What is your company's power outage policy?
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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The building UPS lasts at least an hour (longest outage I've seen), if it was drained for most people it'd be take your laptop home and use your home power. In extremis I have an inverter and could use my car as an emergency generator. I'm not sure what the policy is for an extended regional outage or for people whose jobs must be done on site.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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:doh: :doh: :doh: I read the title as power outrage policy. :) Several years ago when the lights went out, there were a couple of extra days of holidays that a few people had. But I don't think that applied to any of my electrical friends.
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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Xiangyang Liu wrote:
What is your company's power outage policy?
They are strictly forbidden.
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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Fresh food?
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Trollslayer wrote:
Fresh food?
naw, the schools have first dibs... ;P :laugh:
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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We have a rather large generator which kicks in automatically. That's the good part. The bad part is, the purpose of the generator is to keep our distilled water system running (if it loses power, it becomes contaminated, and cleaning it's a PITA). No extra power for lights, computers, etc.
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We have a departmental UPS, and a diesel generator, the minute the power is knocked, the UPS kicks in and within 1 second the generator is started. We also have our on substation!
norm .net wrote:
We have a departmental UPS, and a diesel generator, the minute the power is knocked, the UPS kicks in and within 1 second the generator is started. We also have our on substation!
Are they paying well in the Pentagon?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
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I work from home, but in the past our policy was, people with notebooks keep working, people with desktops stay to laugh at them.
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Christian Graus wrote:
people with notebooks keep working, people with desktops stay to laugh at them.
That's it, I am going to suggest that to the management as our official new policy.
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We have a rather large generator which kicks in automatically. That's the good part. The bad part is, the purpose of the generator is to keep our distilled water system running (if it loses power, it becomes contaminated, and cleaning it's a PITA). No extra power for lights, computers, etc.
Software Zen:
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if it loses power, it becomes contaminated, and cleaning it's a PITA
You know, contaminated water is much more nutricious than clean water.
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
if it loses power, it becomes contaminated, and cleaning it's a PITA
You know, contaminated water is much more nutricious than clean water.
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Not when you're using the DI water in your 1000 and 100000 unit clean rooms as part of your manufacturing process.
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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An immediate outburst of profanity followed by me complaining that everyone there should have a UPS on their system. When the power is eventually restored, you can hear prayers to various deities hoping that the systems even come back on, and knowing that your lost work is exactly that - lost.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
We have about 50 windows in our office. They probably will force me to wash them. And of course you could just write down your C++ code on the paper or napkin and enter it in computer in the next day. If you are a good artist, you could also make your forms design on the same napkin/back side for the code, front side for the form design, different napkin for header files or partial classes – depends of the language you’re using/.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
Deyan Georgiev wrote:
napkin/back side for the code, front side for the form design
Where do you thing the "code-behing" term came from? ;P
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An immediate outburst of profanity followed by me complaining that everyone there should have a UPS on their system. When the power is eventually restored, you can hear prayers to various deities hoping that the systems even come back on, and knowing that your lost work is exactly that - lost.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I actually lucked out on that recently. I discovered that a win2k testbox I'd recently inherited ownership of was plugged into a nonUPS outlet when the power went out during a defrag. :doh: Everything came up normal after power was restored.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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We only ever had one power out - I was new to the company and since I had a laptop I continued to work for a couple of hours. When I finally emerged from my tucked away back office I found that everyone else had gone and the place was locked up! Of course I was the subject of much amusement the next day. :)
Apathy Rules - I suppose...
Its not the things you fear that come to get you but all the things that you don't expect
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norm .net wrote:
We have a departmental UPS, and a diesel generator, the minute the power is knocked, the UPS kicks in and within 1 second the generator is started. We also have our on substation!
Are they paying well in the Pentagon?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
It basically powers Sales, Accounts, IT and the directors, so we don't lose sales if there's a power outage.
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We have a departmental UPS, and a diesel generator, the minute the power is knocked, the UPS kicks in and within 1 second the generator is started. We also have our on substation!
Well, our department uses laptops only, and they are plugged into a protected circuit, so no brownouts, spikes, etc. Our IT-department, however, has about 250 machines to shut down, including 2 IBM zSeries and other monsters. We also have our own substation, which is conveniently located next to the building housing the diesel genny. However, the diesel only powers the IT-department, all others have to wait for power to be restored. And the workshop guys are usually sent home for the day.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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Let's say, there is a big storm that knocks out power in your office and you can't work at all. Will your boss give you a day off?
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Our policy is to wait 30 minutes at work to see if the power comes back on. The server admins have to start shutting down the servers (on UPS) at 25 minutes. The stairwell lights only have 20 minutes battery. :doh:
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
