Today was an interesting day. I woke up at noon. I haven’t done that in a long time. I get a really good night’s sleep every day after my chiropractic appointment, and coupled with the fact that I got some 5 hours of sleep for a few days in a row, it was real good.
I was just reviewing a few things I was doing at work when i got a call from an unknown number from New York (Sprint’s phones let you know what state the caller’s # is from). It’s my boss’s boss, and he says hey I’m looking for that file you worked on the other day, I got a request and I need a copy of it. Can you also change it so that we have this view and that view…
I still have no idea how he got my cell phone number.
It wouldn’t have been a big deal except for a few reasons. I had no IBM’s intranet access from home. It would always keep searching for different numbers to connect to and just knock me off. The server I needed to download new data from was down for maintenance this weekend, of all the possible weekends. So I drove to the IBM’s learning center, which is only about 5 miles away. I couldn’t log on for some reason, so I drove another 15 miles to work, and stayed for the next 2 hours only to find out there’s nothing I could do for now. My 2nd line manager replies to the same man who requested some data from him, letting him know there’s nothing we can do till 9pm tomorrow.
It turns out he was just looking for information to reply to an inquiry from IBM’s CEO. So I was pretty bummed out that I couldn’t do anything about it right then and there. For some reason, my data was off by a few percentage points. And I get the feeling that this kind of stuff won’t happen for me again anytime soon.