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How not to do it:

Once upon a time, in an unnamed Misfortune 500 tree farm products company, there came a day that HP computer equipment was to be moved from the Corporate Headquarters Building to the computer room in another building. It was about three miles, more or less, and the processor was in a 1.6 meter cabinet on rollers.

Corporate had its own movers with trucks and all, and we were all assured that it would be no problem, Saturday night, to roll it across the third floor to the loading dock on to a very large truck and drive it to the loading dock at the other building, then roll it right into the computer room.

You have to know what's coming.

It just so turns out that the truck the corporate movers were going to use--their big truck, the bed of which would have been even and level with the loading dock, but the power steering was out, and that truck was in the shop. The mover guys decided to use the truck that was available, which was decidedly smaller. The flaw in the ointment here is that the bed of the smaller truck was much lower than the loading dock. Not to worry. Just use a ramp from the loading dock to the truck.

And I hope you all find this suitably ironic:

TIMBER!

As the cabinet was rolled down the ramp, as it was the situation that the Processor, the heaviest part, was in the top of the cabinet, making it very seriously top-heavy, it fell forward.

In the ensuing carnage, one of the hapless movers attempted to prevent the fall, but alas, injured his back without significantly retarding the progress of the processor; and great was the fall thereof. It left a significant dent in the cabinet, verily visible unto this very day. The employee had to fill out an accident report, and as it happened, made its way up the hierarchical food chain from Director to Director, Vice President to Vice President, up to the CEO. 

Verily and forsooth. 

And there was great displeasure at the injury with great wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth. And there were prophecies of the future time when there would be those artisans who would be called and chosen according to their gifts, who would handle the matter in a manner of greater wisdom, given by the great Corporate Prophets. And the prophecies have come to pass and have been fulfilled. 

Yet the governers and magistrates cared for none of these things.

And it came to pass, in that day, that the deed was done, and the computer was moved, carried by the contrievance--that self same chariot, which was dravest furiously, and the merchandise was delivered to that self-same computer room, and was established. 

Though the great tower was toppled and did fall, it was brought to its place and lived--resurrected on that very day, for the craft of the most excellent craftsmen prevailed, and it ran with no great injury, save for the unbound gash it received upon its journey.

And there was great rejoicing.

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