Daniel Jones wrote:
> 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?
Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares for a week. I still don't
understand the point of citrix. Lets run windows, slowly, in a window,
from somewhere possibly far far away...
>
>> 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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