Friday, September 07, 2012

On the money


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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5 comments:

  1. EliRabett10/9/12 7:59 pm

    Take everything you value out of your offices. Just sayin

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  2. James Annan11/9/12 12:22 am

    :-)

    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...

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  3. Carl C18/9/12 5:46 pm

    there must be old parts of the Earth Simulator you can pop on ebay?

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  4. James Annan19/9/12 4:19 am

    A 10 year old CPU isn't worth a whole lot....mind you, we have to pay to get them disposed of in Japan…

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  5. Carl C19/9/12 8:42 pm

    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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