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paddymarsden

Iggy Iggy oooooooooo
An Audi A6 2.0 TDI as a company car !

At first i was only borrowing it to go to london in today but on my way back my boss has been given a 3.0 litre Jag s type :D:D:D company insurance and fuel card, its such a lovely car to drive and reasonably fast. I may be getting rid of the corsa i dont know yet i have to have a word with my company tomorrow, some pics below.

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Retepetsir

King of Subsonic
Sounds like a pool car more than a company car? Anyway, nice!

I drive a 2006 2L Golf TDi GT at work, its lovely.

What do you do?
 
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paddymarsden

paddymarsden

Iggy Iggy oooooooooo
im an IT Network manager for around 300 users for a leading aerospace fabrication company called BHW Hampson, so sites in the us and all over the uk i used to use an octavia VRS as phil will confirm :p but this is more perminant, i sopose you could say its a pool car which i use on a longer period than what i used to do.

i know im a lucky #### :D
 

fraz_micra_88

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im an IT Network manager for around 300 users for a leading aerospace fabrication company called BHW Hampson, so sites in the us and all over the uk i used to use an octavia VRS as phil will confirm :p but this is more perminant, i sopose you could say its a pool car which i use on a longer period than what i used to do.

i know im a lucky #### :D



so in simple terms you are???? lolol
 
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paddymarsden

paddymarsden

Iggy Iggy oooooooooo
lol

a Pikey who manages our MPLS, vpn, active directory (users and computers), Surfcontrol web filter and citrix plus the usual program installation could go on more but might bore myself
 
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paddymarsden

paddymarsden

Iggy Iggy oooooooooo
lol ok Mike

an MPLS is a huge WAN - Wide Area Network, this spans across the world to the us - india etc this is hosted by an ISP called Star, then on that WAN we have a VPN - Virtual Private Network which makes anything we do secure.

All our customers i.e Airbus, Chester, Eclipse, Nasa (they all make airplanes) are all over the world and need to be on the same network as us so that our engineering system can communicate with them to tell them what parts they need for a certain aircraft etc.

Active Directory is a way of managing a network of computers from one or more central locations, for example we have a server down in london that hosts our AD - Active directory and that connects to our WAN which means that our sister companies can be in india but logon to our server here, therefore saving money on extra network mangers over in India...with me so far?

Surfcontrol is a web filter which basically sits on the network and when people open up internet explorer it has to go through this filter to make sure the website isnt porn for example. This filer logs absolutly every single ounce of data that people access on the internet, for example if a crime is commited on our network over the internet we can collate alot of information for a court case etc.

Citrix is a form of tunneling, so you have a citrix server on the network and you can share programs via sessions and this is such a saving on buying more licences for Office or Sage etc. So the program has one serial key but because it is on citrix when people connect to the server it can supply multipul sessions even with one licence key....in a nutshell

program installation - self explanitory

printer installation etc, pc upgrades.


yea i drive alot :p
 

Type-R

Ex. Club Member
i used to have a company car/van when i used to work full time before uni

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I had a chance of getting a new vectra that just came out then if i had stayed there another year and got promoted. But i left work and went to uni!

When you work in big companies giving out cars like this is peanuts for them, they are all rented anyway and when they get old the companies get rid and start to rent newer models etc.
 
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paddymarsden

paddymarsden

Iggy Iggy oooooooooo
yea very true, Zenith is the company we get our cars from, our contract is about £250,000 a year that includes the car,insurance and breakdown cover
 

Type-R

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the place i worked for got them from HSBC same as above
includes the car,insurance and breakdown cover

we also got them come and service them wherever we was for free, so if i was at home they would just service the car on the front drive and their vans were always full of small goodies that they would just give me for my micra... lol

feulcard is so awesome going back to start paying for your own feul you feel like a muppet!!
 
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paddymarsden

paddymarsden

Iggy Iggy oooooooooo
sounds like a reet good setup they had

yea dont you just, thing is i keep forgetting the milage until i get to the till and then i look like a muppet !

I think there is an incentive on road tax for company cars too, our company has to do minimum 4000 miles to get a cheaper rate for tax, 4000 in a year is nothing.
 
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