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Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs
Nicholas Carlson writes "These employers (Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc), and the others hiring for tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs will look good on a resume someday, but for now the only good these jobs promise the world is the pleasant feeling you and I can share knowing we're not the ones stuck in them." The story is really obnoxiously laid out, requiring many many clicks to read very little actual content. Perhaps Valleywag could afford to hire another of tech's worst jobs: the web designer.
'Sysadmin work is the new "tech ghetto," we hear.'
That makes me hope that their admins go BOFH on them.
#11 on the worst job list: screening stories for Slashdot.
Have you read my blog lately?
Once my boss and I had to go see the doctors to get some questions answered. My boss had talked to one of the doctors on the phone beforehand and he was pretty irate. My boss said, in a thick chinese accent, in an elevator full of oncology patients "why he so pissed off? maybe all his patients die" i shit you not. I have never been so mortified in all my life. That was about 8 years ago and i still remember it like it was yesterday.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
I got this paper cut once while playing frisbee in the park with my programming group, so I was sweating and it really stung bad. Of course, I couldn't let my coworkers down, so I kept playing and it just kept stinging. Not quite as bad as yours, but still, it was really bad.
So, now, were they networked or weren't they? Because a modem connection still is a network connection. A slow one, over POTS, but still a network connection.
It's really a shame there's no -1 Pedantic mod optionAssistant Crack Whore Web Admin
Hey! Leave my Mom out of this!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
I gave myself permanent hearing damage cranking up my music loud enough that I could no longer hear the screaming and crying going on in the room behind me.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
A real pedant would take you to task on the use of "pedantic" as a noun.
You mean a real *pedant*.
You forgot: Is the power working in your city? In the building? In the room the computer is in.
I wish I was kidding when I say that I had calls about about computers not working at all and the fact that there was no power in the room, building, or city (had all three cases) apparently didn't cross their minds at all.
"Is the power light lit on the monitor?"
"No"
"Is the monitor's switch turned on?"
"Hold on, I'll have to get a flashlight, the power's out in the building."
*eye twitch*
insist that their diagnosis must be correct...
Don't waste my time with scripts boy!
I *know* the electrons have leaked out of my computer,
and if you would just send me a fresh jar I could refill it myself.