*grump*

Over the course of the weekend, it was determined that Business Objects' scheduled and manual reporting process contributed to a strain on an overworked CPU on the Data Warehouse server.  In order to alleviate the strain on the server, Business Objects consoles/reports were scaled back early Monday morning to process only reports deemed 'critical' to the business.

Apparently none of mine are considered 'critical' - though I've had a number of users screaming at me for the past few days who beg to differ.  I've had run the jobs and import the records to the database manually since some time mid-last week.  It's getting old - and it's going far beyond what I considered to be the kind of routine maintenance and support that I had anticipated for this job.

Oh, and I'm not actually running against the Data Warehouse - I'm pulling my data from one of the other servers - but they suspended all of my reports anyway.  It's that same principle that has the teacher give the whole class detention because one kid was chewing gum.

[Half hour pause while I take care of some priority work.]

Okay, I'm back.  I washed my coffee mug while I was away, and the interior turned from coal to pristine snow in the process.  It won't last, but for the nonce a clean coffee mug makes me happy.  Sometimes it's the little things.

Seniority

The new seniority list came out today and - though it no longer affects me - I have moved to the upper portion of the list.  That's not entirely unexpected, given that I have been working here for almost 20 years.

What a depressing landmark that is.

[Edit: When I say it's depressing, it's because this is not what I had envisioned for myself 20 years ago. I'm not doing badly, per se, but I have never felt that I lived up to my potential.]