Vintage era

On 8 February 2013 21:10, Dave <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote: I was (along with others) maintaining a test lab for the Department of Work and Pensions account. The testing had been built up after the incident were someone released a GPO into the live environment that took out every PC in the entire DWP. When I was there, they were back on the down-side of the bell curve, heading back towards some sort of disaster and the testing became a joke again. The mantra of the management was JFDI. I suppose you either know or can figure out what that stands for. Any time I tried to do my job (ensuring that the stuff actually worked -- in my case, you could install it) I was being obstructive. Morons. Then, during one of the many rumours of the potential move of the testing lab from being in a "tower" (working only for the DWP) to being "leveraged" (working for any account), which would really mean they'd make yet another attempt to fire us all and outsource it (sorry, "best shore"), I jumped ship and went to a department that was securely with the account. That was a mistake, because that department was developed and tested monitoring solutions using Unicenter. After about five minutes using that "product", I wanted to slit my wrists. We all hated Mark Hurd, and laughed and cheered when he got fired for violating his own ethics videos... but he was the only CEO that managed to run the place effectively -- because HP is like the former Soviet Union -- if you don't maintain the terror, the whole thing falls apart. I'm back working for a small company... back to doing actual, productive work, and keeping (mostly) my own council... It's nice to feel useful... (; -- Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow" Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net -------- "The Market research says that people love monkeys." --Wes Craven