BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns "It'll be a major renovation!" the Boss says excitedly. "We're going to use the best of breed technologies to create a showcase work environment." I don't know who the Boss has been talking to, but it sounds like he's drunk the Kool-Aid, had a couple of Kool-Aid ice blocks and ordered a …
Some one said, the best time to plan to replace it is when it is working and due to be replaced. This gives you 3 months for the paper work to go through. If you wait till it breaks, you do not know what you will get (second hand?) and disruption during the emergency.
If you wait till it breaks, you do not know what you will get (second hand?) and disruption during the emergency.
Not to mention that you'll have to pay more since it requires the vendor to work on "out of budget" spending to react quickly. Vendors love "emergency" work.
Years ago my work place had an ancient copier someone had given the owner, the kind where the copy required a pink sheet and a paper with a waxy surface. It worked really slowly, made terrible copies and the supplies were getting hard to come by.
I had to drop the machine on the floor three times before it stopped working.
Other times they replace something thst works perfecty fine and the replacement is a disaster.
Like replacing the typewriter that was only used to write stuff in front and back of letters with a computer and a printer. Guess whst wasted more ink and letters? Not the typewriter.
Actually you just need to make sure the frames are of the 'open outward and turn so outside can be cleaned from inside' variety.
Have to think about the safety of the cleaners, nothing to do with that window's ability to open wide enough to allow an office chair to exit gracefully........ It might be on fire and need to be 'removed' from the office....
>Have to think about the safety of the cleaners, nothing to do with that window's ability to open wide enough to allow an office chair to exit gracefully........ It might be on fire and need to be 'removed' from the office....
And to ensure safety, the chair must have adequate clearance to the windowframe to ensure that it fits through easily. Even if there's a CEO-shaped object tied to the chair.
Sometimes this is not even required. As in a former life when I learnt about the company being sold. There was a non-private appointment in the boss' calendar which took place off-site and involved the CEO, CFO, L&C, and a law firm specialised in M&A... (And yes, my access to that calendar was licit)
Do you think one of those/a series of those oft vaunted, phantom-like entrepreneurial government grants, to kickstart a moribund and intellectually bankrupt Cabinet executive with the supply and maintenance of a wealth of narrative energising novel ideas and virtually ACTive developments, would be made silently available ie irretrievably paid from targeted flush flash slush funds, to the likes of a FOSS program grandstanding ground-breaking and Earth shattering projects to be shared and reported on in the likes of a Situation Publishing forum for MkUltra High Tech Echo Chamber Applications Realising All Manner of Proposed and Otherworldly Plans for a Great Reset Exercising Powerful Lead with Immaculately Resourced Energies via Greater IntelAIgent IT GamePlay ..... and against which any competition rather than support would be liable to be recognised and treated as hostile opposition and be subject to unrelenting attack for crushing defeat on their defences ‽
And that would have every chance of being Almighty AWEsome too .... and have UKGBNI MoDified Forces to the fore and able to exercise lead with some practical leverage in a vanguard engine rather than as is of now, their settling for the cold comfort of rotten cuckolded dessert reserved for squatting residents of the caboose.
J'accuse .... and suggest the stealthy noble engagement of such as be touted as certainly novel and readily available greater alternatives to present calamitous bankrupting stock options.
After all, it is not as if the system does not have tens and hundreds and thousands of billions to play with and disburse, in the hope that there must be something which works indecently well and excessively to their home advantage and also curry foreign and alien favour.
Not much point spending time here since they hired the chick from California. The site is slowly becoming the antithesis of what draws us all here They'll be woke before you know it, BOFH will be gone for being politically incorrect, and the site will be no different from most other US-based tech sites. I just hope Simon continues his story elsewhere once they tell him his services are no longer needed.
Not much point spending time here since they hired the chick from California. The site is slowly becoming the antithesis of what draws us all here ..... Anonymous Coward
Your concerns suggest more the vulture than a chick from California, AC, or is the bald eagle a more APT wrap? And you don't see The Register's Biting the Hand which Feeds IT Glory Days beckoning ahead in the near future still yet to come furthering outrageous developments with pioneering leads and absolutely fabulous fabless trails to trial and trials to trail?
You're clearly not paying close enough attention or may have to get out into the wild a lot more, for you're definitely missing out on all of the Code Red Hot Crazy ACTion and Spooky Cyber IntelAIgent Agency Stuff. ........ Beyond Top Secret Classification and Oft Prone to Misrepresentation via a Labelling and Diagnosis of Nonsense which effectively extraordinarily renders to IT and AI ever darker and deeper stealthy cover ...... Immaculate Disguise.
* ..... Cheers, William [Shakespeare], and thanks for all the florid phishes :-)
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After the PFY's keyboard died mysteriously earlier today*
I'm pretty sure the BoFH is setting his whole office building up to be greenified........**
We had the lights changed to 'high efficiency, low cost ones'
I was'nt very popular when I pointed out with the power saved we could run the 2 compressors for an extra 5 mins per day...
*shes somehow managed to aquire the other chair in the office... possibly a black market deal with one of the senior programmers....I'm making sure the new carpet is nailed down and checking the lift when I use it so that its there when the doors open......
**after being purified by fire of course
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