Last Friday, with all the hurry

Well, I can't claim it was a good day, even though I was on half day leave in the afternoon. Actually, that's one of the reason for not doing it well: I was in a hurry for the leave.
There were quite some stuff on the day, and it's better to look at it again, possibly finding a way to improve.
Things didn't work out well when the email about link migration was sent out. The plan inside was not what I expected. To make it worse, the field guy refused to do it, and boss asked me with another colleague to settle it with the engineer in charge. Apparently there was some ineffective communication in between about the migration. It turned out the key was 3rd switch is not ready for migration yet, but I thought it was. That's why the details sent out involves migration at two locations, which means tough job. This could be the direct reason to trigger the guy to refuse the plan, which I have no idea...
From this, i see two things. If my staff talks to me about it when he found the planned site to work on was not logical, it would be much better. I could find out the problem of 3rd switch not ready a lot easier, without going through the unnecessary confusion. Another thing is if the work order was not sent out but just sent to me first, there won't be such unpleasant reaction of refusal.
Still it's not end of story. My colleague settled with the engineer in charge, very fast. The conclusion was to postpone it, which means cancelling any migration work on that week. I don't feel this is the best solution, as it implies one empty week with no work done. There might be other alternatives, maybe we could work on other sites instead. But no choice, it's settled and we have to follow the agreement of postponing.
My understanding is it could be better. Those two if conditions would help so I will do that for next link migration. Another thing is should talk to my colleague about who are the engineers involved and what was the agreement last time, so that I would be able to make the contacts directly next time to settle problems. Anyway, it will be officially handed over to me.

Another question, what was the hurry for? I wanted to buy phone cards and openning an stock market account. Apparently, buying phone cards were low priority. I should gave that up but rather focus more on job tasks..
It turned out I missed an urgent email in the afternoon. It was sent in the noon, but I never replied. It was just so impolite and I also felt bad. The lesson is.. don't hurry for unimportant stuff... Saving $2 for two months was trivial, and there should and will be better solutions.

After reading through emails in the afternoon, I found out another big project is supposed to be handed over to me. Good, challenging work. Real time monitoring system is already implemented, I also don't want to make it "million dollar white elephant".

Well, it's good to sit down and think about stuff that happened, no matter good or bad. It will be better tomorrow, and I believe in it.

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