Started in the Bay Area. Been working in PR for 11 years -- enterprise and consumer tech -- and have lived in a rural town in Idaho since 1998. By day I live the scrambled and fast-paced life of a comms consultant with a firm in Silicon Valley. The rest of the time I'm just a flip flop-wearin' wife and mom to two kids in a town where you have to hunt down the rare wireless connection, the only highway is two lanes, and the post office workers know me by name.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

IT = Information Technology or IT = Irrational Times




Since June I’ve had IT woes. Missed emails, latency issues and sporadic disconnects with our corporate email server. Oh the joys of working remote. 99% of the time I consider myself very lucky to live the life I have, but on days when email isn’t working for me I live in fear of missing an important client assignment or email invite and generally am floundering. It ain't easy being 800 miles from our office.
Thankfully, we have a very patient and thorough IT dude at work. After work one night he spent two (very boring and frustrating, I’m sure) hours on the phone with me in order to get my new wireless router up and running.

But wow. The new one kicks arse! I’ve had it up and running for a business week basically and so far its uber reliable and the reach is all the way down my block (lucky neighbors). Yay, NetGear!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well said.

Stephaniehiix said...

Well said.