The world would have been a better place if you did not learn to read after all. Perhaps your early teachers knew more about you than you think.
I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension that allowed me to skip high school and go into community college. My Special Ed teachers never encouraged me to read beyond my ability. That was my own effort to learn more than what my teachers were willing to teach.
You can tell a lot about a company startup culture from the way they name things. Google's system for pushing software to the workstations is called "Pussy Galore". Facebook has a conference room called "WTF BBQ".
Nope. When I get home from regular job, I check the notification emais to see if there are any Slashdot comments I missed and respond to those. Then I start my working on my home business. I do have automation tools that allow me to post content on other social media channels for when I'm sleeping.
Because you definitely are not actively working while posting on Slashdot.
I'm actively working when I post on Slashdot. A lot of my web traffic comes Slashdot after people read my comments and click on my website link.
No only the mediocre or below IT people found themselves out of work.
The Great Recession ended my help desk career for which I'm thankful. I went to do PC refresh projects, build out a data center, and do InfoSec for government IT.
Anyone with half decent skills had no issues.
They were too busy hanging on to their mediocre jobs, collecting their 2% raises and feeling smug that they still had a job..
Only when I'm waiting for a script to finish running at work.
I've heard your dumb life story 50 times already.
You haven't heard my life story. If you did, you would be running out the door screaming in horror. My life story is very much like "Job: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert A. Heinlein.
You're doing this wrong. You're supposed to imply that I'm the actual noob here, and then demand that I egress from your meticulously manicured landscape.
I would never disrespect a Slashdot elder no matter how wrong.:P
On some contract jobs I routinely erased the system before returning it. Most of the time the system would get re-imaged and deployed to someone else anyway. I've never gotten blowback for doing it.
I've worked for a lot of different Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley. The one company that had any kind of data retention policy was eBay/PalPay when I worked there on different contracts. If an employee left the company, the hard drive from their PC got sent over to legal for them to create a backup image for future reference.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. I know exactly how every dollar in my budget gets spent. When I get my paycheck, every dime has been spent in my budget for rent, utilities, groceries and savings. I have a worksheet where I check off every item that clears my checking account.
I prefer the CLI. But engineers at some companies I've worked with will throw a hissy fit if they don't have a GUI to play with. Xfce doesn't provoke religious wars like KDE and Gnome does.
The mistake is living in Silicon Valley to begin with.
I was born and raised here.
I mean, it's possible for it to make sense if your strategy is "live like a college student, or even a hobo, while saving so much of your income (i.e., 66% or more) that you can retire completely to a decent house in a LCOL area in less than ten years," but since you've been there for 12 and you're still complaining that clearly isn't what you did.
If haven't been out of work for two years, exhausted my savings, filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, and rebuilt my finances from the $25 I had left in my checking account after bankruptcy, I might have moved by now.
Last year I made a grand total of $5875 on paper, but my corporation brought in over $60,000.
Assuming that your corporation files a separate tax return (I'm not familiar with Canadian corporate law), you could have paid yourself a salary to prove you worked for someone else without jumping through the self-employment hoops.
No. I only went to Special Ed classes for eight years because I had an undiagnosed hearing loss in one ear. I skipped high school and went on to community college. I fail see what my education has to do with your comment.
On the other hand, skilled trades can have peak and low seasons depending on the trade and your location.
When my brother started his landscaping design business, he always thought the summers would be his busiest times. Most years he had no work in the summer, but he was quite busy for the rest of the year. Took him a few years to adjust to that.
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You lie for clicks.
I do not.
The world would have been a better place if you did not learn to read after all. Perhaps your early teachers knew more about you than you think.
I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension that allowed me to skip high school and go into community college. My Special Ed teachers never encouraged me to read beyond my ability. That was my own effort to learn more than what my teachers were willing to teach.
You can tell a lot about a company startup culture from the way they name things. Google's system for pushing software to the workstations is called "Pussy Galore". Facebook has a conference room called "WTF BBQ".
So you're posting this in your sleep, then?
Nope. When I get home from regular job, I check the notification emais to see if there are any Slashdot comments I missed and respond to those. Then I start my working on my home business. I do have automation tools that allow me to post content on other social media channels for when I'm sleeping.
Because you definitely are not actively working while posting on Slashdot.
I'm actively working when I post on Slashdot. A lot of my web traffic comes Slashdot after people read my comments and click on my website link.
Nope. You never looked at Mass Layoff statistics of microsoft !
Good point. I need to rephrase that better.
youre really full of yourself. you are the reason this country is as bad as it is
As a moderate conservative, I didn't vote for Trump.
your parents should have beat you more.
The court told my parents to stop beating me because it was borderline child abuse.
No only the mediocre or below IT people found themselves out of work.
The Great Recession ended my help desk career for which I'm thankful. I went to do PC refresh projects, build out a data center, and do InfoSec for government IT.
Anyone with half decent skills had no issues.
They were too busy hanging on to their mediocre jobs, collecting their 2% raises and feeling smug that they still had a job..
Is that when you defied physics by eating 1500 calories a day, powerlifting and still weighing 350#?
My powerlifting days were 10+ years ago. My current weight is 350 pounds, my calorie intake is 1,500 per day, and I'm trimming down nicely.
Or writing your self published vanity book?
My published writings in anthologies and ebooks can be found on my author website.
Creimer is a self admitted troll.
I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot.
He can't be relied upon for jack shit, aside from bad writing.
My writing must be good if you're harping on it all the time.
Do you talk about your job everyday?
Only when I'm waiting for a script to finish running at work.
I've heard your dumb life story 50 times already.
You haven't heard my life story. If you did, you would be running out the door screaming in horror. My life story is very much like "Job: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert A. Heinlein.
Is that why you were unemployed for two years?
The Great Recession caused a lot of people to be out of work for a few years.
Did you let your Microsoft skills lapse?
Microsoft skills never expire.
Microsoft = Job Security
Shouldn't you, by your own logic, spend that valuable commodity working yourself to death so that you may be just a little bit richer?
My tech job pays for today's bills. My home business pays for tomorrow's bills. The only time I'm not working is when I sleep at night.
So what party does the "moderate conservative" creimer vote for?
I usually vote for the best candidate for the job. The party letter next to the name doesn't matter.
You're doing this wrong. You're supposed to imply that I'm the actual noob here, and then demand that I egress from your meticulously manicured landscape.
I would never disrespect a Slashdot elder no matter how wrong. :P
On some contract jobs I routinely erased the system before returning it. Most of the time the system would get re-imaged and deployed to someone else anyway. I've never gotten blowback for doing it.
I've worked for a lot of different Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley. The one company that had any kind of data retention policy was eBay/PalPay when I worked there on different contracts. If an employee left the company, the hard drive from their PC got sent over to legal for them to create a backup image for future reference.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. I know exactly how every dollar in my budget gets spent. When I get my paycheck, every dime has been spent in my budget for rent, utilities, groceries and savings. I have a worksheet where I check off every item that clears my checking account.
You use a window manager? That's cute.
I prefer the CLI. But engineers at some companies I've worked with will throw a hissy fit if they don't have a GUI to play with. Xfce doesn't provoke religious wars like KDE and Gnome does.
That's nothing. I typically ignore the default desktop and install Xfce instead. For older hardware, Xfce works a lot better.
The mistake is living in Silicon Valley to begin with.
I was born and raised here.
I mean, it's possible for it to make sense if your strategy is "live like a college student, or even a hobo, while saving so much of your income (i.e., 66% or more) that you can retire completely to a decent house in a LCOL area in less than ten years," but since you've been there for 12 and you're still complaining that clearly isn't what you did.
If haven't been out of work for two years, exhausted my savings, filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, and rebuilt my finances from the $25 I had left in my checking account after bankruptcy, I might have moved by now.
ummm, i had underestimated the power of ignorance.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
You have said many times you were unemployed in 2008.
I was unemployed from 2009 to 2010, underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011.
Why do you make up a story for every situation?
Why do you continue to distort my positions?
What do you gain?
Ad revenues for my websites. Thank you for your participations.
Most people figured out that they have an "extra" paycheck, spend it on all kinds of foolishness and then wonder why their finances are out of whack.
Last year I made a grand total of $5875 on paper, but my corporation brought in over $60,000.
Assuming that your corporation files a separate tax return (I'm not familiar with Canadian corporate law), you could have paid yourself a salary to prove you worked for someone else without jumping through the self-employment hoops.
You are retarded.
No. I only went to Special Ed classes for eight years because I had an undiagnosed hearing loss in one ear. I skipped high school and went on to community college. I fail see what my education has to do with your comment.
Why post this?
It was relevant. Your point?
On the other hand, skilled trades can have peak and low seasons depending on the trade and your location.
When my brother started his landscaping design business, he always thought the summers would be his busiest times. Most years he had no work in the summer, but he was quite busy for the rest of the year. Took him a few years to adjust to that.