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That's why meetings are so awesome!

http://despair.com/consistency.html

http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php

Let the bannings begin.

It does go against "common sense", but a positive attitude won't improve your prospects but it stops you being an annoying shit while you're dying. Which in itself may actually lengthen your survival, after all no-one is going to hold the pillow over the head of happy gramps, but they'll be lining up to do it to curmudgeonly gramps.

Studies have shown prayer doesn't help either. It helps to know you are being prayed for, but blinded prayer doen't help.

As for the 'having faith you can jump over a large gap', I humbly submit this: http://despair.com/limitations.html

And I mean this post in the nicest way possible.

You should first look at that.

Maybe we should get a Paypal account together and send them a copy of this.

My two cents: ..

Excellent! We can use their demise as yet another cautionary tale.

Ironically, it's more useful than the entire collection of blogs that they stored.

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

Wow! Have I got a poster for you!

http://despair.com/retirement.html

True, you're not talking about retirement, but you want to suck out every last bit of usable capacity from your employees just as the link implies. I do hope I never, ever meet you, much less work for you!

"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others." http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

New Logo

Despair saw it coming first

The worst part is, they aren't even original. No-one here heard of Despair Inc.? http://despair.com/frownies.html

When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.

(source: http://www.despair.com/incompetence.html)

[quote]"I am so angry at SpaceX! My children and I were very scared. How dare them conduct this test without letting us know! We live across from the McGregor Airport and our entire house shook and trembled. The sky was on fire. My 11-year-old son said he Ãoethought the sun was exploding.Ã I grabbed a jug of apple juice and made my kids go into my closet fearing the worse."[/quote] http://diy.despair.com/output/poster39292730.jpg

I'm sure she already owns this one.

But those who never wind AND never quit are idiots.

I'm sure she would spend $10 on that:

http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

Power corrrupts..
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely..

But it rocks absolutely too.

http://despair.com/power.html

Only if they're in large groups.

That's a bunch of crap, and here's why: If you have the money, you can still pay for care in cash if you want to. No one will stop you.

There is no reason why we should pay orders of magnitude more (even with "health insurance") for health care than people in other countries with the same life expectancy... for example, Cuba.

Well I guess the problem is that many people don't have the money if they have to pony up an extra 5-10% in taxes for universal health care.

And with regards to Cuba. Are you willing to forcibly reduce the doctors wages to $20 per month and physically prevent them from seeking abroad to earn more? Or in other words: Are you willing to turn USA into a giant prison camp to get cheap health care?

Are you also willing to implement a system of forced abortions to prevent the weak and sick from entering the world (make the countrys life expectancy drop medical expenses rise)?

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=3568278&page=2

http://www.despair.com/achievement.html

I don't work for them, but I have bought a custom calendar:

http://www.despair.com/

In particular:

http://www.despair.com/ambition.html

I don't work for them, but I have bought a custom calendar:

http://www.despair.com/

In particular:

http://www.despair.com/ambition.html

Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity.

Someone needs a poster:
http://www.despair.com/idiocy.html

As Edison said, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Which is why engineers sometime smell really bad.

http://www.despair.com/achievement.html Achievement You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor. The reason why the free market hasn't built a totally green city yet is because it doesn't make sense economically. When it does make sense economically we'll see green cities everywhere. Leave it to China to use government power to force worthless crap for purely political and PR reasons.

...I thought that becoming indispensable meant I was a valuable employee...

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Well, not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.

Despair posters are excellent. The Mistakes one was a big hit at our help desk.

Cluelessness
and Problems may be quite appropriate for a CS Department.

Or just watch them All .

Despair posters are excellent. The Mistakes one was a big hit at our help desk.

Cluelessness
and Problems may be quite appropriate for a CS Department.

Or just watch them All .

Despair posters are excellent. The Mistakes one was a big hit at our help desk.

Cluelessness
and Problems may be quite appropriate for a CS Department.

Or just watch them All .

Despair posters are excellent. The Mistakes one was a big hit at our help desk.

Cluelessness
and Problems may be quite appropriate for a CS Department.

Or just watch them All .

Head of IT at my last job asked us what we wanted (we had new building and were budgeted some $$$ that had to be spent on art. We all said Despair Posters and he agreed. Coolest boss, eveh!

I've been secretly substituting them for the motivational posters at work. heh. heh.

any number of options from http://despair.com/

"If that is the case, I'll patent :-D"

Prior art that's already recognized by the USPTO

http://www.despair.com/frownonthis.html

And don't forget the main rule here, no one is irreplaceable. No one! Not even you.

Yes, but it rocks.

You're not that important. I don't mean that in a nasty way, but in a pragmatic one. There are hundreds of moving parts in a successful business, and any one of them can bring the company to a standstill - IT is just one of them. Can IT help the bottom line? Of course, but so can accounting, reception, marketing, interior decorating, etc. I run a small business, and I do the IT. I'm not very good at it, but I'm passable, and the minor issues we have had are covered. While it may be true that a catastrophic failure would likely cost me tens of thousands of dollars, I can't pay that kind of money to keep IT on retainer - you see, in a business the potential loss does not equate to the ability to pay to prevent a low-probability occurance.

I am one of those owners that actually bought and display a Despair poster, and I think it's appropriate to consider: http://despair.com/worth.html

I posted it because I'm in a service industry and it applies to me, too. We are, at times, a necessary evil to our customers. We can also save our clients a large amount of money - sometimes. IT isn't "like" plumbing, or phones, or janitor service, or accounting...but it is just one part of many - essential, but not the prime focus.

The expense involved in getting IR right (and, to be honest, getting it done even poorly) is negatively perceived because it is necessary to the functioning of a modern business, but doesn't seem to provide any advantage in the marketplace. If you don't have it, it is clearly a disadvantage, but getting the best doesn't translate (proportionally) financially. The becoming-old saw of "if computers have made us so much more efficient, why are we still working more than 40 hours a week to get work done" applies here. IT is part of the ever accelerating treadmill of efficiency, and - honestly - it is hard to justify passing on all the costs.

Or in other words, "None of us is as dumb as all of us." Courtesy of Despair.com

reminds me of a despair.com poster
http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

This one has CSC written all over it. Dontcha just love consultants?

I'm not gonna kill them, but I'm also not a fan of safety labels on everything. I will laugh at people who die of their own stupidity, and hope other people learn to not be as stupid. I think despair.com said it best.

"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others." http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.

when your best just isn't good enough? http://despair.com/fail24x30pri.html

Meh, trial and error becomes easy if you have countless slaves to practice with.

That, and there are established companies that have the infrastructure in place to provide this service already, and as such can do it at a much lower cost. I think the paid Google Apps for business users offers guaranteed access/uptime, and I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon's numerous data services do as well. Cost savings alone, I'd trust Google or Amazon and their half a million servers for my data redundancy and accessibility far more than I'd trust even the most well-funded company IT department (unless, of course, that company is Google).

Actual document security is something relatively easily dealt with, especially if they provide half-decent APIs into the system. Create an app that mounts a TrueCrypt volume stored on Amazon S3, or something to that effect. As far as the end user can tell, it's just a mounted drive with the capacity of whatever you set the quota (err, container file size) if you do it right.

Yes, I know I'm hugely oversimplifying this, and that there are dozens of reasons that what I suggested wouldn't work. But being in IT takes a bit of mental creativity. There are resources out there that can do things better than you can, or do things just as well at less cost, or whatever. Don't waste your time bitching about why they can't work for you - find a way so that they can. You won't be terminated in favor of the robots if nothing else, and it could well result in a promotion for finding such a better way to use your resources.

http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/consistency.jpg