OT: Definition of Frustration

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Desinor)]

   You may want to read about Grace Hopper (Late Navy Commodore) and how 
she would handle such situations.
   "It's always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
   Read on ...

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	Jean-Claude

Bennett, Christopher P ET1 MARMC 1230B a ?crit :
> Hypothetical Situation;
> 
> Frustration.
> 
>      Working for an organization that is willing to pay an OBSCENE amount of money for leasing a laptop, and then keeps some of them locked up. 
> 
> Lets do a little math.
> 
> -A decent laptop will cost you about $1800.  Sure there are cheaper and more expensive ones but I am talking about a medium level office laptop.
> -This decent laptop will be useful for a max of three years.  I mean really... you may be able to do stuff with it after three years but for the most part it is useful for about three years.
> 
> So lets divide $1800 by three to get the ownership cost per year= $600 a year.  Now lets say that you have a business broadband connection with tech support.  It's going to cost you say for the sake of arguement that you pay $100 a month for that.  So now your ownership and operating costs are something like $1800 a year.  I know if I don't get my email I can call Cox and get results damn near immediately.  More often than not it wasn't their fault anyway. ;)
> 
> So $1800 a year for three years, ($5400 total) and at the end of that three year period, you can re-use it, recycle it, give it to your kid, sell it on ebay, recoup a little money, whatever...
> 
> Most laptops come with what you need... but if you REALLY want to split hairs you can add some costs for software but for the most part I haven't seen this "organization" be legit with licenses yet.  So make it an even $6000 if you like.
> 
> My "organization" pays $4800 to LEASE a substandard laptop, the same ones that have been known to catch FIRE... but that's ok because there's a contract with Dell.  Now this is $4800 per year mind you, for a total of: $14,400 and at the end of that lease we have the option to "buy" them for our use for about $2000 each.  With that you get pretty bad customer service.  I know one gentleman that has submitted 34 troublecalls in 6 months on the same computer and they won't replace it.  WTF is all that about?!?  
> 
> So $432,000... that is how much my organization pays for 30 laptops for a year... 30 that if I remember correctly are locked up to keep them from being stolen.  
> 
> Now I can't speak on this subject officially but in the above hypothetical situation...
> 
> Well you do the math.  
> 
> 
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