Many times the end of another year and the timeliness of the holidays can mean a bit slower pace at work. It can amount to a little less intensity and a slightly more relaxed atmosphere. (Please accept my apology if this doesn’t exactly describe your particular situation.) I know things really aren’t quite as calm as they seem; the New Year will bring about a fresh wave of new projects to test our nerves. But it is nice to enjoy the season. Here are my ideas for ways you can spread the holiday cheer with random acts of IT kindness. Feel free to chime in and suggest your own.
Restore non-critical data for a user –
I was able to perform this much appreciated good deed this week in fact. Sure, restoring a user’s personal folder from tape backup so she can retrieve pictures of her grandchildren isn’t as challenging as recovering a mission critical application server, but don’t tell her that. This one is sure to garner an extra “holiday” card and maybe homemade cookies if you’re lucky.
Assist rogue Marketing department users –
You know who I’m talking about. They’re the ones using Macs while the rest of the organization toils away on PCs. You routinely ignore their existence 51 weeks out of the year because they use non-standard workstations and occasionally complain about being unable to reach network resources. Bite your tongue this once and help configure their Mac Entourage email clients to connect to the Exchange server. Feel free to disable their network ports after the holidays.
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