Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Bo Holt
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Sep 11 2026 06:51 am

-=> Bo Holt wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 BH> I work at a so-called IT office (government run) with non-IT people
 BH> making IT decisions.  As a little kid, I always thought that I'd grow
 BH> up to work in a building like Cyberdyne Systems from T2, surrounded by
 BH> REAL computer people who had a PASSION for computers, like me.  Where I
 BH> am could not be anymore opposite than that.

 I feel for you. I've worked in environments where IT got put under an
 office manager who had no idea what I did. At least I had a 37th floor
 office in downtown San Francisco.   :)

 BH> if I didn't have my tiny, windowless office, back into the "open-air",
 BH> waist-high-walled cubes, I don't know how I could do it.  I have 263
 BH> days more left before I can retire from this with immediate benfits and
 BH> go somehwere real.  Each day they are making it harder and harder to
 BH> keep my mouth shut ;)

Working in government IT made me realize that pensions were the
motivating force for employees in the entire org, not just IT. There
were people whose entire strategy was to keep their heads down and not
make waves until they retired. With a union to make firing more
difficult, it was a pretty decent plan for some.



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