When I saw “international shipping” my first thought was that we don’t ship to Canada anymore. This was not the case though. So tell me, when did we kick Alaska and Hawaii out of the USA?
Someone done fscked up…and it wasn’t us. This time.
I love language barriers. It makes discussing technical issues that much easier.
Yes, I intentionally broke my alternator for the express purpose of not doing my job today. I’m just that clever.
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When it comes to your sick days, you’re fine and dandy with email communication. I do the same thing on my sick days and you hassle me about it. You’re a prick, you know that? And a moron. Luckily I can manage the office just fine without you. Something you can’t do without contacting me, even if it’s a slow day.
Man, some days I want to just deck you in the face. Seriously.
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Dear $SEO_Manager,
Thanks for giving me the heads up you were going to be out of the office so I could install updates on your machine. But how did you expect me to remote in if you powered down said machine?
Magic! That’s how computers work, right?
That has got to be the poorest excuse for a timeline I have ever seen. Seriously, throw it away and never ever attempt to do one again. In fact, stop worldbuilding altogether, before World As Myth kicks in and all these poor creatures are doomed to live in the piss-poor abomination.
This isn’t a Ren Faire. Hundreds of years of social development do not happen over the course of a couple weekends.
Dear $project_damager
You seriously expected me to go to site (which have a 512k internet connection) and install server2008 with antivirus and wsus?
Forget it. I prefer to do it at the office where we have a fast internet connection, plus extra resources should something go bork …
The new setup I’m implementing means that there’s a couple of snafus I need to iron out as well… which’ll be a real PITA if done from site.
So trust me, I know exactly what to do in order to avoid callbacks…
I don’t work in a computery job, I work with mains voltage cables… putting them in walls, and joining them to things.
I’d say: “I’m telling you this needs replacing because it needs replacing. I’m hired to make dangerous things safe, and although this isn’t dangerous, it’s out of the ark and has the potential to be dangerous by manner of not being the standard to which the rest of the building has now been wired.”
They wouldn’t listen though. 40s standards are still technically legal.
K&T? Rubber insulation?
Oh, and welcnoms. 
Some of it was rubber yeah, specifically that parts I wanted to pull out. In a couple of the properties I’ve worked on I’ve had to pull 20s DC cabling (the purple cloth covered twisted pairs) out of the walls and in one case out of a still-live lighting circuit. It had just been plumbed in as if it were modern cable. I wept.
Thanks for the welcome! 
My house has the knob and tube wiring still hanging around. They didn’t bother pulling it, or the wiring that someone else put up in the 60’s or so, so the basement has quite a bit of loose wiring just hanging out.Some day when I’m bored I’m going to go down there with my wiggler and test and pull all day.
Seriously, are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?
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TMI
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Wiggler. Called so because it wiggles and jiggles when it detects a charge. If you are by yourself checking the power somewhere you can hold a lead in each hand and just make sure you are touching this somewhere and you’ll feel it if there is current.
There are spiders and icky things down there, I don’t think it’s a good environment for what you are thinking.
Luckily K&T wiring is very rare (or perhaps non-existent?) down here in Australia, as is DC wiring. My auntie owns a 1929 bungalow which until they renovated in the early 2000s still sported some of the original unswitched sockets (illegal since about the 1950s here) plus I vaguely remember seeing an exposed earth conductor running along a skirting board from one of said sockets.
My house was built in 1967 and it uses outdated colour codes but modern wiring standards. Well, the original wiring is decent, anyway… the previous (original) owner of the house was a bit of a DIYer and had dodgied up a few things. My favourite was that somewhere along the way he’d installed a 40A breaker (non-RCD) which went pop on our second night in the house. The sparky that came the next morning installed an 80A RCD and showed me why the old one had given up so easily: it had been installed with only half of the exposed wire actually making contact with the switch conductor. Probably not a big deal for an elderly couple who just have a light and maybe one heater on after dark, but for us with our (backlit) LCD TV/amp/server/PCs/laptops AND a 10A convection heater, it was just too much.
I can’t speak for others but I’m very interested in hearing some tales of AC angst. 
AC angst? Oh man, I’d have to start a whole thread. Perhaps called “Thank the Gods for Nicola Tesla” since without him if surely be frizzled to nothing by now! 
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1925 bungalow. There are some of those funky pull lever switches, like to get Frankenstein moving in various places in the house, three that I’ve found, at some point those may be used for cosplay. One for the main, one for the basement, and one for this really cool looking motor in a hole in the side of the basement, I think it was for the well.
My home inspector was guessing if I got it out it would sell for maybe a thousand. I’ll get in there one day. It’s kind of tight, and I’m kind of big, and it opens up into a larger area that kind of freaks me out because I can’t see it all.
OK, I think your house wins. 
We seem to be devoid down here of any uber-cool vintage electrical gear like Frankenstein-style levers. Then again, I’m not an electrician so haven’t seen all that much. The oldest wiring I’ve ever seen was in a house where the power meter was inside the front door (not done since the 30s or 40s I think). From memory there were only 1 or 2 circuits on that board.