Re: The price of oil

On 16.10.2022 18.16, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 15.10.2022 15.29, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>> [8<---]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What a coincidence! I'm a secret agent too!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I Don't believe you - so you don't have to kill me now.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And that fish smell? It's my new cologne --Fruit de
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mer.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Very -erm- catching...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> See? It's working already.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It would work on a cat...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not my cat.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you want me to send you my dead mouse to try on your cat?
>>>>>>>>>>>> It hasn't been dead for more than a day... yet.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Save the postage. Soonish I will probably have mice in the
>>>>>>>>>>> house and she can catch a fresh one.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So she's good for something after all. When she's awake.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> She's been practicing with the toy mouse. At 2 AM.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The squeaky kind?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The squeaky things are dog toys. Cat's no like noise.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've known of cats that very much like to make noise - loud,
>>>>>> penetrating, undulating noise - in the middle of the night when
>>>>>> decent people are trying to sleep.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Light sleeper, huh?
>>>>
>>>> Sounds that mostly allude to someone or something being brutally
>>>> murdered do tend to wake me up, yes...
>>>>
>>>>> I think my cat is not adverse to noises that she creates herself.
>>>>> She will leave the room if the tv is on too loud or someone
>>>>> sneezes/coughs or if I am talking on the phone. She really hates
>>>>> the Zoom conferences.
>>>>
>>>> So she wants to hear herself and only herself. I've known people
>>>> like that. Also I've never participated in a Zoom conference. After
>>>> my time, I guess.
>>>>
>>>
>>> *adds have Zoom conference with BeH to bucket list before 'get TikTok
>>> account'*
>>
>> Good luck with that. I still don't have a webcam.
> You don't need a webcam, you need an internet connection.

I do have one of those...

> <whispers...your cellphone has a camera>

IT DOES??? What will they think of next.

>>> I don't want you to die a virgin.
>>
>> I did take part in some video conferences back in the day (1993-ish).
>> That involved a great big camera and a wall mounted tv. Mostly though
>> it was 1/2 hour taxi -> 1/2 hour plane ride -> 3/4 hour drive to have
>> a physical meeting. On behalf of the country's largest telecom
>> operator...
> 
> We had those too. Except that there were probably 2 or 3 conference
> rooms with the camera/tv. Now they all have them.

And things are so much better now, coordination and co-operation vise... 
or what!

>>> We use MS Teams at work.
>>> It has some advantages over in person meetings such as if you have
>>> your camera off and the meeting is boring, you can play Candy Crush
>>> or pretend that your internet connection dropped. When we were 100%
>>> virtual, the director would ask to get invited to team meeting
>>> randomly just to stay in touch with people. Like the rank and file
>>> want to hang out with upper management. *eye roll* I have 2
>>> programmers who report to me who would never put their camera on at
>>> meetings. I'm cool with that. The director called me after a meeting
>>> and asked how I knew they were working. Seriously?
>>
>> Well, how do you know? It's not like those types produce anything
>> tangible. It's all bits and zeroes and ones with them.
> 
> Well, someone is loading the databases and creating custom extractions
> for clients. The only other person who can program on the team is me and
> I know I didn't do their work.
> 
>>
>>> The benefit of not having your camera on at meetings is that no one
>>> can see you rolling your eyes when they say something stupid or
>>> blather away off topic for an extended period of time. In the
>>> before-time, I would doodle in my notebook or write 'OMG STFU' or
>>> something like that which would often make the person sitting beside
>>> me burst out laughing. MYOB.
>>
>> Heh. The first place I worked the boss insisted on going over the
>> accounting in d-e-t-a-i-l every month; overhead slides and all. All
>> nine of us sitting there listening attentively (obv.)...
>>
> Ugh! I leave my body at those meetings.Then someone calls my name and
> sucks me back into the vortex. What did I think of the idea? Yep. it's
> craptactular! I tell them I missed the question because I left my body.
> They all laugh because they think I'm joking.

The worst part, I always found, was all the time (and money) is wasted 
on these things - half the people aren't interested in *any* of and the 
rest are only invested in a little bit. Also 50 consultants (who could 
be billing opwards of €200/hour) sitting there for an hour...

BeH