HTFU London

oh dear chris. naughty naughty. the internet is fucked up!

haha! nice work chrish. you're missed over here though boy. that's why it snowed. frozen tears. :D

chris, you may have left london, but you live on in our media establishments.

:-) so wrong!

:-) so wrong!

:) he's subtle our gabes.

:-) so wrong!

how is it wrong? it's on the interweb, it's public information.

Please tell me that isn't Chris' wife in the Guardian and that's not the reason he left London (or had to).

is that link work safe?

yes (ha you know Gabes too well :-))

is that link work safe?

yes

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chris, you may have left london, but you live on in our media establishments.

hahahahahaa..... is that shit for real?
damn Chris....that shit is cold!

Everyone I rode past today was doing about 12mph. I did fall off turning the last corner into work though.

As long as it doesn't hurt I really like falling off my bike for some reason??? Anyone else?

Fucking ouch! :S
Love ya Chris, you too Georgie...

Please tell me that isn't Chris' wife in the Guardian and that's not the reason he left London (or had to).

Okay.

That isn't Chris' wife bla bla bla,

Our disaster recovery plan is meant to operate when no one can get to the office. Everyone logs in from home and off they go.

Yesterday just over half of our staff skived off. Many (but not all) tried to log in from home. The system crashed. Disaster recovery plan fail.

Surely that's business continuity fail and not DR fail.

Hey Carsh.

I'm with Chris, this whole thing is a national fucking embarrasment. Everything shut down yesterday. For the first time since the war they cancelled the bus service. And it cost the UK something like £3bn.

WTF?

Typical that we have to put a monetary value on everything.
Yesterday I saw lots of happy faces and people talking to each other. Priceless.

How many cities do you know with the same bus network/public transport as London that can cope in the snow?

Our disaster recovery plan is meant to operate when no one can get to the office. Everyone logs in from home and off they go.
Yesterday just over half of our staff skived off. Many (but not all) tried to log in from home. The system crashed. Disaster recovery plan fail.
Only those who made it in were able to work.
If a bomb goes off, I expect that the plan, from an IT perspective, requires a large death toll or the system will fail again. Not very comforting from a personal nor business perspective.

I see. So it's an IT/infrastructure fail.

People in IT are so fucking stupid though, so I can totally see this happening. I bet they won't fix it for next time either, the bunch of retarded midget fiddlers.

Has anybody heard the REAL figure of how much 'money' was 'lost' due to absence from work yesterday? £4.77. All that talk of three squillion quid was well over done.

And what about the benefit to our mental health, having a day off to play in the snow TOTALLY changed the way everyone has been interacting. Yesterday was the best day I've had in London EVER.

The only bad thing I noticed is some really bad aggressive driving this morning, drivers really buzzing me and cutting me off at bottlenecks cos I wasn't riding in the gutter where all the ice was, everyone using phones at the wheel, that sort of thing. I nearly lost my cool a couple of times on the way to work.

Yesterday was a Citrix Server failure day.
Everyone trying to work remotely.
Business continuity my arse.

I see. So it's an IT/infrastructure fail.

People in IT are so fucking stupid though, so I can totally see this happening. I bet they won't fix it for next time either, the bunch of retarded midget fiddlers.

Reminds me of the first meeting of a disaster recovery team, I was part of in my last job.

One of the consultants asks if we back up our data.

Yes of course, daily. replys the IT rep.
Where are the hard copys kept?
In the most safe and secure room in the building.
This building?
Yes in the server room.

Que staring at feet and uncomfortable warm feeling.

The fact you have a Citrix server is a failure on its own. :P

the whole city shut down due to 3ins of snow? Really? I ride my track bike in that with 23c slicks over the williamsburg bridge (in grownup cloths) and don't even blink. When i was the age of the bike grooms schools where open untill there was more then a foot of snow. Really city wide htfu.

Thanks for ever one who took time out of their snow day to email/ pm me.

dude yr so kewl!

ok the point was that we're in the middle of the worst recession since they invented money (or something) and countless businesses are going to the wall every day. Cashflow is the problem and 2 days of no working and no postal service mean that stuff doesn't get done, cheques don't arrive, and consequently more people lose their jobs, just because the roads weren't gritted.

agree that joy is priceless (it was me that pointed this out first back on page one of the snow thread, right?)

sorry to get all the telegraph for a bit, I've been stuck in doors listening to R4 for 5 days. maybe I need to HTFU...

Reminds me of the first meeting of a disaster recovery team, I was part of in my last job.

One of the consultants asks if we back up our data.

Yes of course, daily. replys the IT rep.
Where are the hard copys kept?
In the most safe and secure room in the building.
This building?
Yes in the server room.

Que staring at feet and uncomfortable warm feeling.

At least they were taking backups.. that's more than I can say for some companies I've worked with.

I need to HTFU...

Fixed.