From Cory Hamasaki's kiyoinc.com
Of note...D.C. computer consulting firm per the geekvine has begun the DEATHMARCH...24x7x52...But then as some of us know this is not the only company doing this nor the first.
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Cory hamasaki's
DC Y2K Weather Report
February 10, 1999 - 324 days to go. WRP111
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Last week GTE sent a heads up to a million and a half sheeple, their clueless, nattering, confused customer base, advising them to take a couple month's cash out of the banks. A couple months? Could this be?
I have a copy of an internal document issued by another multinational corporation advising their employees to do the same thing, oh, and don't forget food, water, power, (doesn't mention ammo), medicines.
In addition to the Deathmarch at a local DC computer consulting firm (they declined to take a multi-million dollar Y2K contract, too much work already and they didn't want to get all nasty and sweaty.), another firm has canceled all leave for the geeks... ALL LEAVE, no holidays, no vacations, no weekends. They're going 7x52 because their management suddenly woke up and collectively said, "Duh? This doesn't seem to be 1996 any more."
Oopsie not 52 weeks left.. better make it 7x47 or there about.
The same geekvine source revealed that July 1999 is the actual drop dead date for large DeeCee organizations. It's not March 31, 1999 as Ko-skin-em and Al "wha?" Gore had announced. If an organization is not done by July 1999, leaving all of 5 months for testing, well, they'll be, ah, something; given a firm letter of censure maybe.
Two deathmarches have started in DeeCee, new drop dead dates, add to this the ever increasing reports of system problems, computer outages, data drops, errors, and just plain confusion. It's started. Don't be in the path of the herd as they toss their heads, snort, and spit saliva.
You're about to lose any headstart. It's time to handle your worse case scenario. I mean yours. There are some clueless denial-heads out there who think they have a big-brain and since they saw an Lan once or got invited to a meeting with a senior executive, they're qualified to tell you what to prep for and how to do it.
Give me a break. No one knows what's about to happen. Only the clueless say, "no one died in a U.S. domestic air flight in 1998, so I'm not fastening my seatbelt or watching the evacuation video. When the captain turns on the Fasten Seatbelt sign, I'm gonna run up and down the aisles and make chimp noises."
No one has seen 50,000 IBM-style mainframes, a few million midi-computers (VAXs, PDPs, DGs, S/3X, AS/400s, Series-1), and hundreds of millions of PeeCees transition to a new state all at once. Watch me run on my knuckles.
All together denial butt-heads, lift your left foot, slap the floor faster and faster and faster. Shout "hoo-hoo-hoo! I'm not fastening my seatbelt."
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ROTFLMAO...Maybe this is what De Jager will look like after he boards that plane? Oh, wait...He said he'd fly only IF they could convince him of a few things?...Wonder what those few thing could be?
"I am surprisingly pleased by the tremendous progress the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the airlines have made," he told FT in early December. "I intend to work closely with them over the next few months, and if they convince me of some things, I will announce that I plan to be flying that night."
Will they serve banannas on that flight I wonder?
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