This is why most people my age, in their late 20's early 30's are so hard to keep happy. We started off at the very beginning of a tech boom in in the mid - late 90's. We got paid fuck all for years. While sales guys got the big office the big cars the nice suits and the big bonuses at christmas time. I got 50 quid a week when I started working. Admittedly all I did was install cpu's and ram in laptops for a few months, but within 6 months the senior tech left and I immediately was thrown into a very busy job for which I was being paid shit all for. Then two years later they wonder why I get pissed off and leave. It's only in the last year that employers are starting to realise that tech's, sys admins, net admins, etc are valuable commodities. These companies charge out at $100 - $175 an hour, so you can be damn sure I want as much pay as a plumber or a welder would get out of that at a plumbing / welding company. We are very highly skilled individuals into which a lot of trust is put. We have to be sharp, on the ball, constantly thinking and most of all happy enough to be not living month to month on shitty wages. Good wages make us happy in our jobs, just like anyone else. I do not mean to put down plumbers or welders, we would be nowhere without people who do those jobs and they deserve every penny they get, what I'm saying is that so should we.
On a side note, the younger kids these days don't have to work as hard as we did back then. Back then everything was pretty new and most teachers in the education system had no idea what was going on. Since then, teachers have more IT training themselves and they can actually teach the students something.
We had to learn most of our stuff ourselves. There was no course that taught you how to install windows, fix a pc or rebuild a server. It was on the job and after hours training. It's not like that so much anymore.
Let's just get rid of IT, Legal, Accounting, Purchasing & HR. Get all the losers who work for us out on their fat lazy asses and get some REAL EXPERTS.
Let's have a company with similar ethics to Walmart come in and take over each department.
Think this is a joke? Hang around in a public company for the next 5 years or so.
Compiling when installing is optional. You can use the binary packages and have a Gentoo system up and running with X and Gnome or KDE in under 1 hour. RTFM
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This is not about terrorists. This is about control of the "difficult" people in the population and making an example of them for all to see.
This is why most people my age, in their late 20's early 30's are so hard to keep happy. We started off at the very beginning of a tech boom in in the mid - late 90's. We got paid fuck all for years. While sales guys got the big office the big cars the nice suits and the big bonuses at christmas time. I got 50 quid a week when I started working. Admittedly all I did was install cpu's and ram in laptops for a few months, but within 6 months the senior tech left and I immediately was thrown into a very busy job for which I was being paid shit all for. Then two years later they wonder why I get pissed off and leave. It's only in the last year that employers are starting to realise that tech's, sys admins, net admins, etc are valuable commodities. These companies charge out at $100 - $175 an hour, so you can be damn sure I want as much pay as a plumber or a welder would get out of that at a plumbing / welding company. We are very highly skilled individuals into which a lot of trust is put. We have to be sharp, on the ball, constantly thinking and most of all happy enough to be not living month to month on shitty wages. Good wages make us happy in our jobs, just like anyone else. I do not mean to put down plumbers or welders, we would be nowhere without people who do those jobs and they deserve every penny they get, what I'm saying is that so should we.
On a side note, the younger kids these days don't have to work as hard as we did back then. Back then everything was pretty new and most teachers in the education system had no idea what was going on. Since then, teachers have more IT training themselves and they can actually teach the students something.
We had to learn most of our stuff ourselves. There was no course that taught you how to install windows, fix a pc or rebuild a server. It was on the job and after hours training. It's not like that so much anymore.
Let's just get rid of IT, Legal, Accounting, Purchasing & HR. Get all the losers who work for us out on their fat lazy asses and get some REAL EXPERTS. Let's have a company with similar ethics to Walmart come in and take over each department. Think this is a joke? Hang around in a public company for the next 5 years or so.
Compiling when installing is optional. You can use the binary packages and have a Gentoo system up and running with X and Gnome or KDE in under 1 hour. RTFM