What remains to be seen is whether they just expect people to keep on working for free (or on a nugatory ¥1000 per hour, as is already the case here for a lucky few at JAMSTEC) or whether they actually manage to make ends meet somehow.
Just as we head off on holiday, it's all getting interesting...
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Take everything you value out of your offices. Just sayin
:-)
Probably all the most important property is intellectual, and we do have an off-site back up. But I don't think we are quite at the lock-changing stage yet (or even, the 5 mins with a cardboard box stage).
It would be far more awkward if we were to get booted out of our house, which is rented through our employer...
there must be old parts of the Earth Simulator you can pop on ebay?
A 10 year old CPU isn't worth a whole lot....mind you, we have to pay to get them disposed of in Japan…
well you don't sell it as '10 year old CPU' - you sell it as 'OWN AN ORIGINAL PART OF WHAT WAS ONCE THE WORLD"S LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER - SIGNED BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNING SCIENTISTS WHO USED IT' etc etc! :-)
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