This is the god's honest truth. You spend the first 6 months after starting a new job just unscrewing the network from the previous job holder, then the next 6 months upgrading to get it up to date (or within 2 years as there is actually no "up to date"). At this point you've slipped into the phantom zone, only being noticed when the fires start and the dirty mongols are banging at the great wall. As these events occur less and less frequently, now you fall into the realm of fearing for your livelihood because "the network runs itself pretty much, we're cutting the budget and can do without that guy".
And so the never ending cycle begins anew...
Did a Google search for "spamjamr", an anti-spammer group or individual listed in the story and was directed to an Angelfire member site. Of course Angelfire member sites contain the one thing that rivals spam in annoyance levels -- multiple pop-up windows.
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Damn right! That'd be like suing the tobacco industry for getting lung cancer...oh wait.
It's nice to see something explaining why I was paged at 2:30am. And now, to whom from Level3 do I send my bill?
This is the god's honest truth. You spend the first 6 months after starting a new job just unscrewing the network from the previous job holder, then the next 6 months upgrading to get it up to date (or within 2 years as there is actually no "up to date"). At this point you've slipped into the phantom zone, only being noticed when the fires start and the dirty mongols are banging at the great wall. As these events occur less and less frequently, now you fall into the realm of fearing for your livelihood because "the network runs itself pretty much, we're cutting the budget and can do without that guy". And so the never ending cycle begins anew...
Did a Google search for "spamjamr", an anti-spammer group or individual listed in the story and was directed to an Angelfire member site. Of course Angelfire member sites contain the one thing that rivals spam in annoyance levels -- multiple pop-up windows.