{"id":776,"date":"2003-01-16T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2003-01-16T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:09:15","slug":"marty-doesnt-want-to-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/01\/16\/marty-doesnt-want-to-say-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty doesn&#8217;t want to say it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We continue packing up the Acme gear and sealing and labelling the boxes. I reformatted the FileServer hard drive &#8211; actually I ran a Wiper program on it and then deleted the partition, they&#8217;ll have to boot on a floppy to recomission it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The laptops got similar treatment, deleting the HPFS partitions and creating a new FAT32 one, with Windows 98 installed from the disks that they came with 4 years ago. Heh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officially, this is so if they go missing during shipment, there&#8217;s no chance of Acme secrets being stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, we tried to get Acme&#8217;s redeployment\/recruitment representative Marty to come out and admit that there were no chances of either of us getting a new position within Acme. This took some coaxing, he was reluctant to be the bearer of bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have discovered from other people in Acme that we are not the only ones being &#8220;redeployed&#8221;. By any other name, Acme would be announcing layoffs, but of course they can&#8217;t do that, because it would damage their stock performance. Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue packing up the Acme gear and sealing and labelling the boxes. I reformatted the FileServer hard drive &#8211; actually I ran a Wiper program on it and then deleted the partition, they&#8217;ll have to boot on a floppy to recomission it. The laptops got similar treatment, deleting the HPFS partitions and creating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}