How To Make People Buy New Equipment
Just thought I should relate this one that made my getting up at 4:30am this morning on a call out that much brighter.
The phone rang - my supervisor telling me to haul a$$ to meet him onsite where the client's PDC had crashed. At this time in the morning, due to the client's business, it was starting to get a heavy load and the BDC was struggling to keep up.
Along we go, to find that the PDC is a system with a supremely old mobo, two dodgy P2s and an ailling HDD. The BDC, on the other hand, was fine (Athlon, tons of RAM etc.), but had been configured incorrectly. So, we reconfig'd the BDC, promoted it to primary controller and told them to get shut of the older system.
Their response was along the lines of "no, we can't be bothered and anyway you've done all the work, and that old system was fine til you got the support contract" (we'd never had to be called out before, let alone do any work on the PDC).
At this point my supe took the fire axe from the wall (why there was a fire axe in the server room beats me), and laid about the old PDC yelling "now you need a f***ing new one!".
For once I felt good about getting up at 4:30am.
CD :eek:
