Alistair Davidson wrote:
> The impossible has happened: I have a job!
>
> Not the greatest in the world, but far from the worst. I'm reformatting
> CVs for Hudson, the employment agency.
>
> Plus sides are a relaxed office, nobody bothers you as long as you get
> on with the work, free coffee.
>
> Downside is that it's a bit repetitive. And I have to use loads of MS
> crap (word, Outlook blah blah)
Ewww. :)
Outlook? ::spit::
> Naturally there are serious IT gripes. The biggest is that our computers
> act as thin clients- the apps themselves are run on a server in... wait
> for it... London! Only a few hundred miles away. A manager (who does
> actually have PH but doesn't really qualify as a PHB for niceness /
> sanity reasons) today informed me that running the apps on our own
> servers wouldn't help the regular horrible slowdown, because our servers
> are very fast and our pipe is as expensive as they could get... um...
What, this isn't Citrix is it?
> Still, money in my wallet is a Very Good Thing (tm). And our in-house IT
> is fantastic, the department's developed a bunch of macros that do half
> the reformatting work for you.
Well /done/, mate. :)
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Dan
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