Smile of the day - What is yours?

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

My two week contract has turned into two months. I love getting to a client to find they're all Excel illiterate - there are so many quick fixes to make their work so much easier and they're all amazed, thinking I'm some sort of magician. They keep extending my end date so I can help streamline more and more and now they've decided to keep me to the end of the month. Result.

If only they could all move past excel and use proper BPM tools...

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

If only they could all move past excel and use proper BPM tools...

I'd be out of a job and I'm too old/lazy to change tack now! Thankfully there are plenty of mid size companies that cannot afford to move up in terms of system capabilities just yet so I can see Excel being their first choice for management reporting for some time yet.

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

I'd be out of a job and I'm too old/lazy to change tack now! Thankfully there are plenty of mid size companies that cannot afford to move up in terms of system capabilities just yet so I can see Excel being their first choice for management reporting for some time yet.

Yeah, excel has a place, for low cost quick solutions to short term issues. Maybe my post should be in gripes, just the amount of dodgy workarounds done by departments instead of using the proper tools available makes my job a lot harder sometimes. It encourages adhoc business processes that don't fit within the business as a whole, atleast in terms of process and systems architecture.....and I'm still not in a new role yet...

[Bibio]

how did we survive before the computer

to err is human but to completely fek things up requires a computer and an idiot at the keyboard.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Bibio

how did we survive before the computer

to err is human but to completely fek things up requires a computer and an idiot at the keyboard.

Computers have de-skilled the human race by gathering information on computers rather than in the human mind. Computers have allowed big business to take over the world, Amazon makes huge profits in pretty much every country in the world and pays tax in non of them, Uber is the worlds largest taxi company but owns no taxis etc. etc.

When you see some of the basic things that people search internet for answers it makes you wonder what happened to a good basic education as well. When you hear kids say things like 'why do I need to go to school when I know how to use Google and I can find everything on there ? '

[ophic]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

When you see some of the basic things that people search internet for answers it makes you wonder what happened to a good basic education as well.

This was always the case. But now they have the internet so they can try to educate themselves. Hence it's visible.

What really gets me is reasonably intelligent youngsters who need to know something but can't be bothered to spend 10 seconds looking it up, so they kind of self impose ignorance through laziness. I really don't get it.

I used to dream of a hand-held portable comms device as a kid. Would have saved the bus fares to the library.

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Pinning the throttle in tunnels. So addictive!

Only beaten by flicking the kill switch on a curvy to produce humungous BACKFIRES

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Only beaten by flicking the kill switch on a curvy to produce humungous BACKFIRES

oh my even I remember doing that on my sv, brings back one huge smile! I haven't tried it on an IL4, it won't work will it?

[punyXpress]

Should do with carbs, but fuel injection cuts the flow which would be counter-productive!
When I worked in London 56 years ago used to go through Blackwall Tunnel and unleash a few from my Lambretta at lunch time. Great sport!

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Should do with carbs, but fuel injection cuts the flow which would be counter-productive!
When I worked in London 56 years ago used to go through Blackwall Tunnel and unleash a few from my Lambretta at lunch time. Great sport!

all of a sudden I go from loving my IL4, to not loving it quite so much!