private construction company. One time we were tying new pipe into an existing line and when the excavator exposed the old pipe it was really old cement and pretty much crumbled away. The water for that area had to be shut off, and since it was the city's pipe we had to wait for the city to fix it. A truck arrived at 5:00 on the dot (that's when you start getting time and a half if you work for the government) with like 5 dudes, and things unfolded kinda like in this picture. One of them went into the ditch and dug out the pipe a bit while the others stood around watching. Then he came out and another guy went in while the others watched.

I mean, good for them to have the union so they don't need to bust their asses constantly or whatever it was, but we couldn't go home until the water was back on so I ended up exhausted with an 18-hour day, and it feels like it didn't need to be quite that long.

Repeatedly slam ESC and CTRL-C followed eventually by a shameful : and then a q. Then a q! because you only read half the message. Then screaming

Try :quit!

Legend speaks of an ancient manual that held the knowledge of such incredible feats as this. None I know of have ever ventured there and returned. Best to leave the ancient forbidden arcane knowledge at rest and not disturb the techno spirits.

It's a network issue.

It's not always a network issue!

must be a problem with the super-visor.

Probably DNS