El Reg nips down to the Hewlett You Inn? When readers recently decided that Hewlett Packard Enterprise's private London drinking club should be dubbed the "Hewlett You Inn?", we promised to knock up some artwork for the boozer and deliver it to the door of HPE's shiny new HQ at One Aldermanbury Square. Here are said premises during refurbishment last November, when …
Recently I received a handful of SD cards, delivered in a tray that would hold 48 SD cards, in an antistatic bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, in a box, inside another box packed with foam.
Those blank SD cards were, at no point, at risk.
This was not HP and I actually received two sets in two separate and identically packed shipments.
This was not HP and I actually received two sets in two separate and identically packed shipments.
Similar thing here in Oz. Two USB sticks ordered at the same time from the same place. Each arrived in a separate cubic foot of cardboard box surrounded by bits of foamed plastic and delivered on separate days. They would both have fitted into a small padded envelope with room to spare.
So does the pub part have a name?
I don't know, and I don't fucking care. What I do care about is the truly crap, slow, expensive service I get at work from HPE, when they've clearly got sufficient money to piss up the wall on a private pub.
Mind you, with the pub market in near terminal decline, I suppose it does fit with HP's track record in acquisitions.
Glad to see El Reg's new year resolutions didn't affect their capacity for tomfoolery!
And it makes me *very* happy that HP(E) knows how to take a joke with a good sense of humor! I was an HP-er for almost a decade, and left shortly before the split up... despite all the problems that company have had, it will always have a place in my heart of hearts.
What a nice way to start the week
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