With that quality of writing, you have probably lied about your education as well.
I spent eight years in Special Ed classes due to an undiagnosed hearing loss, skipped high school, went to community college to get an A.A. degree in General Education (1994), got kicked out of the university in my first year after playing too many games of Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours, and later went back to community college to get an A.S. degree in Computer Programming (20070 on a $3,000 tax return that George W. signed into law after 9/11.
Does your employer know?
The two-hour background interview for my security clearance took four hours. The Chinese also has a copy of my background investigative case file.
What does that have to do with your original point that Republicans wont hire people that have the slightest criticism of their party?
The Trump Administration are turning away Republicans who criticized Trump in the past, leaving 500+ government positions open. Before the Trump Administration, every Democratic and Republican administrations had these positions filled by the 100th day.
That does not mean everyone is like you.
I certainly hope. We got enough fuck ups around here as it is.
Republicans only care about money. Can you do the job? Good. Get to work.
Except I'm a Never Trumper. I also turned down an IT job with the Meg Whitman for CA Governor campaign because I voted for the moderate conservative, Tom Campbell, in the Republican Primary in 2010 . And then there's the fact I switched my political registration before the 2016 election and voted for Hillary. And those ~8,000 comments on Slashdot...
The biggest time sink at my job is the system that exports CSV files to use in Excel. If you don't select your data and copy into a new Excel spreadsheet, updating the calculations on a 70MB file takes 90 minutes. That's not a problem on a clean Excel spreadsheet.
Are you taking into account benefits? Sick time. Vacation time. Employer matching 401k.The peace of mind that comes with stability.
That particular employer wasn't offering benefits to IT workers. Plus they ran their IT department ass backwards. No anti-virus scanner installed, so virus outbreaks were quite common whenever someone accessed a currency exchange website. All viruses must be removed manually. Reimaging was the absolute last resort. And then there was the HP laptops...
My supervisor at Cisco had me sat in on a conference call with the developers in India trying to convince them that they didn't fix a crash bug and incrementing the build number by one didn't fix the problem. The developers tried to get me involved to go against my supervisor. I pretended to have phone problems and played dumb.
I just recently saw an ad looking for some plain clerk job applicants and wanting at least college level education. What the FUCK is going on there? Either the school system is so borked that you can't expect someone with a high school diploma to read, write and do basic math anymore, or companies are just completely gone nuts.
I think companies are deliberately devaluing college education to pay workers less money. When I skipped high school to go to community college to get an education in the early 1990's, I had trouble starting my technical career because level-entry jobs required a high school diploma. Never mind that I had an associate degree. If I was starting over today, my associate degree may not be enough to get a level-entry job.
After ObamaCare got passed in 2010, the contracting agencies that I worked for started offering full benefit packages (including health insurance) to stay competitive with each other. When I worked seven days a week for two years (2011-2013) after my Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, I worked for three different contracting agencies that were offering nearly identical benefit packages. The current contracting agency that I work for offered the regular benefit package, paid federal holidays and 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days, and gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year.
Some of us are hoping to buy a home, but the idea of always-available equity isn't the safety net it used to be.
My 60-year-old brother can't retire because his mortgage is underwater and has to keep on working until real estate prices return to insane values. Then again, the mortgage will probably be paid off when his 40-year-old wife retires.
And Millenials certainly aren't thinking "I won't buy that new iPhone because the SS trust fund is going to need my tax dollars in 20 years".
It's 13 years, not 20 years. All the baby boomers are supposed to be retired in 2030, retires will outnumber workers, and two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security/Medicare. I kept 2030 in mind since I read a study after the dot com bust that the IT industry will have a shortage of 1M workers (recent studies peg it at 1M+ workers). When I became a lead video game tester, I got my IT certifications and went back to school to learn computer programming, and got into IT support. Looking forward to making a whole lot more money in 2030 and beyond.
I'm not jealous. I feel sorry for the Millennials, as they will have to work and pay more in taxes to support all the retired baby boomers that will outnumber the workers paying taxes.
Wow, you must be making a lot of money. You are getting 40% more than him? You must be making at least $200k?
I make $50K+ per year, as you damn well know. Keep in mind that this is IT Support. Level entry jobs can start at $10 per hour (minimum wage) without benefits in Silicon Valley. Not everyone in Silicon Valley is a newly minted millionaire or billionaire.
The problem with holding one job for too long in IT Support is that you make less money with 2% raises over time than someone who has short-term contracts at different companies. I ran into an old coworker a few years ago during a job interview. He was still making the same kind of money that I made when we worked together 10+ years ago, but the company wanted to pay me 40% more for doing the same work. Fortunately, I had three job offers to pick from and went for the higher offer from a contracting agency.
Someone told you that Republicans were scarce in California, and you believed them...
Uh, no. Read my comment again. Republicans are ignoring the biggest block of conservative voters in the state: Latinos. Because they're not white and not Protestant, they're ignored. No wonder they vote Democrat. The funny thing is that Trump did better than Romney with Latino voters.
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And, as usual, you are lying.
Nope. This is the Internet. Everything is true.
With that quality of writing, you have probably lied about your education as well.
I spent eight years in Special Ed classes due to an undiagnosed hearing loss, skipped high school, went to community college to get an A.A. degree in General Education (1994), got kicked out of the university in my first year after playing too many games of Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours, and later went back to community college to get an A.S. degree in Computer Programming (20070 on a $3,000 tax return that George W. signed into law after 9/11.
Does your employer know?
The two-hour background interview for my security clearance took four hours. The Chinese also has a copy of my background investigative case file.
What does that have to do with your original point that Republicans wont hire people that have the slightest criticism of their party?
The Trump Administration are turning away Republicans who criticized Trump in the past, leaving 500+ government positions open. Before the Trump Administration, every Democratic and Republican administrations had these positions filled by the 100th day.
That does not mean everyone is like you.
I certainly hope. We got enough fuck ups around here as it is.
If Cisco is using Indian developers, I will switch brands.
The majority of workers at Cisco are Indians. So only vegan pizza is available at company events.
Republicans only care about money. Can you do the job? Good. Get to work.
Except I'm a Never Trumper. I also turned down an IT job with the Meg Whitman for CA Governor campaign because I voted for the moderate conservative, Tom Campbell, in the Republican Primary in 2010 . And then there's the fact I switched my political registration before the 2016 election and voted for Hillary. And those ~8,000 comments on Slashdot...
Excel? 70MB? Golly Gee whiz, what could the problem be here? Nothing for it, we'll just need to get you a faster computer ...
It's a $3,000 17" Dell laptop. Throwing more money at the problem isn't going to help.
Or filling 500+ government positions with anyone who haven't said a negative thing about Trump since the dawn of time.
Use Python to slice and dice that string code.
The biggest time sink at my job is the system that exports CSV files to use in Excel. If you don't select your data and copy into a new Excel spreadsheet, updating the calculations on a 70MB file takes 90 minutes. That's not a problem on a clean Excel spreadsheet.
Are you taking into account benefits? Sick time. Vacation time. Employer matching 401k.The peace of mind that comes with stability.
That particular employer wasn't offering benefits to IT workers. Plus they ran their IT department ass backwards. No anti-virus scanner installed, so virus outbreaks were quite common whenever someone accessed a currency exchange website. All viruses must be removed manually. Reimaging was the absolute last resort. And then there was the HP laptops...
I was getting full benefits from a contract company that I worked for in the 1980's.
Before 2010, I wasn't.
My supervisor at Cisco had me sat in on a conference call with the developers in India trying to convince them that they didn't fix a crash bug and incrementing the build number by one didn't fix the problem. The developers tried to get me involved to go against my supervisor. I pretended to have phone problems and played dumb.
[...] or using excessive PC language.
Would that be C++ or Java?
I just recently saw an ad looking for some plain clerk job applicants and wanting at least college level education. What the FUCK is going on there? Either the school system is so borked that you can't expect someone with a high school diploma to read, write and do basic math anymore, or companies are just completely gone nuts.
I think companies are deliberately devaluing college education to pay workers less money. When I skipped high school to go to community college to get an education in the early 1990's, I had trouble starting my technical career because level-entry jobs required a high school diploma. Never mind that I had an associate degree. If I was starting over today, my associate degree may not be enough to get a level-entry job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html
I type this from a 30 year old cherry g80. If you don't care about having windows keys it still works better than any brand new cheap keyboard.
I wished I kept my IBM AT keyboard from way back when. It was a solid keyboard. A few years ago I tossed out the AT-to-PS2 adapter that I had for it.
After ObamaCare got passed in 2010, the contracting agencies that I worked for started offering full benefit packages (including health insurance) to stay competitive with each other. When I worked seven days a week for two years (2011-2013) after my Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, I worked for three different contracting agencies that were offering nearly identical benefit packages. The current contracting agency that I work for offered the regular benefit package, paid federal holidays and 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days, and gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year.
Some of us are hoping to buy a home, but the idea of always-available equity isn't the safety net it used to be.
My 60-year-old brother can't retire because his mortgage is underwater and has to keep on working until real estate prices return to insane values. Then again, the mortgage will probably be paid off when his 40-year-old wife retires.
And Millenials certainly aren't thinking "I won't buy that new iPhone because the SS trust fund is going to need my tax dollars in 20 years".
It's 13 years, not 20 years. All the baby boomers are supposed to be retired in 2030, retires will outnumber workers, and two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security/Medicare. I kept 2030 in mind since I read a study after the dot com bust that the IT industry will have a shortage of 1M workers (recent studies peg it at 1M+ workers). When I became a lead video game tester, I got my IT certifications and went back to school to learn computer programming, and got into IT support. Looking forward to making a whole lot more money in 2030 and beyond.
So since you were offered 40% more than the other guy, the other guy must be making ~$30k max? In IT support?
Correct.
Someone's been bitten by the jealousy bug...
I'm not jealous. I feel sorry for the Millennials, as they will have to work and pay more in taxes to support all the retired baby boomers that will outnumber the workers paying taxes.
Not according to the history books.
When the recession hits (we're long overdue), it won't be the Hillary Recession.
Wow, you must be making a lot of money. You are getting 40% more than him? You must be making at least $200k?
I make $50K+ per year, as you damn well know. Keep in mind that this is IT Support. Level entry jobs can start at $10 per hour (minimum wage) without benefits in Silicon Valley. Not everyone in Silicon Valley is a newly minted millionaire or billionaire.
Baby Boomers!
The problem with holding one job for too long in IT Support is that you make less money with 2% raises over time than someone who has short-term contracts at different companies. I ran into an old coworker a few years ago during a job interview. He was still making the same kind of money that I made when we worked together 10+ years ago, but the company wanted to pay me 40% more for doing the same work. Fortunately, I had three job offers to pick from and went for the higher offer from a contracting agency.
Someone told you that Republicans were scarce in California, and you believed them...
Uh, no. Read my comment again. Republicans are ignoring the biggest block of conservative voters in the state: Latinos. Because they're not white and not Protestant, they're ignored. No wonder they vote Democrat. The funny thing is that Trump did better than Romney with Latino voters.