07-Feb-2025 Belding, MI
Veteran devloper Lydia Emerson has spoken exclusively to JFI to report that, thankfully, her CFO has made his expertise available for advisement and unilateral adjustment of the technical specifications of her new development workstation.
“As a developer that needs to run multiple containers and sometimes even full-blown kubernetes for my day to day job, I thought I was making a fairly reasonable request for a laptop that has a decent amount of CPU and memory. I’m not sure what expertise Lovell [Peterson] has with any form of IT. He goes on and on about his Unifi network at his house, but, you know, he was an loan officer or a bank teller or something before he came here. I don’t think he understands the difference between RAM and SSD space. I’m not sure why he’s scheduling weekly meetings to duscuss my laptop request.”
“Hey, it’s my job to shephard the companies money where it makes the most sense. I don’t think anyone needs more than 16 gigabits of RAN, or a hard drive much larger than 128 gigabits. What are they doing, downloading Limewires? I block all of that stuff on my home Unifi network. I really like that Unifi, it just proves that network engineers are overpaid. Who needs a CCBD or whatever those designations are? I’ve scheduled a series of meeteings with Lydia, her manager, and her director to walk through the details of this laptop purchase. It might take a few weeks of regular meetings, but we’ll get through it.”.
When pressed via email by JFI reporters about the use of company time to discuss smaller, less critical purchases such as laptop components, SpectionCO CFO Lovell Peterson replied, “My job is to shepherd the money, not the resources. If it costs Spection 10k in people time to save $500 on a laptop purcuase, that’s time well spent. Lydia will just have to make up those lost productivity hours at home and on the weekends, she’s salary so it doesn’t matter.”
In a follow up email, Lydia informed JFI that she was looking for employment elsewhere, at more sane companies and would perhaps be moving into a different field, noting that “the AI bros are insufferable, but at least they provide the right gear to do the job” and “if Lovell still worked at that bank, I’d fart in the drive through canister while he was working the window.”
JFI reached out to the SpectionCO CEO, but his assistant informed us that he was unavailable, picking up some Unifi equipment for Lovell to install at his home over a delicious lobster bake later that evening.