We have a policy at my company: No cameras allowed.
It’s a pretty clear policy, fairly unambiguous: No cameras are allowed. If it is a camera, it’s not allowed. Because cameras, of any sort, aren’t allowed.
We got ourselves another noob today, some fellow from one of ours sister companies. Visiting until Friday, doing some research into some project or another. Nothing too major, but because he is who he is, and he’s working on what he’s working on, the powers that be thought it’d be a great idea to do whatever was needed to allow him to bring his company laptop with him, so he’d have something to work on.
Well, he did. He was just about to come on up, whens someone decided to ask him – one last time (making it a total of three times since he arrived on property) if he had any cameras, or camera phones. Well, no – but he did have a webcam in his company laptop.
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Tags: rant, status quo, stupid coworkers, support nightmares, technology, work
Lesson 1:
A file that has not been saved somewhere cannot later be restored – there is nothing to restore if there wasn’t a file in the first place. It’s kind of like walking into a bank, setting a $100 bill on fire, and then asking the cashier to “restore” your $100, only the bill you burned in the first place was Monopoly Money.
Lesson 2:
Sending big files to old plotters to be printed on over-sized paper will result in long plot times. This it not something that can be “fixed” – short of buying a whole new plotter. So be prepared to wait a few minutes.
Tags: computer basics, let's learn computers, stupid coworkers, support nightmares