Yes, we're using all the modern office tools

[capt bullshot]

Desktop with workspace, graphical editor, cut'n'paste and entertainment


Recycle bin with undo capability


Mailbox


external backup tool

[Brumby]

How very 80's....

[Vtile]

Looks relaxing. 

[bd139]

Good for you. Less distractions, better display contrast. Everything is good.

As a software engineer, I got laughed out of the office when I turned up to a meeting the first time with a few sheets of A4 and a pencil whereas everyone else had iPads, surfaces and laptops on hand. Now I'm charge of the software team and still use pencil and paper. Who's laughing now?

[tszaboo]

You should have put the texts on the images with a typewriter, and then scan them.
BTW, sometimes I miss all these low tech tools. Last time I really needed the paste tool.

[xrunner]

Additional storage capability -

[bd139]

Oh just remembered. Inevitable Bob Pease:

[kalel]

Good for you. Less distractions, better display contrast. Everything is good.

As a software engineer, I got laughed out of the office when I turned up to a meeting the first time with a few sheets of A4 and a pencil whereas everyone else had iPads, surfaces and laptops on hand. Now I'm charge of the software team and still use pencil and paper. Who's laughing now?

The suitable equipment should depends on how those meetings go. Whether or not you need to access the internet or local network, scroll through some pre-written information, or if all information you need to see is displayed on some slides (or handed out to you in some shape). It would be nice for the company to provide necessary equipment as well, if they don't. Especially if someone is working for free (getting some practice), which might not be as frequent in software companies, but there might be some where it does happen.

[capt bullshot]

Last time I really needed the paste tool.

It was really hard to find that. Only one was available for our whole department ...

[Vtile]

I can see this becoming a massive new way of doing work while the VR kicks in for good. 

[DimitriP]

a few sheets of A4 and a pencil

Spiral notebooks never need charging and pencil doesn't "run" when wet.
You can also tear a page or two to fix a wobbly table at starbucks.
Try doing that with an iPad.

[DG41WV]

the included search function is really slow sometimes.

[BrianHG]

Empty trash/permanent delete function:

[Cerebus]

You call that a paste function?

THIS is a paste function:

[BrianHG]

Workstation turbo power boost/recharger:

[Brumby]

A guy I know manages an electronics store - has done for decades.  He has a little black book for all his contact information.  After years of badgering by his family, he finally gave in and got himself a mobile phone ... but it is only turned on when he wants to make a phone call.

[Alex Eisenhut]

A guy I know manages an electronics store - has done for decades.  He has a little black book for all his contact information.  After years of badgering by his family, he finally gave in and got himself a mobile phone ... but it is only turned on when he wants to make a phone call.

[Brumby]

LOL.

The dialling technique would annoy him, though.

[Halcyon]

Sometimes simpler is better. No point in spending money, time and effort on creating needless systems, processes, policies and Standard Operating Procedures when it's not required.

This is why WH&S is the way it is in some organisations. They spend more time being risk-averse, coming up with useless policies which only inhibit performance and economy and wasting time in useless meetings for something that should be common sense.

I know someone who worked for a large food company *coughNESTLEcough* and literally got "red carded" by some moron in the corridor for the following "offences":
- Talking on a mobile phone while walking
- Not holding onto the hand rail while walking down stairs

 

I know we have to appeal to the lowest common denominator, but this kind of shit is just ludicrous.

By the way OP: Those left-hand side trays are too high and pose a fall risk/trip hazard. You'll need to conduct a risk assessment, have a meeting about it and come up with strategies to mitigate the risk. Then, you need to have a compliance check monthly to make sure the new standard is being adhered to. While you're at it, every form needs to have at least 3 signatures from various levels of management on it, just because. Then scan, archive and retain for 10 years.

[Cerebus]

I know someone who worked for a large food company *coughNESTLEcough* and literally got "red carded" by some moron in the corridor for the following "offences":
- Talking on a mobile phone while walking
- Not holding onto the hand rail while walking down stairs

 

Well, I hope the 'red carder' himself did a proper risk assessment before waving a, presumably laminated, red card around in a corridor. For a  start "you could have someone's eye out with that", and the natural consequences of an act like that are wince inducing. I mean, the risk of anal lacerations as the red card goes in - ouch, I don't want to imagine any more.

[Halcyon]

I know someone who worked for a large food company *coughNESTLEcough* and literally got "red carded" by some moron in the corridor for the following "offences":
- Talking on a mobile phone while walking
- Not holding onto the hand rail while walking down stairs

 

Well, I hope the 'red carder' himself did a proper risk assessment before waving a, presumably laminated, red card around in a corridor. For a  start "you could have someone's eye out with that", and the natural consequences of an act like that are wince inducing. I mean, the risk of anal lacerations as the red card goes in - ouch, I don't want to imagine any more.

I'm very sure that actual cards wouldn't have been allowed due to their pointy edges or perhaps a softer alternative was used, such as pieces of felt. No doubt an incident report was filed and tabled at the next WH&S meeting.

[rollatorwieltje]

I know the handrail thing from maritime related companies (holding the handrail on a ship is generally a good idea), but Nestlé? Those assholes are still involved in slavery and child labor, they have some more important things to look at.

[woody]

Same goes for Shell. Hold the handrail at all times. Not only on an oil rig, but also in head office. God forbid an employee sprains an ankle. Meanwhile their products drive us ever faster to extinction.

[IanMacdonald]

I heard of a case where an installation job at Shell had to be abandoned because it was a two-man lift and the item could not be carried whilst holding the handrail. Madness, but that's what happens when penpushers get in charge.

Commonsense would say that trying to hold a handrail whilst carrying a heavy item in a lopsided manner places you at risk of a back injury, anyway.

Other thing used to happen was that there were idiots going round locking doors at random. In one case, expensive test gear was locked in a room by an unknown person while the engineer's back was turned, and it took a couple of days to get it out. I think I'd have used a crowbar and told them the damage was their own fault. 

[Cyberdragon]

I know the handrail thing from maritime related companies (holding the handrail on a ship is generally a good idea), but Nestlé? Those assholes are still involved in slavery and child labor, they have some more important things to look at.