Assume v. Presume

[Owen Smith]

Otherwise you might just as well have everything in one massive thread, which means it turns more into AVForums and other such-like horrid stuff and everything becomes essentially unmanageable and unreadable.

When I first encountered the AVForums model I liked it, it's easy for initial reading when things are posted. But I've grown to dislike it, finding anything is impossible and as a result people repeatedly ask the same questions. There's a balance to be found and hummy.tv is certainly a lot nearer the ideal than AVForums.

 

[EEPhil]

That's on a different thread! How is anyone supposed to realise replies are going cross thread?!

That's what the link's for, duh.

As someone who often causes threads to drift, I have occasionally gone cross thread to try - usually unsuccessfully - to keep the original thread tidy.

 

[Black Hole]

That's on a different thread!

And this is AvP, the appropriate place to be picky about spelling and grammar (which is probably not appropriate elsewhere on the forum, apart from being a bit rude it would be off-topic).

 

[EEPhil]

which is probably not appropriate elsewhere on the forum, apart from being a bit rude it would be off-topic

...and guess who often does that. Oops! (Yes, I meant me)

 

[Black Hole]

 

[EEPhil]

This has been known for a long time. Think Gus Hedges in "Drop the Dead Donkey"(1990-98) or even Bob Buzzard in "A Very Peculiar Practice" (1986-92). Obviously the business jargon bull was known to the writers of these programmes over 30 years ago (apart from the use of "leverage").

 

[Wildebeest]

Don't people play buzzword bingo any more?

 

[Owen Smith]

Don't people play buzzword bingo any more?

I certainly do. The higher someone gets promoted at work, the higher what they write and say scores on buzzword bingo. It's like watching their brains dribble out of their ears on each promotion.

 

[Black Hole]

Isn't that the way it works, promotion to their level of incompetence?

 

[Owen Smith]

Isn't that the way it works, promotion to their level of incompetence?

But they appear to lose the ability to do what they used to be good at as well.

 

[EEPhil]

Isn't that the way it works, promotion to their level of incompetence?

It has seemed that way to me. Then there's a version of an old saying (can't find a reference, but I've definitely heard it somewhere): "It's not what you know, it's not even who you know, it's what you know about who you know.. " . Put those together and the wrong people often rise to the top.

But they appear to lose the ability to do what they used to be good at as well.

Probably no time to spend on what you were good at. You've now got to lick the boots* of the next higher manager.

(* Other words maybe available!)

 

[prpr]

Opensore (or one of their contractors) are coming in a couple of weeks to do the fibre (*).

Turned out to be a Mr Kelly.

The pole is across the road and the vegetation adjacent is near to the top. I hope they bring their gardening tools.

He didn't and had to fight his way through it to get to the business end.
Old copper cable disconnected and mostly slung out of the way but still partially across the road - I tidied that up for him.
He attached the new fibre cable and then, having moved his ladder first, walked it across the road at a quiet moment and straight up to the hook on the house (with no hazard to traffic at all), then in to the loft where the old extension cabling had previously gone.
A lot of it was boarded (with a decent access ladder and fully lit), but not the bit where he needed to get the new cable, so I'd previously screwed a new panel down as a temp work platform.
CSP and ONT then installed next to each other half way along the woodwork and connected up to my pre-installed network cable and power.
Didn't work (no PON light, and LOS was red), so he had to go up the pole again as he hadn't plugged that end in properly but then OK as far as physical link went.
Still didn't work - no connection onward from ISP to the world, but PPPoE session up, so must be something ISP related.
He left at this point, having removed all the nasty old external cabling up/down the side of the house from the old master socket/linebox (in the hall) to the upstairs extension (where the ADSL modem and router was).
A quick call to the ISP and they had seemingly forgotten to configure something. Solved in <5 minutes and all now working after a PPPoE session down/up.

So no nasty cabling visible anywhere, no nasty boxes visible inside or outside anywhere (nor accessible to whatever nefarious types at ground level) and no new holes anywhere.
Contractors love to say no to working in lofts apparently (elfin safety, or something like that), but he couldn't really to this and it would have been considerably harder to do something I didn't want. Overall, that was a winner.

(I was idly playing about with one of those old fortune cookie widget type of things on the PC this morning, as part of looking at fixing something else, and it came up with "Everything will be just tickety-boo today". How apt!)

 

[prpr]

promotion to their level of incompetence?

Yep, we used to use this phrase all the time.

"It's not what you know, it's not even who you know, it's what you know about who you know.. " .

And that one.

You've now got to lick the boots* of the next higher manager.

They shaft the people below them to appease the people above them. $h!t from both directions ensues. I was never interested in doing that role. I still got the down-flowing brown stuff though. The opportunity arose to talk to the person right at the top a couple of years ago, so I took it, and had a partial result. Moot now, because I've gone and so has he.