Re: power supply woes.

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice Christmas present for him.  Not!

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The raised floor was originally installed in the 1970's, with raised floor 
> tiles that was brought from a different building.  After a few years of 
> literally holding down the cover tiles on the floor tiles with packing 
> tape it was time to replace them all.
>
> All this work is being done by a former employee under contract.  This 
> employee was a carpenter fired to reduce headcount.  He tried to use his 
> remaining vacation time to float past the end of the year so that he could 
> collect his retirement contribution.  The powers to be said no, but you do 
> nice work and we'd like to contract you.  All in all, I'm not too proud on 
> how he was treated.  But he is doing nice work.  Granted, his Shop Vac 
> looks rather beaten and I didn't ask when the last time he changed the 
> filter was.  He's even come in rather late to work, like the other night 
> when we powered off the 570 to replace the power supply was a good time to 
> replace the tiles underneath it.  He's going to do ok - he's got people 
> lining up to use his services.  And his brother is an independent also and 
> is doing ok.
>
> Rob Berendt