• (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    cklam:
    Dave:
    Anonymous:
    Don't laugh too much - they're still in business aren't they?

    I think the networks are bad excuse might be just that.

    They're still in business, they're presumably saving a fortune by not having to deal with firewalls, handling the archiving of email, internet bandwidth and can probably get away with a cheaper anti virus solution - plus any outbreak will be more limited. They'll be wasting next to no time with people chatting/surfing etc when they're supposed to be working. Sure, there are the obvious downsides but tough shit - deal with it or leave. I've worked in places where the recommendation is to not have email clients running as they are distracting - the urge is to respond to the shiny new email icon by immediately opening and reading the email. Instead you check your email a few times a day and then get on with some work. If you really need a response now then pick up the phone - but be aware you'll be disurbing someone so it had better be something which can't wait half a day.

    On the other hand they are hamorrhaging money by having a bunch of non-standardized stand-alone PC's to maintain. They are risking loss of man-years due to their almost non-existent backup practices. All their PC's are infected with at least one virus (I know what I am talking about - I have done enduser pc support back in the sneakernet days). The company will have a serious bad time complying to SOX, all kinds of porn and pirated software will be on their PCs - making them legally vulnerable. The productivity of the typical dev is problably one third of the possible due to lack of collaboration and demotivation. Do I need to go on ?

    I think not. Sure, in a networked environment you have the dangers of web-slacking and being a slave to e-mail. So what: Let dev's know that firewall logs are being automatically aggregated so that managers can check the surf habits of their reports. And as for being a slave to e-mail: if there is no e-mail you are a slave to your phone and voicemail (which is infinetely worse IMHO).

    But they are still in business.

    That they are. That they are. So what? They got lucky so far. And are recovering their costs by overcharging their customers - I assume because that works for them they are in a niche market. As soon as seriously competent competation comes along underbidding them in their market then the downward spiral will begin.

    With their setup they are vulnerable to (even minor) disaster: Once the fecal excrement is having it's rendezvous with the rotating air circulation device in any of the ways hinted at in my previous post - that's it. They are done for.

  • k (unregistered)
    QED: networks are bad. It's obvious when you really think about it! Therefore, there is no company network.

    Sure, let's just hand the office over to the Cylons...

    captcha: acsi, that's the real wtf

  • skeptical rodent (unregistered) in reply to jtl
    jtl:
    1. Criminals can enter buildings through doors. 2. Criminals are bad. 3. Doors are bad.

    We shall remove all doors to protect the business.

    Nah ... more along the lines of:

    We shall therefore seal all doors after start of business today to protect the business using cinderblock and concrete.

  • steve (unregistered) in reply to jtl

    Lacking doors, couldn't the criminals just use Windows?

  • ahah (unregistered)
    1. Eating can make you die.
    2. Dying is bad.
    3. Eating is bad.

    We shall stop eating.

  • Jason (unregistered)

    Good grief stop whining and get another job already. I've had much better contracts that I left for less irritating reasons.

  • Indima (unregistered)

    Hmm, no email, no web surfing, no endless inflow of memos. I would guess that the productivity of this company is through the roof!

  • tharpa (unregistered)

    God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind.

    QED Stevie Wonder is God.

    It depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

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