We have a design

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"Office Space 2: The Pivot” continues, do you believe they made a movie out of us? Just saw it, they nailed Lumbergh, can’t believe they promoted that d ba… 
 
Anyways, Corp decided they wanted to use the fire to “make some changes”, so, they’ve decided to move the HQ to Dallas. Why? Excuse to fire everyone in the old, fried, Austin location and hire newer, cheaper, people in the new spot. We recovered a few things out of the crispy Austin server rooms, some routers, a couple DSU’s, some servers and a red stapler, weird, I know. Mainframe is toast, we’re making an ash tray out of it.

Problem the Veep’s found out is that The Bobs live in Austin and won’t move, they’re stupid costly consultants paid for by the board, they ain’t goin’ nowhere. So, after signing a 1000 year lease in Dallas they decided to go back and get a new Austin office. At the same time The Bobs suggested keeping engineering there so they could “make sure we’re efficient”. Oh, and then nobody in HQ has to deal with us, they just fax edicts and due dates over now. Good talk, bye.

Anyways, we laid out the new network, including that ridiculous Kanas City expansion so Lumbergh can go get his frickin barbecue. Dude even gets the company jet now. Asshole. We originally spec’d it to buy Frame Relay from AT&T, they’re all over the area now. But noooooo, The Bobs said “that’s too costly, do it yourself”. Build a frame network? You know that’ll cost 100x times long term. And I quote “it doesn’t matter, it looks good on paper now for our report to the board, we’ll be gone by the time that happens.” Whatever. So typical.

We pulled frickin T-1’s, point to point, instead. Hell, maybe I’ll just go pull cable from Austin to Dallas myself. Drive slow?

And with that, we have a design.

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