[rescue] cheapness..

[Kevin Loch]

Fogg, James wrote:

>~ -----Original Message-----
>~ From: Linc Fessenden [mailto:linc at thelinuxlink.net]
>~ Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:45 AM
>~ 
>~ Just a quick question for you all..  Is $my_company the only cheap ass
>~ company out there or do any of you (who are not self 
>~ employed) run any of
>~ your equipment (unix boxen) at your office?
>~ I constantly use *my* laptop at work as a secondary 
>~ workstation and also
>~ have a pII400 running a temperature monitoring app there, and 
>~ then I have
>~ someone else here borrowing one of my macs to use as a
>~ (basically) terminal.  The day I leave this place they are 
>~ gonna go into
>~ shock as I pull all my machines with me. :-)
>~ 
>~ -- 
>~ -Linc Fessenden
>
>I've seen companies say "WTF do you mean those are *your* machines, they
>belong here. They then escort you out the building and delete your access
>code.
>
>I've had this happen to me. Lost some nice machines. Basically, if a company
>is cheap they are usually assholes too.
>  
>
Unless it is a very small company (like mine).  I would *never* bring 
personal
gear into a large company.

KL