Back at Ship B
Still at Ship B - the 'couple of weeks' was now up to three months and counting.

My boss came for a visit, just to see what was taking so long. I don't know why, they were paying for all of my time. He sat down at a machine and logged on. Then, he went looking for the file he needed...

"purple", he said, without looking up. "Has someone here annoyed you?"

I admitted that they might have done.

"Has anyone else noticed this?" he continued.

I had to say that as far as I knew, no-one had.

"Excellent" he said, and continued working.

One of the things I'd had to do was to clear the new network drive letters with everyone. It had taken more than two weeks of committee meetings, but I'd got them agreed. Everyone had three drives. One was group-wide (G:), one was team-wide (T:) and one was the individual home drive (I:). As this was Windows 3.1, the File Manager drive bar had all the drives in- A:, C:, G: I:, T:. I'd managed to spell GIT in drive letters.

Two years later, someone else went to do their upgrade to Windows 95. The mappings were still there...
(purplegod counting down for Christmas!, Sat 26 Sep 2009, 21:00, 1 reply)

2 weeks??!
to decide on 3 letters?

fuck, and I thought it was impossible to make a decision where I work.
( spesh., Sat 26 Sep 2009, 23:34, closed)