A phone you can't answer

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DaveReading

Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
Location
Reading, obvs
I hate my Blackberry and can't wait for it to be replaced. Unfortunately, they're replacing them with Windows phones rather than iPhones.

I was heartbroken when my 10-year-old BlackBerry gave up the ghost a few months ago. Until I discovered that you could get a mint one for £25 on eBay. :rolleyes:

I'm told that some people have phones that need charging more than once a week.
 
You should come work at the company I collaborate with, company pays for everybody, including the cleaners, and their other halves as well as kids to stay at a wellness hotel for a long weekend, every year. Quarterly bonus and an extra months salary at the end of the year. I kid you not. It isn't in the UK though. Sounds like the boss of your company still has a thing or two to learn about how to get the best out people who work for them
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
You should come work at the company I collaborate with, company pays for everybody, including the cleaners, and their other halves as well as kids to stay at a wellness hotel for a long weekend, every year. Quarterly bonus and an extra months salary at the end of the year. I kid you not. It isn't in the UK though. Sounds like the boss of your company still has a thing or two to learn about how to get the best out people who work for them
It's probably not the bosses, but the IT security folk. Like lawyers they typically do not understand the concept of tolerating a certain level of risk, but prefer to nail everything down. I find myself reminding both species that a world with zero risk tolerance is a world without any customers.
 

machew

Veteran
My Blackberry requires you to unlock it make calls but you can answer incoming calls without unlocking it.

I hate my Blackberry and can't wait for it to be replaced. Unfortunately, they're replacing them with Windows phones rather than iPhones.
My company is currently rolling out Windows phones. So my current job is to upgrade each phone to the latest Windows phone update, install Skype and Company Portal (this needs a windows account and you can only have 10 phones per account. And no you cant remove the phones from the account, but you can remove the account from the phone). This needs to be done 200 times.
After the phone have been upgraded and the software installed. The SIMs need to be installed and the mobile phone company need to move the number to the new phone, if we send more than 20 numbers it takes 72hrs, less than 20 number it takes 24hrs. So we send them a list of 19 number. But send them 11 lists.
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
It's probably not the bosses, but the IT security folk. Like lawyers they typically do not understand the concept of tolerating a certain level of risk, but prefer to nail everything down. I find myself reminding both species that a world with zero risk tolerance is a world without any customers.

There's a rather splendid Dilbert where the security guy, portrayed as a demon, say that in and ideal world no-one would be allowed to access any systems at all.

That said, as and IT guy myself, I was often piggy in the middle between the security or fraud guys who would demand references from at least the Archbishop of Cantebury for each individual customer before allowing them credit but only if backed by the Bank of England, and the marketeers who thought we could just sell it to anyone on the internet on the basis of an honesty box left in the staff canteen. And somehow it was IT not meeting their requirments but hey ho; if it was easy a boy could do it, and they wouldn't need me to sort it out.
 
Stuck to the monitor would have been more rebellious
Thats where I keep mine. Doesn't really make much difference as the tech department tend to use a common hard drive we all have access to anyway.

I miss my old Motorola flip phone. Compact enough to fit in a jeans pocket and easily answered by flipping it open.
 
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