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    Asset Stickers —Tom McDonald
   This just happened. I can't believe it. I'm here in the studio doing my thing and the technical director walks in and puts an asset sticker near the corner on the carpet that covers an entire wall. Right on the pile he puts it. Mind you this guy is (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —James Brown
     (...) Don't laugh - with the company I used to work for, any consumables I needed (canned air, isopropal, even rags and q-tips!) to work on printers had to be ordered against a call, instead of bought locally and expensed. I think the reason they (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —Jeremy H. Sproat
     (...) Urg. ISO-9000. Bail out now before they start numbering your pocket lint. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —Eric Joslin
   (...) <snip> Ugh. At a company I used to work for (well known, to users, ex-employees, current employees, and spectators for it's total idiocy), we used to get in new desktop computers to put into various departments. The inventory controller would (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —Tom McDonald
   (...) new (...) I've seen that done too. Suddenly it's decided that someone else has more of a need for some peripheral than someone else. But it's been my experience that often hardware compatibility problems can develop when you split up and (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —Larry Pieniazek
   I can top that story. At a certain client, nameless, thanks, not my current one... someone nicked out the entire contents of a PC. Left the case. Hapless user tried to turn it on. Not much useful happened. Took a while for this user to figure out (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —Chris Moseley
      Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) Come on Larry, that makes perfect sense given the constraints of the organisational situation. Remember, geeks are *good* at doing what they want within the rules provided. That's what we pay them for. OTOH, one client (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Asset Stickers —Jasper Janssen
   (...) ^^^^ (...) ITYM luser. HTH, HAND. Jasper (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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