Ye Olde Cube Farm

[flavio]

Picture from work. At least the people are very entertaining.

 

[Luis G]

every day we are treated more and more like machines.

 

[flavio]

Sure looks like that huh?.

My own lbit of space

 

[Luis G]

cubicles are functional and to some extent i like them, but take a look at all the "office", looks like a production block.

 

[HubbaHubba]

never understood cubicles .. i figure if you were to take them away it would increase morale and you'd see a work improvement .. this is as long as you have at least slightly diligant workers

 

[Aunty Em]

Yeah, too easy to hide and pretend to be working if you ask me...

 

[Gonz]

Things have certainly changed

 

[Aunty Em]

Blimey! Which ark did that come out of?

 

[chcr]

Yeah, too easy to hide and pretend to be working if you ask me...

Sshhhh!!!!!!

 

[Q]

flav....no action figures??(

 

[greenfreak]

Is that a Compaq??




I don't know about you, but I want walls around my cube. Gives me a false feeling of privacy.

 

[Squiggy]

She says as her flags unfurl....

 

[flavio]

Is that a Compaq??

Dude, it's a Dell

flav....no action figures?

Heheh...there probably would be if it wasn't a contract job. It's hard to get to comfy when I know I'll probably be out of here in a couple months.

 

[greenfreak]

I probably should have recognized it, it's the same model that I setup on my bench today.

 

[flavio]

Pentium 4 @2.4GHz. Same as the one you setup?

 

[greenfreak]

None of my users need that kind of power, it's just not neccessary to spend that extra money. We go with 1.8ghz, 128mb ram, 20gb hd, etc. We run Citrix Metaframe so all their applications are run after logging onto a central server.

 

[flavio]

I don't know what I'm doing that needs that much power either but I'm not complaining.

There were some users on Citrix at a job I had awhile back. I tthink they were all on Winterm thin clients. I never was really sure what I thought of the whole deal.

 

[greenfreak]

We have tons and tons of Winterms. They were part of the reason why I was hired; we rolled out replacement of dumb terminals with WYSE Winterms and replacement of Novell with Citrix in one summer.

The WYSE units are flimsy POS. I just can't wait for the fun to begin once they're out of warranty. I always have at least one RMA open with WYSE for a terminal. I have to instruct my users not to turn their terminals off every day because the buttons break frequently. No way to turn it on without the button so the whole thing has to be replaced.

 

[Professur]

One of our customers is an insurance company, with work-at-home agents. DSL-Lynksys-Wyse. Service calls usually involve simply yanking out everything from the DSL inward and changing it. There's not even an attempt to fix anything.

 

[greenfreak]

I usually have a bunch of repaired units at the office that I just send out to them, have them send the affected piece (either the base or the monitor) back to WYSE for repair and the other piece back to me.

The amount of money we spend in shipping to California for every return is insane.