u/CubGeek

In the middle of moving my lights to the other side of the patio, my son rode his bike from the driveway into the back yard. I was able to ward him off from any of the bulbs themselves, but he rode right over the control box.

Yes, I admit that it is my fault for laying the lights out on the ground as I was working, and not blocking off the area with something (my husband actually has miniature orange traffic cones for when we mop the floors, so those would have been perfect).

I'd like to purchase a replacement unit, but I'm not able to find just that device, on the Govee site. Am I not searching the correct terms/phrases.etc, or is this something that I'll need to open a support ticket for? I am happy to pay for the unit and shipping, since this was absolutely "Owner Error."

Thanks for any advice!

Sent to my team:

> FROM: DCT
> SUBJECT: Updates from DCT/CXO meeting > > Team, > > Some not-so-great news from this morning’s DCT et. al. meeting. > > * In addition to the $20M budget reduction this year, DOB has decided that OITS must fund the cost of living (COLA) increases for our staff. That's an additional $18.5m hit to the budget. Other agencies are impacted similarly. > > * All recruitment actions are now frozen i.e. +1 hires > > * Any request for staffing will be denied unless it can be proven to the execs that the hire target is critical to State operations. Anything less will be denied. > > * Promotions will continue > > * Student assistants will be let go. There are roughly 30 that will be released from OITS - unless their continuance can be justified i.e. critical to operations. I don't believe we have any student assistants on the Dedicated team anymore. > > * Even if someone leaves or retires we cannot backfill at this time > > * It is recommended to vigorously cross-train employees to handle the work from vacancies > > * We need to review our spend on software, services, etc. - any budget item in our span of control - for possible termination, or in the case of software, replacement by open source software. Jenson suggested replacing requests for new Oracle databases with Postgres as an example. > > > Chamber is working with DOB to resolve this issue, but a positive outcome is unlikely.

EDIT 1: Context: my team is part of the Dedicated Support Team model, and we're out in the regions (not in the capital area).

Edit 2: Added in the entire text of the email. This is now verbatim what the DCT sent out to the entire Dedicated Support Team's management.

Happened at the Cottonmouth dispensary parking lot, and the victim stumbled across the street to Burger King. A BK manager called 911, and police have had K-9 units on site, both the dispensary and the fast food lots are blocked off by police, and there is a crime scene area taped off where a jacket and cellphone were found. No suspect in custody, as of this writing.