Bit of light relief

MallyGirl

Time4T_Accounts said:

That took me back to this time 25 years ago … in work, checking the computer systems were all running after Y2K !!

Ah Y2K - a busy time to be a programmer 

flaneurs_lobster

MallyGirl said:

Time4T_Accounts said:

That took me back to this time 25 years ago … in work, checking the computer systems were all running after Y2K !!

Ah Y2K - a busy time to be a programmer 

Y2K - a lucrative time to be an old freelance programmer

Time4T_Accounts

I seem to recall, once we were into January, the press at the time called it a fuss over nothing, because nowt much happened.  They didn’t seem to appreciate that nowt much happened because we’d spent quite a lot of time checking and fixing beforehand!

MallyGirl

Time4T_Accounts said:

I seem to recall, once we were into January, the press at the time called it a fuss over nothing, because nowt much happened.  They didn’t seem to appreciate that nowt much happened because we’d spent quite a lot of time checking and fixing beforehand!

Indeed! Nothing happening was the goal. Although I do admit to spending Millennium Eve in the depths of Wales, not under any flight path, just in case.

michaels

I had 3 or 4 process fails on things like credit card statements in January but luckily nothing critical.

Time4T_Accounts

I’m in Wales, and right under the transatlantic flight paths (I miss Concorde!). No planes fell, happily.  We found one problem in the run-in … a stand-alone pc for connecting to the bank (at 2,400 baud … wow!!), where the ROM couldn’t be fixed.  Sounds minor, but for a solicitor’s office, failure would have had big consequences. 

Green_hopeful

Money landed in my account this morning. No communication from HMRC but just over two months seems ok to me. Obviously it would be nice if the system could avoid the need to reclaim the overpaid tax. It seems that I have spent the whole of last year reclaiming tax, first from my unfair dismissal payment, then the extra 20 percent from my pension payments into my SIPP and now the tax from my first UFPLS payment. I could have taken it a bit at a time but that seemed more effort than the tax reclaim. 

flaneurs_lobster

Green_hopeful said:

Money landed in my account this morning. No communication from HMRC but just over two months seems ok to me. Obviously it would be nice if the system could avoid the need to reclaim the overpaid tax. It seems that I have spent the whole of last year reclaiming tax, first from my unfair dismissal payment, then the extra 20 percent from my pension payments into my SIPP and now the tax from my first UFPLS payment. I could have taken it a bit at a time but that seemed more effort than the tax reclaim. 

Glad you got your refund.

Sorry to have hijacked your thread to witter on about how computers were better in the olden days when they were gas-powered.

Green_hopeful

flaneurs_lobster said:

Green_hopeful said:

Money landed in my account this morning. No communication from HMRC but just over two months seems ok to me. Obviously it would be nice if the system could avoid the need to reclaim the overpaid tax. It seems that I have spent the whole of last year reclaiming tax, first from my unfair dismissal payment, then the extra 20 percent from my pension payments into my SIPP and now the tax from my first UFPLS payment. I could have taken it a bit at a time but that seemed more effort than the tax reclaim. 

Glad you got your refund.

Sorry to have hijacked your thread to witter on about how computers were better in the olden days when they were gas-powered.

flaneurs_lobster said:

Green_hopeful said:

Money landed in my account this morning. No communication from HMRC but just over two months seems ok to me. Obviously it would be nice if the system could avoid the need to reclaim the overpaid tax. It seems that I have spent the whole of last year reclaiming tax, first from my unfair dismissal payment, then the extra 20 percent from my pension payments into my SIPP and now the tax from my first UFPLS payment. I could have taken it a bit at a time but that seemed more effort than the tax reclaim. 

Glad you got your refund.

Sorry to have hijacked your thread to witter on about how computers were better in the olden days when they were gas-powered.

I didn’t mind at all. My mum worked in IT in 2000 and she sometimes reminisces about how much work everyone put in. 

cloud_dog

I was a coding monkey back in the day working on emergency services systems, and remember negotiating a £3k bonus to be on standby on the 31st 😁