Heard today from my water delivery man that he heard "they mostly have every thing fixed!"

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At our office we have a water machine (5 gal bottles). Had the guy drop off some extra ones today. My secretary mentions to him are you ready for y2k? He says "I don't think there will be much to it, they (media) say it's all pretty much fixed". Then he goes on to tell us how last week they ran a y2k test on the computers at his company... and they were all down. (He uses a handheld that downloads/uploads the account info.) --- Said he had customers waiting on him so he grabbed a bunch of forms and hand wrote everything until that evening when things were fixed again.

What kind of shallow thinking is this representative of? On one hand he personally experiences a minor problem, and on the other he "FEELS" that everything is no problem at all.

-- A Guy (waiting@y2kGI.com), December 08, 1999

Answers

Our water guy (Arrowhead, in Calif.) cautioned us midyear to keep our account as current customers would have first priority on water if there should be shortages. He's a GI and said we should also plan on having some food and supplies, etc. We took it all in levelly, thanked him for the tip. (We'd been preparing for a year at that point, but play it close to the vest.)

-- (glug@glug.com), December 08, 1999.

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