Subj : Re: Kill 'em all; let god sort 'em out
To   : Atreyu
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Oct 19 2021 07:48:00

-=> Atreyu wrote to Jack Phlash <=-

 At> I'm likely one of only two or three techs in all of Toronto that knows
 At> that particular telephone system at the former company
 At> inside-out-and-backwards ... an ancient Intertel 8600 series.

I remember those! I was one of the few people who could manage Nortel SL1 
PBXes and Norstar key systems long after Avaya bought Nortel.

The secondary market was huge and cheap - I could buy basic desk phones for 
USD$30 instead of ten times that.

And, the MAC work helped pay the bills - all swapping pairs on 66 blocks. 
Plus travel time.   :)

 At> I like WFH, my daughter goes to high school and thus this place is dead
 At> quiet during the day, no distractions. But I do miss the noise of a
 At> busy office... my Amazon Alexa government snooping device has an App
 At> that plays background sounds ala. white noise. Sure enough, they have
 At> an office-monotony soundtrack.

WorkFrom is a site for remote workers - they have an online site at 
workfrom.coffee that's a customized virtual cafe, complete with a soundtrack 
and background noise. You can invite friends and share cams while working. I 
tried it a couple of times, it made me miss working out of coffee shops. I'm 
hoping we go back to being able to work in public again without too much 
worry.





 At> Every so often when I do the on-site work its nice to know I'm out of
 At> the house for the moment and not going entirely batshit crazy.

 At> Atreyu

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