Posted by Henry on December 31st, 2009 My boss put me in charge of making sure the office ran very smoothly while he was on vacation for three weeks. I was not worried about anything going wrong, except for the servers. We had been having a little bit of trouble with the servers a few months ago and they were fixed by some outside technicians.
Now though, for the past two week, they had been going down and our house technician would have to spend a few hours getting them back online. As long as they stayed up and running, I was looking forward to my boss taking his vacation. The assistant manager to the office suggested that we have some used poweredge servers put in while the boss was away and I told him that I did not think it would be a good idea.
He started telling me that the used servers he had seen online would be really cheap and they would not go down as much as the ones we had right now. I told him that if he signed off on it and kept me out of the whole deal, that I did not care if he put in used poweredge servers or not. I was just hoping that I did not lose my job over the installation of the used servers when my boss got back.
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Posted by Henry on December 30th, 2009 My favorite model of used hp servers is the Integrity series but it seems that those are becoming increasingly harder to find and I need two right now to put into my new store. I may just get some used proliant servers to install right now and then order some Integrity’s for when the other ones take a turn for the worse. I would think that I at least have a couple of years to find a good deal on the other used hp servers that I really want.
I have found a good website that offers good prices on great used hp servers that have been refurbished. They have a great sales team and fast delivery options. I have even used their repair service for some of my routers that had the local repair companies stumped. They had them fixed and back to me within four days, good as new. I may even have to use them to fix the laptops that seem to be giving everyone trouble lately when they turn themselves off in the middle of someone working on them.
Anyway, I am ordering the used proliant servers for now and then watching for a good deal on Integrity’s. I hope that I can find the new ones before the old ones go out completely.
Posted by Henry on December 28th, 2009 The site that I was referred to for cheaper janitorial products is great. I used to have to drive over to the warehouse store and just hope that they had the cleaning supplies that I needed. There were many times where I did not get what I went there for because they were out, or maybe because they could not get a good enough deal on it and did not have it in stock.
I had heard from a buddy of mine that his company had switched to an online janitorial products company to save money and time. I mentioned it to my boss and asked him if I could check out some online sources for cleaning supplies and he told me to go ahead. I knew he would like the whole saving money part.
I found several janitorial products sites but not all of them had good prices or the guarantee of quick delivery. I am thinking that maybe I should call my buddy to ask him the name of the company that his boss is using for cleaning supplies and just go with them.
If I can handle the ordering of the janitorial products, then I know that I can keep everything stocked each month and I will never have to run out to the warehouse store again.
Posted by Henry on December 28th, 2009 There might be other office supply companies that offer the prices that our company does, but there is no way that they have the fast shipping that we do. The man that opened this company made sure to place numerous warehouses all over the country so that no matter where the office supplies orders came from, one of our many warehouses would be close enough to it, to get it there quickly.
I have only worked for this particular office supplies company for about six months but I can already see what kind of business they are running her and I know that they are doing a great job and probably putting local little companies out of business left and right these days.
The way people do any kind of business these days has changed, thanks to the internet. The choices that they have, have multiplied with the many of hundred and thousands of web based companies that there are today. I am glad to now be part of one of those companies. I found this job for the office supply company on the internet as well; looking in the newspaper just does not cut it anymore. Just one other way the internet has changed the world.
Posted by Henry on December 23rd, 2009 I asked my boss for a raise some time ago and like usual he shot me down for whatever reason. So when I got home I was thinking of other ways I could increase my monthly salary. What I came up with was to actually decrease my monthly expenses.
So I started looking into it and the first thing that stood out was my life insurance. It was a pretty high monthly payment so I felt like there was some flexibility there. I definitely did not want to get rid of it but just find a better insurance rate. I did a search for a life insurance quote to see what came up.
I was surprised at all the results that appeared. Now I knew it was probably safe to say, as long as I would assiduously pursue it, I could save a considerable amount of money per month on my life insurance premiums. This would be the same as getting a raise in my eyes.
I noticed one type called no medical exam life insurance, I knew with my existing condition that was probably the best bet for me. It might be a slightly higher rate but I knew I would not get turned down. This was important for obvious reasons; I needed to have life insurance to be protected.
Posted by Henry on December 22nd, 2009 The only way that I knew to help myself start looking a little better in the public’s eyes, was by hiring a company called ReputationManagers.com. I had recently had a string of bad luck with the cops and of course every time that I did something else, it would be at the top of the news sites. I was really in need of the ReputationManagers.com and their expertise of turning this thing around so that I could start making some money with some good jobs to cover all of my court costs that I had incurred.
I had gone on ten different auditions and four of them; they did not even want me to read for. They asked me to remove my name from the list and let someone else have the spot that they might actually consider hiring. I knew that they had read all about my run- ins with the law and did not want a convicted felon on their shows.
ReputationManagers.com assured me that after they were done with their recent campaign that people would start to forget about the negative things that I had done and start to see some positive things coming from me. I just hope that it starts happening very soon.
Posted by Henry on December 21st, 2009 My cisco repair man is retiring after being in the business for thirty years. I think he must have been one of the first to offer any sort of in house computer repair. He opened a separate business about ten years later that offered used cisco products. I know that most of the area repairmen bought a lot of their supplies for their clients in his store.
I will be sad to be losing him, but he has passed his businesses to his two grandsons. They both were raised working for their grandfather and they were looking to expand the business to neighboring counties as soon as they took it over completely. I will continue to call on the same cisco repair man phone number, but it will be a new set of technicians that come out and assess the problems or bring me the used cisco parts that are needed to fix my systems.
If there is one thing that my secretaries will miss about the old cisco repair man, it will be the way that he brought them cookies and candy every Christmas. If his grandsons know how to keep the customers/ladies happy then they will do the same exact thing.
Posted by Henry on December 16th, 2009 The new home remodeling Durham company that opened up a showroom is just booming with jobs. I think that since people can actually walk through and see what their new bathroom or kitchen will look like, makes it easier for them to hire the home remodeling Durham company.
I have heard that they are the custom building company to go to if you need to have cabinets or bookcases made to fit in a certain spot. I had always thought about putting bookcases in the alcoves that are next to the entertainment center, but I could never find any that would fit the space.
Now, I am thinking of heading to the home remodeling Durham company’s showroom to pick out a kind of wood for them to make my custom bookshelves out of. I have always liked cherry but my husband thinks that it would look too dark against the wall color in our family room. I will just ask the custom building company what color of wood they suggest for the dark color of paint that the bookshelves will be up against. Since they have been doing this for many years, I am sure that they can suggest a few different ones that would work.