PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

lunarscape writes "ZDNet is running an article about the 'absentee' rate of PCs in various UK workplaces. According to the article, while the average employee was out sick seven days a year, the average PC was inoperable due to a virus nine days a year. The article also discusses junk e-mail's impact on productivity, with one business reporting that 99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam."

Comments

My computer is perfect

[Anonymous Coward]

It never has any problems and is always worki

Traffic stress

[SIGALRM]

42 percent say they found it less stressful fighting their way through rush-hour traffic than finding legitimate e-mails among the spam

Living in Seattle, they might think differently.

Re:Traffic stress

[paranode]

Is there less spam in Seattle??

:)

Re:Traffic stress

[Alexis Brooke]

Bah. Try sorting through your e-mail while sitting in rush-hour traffic. And do it with a rabid wolverine in your underwear. Then talk to me about stressful.

Weird comparison

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't really remember the last time I got sick, but I'm pretty sure the treatment was not to re-image myself.

Re:99.84% pure pork fat

[Elecore]

Maybe that company is Microsoft, and they classify all support e-mails as "SPAM".

sick days.

[Guano_Jim]

Bah. It's a proven fact that 40% of sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays. Why should my PC be any different?

Re:sick days.

[nebaz]

Oh. (looks sheepish). Ok.

Not really sick days

[Anonymous Coward]

These PCs are spending more and more time binge drinking on the weekends. Macs are notorious for ending up dancing with a lampshade on its head.

Yeah its always taking sickies

[Timesprout]

My PC just cant handle its liqor at all. Damn Mac boozes all night and gets up in the morning no problem though. Its killing me trying to keep up.

Paid Sick Days?

[scoser]

If my office computer doesn't use its sick days, can it use that money for upgrades?

Wuh Oh

[lhpineapple]

Looks like the machines are beating us! Come on folks, we've got some catching up to do!

Re:OS's

[lacrymology.com]

LINUX is that geeky guy that never takes days off, but instead sits in his lonely office with the lights turned off pounding out incredible amounts of code in record time.

OSX is that hot geek woman that tries really hard to show everyone that she's not just a piece of meat, but instead has a brain. She never takes off either.

OS9 is that old guy on the edge of retiring who doesn't give a $hit about doing the job. He goes to the doctor alot because of cruft, complains about new technology, and talks about the old days to anyone that'll listen. He takes off quite a bit to visit the urologist.

WINDOWS is that guy who managed to get far in the company by taking pictures of the president of the company with a goat. He doesn't really do a lot on his own, but instead steals most of his ideas from the hot chick and the old guy and presents them to his superiors. He takes off all the time to play golf, visit his mistress, and to sleep off hang-overs.

-m

I like PC down days at the office...

[Kenshin]

I like those days at the office when PCs are down. It's far more enjoyable fixing those problems than doing actual work...