Doesn't sound like somewhere I'd like to work anyway. They've just made my job-search easier. Good Riddance.

It can't seriously be that hard can it? The lights are obviously off so you just need to flip the switch to the opposite setting.

reminds me of a movie where they killed the boss alien with 'head and shoulders'

You could get around the reduction in MPEG encoding quality at least by having a server thread working out the GOP ranges and encoding them in separate encoder threads. After that the resultant encoded GOPs just need to be assembled in the correct order.

The Makron will be pleased