What... The.... Fuck?

Ok, feeling a bit overwhelmed today at work.

For those of you who didn't know, I work for a major telecommunications company who shall remain unnamed. I design dedicated data circuits for this company between cities. A lot of what I do, is project management. When my company cannot support a circuit order on our own network, I go out and lease capacity from other companies to support the order.

Then I have to choose the best price, negotiate the price, choose the best vendor, etc... Once I've chosen a vendor, that's where the project managing comes into play. I have to work with the vendor, the Local Bell, the Customer, my company, and sometimes an extra company (for cross-lata circuits (don't ask)). I take the pieces from each of these parties, design the circuit, and then make sure the connections are made properly between each and every party.

i.e. - Circuit originates with the customer in City A. From there, the circuit passes off to an interconnect provider who then passes it to my company. Then, I may have to pass it off to another interconnect company who takes it to the vendor. This is all in the same city. Then the vendor takes the circuit to City B. From there, they pass the circuit off to a loop provider who in turn takes the circuit out to the customer. I have to make sure that the connections are made properly at each hand-off. Ensuring that these connections are being made requires me to deal with all these parties involved... Coordinating wiring, scheduling testing, etc...

Now, normally, I typically only work with DS3 level circuits. A DS3 = 28 T1s. A T1 = 1.5 Mbps up and down. A DS3 = 45 Mbps. I'll also order a few occasional OC-3 (OC3 = 3 DS3s). OCN circuits typically take longer to design and manage due to the capacity restraints and they they are on a fiber optic level which requires specific fiber optic equipment.

This is where my WTF for today comes in.

I got (2) orders for OC-12s (12 DS3s) a couple of weeks ago. No big deal, I've worked a few of these. Then, I got (2) more orders last week. Hrmmm... Then, (2) more orders this week. Ok... (6) OC-12s. That'll make life interesting. I stop by my boss's office to discuss another order, and he informs me that I have even more OC-12s coming my way.

WTF? (EIGHTEEN) OC-12s total to be exact. WTF!?!? That is equivalent to 216 DS3s. I haven't worked 216 DS3s TOTAL, in the past 3 years. 216 DS3s. That equals = 9.7gig (appx.) in bandwidth.

This is of course, in addition to my current workload which includes 30+ DS3s and 3-4 OC-3s.

This isn't going to be fun.

Job security? Yeah.

Job suckage? Definitely.