I just can't wait til January is over. I am so sick of Y2K. We just finished our contingency plans to send to the SEC. The plans include people being on-site on 12/31/99, vacation cancelled. I have been beaten up by the staff who whine about everything and beaten up by the VP who does not want to treat Y2K as "business as usual". I've become very jaded.

I am more convinced than ever that Y2K will not be any thing big. My previous prediction was a 4.5; now it's a 2.5 in the "bump in the road" category. Anyone else fell this way?

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), May 18, 1999

Answers

I agree with you totally, and it sounds like we have similar jobs.

Jaded is the word. Just put me in the freezer till 12/31, please.

-- Polly (skippy@innermongolia.com), May 18, 1999.

Off to the freezer with the likes of 'ya. But can we thaw you out for the GPS rollover?

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), May 18, 1999.

Maria - sounds like you work near me. I am down below a 3 now - not sure just where as anything under 3 is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. There is not one thing other than rumor and wild unsupported claims to make me think otherwise - re the technical end of things. Now what will happen as a result of the public nervousness about Y2K is an entirely unknown factor - and I have no idea as to how to factor that in. But I think most people have the common sense to know that if there haven't been any major failures by 12/15 of this year, major failures on 1/1/2000 are very unlikely.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), May 18, 1999.

Have you ever read the Year 2000 Parable? I'm new to this forum, so don't know if it was presented here before.

http://www.it2000.com/wwwboard/messages/666.html

Anita

-- Anita Spooner (spoonera@msn.com), May 18, 1999.

I can't help but feel that y2k might not be so bad, but I'm still very glad that I have prepared myself and family for major shut downs. There are many disasters looming, hurricans, ice storms, earthquakes, wars, riots, and just plain unemployment.

-- justthinkin com (y2kaok@justthinkin.com), May 18, 1999.

Anita, I heard the joke a few months back; been working Y2K since 96.

Paul, It might be my mood but I don't think there'll be a panic. Starting in July, the SEC report will go out, more businesses will say "No problem", and the main stream media will publish the good news reports. I think that the Y2KNewswire maniacs will be totally ignored by 95% of the population. If a panic begins, it will start just around Thanksgiving but it will be short lived. After grocers will restock their shelves (most are planning higher inventories), people will think things are OK.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), May 18, 1999.

Just exactly WHAT, makes you think, what took 40 years to create, can be re-created in 2-3 years? Look at the BIG picture, not just your little corner of the world. You are but a speck, on a vast beach!

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), May 18, 1999.

Suggestion .......... let the TROLLS feed on their own thread !!

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), May 18, 1999.

And, what do you think about the international Y2K situation and how it could impact domestically, Maria, and friends?

National Y2K range: 2 to 6 ... it's all local.

International Y2K range: 2 to 8 ... it's always local.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), May 18, 1999.

Introduction to Trolls 101

This was posted by a troll.

Anyone who posts with the same name all of the time is not a troll.

Exception: Ray

-- Troll (troll@under.bridge), May 18, 1999.

Troll Maria, I know you changed your name to plain Maria a few weeks back, so that means you went from a troll to a polly. Now you've gone from a polly to a--what? A jade? Okay. Does this mean we don't have those infectious virus thingies people have been saying we have? I mean, if we did, you would have gone from a jade to a polly to a troll and who knows where from there. Maybe a GI, heaven forfend!

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), May 18, 1999.

My Diane, you've given me so much to ponder.

Old Git, I quit signing my name a long time ago. Didn't feel like hitting the extra keys.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), May 18, 1999.

Maria, I too would be interested in your answer to Diane's question RE: Y2K overseas. It often seems to me that the most optimistic folks don't address this side of the issue.

Thanks,
Scott Johnson
Editor,
y2ktoday

-- Scott Johnson (scojo@yahoo.com), May 18, 1999.

Hard to tell since I have very little insight into their projects (they don't need to answer to our SEC and I'm not remediating any code in foreign countries). Russia is already toast, they are already at the bottom, Y2K will have little impact to their operations. Same with countries that don't depend on high tech. Yeah most of the pessimists respond by "but what about the supply chain". This interconnected stuff has had too much hand waving (smoke and mirrors). No one can actually point out a specific failure due to a date calculation, an actual year dependency, (not just it displays the time). I think the supply chain will probably have little problems, nothing that can't be solved in a relatively short time. For the effects of Y2K on France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and others, I'll leave that to the experts. I guess we could see recessions there but I'm not directly involved with their remediation efforts so I can't really speculate. Unlike most here (Diane), I don't talk about things I know nothing about.

Flame away, don't get to overly dramatic here. Forty years to create??!! Give me a break. And it doesn't need to be recreated; just fixed. A big task indeed but guess what we did it!

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), May 18, 1999.

Maria, I'll wait in line to kiss your ass if Y2K is naught, although I want to be first in line to watch you cower and cringe if it all shakes down to be much worse than you anticipate. I'd love to witness you 90 shoppers deep trying to buy some Tylenol PMS formula.

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), May 18, 1999.

Lisa, ROTFLAMO, the first thing these trolls will be doing is asking government to feed and cloth them and provide a multitude of other freebies.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), May 18, 1999.

Congratulations Ray, you've invented a new acronym:

ROTFLAMO

What does it mean? Rolling on the floor laughing at my originality?

-- Troll (troll@heavens.gate), May 18, 1999.

Troll, you'll probably be the first one at the governments door DEMANDING anything and everything !!

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), May 18, 1999.

You sure do make a lot of assumptions Ray. Do I need to tell you what happens when you assume too much?

-- Troll (troll@doomer.board), May 18, 1999.

Russia is already toast, they are already at the bottom, Y2K will have little impact to their operations.

That is nonsense. A major nuclear power without a functional early warning system. A nation of millions of people probably without power in the middle of a Russian winter. A major exporter of natural gas to Western Europe. A major exporter of crude oil.

Business as usual? Little impact? Wake up.

-- Doug (douglasjohnson@prodigy.net), May 18, 1999.

Diane, you're efforts on behalf of this forum have been enormous. I along with many others here appreciate the time you have spent bringing many FACTS to this forum.

Thanks. Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), May 18, 1999.

From Ray:

Lisa, ROTFLAMO, the first thing these trolls will be doing is asking government to feed and cloth them and provide a multitude of other freebies.

Hey, Raybo, dontcha know that's the *first* thing in our contract????

-- Trolls R Us (Troll_Board_of_Inquiry@NWO.org), May 18, 1999.

What's amazing is that Diane can type so much without saying a damn thing...

And she is WORSHIPED for that skill no less! Is there some kind of prize for most posts to the dunghill?

-- (get@life.willya?), May 18, 1999.

"Congratulations Ray, you've invented a new acronym:

ROTFLAMO

What does it mean? Rolling on the floor laughing at my originality?

-- Troll (troll@heavens.gate), May 18, 1999."

Rolling On The Floor Licking At My Oriface

-- ray (raygun@tinfoil.hat), May 18, 1999.

remember,when you make an asumtion,you make an ass out of you,and umption!(grin)

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), May 20, 1999.

Diane,

Belated thanks for your intangible, as well as your tangible contributions. It's just a shame; you don't deserve this.

Ray,

It is awfully difficult to type accurately with all that rolling and laughing isn't it? :-)

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), May 20, 1999.