Re: “your conversations and data are stored in China”
You will have to say they are the good guys if you want anything to work…
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I took a job during Covid where the office was 90 miles away. I went in once a week.
I moved house and the office is now 110 miles away and I started going in once a fortnight.
My manager said my change in working practice had been noticed, but as it was working it wasn’t a problem.
It very much depends on the job. I’m in my 60s and know what I’m doing, but it must be difficult for youngsters who are still learning.
I’d hate to not go in at all (tried that with another role, it didn’t last long) but my job was mainly remote from the start.
For me, it’s meant I could move to a lovely village in the countryside rather than live in a town with good train connections to London.
Forcing people to go back for no reason is pointless, but, if people are more productive in the office that is a good reason.
No one size fits all.
I’ve seen projects where the management is to scared to say no go even if they know it will be a disaster, so kudos to them for having the balls to do so.
But a go live in December? As others have said, that should have been enough for a no go flag months ago. It’s not just retail that have freezes in December.
I hope it works for them and the support staff don’t end up having to do even more overtime over Christmas and the NewYear.
I’m still not sure what all the fuss about Win95 was, it was Win 3.0 that made the real difference, that was the one I waited for and installed on the day of release and then had to figure out how to get Lotus123 to access all that extra memory.
That was a good day.
Win 95 just gave us a pretty interface but no real benefit that anyone could make use of.
I ran out of 50Gb years ago, next level is 2Tb which was £6.99 until they put it up to £8.99/ month.
I wasn’t happy, but pay for the convenience.
£70? Yippee - the lawyers will be the only ones making money while tying up the legal system on a case which will almost certainly fail. I’m not holding my breath.
The first 80486 computer my company got me had its memory soldered to the motherboard.
It had 1Mb but you could upgrade it by adding another 4Mb taking the total to 5 Mb - which was a bit pointless as nothing could access more than 4.
It was the first 80486 to cost less than £4k but, by the time they had upgraded the memory and the HD to a massive 100Mb it actually cost £5695
Luckily I wasn’t paying because that was quite a bit back then.
Lotus 123 was far,far better than Excel.
The only reason people moved to Excel is because IBM bought Lotus for Lotus Notes and stopped developing 123
Eventually Excel was the only option but still isn’t a full 3D spreadsheet like 123 was.
Lotus Improv was brilliant - until you added one more dimension and found 4Mb RAM wasn’t enough.
It’s the same as any other service.
You will get someone in that writes a business case that proves you will save millions by outsourcing.
A couple of years later, after you have, someone else comes in that writes a business that proves you will save millions by bringing it back in house.
A couple of years later, after you have, someone else comes in that writes a business that proves you will save millions by outsourcing again.
If you actually made 1/10 of the savings, after a few iterations they would actually be paying you.
I worked for a small company and we did grandfather, father, son backups daily.
So when our server was stolen, no problem, right?
Well, no, the director who did the backups himself and was sup to take the tapes home to his fireproof safe, didn’t. He left the tapes on top of the server, so the thieves nicked them as well.
D’Oh!
Slightly off topic, but I don’t know anyone who uses Apple Maps, here in the UK it is absolutely useless.
I try it occasionally as people say it’s improved a lot but still find it a waste of space.
My wife and I have 3 iPads and two iPhones between us and love everything about Apple - except Maps.
I was at a small company once and we did full grandfather/father/son backups onto tape.
It didn’t help us when some oiks walked in and nicked our server.
The director, who was supposed to take the tapes home each night and lock them in a fireproof safe, had got complacent and left the tapes on top of the server. Of course the oiks nicked them as well…
You only ever rent stuff from Amazon.
I bought something of Amazon France and, after my Debit Card and Credit Card were both used to subscribe to Amazon Prime in France I decided to cancel my Amazon France account as I almost certainly will not be buying from them again.
Of course, I lost all the digital content I ever bought from them. Kindle didn’t want to know, but, big shout out to Audible who, even though they are owned by Amazon, gave me back all the Audible books I could prove I’d bought.
I still use Alexa for convenience so I’m guessing most people here will think I’m stupid for not setting up my own Linux based system and writing my own books and making my own films etc.
I’m not sure about Google, but I assume it is similar to Alexa. I wake up to the radio each morning and, on the admittedly very rare occasions, when it can’t connect to the internet it just uses a standard alarm noise.
If you like waking up to an alarm noise every morning, good for you, but some of us prefer either the radio or our own songs.
I didn’t need to prank my boss, he did a good enough job himself.
He was late for work one day and we eventually got it out of him.
He had recently bought a 911 and went to the petrol station, filled up with petrol and the car wouldn’t start. He called the AA who had to take him and the car back to his house.
No problem, he just took the nanny’s car, went to the same petrol station and filled up with petrol.
The problem was, the nanny’s car was diesel.
I’m not sure how the AA man kept a straight face as he was called to the same petrol station by the same man for a second time.
We certainly didn’t keep straight faces.
I use Apple products because there is no competition. I don’t want to have a myriad of stores and multiple apps that all do very similar things.
Just give me the Apple Store where I know things will work.
If you want choice, fine, buy Android. Nothing wrong with that, but please don’t ruin Apple products because you want it to be like Android.
My personal laptop is a few year old Lenovo and it wouldn’t let me upgrade to Windows 11 (which I like) but as I’ve only turned it on about twice in the past three years I’m not that bothered.
iPads do everything I need for personal use, it’s only work that I need a decent PC and multiple monitors for.
But that’s just me.
Sometimes in person meetings are better.
I tend to go into the office one day a week to have in person meetings, most of which could be done over teams so I don’t have to, but I still do.
This doesn’t sound like a mandated return to work rather than ‘we think it would be good for business’ if you do.
Mandated return to work when there is no benefit is bad, if it actually makes a difference then there is nothing wrong with it. IMHO.