Green to Red

One of the Shitshow’s Green policies is to turn off your computer at the end of the day.  The thought being it saves energy but more importantly it saves the Shitshow money because they’re not paying for that extra energy.  As with most policies this is yet another epic fail. 

While a small amount of energy is saved during non-peak hours, instead of saving money it wastes 20 minutes a day per person.  You see the computers we have at the Shithshow are so old, slow, and have so many overhead security programs on them that it takes 20 minutes from the time you turn on a computer to the time you can actually read an email or open up a document.   

Now these 20 minutes don’t come for free, they get charged to the program people are working.  Since most of the programs are fixed cost contracts, this is 20 minutes per employee from the bottom line.  

Let’s do a little math.  20 minutes a day, 50 work weeks a year, 5 days a week.  This comes out to a little more than 2 weeks a year at full salary plus benefits plus overhead being spent for each Shitshow employee to wait for a computer to turn.  Depending what you choose as a hourly charge rate this can add up to be over 10K per year, per person!   

Because being green just helps each program get red, I throw rocks.