Superb
The cunning, in inciduousness... genius.
I'm just firing up OOo Impress to generate a recall notice, then I'm off for a weekend trip to the French duty-free.
Mines the one with the chunnel ticket in the pocket!
When you've got a problem it's always good to have a couple of bastards to call upon in times of trouble. Sadly, Brand and Ross aren't taking calls at the moment, so I have to call upon a fellow IT bastard, Jerry, for his thoughts... "So how big is this pile of monitors?" he asks. "180 last count," the PFY says. "And you …
"Five quid for mercury, but it's ten quid for radiation because they have to ship them to Liverpool - where birth defects would largely go unnoticed."
"And premature death is a blessing," the PFY adds.
this just made my monitor wear a mouth full of tea.
You do realise you give people ideas with these though.....PFY fire up the colour printer i got some recall notices to do, is 5 laptops too much? and you know high management are stupid enough for this.
There was an ill-informed scare about CRT radiation in our office many years ago. The result of this was a handful of end users buying protective glasses (at twenty-five notes a shot) from a dodgy mail order company that made them look like they had insects' eyes.
Like this: http://tinyurl.com/twatspex
A stunning victory for the IT department.
It's an old adage that for anything to be really funny, there must be an element of truth in it.
Some years ago, a mate working in London told me an interesting tale. He and his colleagues were delighted to find on their arrival one morning, nice shiny new chairs with all mod cons. They were less delighted to find that these were loners while their existing cruddy old chairs were refurbished. Anyhow, after a while said crap chairs were returned, reupholstered, refurbed and with all the nuts 'n bolts tightened up. The celebrations of the management at their financial acumen lasted until about 9:30, when one of the larger of my mate's colleagues arrived and flopped heavily into his refurbed chair. This resulted in a significant BANG and the subsequent destruction of a rack of kit by said large gentleman, now with a stainless steel pipe shoved up his arse.
The cheapskate management ended up paying for the refurb, new chairs, some kit and a large out-of-court injury settlement.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the old aussie joke.
What's the difference between a Tasmanian and a Queenslander?
A Tasmanian has two heads , whilst a Qlder has one head + a scar on their shoulder.
Hmmm going to need to think up a title for myself when I form a company soon. BOFH is much more tempting than MD.