Pissed, pissed, pissed.
Apr. 13th, 2016 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coolohohOk, I have less than 10 mins before I head to the lab so I'll make this quick.
Got an email this afternoon from one of the higher ups... Asking if the lightcycler needs offline processing because they are going to hardware lock it.
Basically, they are forcing everyone to use their stupid online booking system. And things just doesn't work that way with experiments because things may crop up last minute during the plate preparation and stuff... You can't know exactly how long it's going to take. Doesn't help that there's practically no one using this equipment anyway, why force people to book it? Really, they just want to force users to pay. And pay up indeed. The cost of using the equipment is ridiculously high. Even though that thing has been around for so many years... They certainly don't know this term called 'equipment depreciation'. Really. Sure, the LC480 isn't very cheap, but after so many years of owning it...? By usual standards the equipment depreciation would be depreciated the value to about 0 now. And nope, they are going to install a lock that'll black out the computer screen once your booking time is up. So if you want to run your plate overnight? Great, you now have to book the equipment just to retrieve your data the next morning.
Meh. You know what? I can very well just book it at the start for the shortest block, start the run, then leave going and book it again only after it ended. Well... Provided they don't shut down the computer and only the screen. I don't think the lock shuts down the computer though. Sudden shutting down of PCs would cause hard disk failure.
Basically, this just motivates me even more to find a new job. They are just making things harder and harder for researchers. I've had enough of this shit. I'm out. Well. Once I get another job.
Got an email this afternoon from one of the higher ups... Asking if the lightcycler needs offline processing because they are going to hardware lock it.
Basically, they are forcing everyone to use their stupid online booking system. And things just doesn't work that way with experiments because things may crop up last minute during the plate preparation and stuff... You can't know exactly how long it's going to take. Doesn't help that there's practically no one using this equipment anyway, why force people to book it? Really, they just want to force users to pay. And pay up indeed. The cost of using the equipment is ridiculously high. Even though that thing has been around for so many years... They certainly don't know this term called 'equipment depreciation'. Really. Sure, the LC480 isn't very cheap, but after so many years of owning it...? By usual standards the equipment depreciation would be depreciated the value to about 0 now. And nope, they are going to install a lock that'll black out the computer screen once your booking time is up. So if you want to run your plate overnight? Great, you now have to book the equipment just to retrieve your data the next morning.
Meh. You know what? I can very well just book it at the start for the shortest block, start the run, then leave going and book it again only after it ended. Well... Provided they don't shut down the computer and only the screen. I don't think the lock shuts down the computer though. Sudden shutting down of PCs would cause hard disk failure.
Basically, this just motivates me even more to find a new job. They are just making things harder and harder for researchers. I've had enough of this shit. I'm out. Well. Once I get another job.
