Definition of Frustration

[danws69 at earthlink.net (Dan)]

I think you're forgetting that your address is brazenly labeled as
NAVY.MIL.....


Your 'organization' is ousted sir.

(And yes, you were bitching about this at Cincy too.... ;P .....doesn't make
it any less aggravating though....as you're 100% right....)


Dan Snow -TPA, FL
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-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces+danws69=earthlink.net@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+danws69=earthlink.net@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of
Bennett, Christopher P ET1 MARMC 1230B
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:07
To: Scirocco List
Subject: OT: Definition of Frustration


Hypothetical Situation;

Frustration.

     Working for an organization that is willing to pay an OBSCENE amount of
money for leasing a laptop, and then keeps some of them locked up. 

Lets do a little math.

-A decent laptop will cost you about $1800.  Sure there are cheaper and more
expensive ones but I am talking about a medium level office laptop. -This
decent laptop will be useful for a max of three years.  I mean really... you
may be able to do stuff with it after three years but for the most part it
is useful for about three years.

So lets divide $1800 by three to get the ownership cost per year= $600 a
year.  Now lets say that you have a business broadband connection with tech
support.  It's going to cost you say for the sake of arguement that you pay
$100 a month for that.  So now your ownership and operating costs are
something like $1800 a year.  I know if I don't get my email I can call Cox
and get results damn near immediately.  More often than not it wasn't their
fault anyway. ;)

So $1800 a year for three years, ($5400 total) and at the end of that three
year period, you can re-use it, recycle it, give it to your kid, sell it on
ebay, recoup a little money, whatever...

Most laptops come with what you need... but if you REALLY want to split
hairs you can add some costs for software but for the most part I haven't
seen this "organization" be legit with licenses yet.  So make it an even
$6000 if you like.

My "organization" pays $4800 to LEASE a substandard laptop, the same ones
that have been known to catch FIRE... but that's ok because there's a
contract with Dell.  Now this is $4800 per year mind you, for a total of:
$14,400 and at the end of that lease we have the option to "buy" them for
our use for about $2000 each.  With that you get pretty bad customer
service.  I know one gentleman that has submitted 34 troublecalls in 6
months on the same computer and they won't replace it.  WTF is all that
about?!?  

So $432,000... that is how much my organization pays for 30 laptops for a
year... 30 that if I remember correctly are locked up to keep them from
being stolen.  

Now I can't speak on this subject officially but in the above hypothetical
situation...

Well you do the math.  


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