I’m now into my fourth week in this job, the work is going to be pretty much like any data centre relocation – with the exception of the security implications. There is a need to ensure that the data stays where it belongs as anyone with the correct facilities and access to the data could probably make a lot of money from it! The people that work in the UK office are all pretty good, just like any office really – some have a face like a well skelpit arse and some seem to be always happy.
Even those that are going seem to have a broad spectrum of outlooks, as I’m working with engineers I’d like to point out that there seems to be three camps. There will always be the old the glass is half empty verses the glass is half full camp, but here there seems to be an other faction (the real engineers) they seem to be of the opinion that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. This is actually quite a refreshing change from the normal environments that I have worked in, these people actually seem to be prepared to make things happen.
One point in fact is that chief financial officer, at morning smoke’o I went outside as normal to find him clearing debris from the path leading to the office – the reason was that it needed doing and he had the time to do it. Not some thing I would have seen at my last position, but it’s good to know that you’re working with people like that. On a more pertinent note, the European that was going to be all over my ass hasn’t been seen or heard from for the past three weeks. There was a quick demonstration of the people who had been on the “it wasn’t me” course, when several disk drives with “potentially” significant quantities of data were sent off site without being encrypted.
And someone who has bought a piece of equipment might be a bit disappointed as it can’t be found, this is a big piece of very expensive equipment – I’ll watch the outcome of this one with interest.