(in)efficiency
/waves to the flist
Yeah, I've not been around much lately. So far 2007 is shaping up to be the year of waaay to much work and waaaaay too mny consecutive projects. I've got some serious deadlines looming and a *lot* of writing to get done, none of which involves porn. Woe. RL, you suck some times.
2008 has also brought with it much asshattery at work, most notably a new finnacial systme that is not only convoluted and nonsensical but which also manages to screw over employees by forcing us to front all expenses and get reimbursed afterwards. Not a problem except the snail-like efficiency with which reimbursements get handed out means employees get stuck holding the bag, even for things like travel when the expenses are being paid by another party. Grrrr...
And in yet another case of government efficiency at its finest, there's been a little incident onvolving space heaters. See, the offices in which I work have crap climate control, which means that a lot of the time the temperature is glacial with no way to modulate this. The obvious solution, of course, is space heaters except only apprpved units can be used. So, we had an engineer come to inspect the space. He agreed that there was a climate problem - I think the people huddling beneath sweaters and scarves while their lips turned blue was his first clue - and he gave us the approval for the space heaters. Sounds good, escept for one small problem; the engineer never checked to see that the wiring could handle the heaters. It turns out that there's only 3 circuits powering the whole section of the floor. So, the first time someone turned on their space heater, they short circuited several offices. The engineers came, restored power and then someone else plugged in their heater, taking out another group of. Rinse, repeat. offices. It took the better part of the day for the engineers to figure out that power outage was being caused by the use of the *approved* space heaters. Ha!
The really sad part? The officially approved space heater is kind of big and if people had just opted for smaller, non-approved units, their might not have been a power outage at all. You gotta love the irony right there.
Yeah, I've not been around much lately. So far 2007 is shaping up to be the year of waaay to much work and waaaaay too mny consecutive projects. I've got some serious deadlines looming and a *lot* of writing to get done, none of which involves porn. Woe. RL, you suck some times.
2008 has also brought with it much asshattery at work, most notably a new finnacial systme that is not only convoluted and nonsensical but which also manages to screw over employees by forcing us to front all expenses and get reimbursed afterwards. Not a problem except the snail-like efficiency with which reimbursements get handed out means employees get stuck holding the bag, even for things like travel when the expenses are being paid by another party. Grrrr...
And in yet another case of government efficiency at its finest, there's been a little incident onvolving space heaters. See, the offices in which I work have crap climate control, which means that a lot of the time the temperature is glacial with no way to modulate this. The obvious solution, of course, is space heaters except only apprpved units can be used. So, we had an engineer come to inspect the space. He agreed that there was a climate problem - I think the people huddling beneath sweaters and scarves while their lips turned blue was his first clue - and he gave us the approval for the space heaters. Sounds good, escept for one small problem; the engineer never checked to see that the wiring could handle the heaters. It turns out that there's only 3 circuits powering the whole section of the floor. So, the first time someone turned on their space heater, they short circuited several offices. The engineers came, restored power and then someone else plugged in their heater, taking out another group of. Rinse, repeat. offices. It took the better part of the day for the engineers to figure out that power outage was being caused by the use of the *approved* space heaters. Ha!
The really sad part? The officially approved space heater is kind of big and if people had just opted for smaller, non-approved units, their might not have been a power outage at all. You gotta love the irony right there.