Dreamstalker
07-20-2008, 04:08 AM
So the game store was hosting a Geek Singles Night tonight, so I popped over there. Met some cool folx, ate, remembered why it takes me on average 4 days to finish one bottle of Bawls (damn guarana, it's a miracle I wasn't bouncing off the walls of the subway on the way home)... I guess no bridges were burned, as Boss greeted me civilly.
Cool Night Manager was there, and we shot the breeze when I left after finding a used gaming book I'd been looking for forever.
The online-sales side of things is effectively dead; vastly increased shipping prices combined with stuff-that-nobody-wants and ebay's new let's-fsck-the-small-sellers policies with no viable alternatives was the root cause (wait, I was given the greenlight to research alternatives just before Boss decided he didn't like what I was doing). Basically, as predicted, my presence was keeping it going. "One of many things teetering on the brink of disaster" was CNM's way of putting it.
The register was down. Again. The reason for this time: the "IT Guy"* had logged the admin account off of the server (whereupon it was found that he had never divulged the password to anyone), and was not answering his voicemail. So for the past three days, the upstairs computer had no register functions, no internet or network connection, and no database access.
* same dude who screwed up a routine parts replacement and treated me like a flaming idiot when I was tasked to go get the right part. He's still actively employed there, so I do not know why he never divulged a critical password to those who would need it
Cool Night Manager was there, and we shot the breeze when I left after finding a used gaming book I'd been looking for forever.
The online-sales side of things is effectively dead; vastly increased shipping prices combined with stuff-that-nobody-wants and ebay's new let's-fsck-the-small-sellers policies with no viable alternatives was the root cause (wait, I was given the greenlight to research alternatives just before Boss decided he didn't like what I was doing). Basically, as predicted, my presence was keeping it going. "One of many things teetering on the brink of disaster" was CNM's way of putting it.
The register was down. Again. The reason for this time: the "IT Guy"* had logged the admin account off of the server (whereupon it was found that he had never divulged the password to anyone), and was not answering his voicemail. So for the past three days, the upstairs computer had no register functions, no internet or network connection, and no database access.
* same dude who screwed up a routine parts replacement and treated me like a flaming idiot when I was tasked to go get the right part. He's still actively employed there, so I do not know why he never divulged a critical password to those who would need it