Internal squabbles
The only thing that burns my butt more than internal squabbles, is a flame about 75cm high... I've had a couple.
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You can't bring back Lester Haines (god rest him) but you could bring back Dabbsy
I'm following Dabbsy over on Autosaveisforwimps... I don't think he would come back, El Reg is no longer El Reg, but Reg.com. I get the feeling that the disappearance of Paris in the icons and Dabbsy's exit come from a PC directive, you know, make it SFW. And we know that Dabbsy is anything but PC in his rantings.
I miss the post pub nosh, and the breakie after the pub! I guess that Reg.com needs the space for webinars and such frippery, not to be confused with Robert Fripp.
Dabbsy's coat...
I also want Eadon back. The comment sections on Microsoft articles are getting boring.
I think he's back, under a few different names... but I won't name and shame incase it isn't him.
Yes, Lester is missed! ----> One of these for those who remember him!
No, the year of collusion, all the big tech players, except Apple, are laying off. I recently read that these companies were hiring people to do 'non-work' just to keep them from working for the competition. Maybe the Zuck, Elon and the other guys have had a meeting down at Carmine's Clam bar, and agreed that its time to stop wasting cash, and hurting each other's bottom line.
Huh? Goose, gander, sauce? I am all for the coppers doing good, but when they do bad for the sake of good, it's bad for all of them... Where is the trust? I rarely post anon, and I won't on this post... cuz the coppers could find out if the wanted. They probably have better things to do than ask Reg.com who chivo is...
Wow, similar situation, the application previously used a small executable on the client site. It was migrated by the vendor to an IIS(eww) server with a banal webpage. The trainer came, the users were trained. It was out of our hands. Sometime later(months?) the server was decommissioned, but not wiped!* A few days later the roars from the finance department were heard all over the office**... We, as in, me and my manager marched in, pulled up the webpage for the new banal IIS webpage, and some strange looks were exchanged between the finance department plebs(I'm sure coins were dropping). During the following days, it was discovered that during the training the cut over date wasn't really defined. So the users kept using the old system. In the end, the vendor was able to extract the months? of work from the old system, and massage it into the new system.
* One colleague wanted it for a test bed, but was too busy to pull the trigger!
**I'm pretty sure that was the day my hair started turning grey.
I feel older just talking about it!
A physicist friend of mine says that nothing sucks... So I guess that means only one thing.
A lot of my friends in the US carry guns. Not because the want to carry them. I worked professionally in kitchens for 20 years, can you guess how I protect myself? Not like that blowhard Ramsey either... I can use the F word with the best of them...
The Orange Wonder is proposing 10! Count'em 10 Freedom Cities. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars Like the Jetsons!
We're doomed, DOOOMED! As I googled this string "proposed tech cities" I see that Nevada is proposing the same kind of thing...
Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman as workers' housing for employees of his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company. He established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area and charged them rent. Pullman's architect, Solon Spencer Beman, was said to be extremely proud that he had met all the workers' needs within the neighborhood he designed. The distinctive rowhouses were comfortable by standards of the day, and contained such amenities as indoor plumbing, gas, and sewers.[2]
Workers initiated the Pullman Strike in 1894, and it lasted for 2 months, eventually leading to intervention by the US government and military.[3] The Strike Commission, set up in 1894, ruled that the aesthetic features admired by visitors had little monetary value for employees.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago
Calling Jim Jones! Got some kool-aid here...
Sure he pushed people around, and maybe the worked harder. Any jerk with money and no fears of hunger or homelessness can push people around.
Let the votes fall where they may!
And NO vote either way for you... validation and such.