Computers and phones down at work for the past three days. The result of a virus that got loose in the system. No one can call in for an appointment and we can't call out. It hasn't reached the point where we've been asked to use personal cell phones for company business though I'm sure it's been considered by now. Probably because we also can't access product information to set-up and process orders. It's beginning to feel like we are working in the dark. Doing what we can with technology from a century or two in the past. There's surely going to be a crazy insane day or two ahead of catch-up once things get up and running.
So once again circumstances are lining up for me to feel guilty about being absent during the vacation time I already had scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday next week .... the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
And I'm told that conditions are ripe for this or other system failures to happen again before we switch over to a new system sometime next year. Hopefully much brighter people than I will have a plan in place for as-near-to-normal-as-possible, continued operations in the event that there is a repeat performance.
In the meantime, my head has been on constant spin cycle the past three days attempting to document and keep information semi-organized as much as possible. It's times like this that I wish I possessed perfect penmanship and totally error free mathematics and documentation skills. I'd say, "no typos" but there's no computer keyboards in use. Calculators are only as good as my aging fat fingers taking up the physical space of one and a quarter calculator keys and moving too fast as they attempt to keep pace with my random thought processes, will allow.
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