Like my Canon MF620C Wireless Duplexing Color Laser Copier Scanner Printer Fax and it was under $200. Don't have a phone line to hook up the fax to, but aren't faxes going away due to the electronic document signing.

Ended up giving my old Brother multi-function color laser that costed $900 on 10 years ago to Staples Recycling program. At least they gave me store credit for the unopened toner cartridges. In all the years I had it, never had to replace one toner cartridge.

That taco shot reminds me of the summer after 10th grade. Joann was a classmate. She had long black hair like that. The difference was the seam was the only material left the cut-offs were so short. Was riding by on my bike and happened to see her sitting on the front porch. Sure glad I stopped and uh...said hi.

Don't think a compter desk would fair to well in my garage. Because the mechanicals closet is in my garage the roof vents suck air through the garage. While it keeps and errant fumes out of the garage, it also sucks leaves and dust in every time the overhead opens to park or leave.

Instead of a desk I have a wooden work bench with a vise on the corner on one end and a grinder on the other. Been in the garage as long as I can remember. It was my Dads from before when I ws borneded.

Hanging out in the docs waiting room with sick people :eek:

Got my final Hep A and B shots. Should be good for travelling the third world for the next ten years.

Happy hump day all.

My dad went through several vaccination books. He traveled all over the world when he was a pilot in the Air Force. When he retired my mom really could not get him to travel much at all.

That's a bummer. I want to see a lot more of the world before I go.

Morning all.

He had pretty much been there done that. For a while he was traveling more than he was home. He had learned long ago to never ever trust the airlines for your luggage. He had a briefcase that he would pack his Dop kit, one undershirt, and underwear on all trips. He packed the exact same gear on so many trips once as he walked out the door he said, whoops something is missing. The suitcase was missing two pair of boxer shorts. He could tell because the weight of the suitcase was light. When you wear a uniform everyday there is no need for a a lot of different clothes. And this was long before suitcases had wheels. He visited virtually every developed non-communist nation on the planet except Australia. He had one trip to down under and he was in the left seat about to apply takeoff power when the mission was canceled because of some other crisis had developed and they needed the airplane to go to another destination.

He traveled a lot on military aircraft but many commercial flights as well. One trip from NYC to LA on a 747 back in the days when Pan Am was the king. The flight had 12 passengers. Just 12. It was the days of regulation and if they had a scheduled flight they could not cancel due to lack of passengers. He said it was great as a passenger. He had his own private stewardess and again long before any male stewards and in the days of all attractive women.

My mom spent three weeks on a trip to Africa, two weeks in Great Brittan, a week in Japan and a cruise around the southern tip of Africa. The only real trip he went on was for their 50th anniversary and the entire family went to Hawaii for a one week cruise. That was a blast. He wanted to go mostly spend time with his kids and grand-kids. They were married for 55 years before mom died.

My parents made it to 50 years of marriage but they never had the money to travel. As a kid we went on vacations to the coast or some lake to camp and fish. This trip to North Carolina is my Christmas present to him this year.

Almost all of dad's travels were under orders, and not on his dime. He had beyond top secret clearances so he was not allowed to travel to communist countries.

When a nephew was born Mom and I travelled by train to the east coast so Mom could help out. Then Dad and older Bro came out to pick us up and bring us back home. That's when I met Eddie, a relative that I did not like at all. He was my age but kept popping my suspenders.

Then a 2nd nephew was borned and we flew to the east cost that time. It was on one of those new Braniff jets with all the engines in the back. Again with Dad picked us up and drove us home. This time we didn't stop and see Eddie, went the southern route back home.

Took the train to the west coast when a niece was borneded, Dad taxied us home again.

The rest of the time we made our trips in the car. Most all our trips we visited and stayed with relatives. We did go fishing a LOT. Granddad had a boat house on Grand Lake for a long time. Then we went fishing with friends of my parents and an uncle that had cabins on the lake and we fished from their boats. We went trout fishing for a couple of weeks every summer on Wite River in Arkansas, but we took our own outboard motor and rented john boats. Tried going fishing a couple of time with an uncle that pulled a boat to the lake. We never did very well with him so didn't go with very many times. Dad said he just went to the lake to get away from his house full of girls. Never did much fishing from the bank.

An Aunt married a famous fly fisherman/author. He taught me how to flycast, but we never went fly fishing. If you couldn't go catch almost 100 fish in a morning or afternoon, my Dad wasn't very interested in going. Think we only went trout fishing because if you didn't catch your limit the lady that ran the dock we stayed at would make up the balance for you to take home.

Welp...

Been working on server side email signatures. It list employees name, job title, and extension and/or cell phone if they have a company cell. It gets all the data from Active Directory and the Job Title is imported to Active Directory from Human Resources.

They have me as Server Administrator. Tyically when I email employees it is about an email issue. Looked it up on Salary.com and an email administrator makes $10-15K more than a server administrator.

So asked my bosses that since most of my email has to do with email issues could I change my Job Title in Active Directory to...

Your Friendly Neighborhood Kimray Email Administrator instead of Server Administrator. If it didn't mean a cut in pay. Otherwise just leave it.

Don't think they took it as humor. My immediate boss said they would discuss it. LOL.

I have been signing my Internal company emails having to do with email for years with Your Friendly Neighborhood Kimray Email Administrator. Nobody ever notices.

A couple of HR people are making a big fuss about wanting their certification after their name like, PHR etc. Like anyone really pays attention to or cares about that carp.

What I think is even worse. They are wanting to go to server based signatures to standardize email signatures. There are features for email signature in Exchange that don't actually work. I have been working with Microsoft for a couple of days on this. The guys that work for Microsoft say they don't use the feature. Instead there is a Policy they must follow for email signatures. So not even Microsoft uses server side signatures.

don't even get me started with email signatures......the one here is corp generated and has a link in it to go buy the book the big boss wrote.

My boss said the thought I was spending too much time on the server side signature even though he understood that there was NOTHING to help because the feature in Exchange online isn't really for signatures, it's for Disclaimers. But also said the time spent didn't matter because the group they are having decide what to put in the signature and what it should look like can't make a decision.

Told him they should have just let me make something worked and had the information we could use that looked good. Then give the group to limitations of what could be done and let them make changes from there.

The best option is a 3rd party app from a company called CodeTwo for $2000 a year. The network manager and server manager does not like it because it is hosted and email is routed from Office365 to it, the signatures are added, then routed back to 365 for delivery. They are affraid something might break even though the service is hosted on MS Azure just like Office365.

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I love the corporate policy of mandated email addresses by the name of the employee.\

18 Embarrassing Email Addresses People Aren't Very Proud To Share With The World - Indiatimes.com

My corporate email policy is pretty flexible. :D

We can't use a policy like that. We have a Father, Son, Grandson that all have the exact same name.

Have to pay attention to login names when they are created from their name. Have a couple of people that their combination of just first initial last name was not really appropriate. Also have an initial password generator that randomly puts 2 three letter words together with a couple of randomly generated numbers. I have to watch those too as every once in a while while the words are benign the combination is not appropriate.

We have employees that can't remember their login is their first initial last name let alone a password.

Don't know how much longer the company I work for is going to be in business.

We make oilfield pumps and valves. They are cast iron, ductile iron, steel, and stainless steel for applications depending on the chemical/pressure/temperature environment.

The highest selling product is a cast iron back pressure regulator. The company started with it in 1948 and has consistently been the highest seller. It has been decided to discontinue cast iron valve in favor of the ductile iron version to reduce the product line. Was told the profits on the cast iron is only 25% and is 48% on the ductile.

WTF!

If ductile was a viable replacement for cast iron it seems like the company would have discontinued the cast iron at some point in the 69 years it as been in business!

Also 4 years ago we had 800 employees and our sales were almost twice what they are today. Of our 50 top sellers, 95% of sales they were able to ship product the same day it was ordered. Today we have 650 employees with only a little over half the sales and are backordered 3 months!

Production is working 4 days a week with 2 - 10 hour shifts. It was 5 days a week with 3 - 8 hour shifts. That is 80 hrs a week of production versus 120 hours! While to the employee it is still 40 hours a week, production scheduling to meet demand you are losing 40 hours a week that could be used to meet demands scheduling wise. That is significant.

I took industrial engineering and one of the things found is if workers work more than 8 hrs a day for any length of time they actually become less productive. Even if they work the same total hours per week. When I was in charge of the drafting department my staff did not believe this. They wanted to work 4 - 10 hour days and get an extra day off.

So we did some tests adjusting schedules to work more or less hours per day. We arranged it to keep the department covered and the guys thought is was fun to take part and really wanted to prove me wrong so they could work 4-10hr days. We found at under 8 hours per day their productivity was the same, but they didn't like working Saturdays to meet 40 hours. Any thing over 8 hours per day, they seemed as productive, BUT. They started making more mistakes. The mistakes cost time to fix and loss of productivity in other areas. Both quality and productivity suffered. After that they didn't want to even work overtime unless it was to come in on a Saturday because they did not like having to redo work and seeing the problems it caused for other areas of the company.

Production has been working 4-10hr days long enough that despite quality control having doubled it's staff products are being shipped that have to be recalled due to manufacturing or assembly errors. This almost never happened in the past.

Man, they really need to promote me to VP of Technology and let me fix this stuff before they go out of business. Bet if they just changed back to 5 day work weeks production and quality would improve enough that I would look like a God. Eeh, what do I know.

Still, discontinuing your highest selling product because you can't meet past production goals? That is CRAZY!!

Good Morning Group!

Morning all.

People that are self employed or at least own a chunk of the profits seem to work way more than 40 hours per week and they are the ones making the most money. Working on a project on a weekend or late at night is just fine if you know it will keep a major client happy and want to use your services again. It is indeed different when you are just the employee and getting a big client to bring another big job just means a lot more work for you for the same pay.

The owner at the last company was always wanting us to go find new clients. Only so he could make more money. He did not share any of it with an incentive or bonus. And sometimes it is not just more money, to pay for lunch or show some genuine appreciation for the efforts goes a long way.

The company was started in 1947 by a great guy. He was wonderful to work for. In his words he took "early retirement" at age 92 because he could not get insurance to fly an airplane and take pictures from any company on the planet. He took his last flight as pilot in command on his 92nd birthday and walked away form a perfect record of flying. He started in the Army Air Corps during WW2 and never once had an inflight emergency, or an incident that damaged the aircraft. None.

My partner and I simply did not have the resources to buy the company back then. The new owner was great and sunk some cash into it. He died of cancer and now his son runs it. He is not a businessman at all, but he is running his dad's company.

I bet he will be out of business in just a few more years.

morning all. short day for me. That dentist apt awaits then off to the coast for the weekend. Wife has had it with being stuck in the house and wants to see the beach.

She wants to see the sunny beach? Just watch the nations news, they have lots of suny bechees on the news.

something about sand and wind.......

Getting sand in EVERYTHING makes you appreciate NOT being at the beach until the memory fades of getting sand in EVERYTHING?

Got Down...off my horse, stepped in Shifting Sand, Sunny Beach.