Bloody Systems

[Hardcoreruss]

I have been at work since 6.30 it is now 12.14 and I have not been able to do any work as the systems are down.

What sort of sick bastard does this on a Friday?, I have loads of anger to vent I am going to be here well late!!!

[northcat_8]

That's why God invented sick days Russ.

*Cough**cough*.... Awww man, I don't feel very well...*cough*....... ............I think I'm going to have to go home.....*cough*........

[Hardcoreruss]

If I did Monday would be Hell, they have got me by the short and curlys

[flaninacupboard]

That sucks mate.

The worst of it is, you could probably fix it yourself but the company is waiting for the "engineer" to show up.

[Hardcoreruss]

It is some ancient system about 20 years old which tells us what monies we have received.

There are some very pissed of people out there in Stock Land

[bugster]

So more time for videohelp.com and other favourite websites.

Or Take a long (liquid) lunch

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah but even the interent gets boring after a while.

[northcat_8]

It is some ancient system about 20 years old which tells us what monies we have received.

There are some very pissed of people out there in Stock Land

So look, all you have to do is put the 5 1/2 inch floppy in the disk drive and..........

[Hardcoreruss]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

[northcat_8]

[Capmaster]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

I hope it's not a paper tape ala Telex terminals

Anyone else old enough to remember those?

[Hardcoreruss]

Nope just you

[Capmaster]

Nope just you

[VCDHunter]

Nope just you

You walked into that one fella

Russ, I change backup tapes daily on our servers here - they backup the data stored on our massive 70GB SCSI drive

[Capmaster]

Nope just you

You walked into that one fella

Russ, I change backup tapes daily on our servers here - they backup the data stored on our massive 70GB SCSI drive

Yeah. Russ doesn't miss many of those. Tosser.

[tekkieman]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

I hope it's not a paper tape ala Telex terminals

Anyone else old enough to remember those?

Yep. We used to have to disseminate our weather observations and forecasts using those before the PACMEDS systems were installed.

[northcat_8]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

I hope it's not a paper tape ala Telex terminals

Anyone else old enough to remember those?

You sure those weren't papaya tape there Cap?

An abacus perhaps?

[Capmaster]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

I hope it's not a paper tape ala Telex terminals

Anyone else old enough to remember those?

You sure those weren't papaya tape there Cap?

An abacus perhaps?

You mean "papyrus"? I could see feeding a papaya through the reader

[northcat_8]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

I hope it's not a paper tape ala Telex terminals

Anyone else old enough to remember those?

You sure those weren't papaya tape there Cap?

An abacus perhaps?

You mean "papyrus"? I could see feeding a papaya through the reader

yea that is what I meant Good thing I teach maff. I can't tell you what papyrus is, I can't tell you how it's made, I can't tell you where it's used, and I obviously can't tell you how to spell it, but by golly if you have some, I can tell you how much of it you will need to cover a certain area

[Capmaster]

You not bloody joking mate, I think its a bloody tape drive!!!!, no shit.

I hope it's not a paper tape ala Telex terminals

Anyone else old enough to remember those?

You sure those weren't papaya tape there Cap?

An abacus perhaps?

You mean "papyrus"? I could see feeding a papaya through the reader

yea that is what I meant Good thing I teach maff. I can't tell you what papyrus is, I can't tell you how it's made, I can't tell you where it's used, and I obviously can't tell you how to spell it, but by golly if you have some, I can tell you how much of it you will need to cover a certain area

You're allowed a certain "latitude" here Northcat

[northcat_8]

It's been a stressful week

No worries though mate, I am past the emotional, reactionary, impulsive hard nosed, stage. I am now in the analytical, creative thought process.

Restitution will be paid...and it will be paid from here to eternity for that ****. I just have to work out kinks, keep myself clean, and get to work. I am a nice guy. I still stop along the road an help people with car trouble and I would give anyone the shirt off my back if they needed it. But cross me and I will take pleasure in any and all pain you suffer and will intentionally cause as much of it as I can.

I also see the consequences as being related to the offended person and I do not feel consequences need to fit the crime, they need to fit the offended person's ideals of what is deserved for the offending action. And I'm pretty sure that this dude is going to feel the consequences to be extremely excessive. **** Him.