No and I cannot fathom why not. No one can seem to crack Ford's truck market. The only worthy competitors have to skip on quality to be competitive and really only sell to a crowd that is religious about their favorite brand.
The Ford F-150 gets better gas mileage than a little Toyota....far better. The power of an electric motor would be welcome in a truck but the battery tech is not there yet. You also are dealing with marketing issues where the best truck customers love the sound of the petrol motor and are not interested in the inconvenience of charging.
If I was in the market for a little beater a Tesla would be near the top of my short list. Is this some type of revelation? Anyone shopping for a little car is going to look at Tesla...unless they have a Huyundai budget.
Every time I try to deposit cash with a teller at PNC I get a lecture about how I can do it all at the ATM. Makes you feel like a confused old lady trying to write a check in grocery store. I'm thinking though: "Yeah, but I can just stare into space while you do it. What is it that you do here?"
All growth projection. Banking breeds clinical levels of greed.
They are literally awash in cash that they do nothing for except build shitty web sites and provide customer service. The customer service aspect is something that the big banks want to automate with AI so they can gain a bigger advantage over smaller banks--leveraging against them for buyouts and other consolidation fun. Customer service has always been the one thing they could not reduce costs on other than spinning up third-world call centers--everyone has done that. The CS executives that have tried to implement on-shore and premium customer service as a differentiator have been sacked. I have seen it happen to good people in the industry. Customer service is purely a compliance function in banks and the biggest barrier to entry for anyone aspiring to start a bank or other financial service--you need a fat wad of cash to spin up and train a call center. They are fucking drooling over using an AI bot that people think is a human to satisfy your run of the mill request. This will be via chat and phone.
The one drawback is that the lower level executives and VPs won't be able to descend on a call center and take their pick of the girls...but it may be a while before that little perk dries up. I could go on Between Two Ferns and talk for days about the nasty greedy banking and financial services industry. Can't wait to get out.
Our enterprise help desk team can't even get a decent image out the door. They are still shipping the original Windows 10 build (10240). This lovely image of theirs blue-screens on boot if you update it. I say: Bring on the DaaS so I don't have to put up with a fucking corporate image that is five years out of date--and subsequently will not run bleeding-edge Visual Studio, or even recent versions for that matter. This sounds like a good thing for Joe Corporate-Lackey who has to put up with whatever trash image their company can barely cobble together. Oh you want the latest OS? Wait while we attempt to pull our head out of our asses for the next three or four years.
On Android it crashes a lot. "A lot" being perhaps once a day and if it crashes once it is a good indication it will crash again in the next few minutes.
Bend over peasant...they have all of your account numbers and Google is a real bitch who hops up and down like a puppy as they hand over your info to law enforcement.
The check cashing companies are starting to buy stuff from people straight up...this will eliminate the pawn vector so that dumb criminals stop getting caught.
The guy in charge of security for the company that contracted with McDonalds to generate the monopoly pieces made a second career of stealing winning labels and giving them to people etc...went on for years. He could have done it once and got away with it easily...netting $1MM or so. However, the guy went crazy involving all kinds of people creating million dollar winners in a web extending from his lavish home in Georgia. Long story short, instead of the FBI tracking terrorists they were running all over the country trying to recover McDonalds money and help them preserve their reputation (a minuscule amount to McDonalds). McDonalds got really lucky on 9/11 because the whole ordeal fell out of the news forever the second the planes hit--saving them from a PR nightmare that would have ended the most successful marketing campaign they ever ran. All those years no one won the instant prizes by chance...the guy in charge of protecting them was stealing every single one.
Yeah...and the clueless managers think everything is so complicated and sophisticated. Can't really blame them though since every project that gets out the door is fucked up because some idiot couldn't configure a load balancer or couldn't be bothered to understand the distributed message architecture. All simple shit, still bungled.
Heaven forbid they try to transform a matrix and render a 3D image in real-time or implement an analytics engine to predict customer needs.
They will fuck it up out of pure cluelessness even though they are nice. Acquisitions rarely provide value so they will seek it....and the people who are over you all have their own agenda and friends. At best you are viewed like a contractor or outsider. It is next to impossible to change that perception. Do not fool yourself...strike up the recruiters, find the best ones and work with them. Get on it!!
I thought the same thing...wasted almost two years of career time being optimistic.
That's awesome man. Look at DBA, data engineer, or software dev to keep moving up. Lots of studying and work on your personal time but WELL worth it. Creating things at work is like getting paid to play. The sys admin stuff gets boring after a few years.
I have a rule. If I am having fun with the girls at work it is only a matter of time before I get axed for sexual harassment.
When they get in trouble you are the fall guy. The job loss that caused me to form this rule did not involve me doing anything that would be construed as sexual harassment. The accusation alone is enough to poison the well. When everyone is involved in daily sexual harassment (managers, employees, etc..) your chances go way up since it is easy to throw someone under the bus and few have any way to deny they were participating in the behavior. In my case I worked with a gaggle of perverted women who dealt a daily stream of sexual harassment...all in good fun. The worst offender, the manager who made fun of people who lodged complaints (of which there were several) and who created the atmosphere, was the one who fired me with great prejudice.
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No and I cannot fathom why not. No one can seem to crack Ford's truck market. The only worthy competitors have to skip on quality to be competitive and really only sell to a crowd that is religious about their favorite brand.
The Ford F-150 gets better gas mileage than a little Toyota....far better. The power of an electric motor would be welcome in a truck but the battery tech is not there yet. You also are dealing with marketing issues where the best truck customers love the sound of the petrol motor and are not interested in the inconvenience of charging.
If I was in the market for a little beater a Tesla would be near the top of my short list. Is this some type of revelation? Anyone shopping for a little car is going to look at Tesla...unless they have a Huyundai budget.
Endless stories about Apple supporting features everyone else has offered for years....are Apple customers ever pleasantly surprised?
Heliograf gets sued by Miley Cyrus. Should be fun.
Every time I try to deposit cash with a teller at PNC I get a lecture about how I can do it all at the ATM. Makes you feel like a confused old lady trying to write a check in grocery store. I'm thinking though: "Yeah, but I can just stare into space while you do it. What is it that you do here?"
All growth projection. Banking breeds clinical levels of greed.
They are literally awash in cash that they do nothing for except build shitty web sites and provide customer service. The customer service aspect is something that the big banks want to automate with AI so they can gain a bigger advantage over smaller banks--leveraging against them for buyouts and other consolidation fun. Customer service has always been the one thing they could not reduce costs on other than spinning up third-world call centers--everyone has done that. The CS executives that have tried to implement on-shore and premium customer service as a differentiator have been sacked. I have seen it happen to good people in the industry. Customer service is purely a compliance function in banks and the biggest barrier to entry for anyone aspiring to start a bank or other financial service--you need a fat wad of cash to spin up and train a call center. They are fucking drooling over using an AI bot that people think is a human to satisfy your run of the mill request. This will be via chat and phone.
The one drawback is that the lower level executives and VPs won't be able to descend on a call center and take their pick of the girls...but it may be a while before that little perk dries up. I could go on Between Two Ferns and talk for days about the nasty greedy banking and financial services industry. Can't wait to get out.
Enterprise will eat this up and ask for more.
Our enterprise help desk team can't even get a decent image out the door. They are still shipping the original Windows 10 build (10240). This lovely image of theirs blue-screens on boot if you update it. I say: Bring on the DaaS so I don't have to put up with a fucking corporate image that is five years out of date--and subsequently will not run bleeding-edge Visual Studio, or even recent versions for that matter. This sounds like a good thing for Joe Corporate-Lackey who has to put up with whatever trash image their company can barely cobble together. Oh you want the latest OS? Wait while we attempt to pull our head out of our asses for the next three or four years.
On Android it crashes a lot. "A lot" being perhaps once a day and if it crashes once it is a good indication it will crash again in the next few minutes.
Bend over peasant...they have all of your account numbers and Google is a real bitch who hops up and down like a puppy as they hand over your info to law enforcement.
The check cashing companies are starting to buy stuff from people straight up...this will eliminate the pawn vector so that dumb criminals stop getting caught.
The guy in charge of security for the company that contracted with McDonalds to generate the monopoly pieces made a second career of stealing winning labels and giving them to people etc...went on for years. He could have done it once and got away with it easily...netting $1MM or so. However, the guy went crazy involving all kinds of people creating million dollar winners in a web extending from his lavish home in Georgia. Long story short, instead of the FBI tracking terrorists they were running all over the country trying to recover McDonalds money and help them preserve their reputation (a minuscule amount to McDonalds). McDonalds got really lucky on 9/11 because the whole ordeal fell out of the news forever the second the planes hit--saving them from a PR nightmare that would have ended the most successful marketing campaign they ever ran. All those years no one won the instant prizes by chance...the guy in charge of protecting them was stealing every single one.
"if more students moved from pre-med to computer science"
We need people who can think...not robots.
LMAO!!! You may be right. OMG
mod this the fuck up
Be super critical of any company where the founder still works.
Yeah...and the clueless managers think everything is so complicated and sophisticated. Can't really blame them though since every project that gets out the door is fucked up because some idiot couldn't configure a load balancer or couldn't be bothered to understand the distributed message architecture. All simple shit, still bungled.
Heaven forbid they try to transform a matrix and render a 3D image in real-time or implement an analytics engine to predict customer needs.
They will fuck it up out of pure cluelessness even though they are nice. Acquisitions rarely provide value so they will seek it....and the people who are over you all have their own agenda and friends. At best you are viewed like a contractor or outsider. It is next to impossible to change that perception. Do not fool yourself...strike up the recruiters, find the best ones and work with them. Get on it!!
I thought the same thing...wasted almost two years of career time being optimistic.
But now you are the fall guy for their shitty security.
Why is every post getting modded zero in this thread today? Weird.
The data jobs will come back. Guarantee that much.
That's awesome man. Look at DBA, data engineer, or software dev to keep moving up. Lots of studying and work on your personal time but WELL worth it. Creating things at work is like getting paid to play. The sys admin stuff gets boring after a few years.
LOL....you quit because of that!? Special kind of autistic there.
It is Yuuuge now!
I have a rule. If I am having fun with the girls at work it is only a matter of time before I get axed for sexual harassment.
When they get in trouble you are the fall guy. The job loss that caused me to form this rule did not involve me doing anything that would be construed as sexual harassment. The accusation alone is enough to poison the well. When everyone is involved in daily sexual harassment (managers, employees, etc..) your chances go way up since it is easy to throw someone under the bus and few have any way to deny they were participating in the behavior. In my case I worked with a gaggle of perverted women who dealt a daily stream of sexual harassment...all in good fun. The worst offender, the manager who made fun of people who lodged complaints (of which there were several) and who created the atmosphere, was the one who fired me with great prejudice.
I quit a place exactly like this and literally got a job cooking steaks. Disclaimer: I cooked burgers as well.