Soldering (Was: Re: HP-IB, Amigo/cs80 ... )

Ethan Dicks wrote: I wish my work did -- the beancounters at head office sent this through the other day: ---- ATTENTION: ALL STAFF It has come to our attention that Petty Cash is being used for the purchase of inappropriate items, such as: - Food and drink: tea bags, coffee, milk, etc. - Postage stamps - [... the list goes on ...] ---- The real clincher is that HO used to send us tea, coffee and stamps with the store stock -- they later stopped that and told us to buy the stuff locally and charge it to petty cash. Now we're supposed to buy what we need, then fill out a 4-page claim form, and send that back to head office to claim our money back, which then (allegedly) goes into our respective pay packets 2 months after it's approved. Needless to say some of us aren't particularly happy with this -- we have to send lab test reports to Fujifilm every couple of weeks (hence the stamps) and nobody wants to pay for a book of stamps... or the envelopes to send the test reports back. The Area Manager is cheesed that we're "spectacularly failing" the photo-lab quality checks, but nobody wants to actually send us some stamps so we can send the reports off...... Gotta love big business. The bigger it gets, the dumber it gets. This week, I've been drinking mostly water, but I do enjoy the occasional cup of "Tick Tock" (rooibos / redbush -- caffeine free) tea. But as you say, even that isn't ideal for coding... -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/