In the words of Bob Geldof........

Daisy Turnip writes.....

We're a perfectly formed, but very small IT team and this week IT Jnr, AKA IT Geek, is on annual leave. We miss IT Jnr very much when he's away (and it's nothing to do with the fact that he deals with the overwhelming majority of the 1st tier IT support calls).

First thing this morning (and it had been a heavy weekend), I was sitting at my desk, pumping myself up for a meeting with the new web developers along with a couple of internal meetings, when IT Snr, AKA IT Guru, came purposefully walking round the corner, he had a rabbit 'caught in the headlights' kind of stare going on on his face, he then purposefully pointed back at the server room and said firmly, 'do you have a minute?' - no, it wasn't a question, it was most definitely a, 'get your backside round here NOW!'

Because he's on leave this week and wanted to finish off some bits and bobs before leaving for the week, IT Jnr was the last to leave the office on Friday. The look on IT Snr's face made me think that IT Jnr was stuck in the server room and had been there for the entire weekend - probably dead, due to the Icelandic conditions of our amazing air con system!

I didn't even get to the server room - the heat simply hit me when I was about 500 yards away! Wow, tropical.

Yes, you've guessed it, there was a problem with the air con unit - it too had had a heavy weekend and was confused with its purpose in life. Instead of blowing out cold, crispy clear air, it had decided to have a wobbly and was now chucking out 80 degree tropical waves. Trust me we simply couldn't breathe in there.

Servers squealing and warning lights flashing - it really wasn't a pretty sight first thing on a Monday morning.

All is well now, the AC engineers have been and carried out their magic, otherwise known as vacuumed out the external vent (I'm sure this is part of the annual service programme (mental note to go and check this). But dear oh dear what do you think the rest of the week is going to be like!?

I don't like Mondays either Bob.