As a former worker bee for NorthropGrumman I can easily say that this project will be delivered many years late, way over budget, and not quite work right. I will give many people good jobs with benefits that last for years. You can be sure that it will be a cost plus contract (4 percent profit no matter what the cost). The shareholders will love it. The employees will love it. The suppliers will love it. Most of Grummans projects don't do much else.
Believe or not, beer has been easy to come by down here. I live in Metaire (right on the other side of the levee from New Orleans) and the stores were out of all canned goods and water but they had plenty of beer and liquor. The brands names were not the ones you might want. The day they let us back in the grocery stores were short on supplies but all the daquire shops were open. Gotta love this town.
It's funny you mention that, the computer I'm using right now at work is a Dell GX1 with a property tag that says "property on Enron Corp." We are a small company, about 100 workstations in total, half came from an Enron auction. Enron's contribution to the computer infrustructure of small buisness lives on!
It will never happen, my free Weatherbug program will always run, and think of all the great savings I get with all 10 of the search bars it installed with it.
All the positions I've ever had in the industry I've gotten by experience alone. The companies I currently work for encourage, and even pay, for certification, but what got me here is my On The Job Experience (tm) and very good customer relation skills. People skills took me years to develop, but now I can talk to any manager, ceo, luser, or customer with ease, while solving the most complication technical problem. For the hiring managers that passed me up for no experienced but certified people, all I can say is, oh well, don't want to work for ya anyway.
I think you got that wrong. Volume is measured in Volkswagons. Distance is measured in football fields. Weights are measured in bowling balls. Speed can be measured in NASCAR or something.
Reminds me of a story I heard when I worked in the data center of a oil company. Apparently, back in the days of the big mainframe, one of the techs was changing out a reel. Now keep in mind this tech was not known for being a shining star (and they kept him on to the end!). He proceeds to take the backup tape the bathroom with him, and accidently drops in the can while in there!
Needless to say it cost a fortune for the company to recover the data off of the tape. After that, the running joke was when you left for the can, you were "changing out backup tapes".
I had a similar problem. I once fixed a PC for a guy who owned a swingers bar. Got to drink for free that night, but came back the next night and got suckered in for $5.00 beer.
Where I work we are currently replacing purchased hardware with new "leased" equipment. We wipe the drives on the old, sometimes really old, computers and "donate" them to the schools.
These computers are below our specs... sub 700 Mhz. Sometimes just barely. Just fine for the ol e-mail, surfing setup.
How come I saw our systems on EBay for sale just a week after "donating" them. I guess the schools didn't want them.
Of course, this is great recycling. The company does not have to worry about the E.P.A. if they trash the machines, they get the tax write off for donating, and the PC's are available for $70 plus shipping on Ebay.
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I love NOLA as well. Had a client schedule a meeting for 10:30 tomorrow. Told him "I'm going to be drunk by then".
As a former worker bee for NorthropGrumman I can easily say that this project will be delivered many years late, way over budget, and not quite work right. I will give many people good jobs with benefits that last for years. You can be sure that it will be a cost plus contract (4 percent profit no matter what the cost). The shareholders will love it. The employees will love it. The suppliers will love it. Most of Grummans projects don't do much else.
Believe or not, beer has been easy to come by down here. I live in Metaire (right on the other side of the levee from New Orleans) and the stores were out of all canned goods and water but they had plenty of beer and liquor. The brands names were not the ones you might want. The day they let us back in the grocery stores were short on supplies but all the daquire shops were open. Gotta love this town.
It's funny you mention that, the computer I'm using right now at work is a Dell GX1 with a property tag that says "property on Enron Corp." We are a small company, about 100 workstations in total, half came from an Enron auction. Enron's contribution to the computer infrustructure of small buisness lives on!
I always use bill.gates@microsoft.corporate.com
It will never happen, my free Weatherbug program will always run, and think of all the great savings I get with all 10 of the search bars it installed with it.
All the positions I've ever had in the industry I've gotten by experience alone. The companies I currently work for encourage, and even pay, for certification, but what got me here is my On The Job Experience (tm) and very good customer relation skills. People skills took me years to develop, but now I can talk to any manager, ceo, luser, or customer with ease, while solving the most complication technical problem. For the hiring managers that passed me up for no experienced but certified people, all I can say is, oh well, don't want to work for ya anyway.
I think you got that wrong. Volume is measured in Volkswagons. Distance is measured in football fields. Weights are measured in bowling balls. Speed can be measured in NASCAR or something.
Reminds me of a story I heard when I worked in the data center of a oil company. Apparently, back in the days of the big mainframe, one of the techs was changing out a reel. Now keep in mind this tech was not known for being a shining star (and they kept him on to the end!). He proceeds to take the backup tape the bathroom with him, and accidently drops in the can while in there! Needless to say it cost a fortune for the company to recover the data off of the tape. After that, the running joke was when you left for the can, you were "changing out backup tapes".
I had a similar problem. I once fixed a PC for a guy who owned a swingers bar. Got to drink for free that night, but came back the next night and got suckered in for $5.00 beer.
Where I work we are currently replacing purchased hardware with new "leased" equipment. We wipe the drives on the old, sometimes really old, computers and "donate" them to the schools. These computers are below our specs... sub 700 Mhz. Sometimes just barely. Just fine for the ol e-mail, surfing setup. How come I saw our systems on EBay for sale just a week after "donating" them. I guess the schools didn't want them. Of course, this is great recycling. The company does not have to worry about the E.P.A. if they trash the machines, they get the tax write off for donating, and the PC's are available for $70 plus shipping on Ebay.