-The advertisements (haven't used it for a while, does it still advertise when you sign on?)
Years ago when I left AOL they asked me for a reason for leaving them. I said "Because of those bloody annoying adverts you blast at me when I sign on". The lady at the other end said "Would you like us to turn them off?". I still left.
Office pranks are OK. The swapping of telephone and keyboard keys. The taping up of mouse balls. Phantom phone calls... but nothing compares to factory floor pranks. They can be truly evil.
As patternmakers, my colleagues and I had to make...um...patterns. This involved a lot of measuring and marking out with steel rules. One day I guillotined the first 10mm off of my mate's steel rule - it's not the end you look at very often. He marked out half a dozen pieces that would have formed a box shape and proceeded to cut them out... The laughing started when his pieces wouldn't fit together properly as they were all 10mm short. It slowing turned into howling as he marked out the pieces again and proceeded to cut them for a second time. We were all clutching our sides when both sets of pieces were sat side by side - they were identical. He never found out it was me.
We played around with plaster from time to time too. The favourite was to fill a plastic coffee cup with plaster and attach a self-tapping screw to it. When set, we would screw the cup to the floor upsidedown... Everyone who walked passed would kick the cup in their best David Beckham style and fall flat on their faces. Oh the joy. They didn't see that coming.
Rubbing people's pencil down the crack of your arse was a favourite too. Some people, mainly the smokers, could not go for more than a few minutes without having a good chew on the end. The smell hits you second. Hmm tasty.
Filling people's gloves with grease was always good for a laugh too.
Holes for washers, long weights (waits) and left handed screwdrivers were a favourite with the apprentices. Each year September was the best.
It’s a wonder how we ever made any money. Oh wait, we didn't and that's why I now work in an office...
Uh huh. I is one of them people who needs to run me finger along the text as I is reading it. I does the same with me mouse pointer when I is reading web pages.
They have designed them ads for people like me. I knows it.:)
The cost of the magazines rose when the PSX hit the market. The demo disks glued to the front were great to begin with but they slowly turned into large adverts rather than showing off technology, graphics and game play.
I also got fed up reading articles I had already read online. I cannot prove plagiarism but the sense of deja vu grew month on month.
Blair might be a lot of things but stupid is not one of them.
We move forwards in the UK not backwards. I cannot see the UK's attitude to porn changing in line with the US. We will continue to relax our attitude as we have been doing for the last 50 years.
4 or 5 years ago I used PC-cillin. It failed to spot one of the Chernobil viruses. It was a friend who told me that one of my email attachments was infected. I haven't used it since.
Clocking in is so 1980s. Don't companies in the US trust their workers to put in a full days work?
I remember clocking in back in the days. It was a perfect system:p
* Get a mate to clock you in. * Get a mate to clock you out. * Stand by clocking in machine 10 minutes before the end of the day so you didn't have to queue behind 100 other workers. * 2 friends car-share. Friend01 works in one department, Friend02 in another. Friend01 clocks in at 9:00am. Friend02 clocks in 9:01am and gets a bollocking. Fair? * Coming to the end of the day? Got 10 minutes to 'kill'? Find a bullshit job that will last 10 minutes? (Personnally I go home in situations like this) - nothing important gets done in those 10 minutes.
I look back on those days and chuckle. How times change.
3. It needs to be cheap. Public transportation already wins here when you factor in all the extended costs of car ownership. Most of the time your car sits unused in a driveway, garage, or parking space, and in the bigger picture that's just money ticking away by the minute in terms of us having a *much* larger fleet of vehicles overall than we need.
You think so? Lets break down the costs for me and my family over a year. Price are in GBP - damn you slashfilter!
The Car:
I drive an old Uno. It cost 450, 3 years ago. I could sell it for 250 now. 65 p/a
Tax 110 p/a.
MOT has been 160, 210 and 40 for the last 3 tests. 135 p/a
Repairs are none. You don't repair an old car like this, you bodge it back into working condition. The yearly MOT is the time to fix things.
General fluids. 30 p/a for oil, coolant etc.
Insurance 130 p/a.
Petrol 20 per week. 1000 p/a. This means getting me and my partner to work Monday to Friday. Shopping Saturday. And a family (outlaws) trip on Sunday.
Total driving costs for a year = 1500
Public Transport:
It costs 2.00 for two zones and 1.30 for one zone. This is for a return ticket on the buses.
Travelling to and from work for me means travelling over two zones. I have to change buses half way round so I have to pay 2 x 1.30. I work 220 days a year 220 x 2 x 1.30 = 572. The bus company will do me a yearly pass for 400.
My partner works closer to home and only travels the one zone each day. 220 x 1.30 = 286
Saturday would mean using a taxi as it is not practical to use a bus when you have 20 bags of shopping. Bus there for 3 of us 2.00, return taxi 5.00. Total 7.00 per week, 364 p/a.
Sunday. Buses are few and far between. two zones, one bus change. 2 x 2 x 1.30 + 1 x 2 x 0.65 (children half price). Total = 6.50. 338 p/a
Total public transport costs for a year = 1388
A grand saving of about 100 p/a. Bare in mind it takes 1 hour to get to work by bus and only 10 minutes by car - my time is expensive. We also go out to other places sometimes. The more I use the car the cheaper it gets. The more I use the buses then more expensive it gets.
Public transport doesn't even come a close second in my race based on price alone. Comfort, reliability, pollution and crime are other factors that discourage me from using it even more.
I've had a punt today. I've had many bets today. I do most Saturday mornings. I stand to lose 2.00 GBP ($3.64) in total. Sure I know the odds. I could possibly make 200.00 GBP today but I'll probably end up with nothing.
Football and horses today. Bets ranging from 20p to 50p. First goal scorers. Doubles, triples and forcasts. All good fun.
I place bets with a national bookies. They are trusted. I trust them. I can even go into their betting shop and collect winnings. They offer online casino games too but that's not my cup of tea. I still trust them not to fix the digital wheels and dice. They wouldn't stay in business long if they cheated their customers. Besides, the bookies always win - even 'the stupid', non-tech people know that.
During the week I'll probably lose some more money on the dogs in the evenings. 2.00 GBP for a few hours entertainment is good value in my eyes.
He posts under other names too - not recently though. I'm guessing 50 accounts that have been karma whored, each one used to mod up his daily spam posts.
If you log in and 'disrespect' him, he adds you as a friend. I feel honoured, I honestly do.
You call us lusers. I can see the smile on your faces when you think about that word. Self-importance has gotten you lot into the shit you are in at the moment. You all thought you were far too good to be laid off. The amount of $ you commanded made you even more expendable.
Here's the deal. Don't call me a luser and I'll stop phoning up with phantom problems.
1. Pull network cable out 2. Phone service desk. Tell them my internet is down. 3. Try and sound confused when I'm asked "Intranet or internet?" 4. Tell phone monkey "I have checked the network cable. It is plugged in" until he/she gives up. 5. Book 4 hours to computer problems. Use those 4 hours to drink coffee.
hmm learning basic plumbing is easy. College courses are really cheap. The government will pay for them if you are out of work...
Getting trained to use gas is more difficult. Here is where the problems lies. It's not cheap and many colleges will not train you unless you are on an reconised scheme - like british city and guilds.
* sit without moving for 8 hours straight. * do without food and drink. * manage without the toilet until my kidneys hurt. * give full concentration with only 4 cigarettes * blank out my surroundings, colleagues, and office noises.
Slashdot Mirror
Years ago when I left AOL they asked me for a reason for leaving them. I said "Because of those bloody annoying adverts you blast at me when I sign on". The lady at the other end said "Would you like us to turn them off?". I still left.
Office pranks are OK. The swapping of telephone and keyboard keys. The taping up of mouse balls. Phantom phone calls... but nothing compares to factory floor pranks. They can be truly evil.
As patternmakers, my colleagues and I had to make...um...patterns. This involved a lot of measuring and marking out with steel rules. One day I guillotined the first 10mm off of my mate's steel rule - it's not the end you look at very often. He marked out half a dozen pieces that would have formed a box shape and proceeded to cut them out... The laughing started when his pieces wouldn't fit together properly as they were all 10mm short. It slowing turned into howling as he marked out the pieces again and proceeded to cut them for a second time. We were all clutching our sides when both sets of pieces were sat side by side - they were identical. He never found out it was me.
We played around with plaster from time to time too. The favourite was to fill a plastic coffee cup with plaster and attach a self-tapping screw to it. When set, we would screw the cup to the floor upsidedown... Everyone who walked passed would kick the cup in their best David Beckham style and fall flat on their faces. Oh the joy. They didn't see that coming.
Rubbing people's pencil down the crack of your arse was a favourite too. Some people, mainly the smokers, could not go for more than a few minutes without having a good chew on the end. The smell hits you second. Hmm tasty.
Filling people's gloves with grease was always good for a laugh too.
Holes for washers, long weights (waits) and left handed screwdrivers were a favourite with the apprentices. Each year September was the best.
It’s a wonder how we ever made any money. Oh wait, we didn't and that's why I now work in an office...
Would you like to have my tinfoil hat? I have no need for it now that I've stopped taking the tablets.
That's real big of you. Well done. Your good deed for the day has been done.
Why not ask Rob nicely to add a licence instead of trying to get heavy?
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Thanks for this Rob, I was going to trawl the P2P networks tonight for it but you've saved me a job. Thanks for the bandwidth too.
I saw this when it was posted on /. way back.
I could never understand the fact that by the time the VM and the applet had loaded, my PC could have hashed 200 strings using plain Javascript.
Seems silly to me.
Uh huh. I is one of them people who needs to run me finger along the text as I is reading it. I does the same with me mouse pointer when I is reading web pages.
:)
They have designed them ads for people like me. I knows it.
I stopped buying game magazines years ago.
The cost of the magazines rose when the PSX hit the market. The demo disks glued to the front were great to begin with but they slowly turned into large adverts rather than showing off technology, graphics and game play.
I also got fed up reading articles I had already read online. I cannot prove plagiarism but the sense of deja vu grew month on month.
I call dupe.
November 30th, 2003.
First UK On-Train WiFi Service Launches Monday
Blair might be a lot of things but stupid is not one of them.
We move forwards in the UK not backwards. I cannot see the UK's attitude to porn changing in line with the US. We will continue to relax our attitude as we have been doing for the last 50 years.
4 or 5 years ago I used PC-cillin. It failed to spot one of the Chernobil viruses. It was a friend who told me that one of my email attachments was infected. I haven't used it since.
(Yes it was updated regularly)
Clocking in is so 1980s. Don't companies in the US trust their workers to put in a full days work?
:p
I remember clocking in back in the days. It was a perfect system
* Get a mate to clock you in.
* Get a mate to clock you out.
* Stand by clocking in machine 10 minutes before the end of the day so you didn't have to queue behind 100 other workers.
* 2 friends car-share. Friend01 works in one department, Friend02 in another. Friend01 clocks in at 9:00am. Friend02 clocks in 9:01am and gets a bollocking. Fair?
* Coming to the end of the day? Got 10 minutes to 'kill'? Find a bullshit job that will last 10 minutes? (Personnally I go home in situations like this) - nothing important gets done in those 10 minutes.
I look back on those days and chuckle. How times change.
Bad reputation
...in the UK anyway.
Bad workers (if any want to work for said company anyway)
Bad customers, like the one who don't pay
Eventually they go under...
In the US I feel you believe that the companies 'own' you. Power to the people. Don't work for shite companies.
You can't get a better answer to a problem like that. Unless violence... :)
:)
I just so wanted to reply "But in the real world..."
I'm sure my three year old would sit there quietly while I explained that "the gouge on top destroyed the data layer".
I'm only joking with ya but I think she already knows that disks come from the magic spindle.
3. It needs to be cheap. Public transportation already wins here when you factor in all the extended costs of car ownership. Most of the time your car sits unused in a driveway, garage, or parking space, and in the bigger picture that's just money ticking away by the minute in terms of us having a *much* larger fleet of vehicles overall than we need.
You think so? Lets break down the costs for me and my family over a year. Price are in GBP - damn you slashfilter!
The Car:
I drive an old Uno. It cost 450, 3 years ago. I could sell it for 250 now. 65 p/a
Tax 110 p/a.
MOT has been 160, 210 and 40 for the last 3 tests. 135 p/a
Repairs are none. You don't repair an old car like this, you bodge it back into working condition. The yearly MOT is the time to fix things.
General fluids. 30 p/a for oil, coolant etc.
Insurance 130 p/a.
Petrol 20 per week. 1000 p/a. This means getting me and my partner to work Monday to Friday. Shopping Saturday. And a family (outlaws) trip on Sunday.
Total driving costs for a year = 1500
Public Transport:
It costs 2.00 for two zones and 1.30 for one zone. This is for a return ticket on the buses.
Travelling to and from work for me means travelling over two zones. I have to change buses half way round so I have to pay 2 x 1.30. I work 220 days a year 220 x 2 x 1.30 = 572. The bus company will do me a yearly pass for 400.
My partner works closer to home and only travels the one zone each day. 220 x 1.30 = 286
Saturday would mean using a taxi as it is not practical to use a bus when you have 20 bags of shopping. Bus there for 3 of us 2.00, return taxi 5.00. Total 7.00 per week, 364 p/a.
Sunday. Buses are few and far between. two zones, one bus change. 2 x 2 x 1.30 + 1 x 2 x 0.65 (children half price). Total = 6.50. 338 p/a
Total public transport costs for a year = 1388
A grand saving of about 100 p/a. Bare in mind it takes 1 hour to get to work by bus and only 10 minutes by car - my time is expensive. We also go out to other places sometimes. The more I use the car the cheaper it gets. The more I use the buses then more expensive it gets.
Public transport doesn't even come a close second in my race based on price alone. Comfort, reliability, pollution and crime are other factors that discourage me from using it even more.
Excelent post. Excelent ideas.
As my PHB would say: "When can you have it finished?"
I've had a punt today. I've had many bets today. I do most Saturday mornings. I stand to lose 2.00 GBP ($3.64) in total. Sure I know the odds. I could possibly make 200.00 GBP today but I'll probably end up with nothing.
:)
Football and horses today. Bets ranging from 20p to 50p. First goal scorers. Doubles, triples and forcasts. All good fun.
I place bets with a national bookies. They are trusted. I trust them. I can even go into their betting shop and collect winnings. They offer online casino games too but that's not my cup of tea. I still trust them not to fix the digital wheels and dice. They wouldn't stay in business long if they cheated their customers. Besides, the bookies always win - even 'the stupid', non-tech people know that.
During the week I'll probably lose some more money on the dogs in the evenings. 2.00 GBP for a few hours entertainment is good value in my eyes.
I don't always lose.
He posts under other names too - not recently though. I'm guessing 50 accounts that have been karma whored, each one used to mod up his daily spam posts.
If you log in and 'disrespect' him, he adds you as a friend. I feel honoured, I honestly do.
You call us lusers. I can see the smile on your faces when you think about that word.
Self-importance has gotten you lot into the shit you are in at the moment. You all thought you were far too good to be laid off. The amount of $ you commanded made you even more expendable.
Here's the deal. Don't call me a luser and I'll stop phoning up with phantom problems.
1. Pull network cable out
2. Phone service desk. Tell them my internet is down.
3. Try and sound confused when I'm asked "Intranet or internet?"
4. Tell phone monkey "I have checked the network cable. It is plugged in" until he/she gives up.
5. Book 4 hours to computer problems. Use those 4 hours to drink coffee.
Troll? I resent that too.
hmm learning basic plumbing is easy. College courses are really cheap. The government will pay for them if you are out of work...
Getting trained to use gas is more difficult. Here is where the problems lies. It's not cheap and many colleges will not train you unless you are on an reconised scheme - like british city and guilds.
No! Sweat would not matter! We have invented a substance called paint (or clear varnish - does the same job)!
:)
!!!
Nope, the other way round.
8 years I spent working with wood. Not making furniture but I had all the paring, turning, and joining skills if needed.
Turning is very enjoyable but also very dangerous. In fact all woodworking is dangerous so be careful.
What do blunt tools cut? Fingers! - remember that. My dad, who was a joiner, lost 2.5 fingers on a spindle-moulder. Just be careful.
In the evenings I used to script webpages. Today I write webpages for a living. I do miss getting my hands dirty.
Have you tried to open BAT, EXE, or VBS files in Outlook in the last few _years_?
un-possible. Can't be done. Outlook complains like fuck.
It's not as bad as it once was. I happen to like it.
It deals with these new activeX virus fine too. It complains like fuck about them. There is no option to view them as the virus writer intended.
Dude you keep linking your site as if it is relevent. Other posters have pointed out the same. Mods - get a clue about this Karma Whore please.
In a typical working day I am able to:
* sit without moving for 8 hours straight.
* do without food and drink.
* manage without the toilet until my kidneys hurt.
* give full concentration with only 4 cigarettes
* blank out my surroundings, colleagues, and office noises.
The boss must love me. The missus must not.
I know what a 600dpi image looks like printed out on paper. I know that 300dpi gives a reasonable quality image too.
What sort of resolution can we expect from this?
Have many pits per inch are burned into the data side of a disk at the moment?
Can we expect the same?