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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 16, 2018, 04:13:00 pm ---Planned economy and Marxism-Leninism is what we need :-DD
On that note, has anyone seen any Eastern Bloc tear gear?
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Er no I haven't seen it but I do have an Eastern Bloc radio sitting in my repair queue, any good? Long live the revolution comrade >:D
mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 16, 2018, 03:32:45 pm ---(SNIP)
Please note that we stole the ram after being laid off because the SME owner sold the product to a corporation on the sly and buggered off to work for them. He dumped the entire engineering team and software teams (i was in charge of the latter) by email and fucked off to Gibraltar. This was owing a months salary. Clearance company turned up next morning to empty the office with the landlord.
We also nicked the Cisco VoIP handsets, the contents of the kitchen, all the bog roll, and the space bar off every keyboard in the building just because hate.
Incidentally he ended up working for me for 6 months about 5 years after that because they had shit him out like the turd he was. I hold no grudge. It was bad enough for him that he was working for me. Plus his wife had left him and ruined him.
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It is rare in these times of nameless, faceless avarice that one gets to be the instrument of Karma in this manner; I've only been similarly fortunate in a couple cases. It is even more fulfilling to be able to take the high road when the opportunity presents itself. :clap:
That payback however is absolutely priceless; the kind of understated yet perverse retaliation it takes an engineer-type brain to scheme up on the fly. A shame you didn't have more time to think of even better pitfalls. :-DD
mnem
Karma's a bitch... and she has puppies.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 16, 2018, 04:06:46 pm ---mnementh in principle I tend to agree with you, I think it would be difficult to find a government anywhere that was not in the pocket of some large corporations of some sort or other, typically the media moguls, it is for the vast majority of corporations all about the money, maximizing its generation with little thought for those poor workers who actually "make the money" for them. AS you rightly said, exporting the real jobs overseas where life is cheap, corners cut and health and safety don't exist, such as this example http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324339/Worlds-biggest-ship-graveyard--huge-tankers-cruise-liners-scrapped-shorefront-workers-toil-2-day.html
The roads in the UK are getting as bad as those we see in Russia and yet we are supposed to be an economic powerhouse, I could go on but I won't or else this thread will deteriorate into blatant politics with the threat of being closed down and we certainly don't that, so lets just keep it to water cooler chat over a nice cool refreshing class of water eh?
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I remember working as a teenager in a boneyard scrapping out transmissions; I got paid the difference between clean short steel/aluminum and dirty aluminum. It was horrible, filthy work; who knows what damage coming home every night soaked in ATF did to my growing body. I eventually developed calluses a quarter of an inch thick on my hands, and had to stop when I got a debilitating rash from the inside of one leg to the other.
But it still beat farming for a living. :-DD
Agreed; time to put the politics away before we get spanked. It's not dark enough and I'm not intoxicated enough yet for that to be fun.
mnem
You don't know where that's been.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 16, 2018, 02:49:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on May 16, 2018, 02:43:13 pm ---Am I the only one who is amused by the large quantity of potted plants listed here?
I want to buy them all and ship them to BD139's place of work... I understand they have a shortage of O2 generators/physical security problems... :-DD
I wouldn't mind snagging that N generator though... or any of the number of nice & big sounding (but no pictures) Kaymar workbenches.
mnem
moo.
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>:( :-DD
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You're welcome. :-DD
Oh, and they finally have pics up on most of the stuff. Now you can window shop for your favorite physical security problem; it looks like a few of them are actually big enough to hide behind. >:D
mnem
*Out standing in his field*
bd139:
Woot. Might go for that 33120A. No low level out means cocked attenuator relay which is easy to fix.
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