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azurelunatic) wrote2001-10-08 11:46 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-10-08 11:46 pm
Once in a career, water flowing underground...
They've got a new computer system at work, and it's still getting the bugs worked out of it. Instead of going down maybe once every three months, it's down pretty much once a week.
Tomorrow morning at around noon, just as the morning shift is getting through with stuff and before the afternoon shift starts, the plan is to try and overload the fuck out of the system.
All the people who can make it are cordially invited to get an extra 1.75 hours on their paycheck for the fortnight and come in and data-enter the holy mother of fuck out of the system, as fast as we can, as hard as we can, until it breaks down.
I want to know what would happen if we synchronously all picked up the phones. Depending on the system, it might or might not make it break a little.
Opportunity cost for this gem of a chance to get to break the computers at work -- the IEEE meeting from 12-1 at DeVry, a speaker and lunch (pizza + soda). Adam generally does attend such meetings, being a EET student. But IEEE meetings happen once a month, and new computer systems being acid-tested at work happen once every few years, if then. (The old terminals that the new machines replaced were amber-on-black little machines ... no box, just monitor and cords ... the new ones are Random Monitor + Slick New Black Dell Box ... and will probably be around until they look as old and crappy as an amber-on-black telnet appliance does today.) I'm going to go and play with the computers at work, because this is for sure the only time that people are going to want me to break the godsdamned work machines on purpose.
Tomorrow morning at around noon, just as the morning shift is getting through with stuff and before the afternoon shift starts, the plan is to try and overload the fuck out of the system.
All the people who can make it are cordially invited to get an extra 1.75 hours on their paycheck for the fortnight and come in and data-enter the holy mother of fuck out of the system, as fast as we can, as hard as we can, until it breaks down.
I want to know what would happen if we synchronously all picked up the phones. Depending on the system, it might or might not make it break a little.
Opportunity cost for this gem of a chance to get to break the computers at work -- the IEEE meeting from 12-1 at DeVry, a speaker and lunch (pizza + soda). Adam generally does attend such meetings, being a EET student. But IEEE meetings happen once a month, and new computer systems being acid-tested at work happen once every few years, if then. (The old terminals that the new machines replaced were amber-on-black little machines ... no box, just monitor and cords ... the new ones are Random Monitor + Slick New Black Dell Box ... and will probably be around until they look as old and crappy as an amber-on-black telnet appliance does today.) I'm going to go and play with the computers at work, because this is for sure the only time that people are going to want me to break the godsdamned work machines on purpose.