The totally off-topic thread

[Mal]

Mid 50's. Definitely old enough to know better. And they weren't designer jeans, they looked like Lowe's specials!

Oh dear. Even more scarier.

 

[anat0l]

Happy Birthday, Storyteller!

 

[straitman]

Not a great look Qantas :!:

 

[markis10]

Not a great look Qantas :!:

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Could be worse, you could be on the BA service and be in the lounge , I would expect the QF services to be taking a few BA refugees, resulting in beeps at the gate or they will out them on one of the QF5 services!

 

[anat0l]

Not a great look Qantas :!:

Definitely not a good look, but what's QF5 doing being listed twice with different departure times?

Putting all those codeshares on the board definitely doesn't make the board look that good when they all have the same status.

 

[docjames]

Not a great look Qantas :!:

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Of course QF5 seems to be listed twice, and there's 7 listings for each one (due to the number of code shares).

 

[markis10]

QF5D and QF5 are operating today, delayed service from yesterday. OJM went US in JNB earlier in the week and I suspect flow on issues as a result.

 

[JessicaTam]

At least you are sitting in the best seat in the terminal to wait for the delayed flight.

 

[anat0l]

QF5D and QF5 are operating today, delayed service from yesterday. OJM went US in JNB earlier in the week and I suspect flow on issues as a result.

Fun - two flights, one as a service recovery, both delayed, both late in the day, both high risk of missing curfew. Not looking good would be an understatement.

 

[Simo]

Not a great look Qantas :!:

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Sorry I didn't mean to jinx you.

I am now having a Holiday after last nights comment. LOL

 

[Hvr]

I love this bloke's chutzpah and admire his ingenuity, pity he got the sack.

[h=1]IT worker outsources his own job – then relaxes[/h]For Bob had come up with the idea of outsourcing his own job – to China. So, while a Chinese consulting firm got on with the job he was paid to do, on less than one-fifth of his salary, he whiled away his working day surfing Reddit, eBay and Facebook.

 

[markis10]

I love this bloke's chutzpah and admire his ingenuity, pity he got the sack.

I like how its called a Scam, he was just doing what many companies do anyway! I am not sure if he got the sack or was made redundant when the whole programming department was outsourced - funny that.

 

[anat0l]

I love this bloke's chutzpah and admire his ingenuity, pity he got the sack.

Rather surprising that he didn't cover up his tracks better than that! I suppose if he was forced to route through the VPN the trail would have been inevitable anyway.

I like how its called a Scam, he was just doing what many companies do anyway! I am not sure if he got the sack or was made redundant when the whole programming department was outsourced - funny that.

Probably the part I highlighted.

His 'dismissal' may have also depended on how the work was "presented" by him, i.e. did he pretend that the whole work done was his own and taking all the credit?

I mean, outsourcing is quite common, but pretending that an outsourced component was proudly done by yourself when all you did was manage the procurement process is, I would imagine, not a common nor ethical practice. That would be like the Nike CEO saying that his hands make every single Nike shoe with integrity when we know that they are all made in sweatshops.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Is Johnk in the First Lounge with you with those delays.

Not a great look Qantas :!:

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[straitman]

Is Johnk in the First Lounge with you with those delays.

No but he must be near by :!:

 

[straitman]

QF5D and QF5 are operating today, delayed service from yesterday. OJM went US in JNB earlier in the week and I suspect flow on issues as a result.

QF5D has just gone. We are supposedly going at 1830 so not really too bad. We both managed a massage thanks to the delays.

 

[dfcatch]

Sitting in the BNE F lounge and there's only me and one other chap "who has already been fed and watered so we apologize that the buffet is not setup but now that you're here we'll get it all setup."

I have to admit that the personalized armchair table service is very good

 

[Mal]

I like how its called a Scam, he was just doing what many companies do anyway! I am not sure if he got the sack or was made redundant when the whole programming department was outsourced - funny that.

It is a scam. There's a huge difference between an internal employee creating a security risk and a company managing an outsourcing contract. In most large companies, sharing credentials is a sackable (or at least a cautionable) offence.

 

[Mal]

Sitting in the BNE F lounge and there's only me and one other chap "who has already been fed and watered so we apologize that the buffet is not setup but now that you're here we'll get it all setup."

Yeah, they don't set it up until people arrive. Makes sense to me with such a low traffic footprint (it's eerie though being there by yourself!)

 

[anat0l]

It is a scam. There's a huge difference between an internal employee creating a security risk and a company managing an outsourcing contract. In most large companies, sharing credentials is a sackable (or at least a cautionable) offence.

Sharing credentials is a security risk but is separate to the work issue at hand. Definitely could be disciplined on the security risk alone (which is not clear from the article).

Yeah, they don't set it up until people arrive. Makes sense to me with such a low traffic footprint (it's eerie though being there by yourself!)

I was there the last time before ATA was removed, waiting for a MH flight that leaves close to midnight. Nary a scratch of food left in the J portion of the lounge. Only a couple of people around. Not entirely eerie, thanks in part due to the lounge having high ceilings and windows. Can be very quiet in that big (well, big when you are almost by yourself) lounge - maybe that's the eerie part!

Kind of get the same feeling when I was the only one in the CX F lounge (or that part of the lounge) in MNL, except the ceiling is not high in that, the lighting is a bit subtler, the food is not as good and the power points are flaky!