Picture the scenario:
I arrive for my first day on my pseudojob (I get to learn job skills while on welfare) where I'll be repairing and refurbishing PC's
1. I receive my first box and then proceed to slice my finger up when the bracket on which all the various disk drives are mounted swings back on my hand.
2. Grimace in pain, find a band-aid, and proceed to run various hardware tests.
3. spend half an hour looking for loopback plug to run serial port tests
4. Start secure disk wipe.
5. Wait
6. Wait
7. Have lunch
8. Spend entire afternoon playing bioshock on laptop
9. finish secure disk wipe, power down machine, clock off for the day.
I mean I'm enjoying myself and all, but really I could have been working on anywhere up to 6 machines at the same time, only A: there's not enough space for all of them, and B: if I do that then we'll run out of machines to repair before we can get any more in (all the kit we process is donated), I'm told to get through more than one machine in my two days per week is going too fast. Secondly, I had to do two passes with the disk wipe check, each of which took over two hours, next time I'm going to do a single pass and then do a full disk format when I get to installing the OS. I would actually prefer it if things were a little more hectic... or at least if we had some spare cases around so I could build a few machines from all the spare parts... |
