torture
Corporate is in the middle of a desktop tech refresh as existing systems are coming off lease.
This has been in the works for some time; they started with the larger offices and worked their way down...
We've also had a few software rollouts/upgrades in the recent past, each one placing more demands on system resources. Grumblings about slow systems have increased right in step with all these rollouts, and has just reached a fever pitch. There was even a request to bring in personal equipment (which was summarily denied.)
Today, _one_ system turns up at my office out of the blue for one of my users. It looks completely unlike any of the other systems currently deployed. Also note that evey new piece of shiny-shiny goes through me before hitting the user's desk (we have 100-200 users local so it's not *that* taxing.)
Even though when excrement strikes an air-circulation device, it is not evenly distributed, I am _quite_ certain I will catch most of it-- I will not hear the end of the witty barbs on whose desk it should be installed, or queries on who they have to kill/pay off to get one too.
Assuming I might enjoy the current inability to provide upgrades for all the other crap systems we have, I know I'm going to receive grief twice-over as soon as this system goes into the general population...
I'm going to try and have it installed tonight ;)
This has been in the works for some time; they started with the larger offices and worked their way down...
We've also had a few software rollouts/upgrades in the recent past, each one placing more demands on system resources. Grumblings about slow systems have increased right in step with all these rollouts, and has just reached a fever pitch. There was even a request to bring in personal equipment (which was summarily denied.)
Today, _one_ system turns up at my office out of the blue for one of my users. It looks completely unlike any of the other systems currently deployed. Also note that evey new piece of shiny-shiny goes through me before hitting the user's desk (we have 100-200 users local so it's not *that* taxing.)
Even though when excrement strikes an air-circulation device, it is not evenly distributed, I am _quite_ certain I will catch most of it-- I will not hear the end of the witty barbs on whose desk it should be installed, or queries on who they have to kill/pay off to get one too.
Assuming I might enjoy the current inability to provide upgrades for all the other crap systems we have, I know I'm going to receive grief twice-over as soon as this system goes into the general population...
I'm going to try and have it installed tonight ;)
