Dumbest business decision ever

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Buncha wussies! My pocket thermometer I wear in my sleeve generally reads between 87 and 90 degrees all day long.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: Crusty


68F in the winter and 76-78 in the summer for me. No idea where you are located, but being in Austin certainly affects my winter temperatures as it really doesn't get that cold here. If I had no heat I would bet my house wouldn't go below 62-64F during the winter so it really doesn't cost that much to heat to 68-70F.

Summer is different through, last May - June we had 50+ days in a row of 100F+ and it was brutal on the electricity bills.

I'm in MD, so humidity is a big problem. Winters have been on the warm side(avg probably 40F, but variable) for the last 15 years or so, and summers run about 90F, but with oppressive humidity. I start getting irritable when the outside temperature hits 75f, and downright surely at 85F :^D

:laugh:

I complain when its over 100F.. otherwise you're a pansy. Several years ago the Austin City Limits music festival had an entire weekend where it was 108+ and 112 on the Saturday. That was brutal, there's very little shade on the festival grounds and the ground was so dry it was terrible.

Growing up in Houston I can sympathize with the humidity and it blows, nothing like 98F and 95% relative humidity. All you have to do is step outside if you want to get wet.

Like I posted above, it was that hot in my plant (I work 95% of the time on the plant floor) and that was with 5 ventilation fans (about 4 foot in diameter each) running as well as about 30 floor fans (all about 3.5 feet in diameter) running. Almost too hot to breathe....but AC is out of the question because it "costs" something. Hell, we even talked the landlord into throwing in 3 industrial units on the new lease and spread out over a 10 year period with NO markup other than the price of the AC units / 120 months and it still would not fly.

It was around 85 in the building todayl

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: spidey07
To cut costs somebody came up with the brilliant idea that we could save a lot of bandwidth costs. So the brilliant idea was to lower the caps in the standard package to 5GB, thereby saving bandwidth.

So now everybody is pissed off, swearing. Every single internet user has given up and dropped their service. Sure must be cutting down on bandwidth usage!

Sorry, couldnt resist being a smart ass.

by the way, who is it you work for? I have a sneaking suspicion its TW Cable

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: spidey07
To cut costs somebody came up with the brilliant idea that we could save a lot of bandwidth costs. So the brilliant idea was to lower the caps in the standard package to 5GB, thereby saving bandwidth.

So now everybody is pissed off, swearing. Every single internet user has given up and dropped their service. Sure must be cutting down on bandwidth usage!

Sorry, couldnt resist being a smart ass.

I would expect nothing less. One of the biggest cost saving measures I'm involved with is cutting capacity and re-route things to push circuits to their max. Not my call, that's what I'm asked to do. That's what I'm paid to do.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: spidey07
To cut costs somebody came up with the brilliant idea that we could save a lot of bandwidth costs. So the brilliant idea was to lower the caps in the standard package to 5GB, thereby saving bandwidth.

So now everybody is pissed off, swearing. Every single internet user has given up and dropped their service. Sure must be cutting down on bandwidth usage!

Sorry, couldnt resist being a smart ass.

I would expect nothing less. One of the biggest cost saving measures I'm involved with is cutting bandwidth capacity. Not my call, that's what I'm asked to do.

I don't blame the guy implementing it. I blame the asshole PHB that thought it would somehow be a great idea. Just like I hope people dont hold me to the occasional dumb thing I'm forced to do. So I guess the cats out of the bag on why you took up for them so much