Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Congress, but still refusing to testify

[Cramulus]

I keep telling you guys that 21st century is bad news.

You should really come back to 1979.

What's going on this week in 79?

[Doktor Howl]

I keep telling you guys that 21st century is bad news.

You should really come back to 1979.

What's going on this week in 79?

Got me a new pair of side-zippered roach stompers.

Air conditioning is optional.

Jimmy Carter is totally gonna kick Reagan's ass next year.

[Cramulus]

this week in 79, the hit was Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart

it was a more civilized time

[MMIX]

Fuck 1979, my mum had just dropped dead and I was pregnant

[The Johnny]

Shakedown, 1979
cool kids could never have the time

[Cramulus]

Shakedown, 1979
cool kids could never have the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azhgpelu0vY

[Doktor Howl]

Shakedown, 1979
cool kids could never have the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azhgpelu0vY

This made my morning measurably worse. 

[Doktor Howl]

Fuck 1979, my mum had just dropped dead and I was pregnant

Yes, but in the UK the misery quotient was maxed from 1914 to the present.  And THAT'S if you had money.  Otherwise you had to go way the fuck back to 1100 CE before anyone was having a good time.

And the time machine can only go back to the disco era.

[MMIX]

Fuck 1979, my mum had just dropped dead and I was pregnant

Yes, but in the UK the misery quotient was maxed from 1914 to the present.  And THAT'S if you had money.  Otherwise you had to go way the fuck back to 1100 CE before anyone was having a good time.

And the time machine can only go back to the disco era.

Fuck yeah. Well the law of averages says we got to be good at something so booyah for misery!

[chaotic neutral observer]

About a year ago, they told me some circuit cards at site were sporadically giving self-test errors on startup.  I told them I couldn't diagnose this remotely, and they needed to send me one of the suspect units.

They didn't.

About three months ago, they brought up the issue again; I reiterated that I needed physical access to debug this.

I guess it wasn't a high priority.

A month ago, the same project recruited my help for a software problem, and afterward, asked me yet again to look at the cause of the card failures.

This time they left a pair of cards at my desk.

It took me about two days to find the problem, and create a workaround (which the end-customer will supposedly be happy about, since these cards are about eight years old, well out of warranty, and expensive to replace. )

I informed them of the fix, and told them they could take the cards back.

They haven't, yet.

I wonder if it will take another year for them to pick them up.

[Doktor Howl]

About a year ago, they told me some circuit cards at site were sporadically giving self-test errors on startup.  I told them I couldn't diagnose this remotely, and they needed to send me one of the suspect units.

They didn't.

About three months ago, they brought up the issue again; I reiterated that I needed physical access to debug this.

I guess it wasn't a high priority.

A month ago, the same project recruited my help for a software problem, and afterward, asked me yet again to look at the cause of the card failures.

This time they left a pair of cards at my desk.

It took me about two days to find the problem, and create a workaround (which the end-customer will supposedly be happy about, since these cards are about eight years old, well out of warranty, and expensive to replace. )

I informed them of the fix, and told them they could take the cards back.

They haven't, yet.

I wonder if it will take another year for them to pick them up.

This sounds like my place and it makes me fucking crazy.

Do you get paid on time, though?

[Doktor Howl]

People are starting to wear dust masks to work.

[chaotic neutral observer]

This sounds like my place and it makes me fucking crazy.

Do you get paid on time, though?

Payroll is outsourced to a competent third-party.

This is fortunate, since our in-house IT doesn't appear to be able to even handle asset management; most of my computers have two or three distinct asset tags (added at various different times), yet they still can't keep track of what monitors I've been issued.

[Doktor Howl]

This sounds like my place and it makes me fucking crazy.

Do you get paid on time, though?

Payroll is outsourced to a competent third-party.

This is fortunate, since our in-house IT doesn't appear to be able to even handle asset management; most of my computers have two or three distinct asset tags (added at various different times), yet they still can't keep track of what monitors I've been issued.

I have capital items in our facility that don't appear anywhere on our books. 

The GAO audit starts a week from Monday.   

[Doktor Howl]

Um.

Wow.

This is so American it makes my teeth itch.

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