Oh, dear....
I could see where it was going when it mentioned upping the strength of the sanitiser and UV lamp. And the (viral) kill rate. Then the immortal line about "some old AI robot hardware somewhere in the basement" made sure of it...
BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns Looking back, lockdown may not have been all bad. On the one hand we had time apart from workplace human contact – the day-to-day pleasantries that add some spice to our otherwise mundane lives – but on the other we did miss out all the pointless conversations, the endless unsolvable …
"Well, to make changes to that finalised document without leaving what some people might call an 'audit trail', I'd need some pretty advanced Word skills – and they don't come cheap now that everyone's upskilling in their free time…"
:-) Nos10/11 have always an opening and desk waiting for you if you're extremely fond of and quite good at such as is really crass attractive deflective bullshitting.
If interested, one can always ask a DC clone/drone* about the likely difficulties and/or opportunities one is liable to have to deal with there on a daily zeroday basis.
* District of Columbia/David Cameron/Dominic Cummings
Okay, if it's a legal requirement, I confess. I am a Druid.
I'm a fully-paid up member of the Gorsedd of Bards of the Isle of Britain, Urdd Derwydd (order of druids) - green robes. I was inducted at a mysterious and ancient ceremony involving a big sword and strange oaths, in the former Dr Who Experience in Cardiff in 2018. Strange but true (it was raining outside)
"Even I don't have Space:1999 DVD's"
I've seen the entire collective in Sainsbury's. One of the bigger ones, not a little one.
They may also be on sale in other places but I don't shop there so I can't definitively confirm this.
From what I remember, they cost about 50p an episode or less but I'm not certain of that, either.
"U.F.O." was also on sale there for a while and may still be. That's the one where they thought we'd have a huge, peopled Moonbase or two in 1980. "Peopled" because they absolutely had lady astronauts. If I recollect correctly they wore silvery dresses and purple wigs for some strange operational reason - or directorial fetish.
I'm fairly sure that I also saw the complete "Captain Scarlet" [that's the one where humans finally reached Mars, came in peace, shot up the place and started a grudge match], too but that's drifting a little far from the killer robot theme.
I gather ozone is another popular ways of sterilizing office spaces, so perhaps the replacement robot could do that too.
Of course, it would require some method of allowing its high voltage discharge unit to reach up and sanitize desks and chairs when necessary, while producing sufficient gas to fill those large open plan offices...
I mean what could possibly go wrong.
My kids (who are now being homeschooled because schools are closed in NL) were wondering why I shouted out "YES, the bots are back"....
Still, makes me wonder why the boss (and his office) weren't sanitized as first, the Boss has been around too long, we need a new one.