Well, this can certainly be called the week of computer woes. On Monday our system was already incredibly slow. On Tuesday the server broke down entirely. Well, so the girls in the order department went back to writing each and every oder by hand.
The accounting department was off even worse. I couldn't tell anyone anything without the computer. But I still didn't get bored since there was a lot of stuff that I could do, that doesn't involve a computer. And usually I don't get around doing those things anyways. But some accounting work needed to be done and so I did it the old fashioned way...with the print out off all the accounts in use. Actually it is quite interesting and actually fun, since you have to use your head and think in which accounting class an expense or income actually belongs. Haven't done that since my accounting exam. With a computer you just type in a search term and get a list of possible accounts back. In the beginning going back to the "old way" is quite exhausting, but you get very quickly used to it.
On Wednesday the estimates about the possible date loss and therefor for the possible damage where somewhere between half a work day and up to 2 weeks. If the later part should turn out to be true...that would be an disaster! Each "computer expert" was telling a different story and trying to point out that his scenario would be the accurate on. Fact is that apparently all the experts didn't really know either.
On Thursday we got a replacement server. Well it was working...but things were quite slow. I spent most part of Thursday and Friday examining the accounting data and the data integrity. Apparently we got off with a blue eye. The data integrity turned out to be OK and we only lost about half a workday of accounting data. So we will have to re-enter that stuff. But that's certainly a very small price to pay. I'm quite happy that it turned out to be that way.
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