[rescue] Death of a PDP-11/Clueless office people...

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

What a shame. I have seen this sort of behaviour before. I was witness to an
AT&T facility dumping an entire television studio (the whole freakin thing,
decks, boards, saticon cameras, stage, etc.). The monkeys rolled everything
into a truck and sent it to a metal recycling scrapper. I happened to be
there when it came in. Unfortunatly, they weren't gentle with any of it. I
did rescue some stuff.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Mike Hebel [mailto:nimitz at owc.net]
~ Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:43 PM
~ To: Rescue at Sunhelp. Org
~ Subject: [rescue] Death of a PDP-11/Clueless office people...
~ 
~ 
~ <RANT>
~ I just saw one of my most horrifying sight yet rescuing hardware.
~ 
~ A dumpster with a cut-up PDP-11CS in it.  They cut wires, broke
~ boards, and then just discarded it with all the other trash.
~ About the only thing that was intact was the brown metal case 
~ side/top.
~ 
~ It was from my wife's place of business, (she feels really 
~ bad that she
~ didn't know it was worth anything to anyone), and the
~ windows/networking woman there said "It's a piece of junk!  Just throw
~ it out!" so they cut it up and tossed it.
~ 
~ The cluelessness of that office just amazes me.  They let a guy who
~ regularly locks up their network of _Macs_ run the network/database
~ stuff, the have FileMaker Pro up to 150,000 entries in one table and
~ think that's ok, they gave keychains as Christmas bonus gifts, they
~ didn't buy a maintenance contract on the Canon printing beast, and
~ yet...they spent $700/chair for 6 Aerons for the conference room.
~ 
~ On top of everything else the main database guy gave my wife, the data
~ entry person, the ability to import/merge tables in the database - and
~ then blamed her when things screwed up.
~ 
~ I so want my wife to change jobs.
~ *sigh* Maybe I can teach her programming...
~ 
~ </RANT>
~ 
~ Mike Hebel                       mailto:nimitz at owc.net
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