After working for three game companies, I can't believe you only worked 60.
I went to church and took two night classes to learn computer programming. Whenever my boss demanded that I worked more hours, I went to HR to complain that he was infringing on my First Amendment right to practice my religion.HR didn't like that and it drove my boss up the wall. I was also the only lead tester who specialized in Nintendo titles. On my last title as lead tester, I worked 28 days straight while still attending my religious obligations and going to school. Other than my boss, no one questioned my commitment as a lead tester.
I'm halfway through a five-year IT support contract that is fully funded. If Congress shuts down the government over the budget, I'll still be at work and getting paid. My contracting agency gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus for my exceptional work.
you've never touched a server in your life,
I built out a data center for Google and managed a wireless server for 300+ laptops at Cisco.
[...] since you think people install acrobat on those.
As if a server admin never had to open a PDF file on how to configure his server. Adobe Reader shows up a lot for severs on the NESSUS scan.
I met a kid once who presented himself as a successful CEO.
I walked past Mark Zuckerberg when I had an assignment at Facebook in 2011. That would make him 27 at the time. I didn't think he was that short at 5'7" (I'm 5'10").
He didn't know the wines we were drinking. We said sure, when it came and was 2500 - that's when we laughed at him and my buddy pulled out his amex, I dropped 5 bills for the tip, and a fifty on his table to cover his "premium Heineken beer."
You're proud of pissing away $3K on wine? I spent $3K in 2013 to fly to Las Vegas, spend a week at the Rio to attend the Las Vegas Star Trek Con, watch David Copperfield and have a $100 steak at Craftsteak in the MGM Grand, and visited Hoover Dam that my parents visited for their honeymoon.
[...] us "asshats" are making fun of you [...]
No, I'm laughing at you. Seriously. Your exaggerated dick waving is so funny.
If we really believed you are a loser we wouldn't make fun of you.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here. Turn in your geek cred and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
My employment contracts for 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week or outside regular business hours. That's for IT support. Prior to that I worked 60+ hours a week as a video game tester.
have fun being responsible for 80k+ laptops, "sr systems admin."
Workstations. A small number of them are $3K laptops that are design to replace desktops.
[...] the real systems administrator who manages the servers will let you know when he needs adobe acrobat upgraded [...]
Server owners are responsible for administrating their server and maintaining the application baseline. If they can't do that, their server gets deleted (VMs) or decommissioned (pulled from rack and dropped on their desk).
[...] they do call you when they spill redbull on their keyboard.
I would give them the phone number to the help desk hotline.
i wouldn't lost a day shoveling shit in the sewers.
Sewers, no. But I did shovel shit as a kid. Nothing worse than a horse sneezing on you and some of the black specks are moving.
do you make over 200k? do you make over 150?
Nope. I only need $50K+ to live in Silicon Valley.
is you're proud of your mediocrity and brag about it.
Asshats like you lose your shit because of it. If you really believed that I was mediocre and unsuccessful, you wouldn't comment at all.
a good way for underachievers to stay off of prozac is to redefine the word achievement. any time someone brings up their achievement is shown to not be an achievement, they provide more detail on the achievement, proving they achieved it.
Senior lead video game tester is a legitimate title in the video game industry. The problem with most people outside of the video game industry think that testing video games is all fun and games. That is false. Most people can't last six weeks much less six years as a video game tester.
[...] the person can change and actually achieve something, instead of living in some weird loser dream.
I'm a senior system administrator responsible for 80,000+ workstations. My coworkers and I have 20+ years of experience in IT. This is not a 'weird loser dream' in the real world.
[...] a big strong boy. you took a big boy poop.
Normal poop has the consistency of toothpaste. Mine is quite normal and regular.
As grand high senior platinum dragon edition tester, I say you are a fat, smelly, dumpy, slob and that's why you get fired repeatedly, leaving you with plentiful time to troll slashdot.
Most of my jobs keep me busy for one hour out of an eight-hour shift, leaving seven hours available to wait for something to roll downhill from the powers to be. Only Google kept me busy but they were hiring 300+ people per week in 2008.
The humans killed each other off and the robots take care of the plant life in the dome that's floating in space. This is probably the only bot movie that ever have the bots coming out as the winners.
i'm sorry - did you say "senior" video game tester?
Yes.
is that like "senor" busboy or more like George Forman Sr.?
Neither.
because there is no senior title for a job that by definition is junior.
I was a senior lead video game tester responsible for ten titles when I left the company after six years. A fellow senior lead video game tester built Midway arcade machines in the 1980's. Another senior lead video game tester tested pen-and-paper games in the 1970's.
Yeah, businesses always get rid of the awesome productive people first.
No, bad management. When I was a video game tester, a supervisor got promoted to QA manager and anyone who wasn't willing to swear absolute loyalty to him got forced out. I was the third of a dozen senior testers who left the company. The manager didn't get fired until the company went into bankruptcy.
I heard you got laid off because you were too good at your job.
That was a different situation. My boss at eBay in 2009 had a choice of laying off five people or laying me since I did the work of five people. He found it easier to lay off one person than five people. It didn't do him any good. Not long after I left eBay, my manager had to laid off those five people as well as others.
"Silent Running" has never been my favorite movie (it would probably "Outland" with Sean Connery). But it has more science fiction than a lot of science fiction movies that came before or after. It fit the 1970's environmental theme quite well.
I'll bet you were so good at your job you got fired from it too.
The only job I ever got fired from was when I worked with my father in construction and got into a fistfight with the owner's grandson. Fast forward 40 years, I'm working in tech and the grandson is a drug addict. Sad.
So you essentially turned your $250 Dell laptop into the $500 Dell laptop you could've bought in the first place.
Not quite. I only spent $100 on the new memory and SSD. The $250 Dell laptop had a keyboard without the numeric keypad because I wanted the keyboard centered with the screen. A $500 Dell laptop would have a keyboard with the numeric keypad that I didn't want.
You should try video game testing. You would be good at it and make a lot of money.
I was a video game tester for six years (1997-2004). My beginning pay rate was $10 per hour and ending pay rate was $16 per hour. After I went back to school to learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11, I got a help desk support job that paid $20 per hour. Do the math.
There should be three. My friend works at Sprint Store. They have a Windows phone in the back room. No one ever asks for a Windows phone. It's not like my friend and his coworkers have financial incentives to push out Windows phone like they do for Samsung, HTC and LG.
I got an inexpensive Dell laptop for $250, upgraded the memory to 8GB and replaced the HDD with an SSD. Runs Windows 10 just fine. With a USB3 to Ethernet adapter, I have no problem accessing my data from my file server. No cloud required.
That's why you have complained about doing end user support.
You would be amazed at how easy help desk or desktop support would be without users getting in the way.
Oh, not even bothering to write another post to lie.
I get accused of being a liar a lot. But the people who take the time to look into my "lies" are often surprised that I'm telling the truth.
Your job is to support them, not be a lying ass.
My job is support 80,000+ workstations. I no longer work in help desk or desktop support. The only consideration I'm obligated towards users is to avoid rebooting their workstation during business hours.
Xerox also employed Gary Starkweather who invented the laser printer. They weren't interested in the technology as it would disrupt their copier business. It took a while. I haven't seen a Xerox copy machine in years.
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After working for three game companies, I can't believe you only worked 60.
I went to church and took two night classes to learn computer programming. Whenever my boss demanded that I worked more hours, I went to HR to complain that he was infringing on my First Amendment right to practice my religion.HR didn't like that and it drove my boss up the wall. I was also the only lead tester who specialized in Nintendo titles. On my last title as lead tester, I worked 28 days straight while still attending my religious obligations and going to school. Other than my boss, no one questioned my commitment as a lead tester.
[...] for stable multiyear contracts.
I'm halfway through a five-year IT support contract that is fully funded. If Congress shuts down the government over the budget, I'll still be at work and getting paid. My contracting agency gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus for my exceptional work.
you've never touched a server in your life,
I built out a data center for Google and managed a wireless server for 300+ laptops at Cisco.
[...] since you think people install acrobat on those.
As if a server admin never had to open a PDF file on how to configure his server. Adobe Reader shows up a lot for severs on the NESSUS scan.
I met a kid once who presented himself as a successful CEO.
I walked past Mark Zuckerberg when I had an assignment at Facebook in 2011. That would make him 27 at the time. I didn't think he was that short at 5'7" (I'm 5'10").
He didn't know the wines we were drinking. We said sure, when it came and was 2500 - that's when we laughed at him and my buddy pulled out his amex, I dropped 5 bills for the tip, and a fifty on his table to cover his "premium Heineken beer."
You're proud of pissing away $3K on wine? I spent $3K in 2013 to fly to Las Vegas, spend a week at the Rio to attend the Las Vegas Star Trek Con, watch David Copperfield and have a $100 steak at Craftsteak in the MGM Grand, and visited Hoover Dam that my parents visited for their honeymoon.
[...] us "asshats" are making fun of you [...]
No, I'm laughing at you. Seriously. Your exaggerated dick waving is so funny.
If we really believed you are a loser we wouldn't make fun of you.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here. Turn in your geek cred and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
My employment contracts for 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week or outside regular business hours. That's for IT support. Prior to that I worked 60+ hours a week as a video game tester.
have fun being responsible for 80k+ laptops, "sr systems admin."
Workstations. A small number of them are $3K laptops that are design to replace desktops.
[...] the real systems administrator who manages the servers will let you know when he needs adobe acrobat upgraded [...]
Server owners are responsible for administrating their server and maintaining the application baseline. If they can't do that, their server gets deleted (VMs) or decommissioned (pulled from rack and dropped on their desk).
[...] they do call you when they spill redbull on their keyboard.
I would give them the phone number to the help desk hotline.
i wouldn't lost a day shoveling shit in the sewers.
Sewers, no. But I did shovel shit as a kid. Nothing worse than a horse sneezing on you and some of the black specks are moving.
do you make over 200k? do you make over 150?
Nope. I only need $50K+ to live in Silicon Valley.
is you're proud of your mediocrity and brag about it.
Asshats like you lose your shit because of it. If you really believed that I was mediocre and unsuccessful, you wouldn't comment at all.
"Troll. Nazi. Misogynist. Sexist. Racist. White Supremicist. Deplorable. Rape apologist."
That describes Trump's base supporters in a nutshell.
"They used Nazi to describe this person, so I'm pretty sure they're talking about a bad guy!"
No Republican has ever used Nazi imagery without it blowing up in their face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvfzFv3c6Y
a good way for underachievers to stay off of prozac is to redefine the word achievement. any time someone brings up their achievement is shown to not be an achievement, they provide more detail on the achievement, proving they achieved it.
Senior lead video game tester is a legitimate title in the video game industry. The problem with most people outside of the video game industry think that testing video games is all fun and games. That is false. Most people can't last six weeks much less six years as a video game tester.
[...] the person can change and actually achieve something, instead of living in some weird loser dream.
I'm a senior system administrator responsible for 80,000+ workstations. My coworkers and I have 20+ years of experience in IT. This is not a 'weird loser dream' in the real world.
[...] a big strong boy. you took a big boy poop.
Normal poop has the consistency of toothpaste. Mine is quite normal and regular.
Nope. :P
This is what the Slashdot trolls do when they're not busy buggering me.
As grand high senior platinum dragon edition tester, I say you are a fat, smelly, dumpy, slob and that's why you get fired repeatedly, leaving you with plentiful time to troll slashdot.
Most of my jobs keep me busy for one hour out of an eight-hour shift, leaving seven hours available to wait for something to roll downhill from the powers to be. Only Google kept me busy but they were hiring 300+ people per week in 2008.
Do they have "Bill Gates Does Windows" screensaver?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bPgIIpdpobk/hqdefault.jpg
so, what happens at the end?
The humans killed each other off and the robots take care of the plant life in the dome that's floating in space. This is probably the only bot movie that ever have the bots coming out as the winners.
i'm sorry - did you say "senior" video game tester?
Yes.
is that like "senor" busboy or more like George Forman Sr.?
Neither.
because there is no senior title for a job that by definition is junior.
I was a senior lead video game tester responsible for ten titles when I left the company after six years. A fellow senior lead video game tester built Midway arcade machines in the 1980's. Another senior lead video game tester tested pen-and-paper games in the 1970's.
Yeah, businesses always get rid of the awesome productive people first.
No, bad management. When I was a video game tester, a supervisor got promoted to QA manager and anyone who wasn't willing to swear absolute loyalty to him got forced out. I was the third of a dozen senior testers who left the company. The manager didn't get fired until the company went into bankruptcy.
I wonder how much feedback Dell gets on that. Not enough I guess.
You mean keyboard versus keyboard with keypad? Or Dell keyboards in general? I've used Dell keyboards for 20+ years, so I'm not a keyboard snob.
I heard you got laid off because you were too good at your job.
That was a different situation. My boss at eBay in 2009 had a choice of laying off five people or laying me since I did the work of five people. He found it easier to lay off one person than five people. It didn't do him any good. Not long after I left eBay, my manager had to laid off those five people as well as others.
"Silent Running" has never been my favorite movie (it would probably "Outland" with Sean Connery). But it has more science fiction than a lot of science fiction movies that came before or after. It fit the 1970's environmental theme quite well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running
That was a joke, right? Slashdot is on the Internet.
110010001000 uses a Morse code to Internet service.
I'll bet you were so good at your job you got fired from it too.
The only job I ever got fired from was when I worked with my father in construction and got into a fistfight with the owner's grandson. Fast forward 40 years, I'm working in tech and the grandson is a drug addict. Sad.
So you essentially turned your $250 Dell laptop into the $500 Dell laptop you could've bought in the first place.
Not quite. I only spent $100 on the new memory and SSD. The $250 Dell laptop had a keyboard without the numeric keypad because I wanted the keyboard centered with the screen. A $500 Dell laptop would have a keyboard with the numeric keypad that I didn't want.
You should try video game testing. You would be good at it and make a lot of money.
I was a video game tester for six years (1997-2004). My beginning pay rate was $10 per hour and ending pay rate was $16 per hour. After I went back to school to learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11, I got a help desk support job that paid $20 per hour. Do the math.
We aren't all rich contractors living off the taxpayers dime though.
If you consider making $50K+ per year as being "rich" in Silicon Valley.
There should be three. My friend works at Sprint Store. They have a Windows phone in the back room. No one ever asks for a Windows phone. It's not like my friend and his coworkers have financial incentives to push out Windows phone like they do for Samsung, HTC and LG.
I got an inexpensive Dell laptop for $250, upgraded the memory to 8GB and replaced the HDD with an SSD. Runs Windows 10 just fine. With a USB3 to Ethernet adapter, I have no problem accessing my data from my file server. No cloud required.
That's why you have complained about doing end user support.
You would be amazed at how easy help desk or desktop support would be without users getting in the way.
Oh, not even bothering to write another post to lie.
I get accused of being a liar a lot. But the people who take the time to look into my "lies" are often surprised that I'm telling the truth.
Your job is to support them, not be a lying ass.
My job is support 80,000+ workstations. I no longer work in help desk or desktop support. The only consideration I'm obligated towards users is to avoid rebooting their workstation during business hours.
Xerox also employed Gary Starkweather who invented the laser printer. They weren't interested in the technology as it would disrupt their copier business. It took a while. I haven't seen a Xerox copy machine in years.