I come in to work this morning and I tell the supt. that the new portable air conditioner in my office works great except that when they curtail our power (shut it off) at 3pm and then turn it back on at 6pm that the A/C unit doesn't come on automatically so whoever turns the power back on will probably have to turn the unit back on. He says to me "You turn it off over the weekend don't you?" I just wanted to smack my head against the wall but I replied and said "No, because all of the servers are in there and they have to stay cool". It has been this way for at least the past 5 or 6 years.
The problem this week (and part of next week) is that the maintenance guy who normally turns the power off/on is on vacation until Wednesday so that means the supt. will be flipping the switches and I just know that he won't want to walk to my office and unlock it just to turn my A/C back on. Luckily I still have the window unit in here so I'll just turn off the portable unit and turn on the window unit before I leave, at least until the maintenance guy comes back. I just wish they'd pipe central air over to my office from one of the rooms across the hall. The A/C unit that goes to 2 of those rooms is actually made to cool an entire floor of an office building and it wouldn't take much to run some ductwork to my office. Russ Gowin System Administrator Technology Specialist DeLand-Weldon CUSD #57 304 E. Illinois Route 10 DeLand, IL 61839 217-736-2311 | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
