Hell, I'm sure there are Slashdotters here who would be extremely interested on how to wait idly by while a script completes and posting to Slashdot and still get paid a good wage, never mind saving life! You owe it to them, creimer. They want to learn.
Waiting for a script to finish is watching paint dry. I would rather be doing something than nothing. Multitasking is discourage at this particular job. The fastest way to screw up is to work on a dozen systems, loose track of what you're doing, reboot the wrong system at the wrong time, and endangering someone's life because the computer wasn't available. When I'm working on a system, I'm working on one system at a time and not reading Slashdot.
Most of the private sector jobs that I had at Fortune 500 companies can be done in the first hour and read Slashdot for the rest of the day. Only Google kept me busy at light speed for an entire work shift. I laugh every time an employer tells me that they have a busy work environment.
And the server team! I had to take over a blotched printer migration because the engineer ran the script and went on vacation. Took me a month to figure out 50% of the ~1,500 printer entries were legit and set them up on the print servers. Just three days before I got finished, the server team pulled the old print servers a month ahead of schedule without notifying anyone. That generated 100+ help desk tickets from outraged users who weren't able to print. No lives were lost. Otherwise, it would be national news.
Tell everyone how waiting for a script to complete and posting on Slashdot is saving lives.
It doesn't. Other aspects of my job requires being careful — that save lives. Waiting for scripts and reading Slashdot is a small part of my job on most days.
I know you're just dying to reveal to us all about this heroic aspect of your job, so go ahead and impress us.
Might help if you weren't being stupid on purpose. Oh, wait. You're a troll. No wonder you're stupid.
Aren't you the contractor that did the desktop rollout one machine at a time over the course of nine months instead of using a multicast deployment in an afternoon?
Nope. Unboxed 750 workstations and 1,500 monitors. Reimaged 150 workstations per hour over the network. Data transfer between the old and workstations took forever. The project was scheduled for 12 months and I got it completed in nine months. I also cleaned out a storage closet that no one have seen the floor in eight years that I did in between tickets over a six week period.
You do talk up a big game but when the subject of conversation comes to technical knowledge or skills, there is always disappointment in the quality of discussion when the handle 'creimer' is on a post. Skipping them tends to be more informative.
Yeah it is pretty impressive. Wow! Government IT? Who woulda thunk it? He is such a bright guy.
So are the people I work with. Most are ex-military with zero tolerance for slackers. People who get hired with the idea that a government job means not working are shocked by how much hard work is needed and even more shocked when they're back on the unemployment line for refusing to work.
I guess working for the government leaves plenty of time to slack off here on Slashdot.
Much of my job is watching paint dry while waiting for a task to get done. Slashdot exist to keep me amuse while I wait. Of course, I could multitask, work on multiple systems at the same time and risk the possibility of making a mistake. In my particular line of work, people could die if I make a mistake.
It's only at the taxpayers expense and who cares about them?
Could be worse. I've seen corporate dysfunction that wasted millions of shareholder dollars. Unless you're a retiree dependent on stock dividends, no one cares about shareholders.
Of course. But the question was asked by a troll who already knew the answer. I took the opportunity to present my side of the story by flashing my resume.
Let me guess: you work for the government now in a cushy IT contracting job because that is all you could get?
After three years as a video game tester and three years a lead video game tester, I went back to school learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. I spent the past decade working as an IT support contractor at Cisco, eBay, Fujitsu, Intuit, Google, Sony and many other Fortune 500 companies. I'm in my 22nd year of my technical career doing computer security in government IT, making 50% less money than my Silicon Valley peers because I serve the taxpayers.
The alternative is to "trust" that the coworker standing behind you will catch when you fall backwards. At some places I worked at, stepping off a 12-story building is easier.
I was a lead video game tester when my supervisor almost got fired for ignoring my documented warnings that the project I was managing was a slow moving train wreck. That incident was serious enough to get him promoted out of the department. My new supervisor thought I deliberately tried to get my old supervisor fired and told me to not document any his actions for my next project. Since this supervisor had a sleazy reputation of always getting his numbers (including making them up), I told him to bugger off. Every time I documented something he did that adversely affected my project, he wrote me up for insubordination. After he gave me "his way or the highway" speech, I turned in my resignation and got a help desk job that paid more money for a 40-hour work week. (As a lead tester, I worked 60 hours a week for 28 days straight on my last project.) I was the third of a dozen senior testers who left the department before the company went into bankruptcy.
So basically the college has no interest in giving students an education, just in training people up for a job?
Community colleges provide the first two years of a four-year bachelor degree, and vocational training to any adult who can benefit from the instruction.
Teach someone how to program in C++ and they can use any fucking IDE.
Not according to the survey from local employers. Like everything else these days, employers are not doing any job whatsoever. That's someone else's responsibility.
Thus proving this could have been done all along.
Everyone except the college administration knows that.
Apple was so successful during the Great Recession that Republicans complained about people dropping their extended unemployment benefits on new iPhones and Macs. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple is even more successful during the forthcoming Trump Recession.
I worked at Accolade when it got bought out by Infogrames, which later changed its name to Atari after buying Hasbro Interactive, which owned the Atari intellectual property rights. The CEO pushed for every game title to be available for every platform (Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube/GameBoy Advanced, Sony Playstation 2). That worked well for some titles. But not all titles were suitable for all platforms. The multiplatform strategy fell apart when Nintendo rejected the PS2 ports to the GameCube and demanded that each game take advantage of the GameCube features. The dot com bust didn't help. The company sold studios for pennies on the dollar after paying two to four times more than what each studio was worth during the buying spree. Bankruptcy came and went again.
But you wouldn't expect to go into a physical Apple Store and have to inspect the merchandise to make sure it isn't fake, would you?
Brick-and-mortar stores are not immune to selling fake products. Sometimes the fake products are so good that the manufacturer can tell the difference. Saw a TV report many years ago on high-end purses and watches.
That doesn't surprise me. When I was at the Google IT help desk, I had to walk a newly minted computer science graduate student on how to turn on his workstation. Unlike the computer labs at the university, cubicle farms don't have someone standing around to turn on the workstations.
I'm surprised to find that colleges teach programming. What for?
Community colleges pump out programmers with A.S. degrees in computer programming to provide workers for Silicon Valley companies. Someone has to implement all the stuff that the CS guys come up with.
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Hell, I'm sure there are Slashdotters here who would be extremely interested on how to wait idly by while a script completes and posting to Slashdot and still get paid a good wage, never mind saving life! You owe it to them, creimer. They want to learn.
Waiting for a script to finish is watching paint dry. I would rather be doing something than nothing. Multitasking is discourage at this particular job. The fastest way to screw up is to work on a dozen systems, loose track of what you're doing, reboot the wrong system at the wrong time, and endangering someone's life because the computer wasn't available. When I'm working on a system, I'm working on one system at a time and not reading Slashdot.
Most of the private sector jobs that I had at Fortune 500 companies can be done in the first hour and read Slashdot for the rest of the day. Only Google kept me busy at light speed for an entire work shift. I laugh every time an employer tells me that they have a busy work environment.
He is keeping us safe from terrorists.
And the server team! I had to take over a blotched printer migration because the engineer ran the script and went on vacation. Took me a month to figure out 50% of the ~1,500 printer entries were legit and set them up on the print servers. Just three days before I got finished, the server team pulled the old print servers a month ahead of schedule without notifying anyone. That generated 100+ help desk tickets from outraged users who weren't able to print. No lives were lost. Otherwise, it would be national news.
How many people died today because you were reading Slashdot?
None.
Tell everyone how waiting for a script to complete and posting on Slashdot is saving lives.
It doesn't. Other aspects of my job requires being careful — that save lives. Waiting for scripts and reading Slashdot is a small part of my job on most days.
I know you're just dying to reveal to us all about this heroic aspect of your job, so go ahead and impress us.
Might help if you weren't being stupid on purpose. Oh, wait. You're a troll. No wonder you're stupid.
lol. Slacking off on Slashdot saves lives! You're quite the hero, creimer!
Being careful saves lives. I'm on Slashdot while I'm waiting for a script to get finished.
Not really much of a self-starter, are you?
Not in this particular job where mistakes could easily cost lives.
Aren't you the contractor that did the desktop rollout one machine at a time over the course of nine months instead of using a multicast deployment in an afternoon?
Nope. Unboxed 750 workstations and 1,500 monitors. Reimaged 150 workstations per hour over the network. Data transfer between the old and workstations took forever. The project was scheduled for 12 months and I got it completed in nine months. I also cleaned out a storage closet that no one have seen the floor in eight years that I did in between tickets over a six week period.
You do talk up a big game but when the subject of conversation comes to technical knowledge or skills, there is always disappointment in the quality of discussion when the handle 'creimer' is on a post. Skipping them tends to be more informative.
More sour grapes from the peanut gallery.
Yeah it is pretty impressive. Wow! Government IT? Who woulda thunk it? He is such a bright guy.
So are the people I work with. Most are ex-military with zero tolerance for slackers. People who get hired with the idea that a government job means not working are shocked by how much hard work is needed and even more shocked when they're back on the unemployment line for refusing to work.
I guess working for the government leaves plenty of time to slack off here on Slashdot.
Much of my job is watching paint dry while waiting for a task to get done. Slashdot exist to keep me amuse while I wait. Of course, I could multitask, work on multiple systems at the same time and risk the possibility of making a mistake. In my particular line of work, people could die if I make a mistake.
It's only at the taxpayers expense and who cares about them?
Could be worse. I've seen corporate dysfunction that wasted millions of shareholder dollars. Unless you're a retiree dependent on stock dividends, no one cares about shareholders.
I'm impressed by your CV, but I'm sorry you felt you had to justify yourself to the fuckwit troll you were replying to.
I just love trolling the trolls on Slashdot.
So "yes"?
Of course. But the question was asked by a troll who already knew the answer. I took the opportunity to present my side of the story by flashing my resume.
Let me guess: you work for the government now in a cushy IT contracting job because that is all you could get?
After three years as a video game tester and three years a lead video game tester, I went back to school learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. I spent the past decade working as an IT support contractor at Cisco, eBay, Fujitsu, Intuit, Google, Sony and many other Fortune 500 companies. I'm in my 22nd year of my technical career doing computer security in government IT, making 50% less money than my Silicon Valley peers because I serve the taxpayers.
The alternative is to "trust" that the coworker standing behind you will catch when you fall backwards. At some places I worked at, stepping off a 12-story building is easier.
I was a lead video game tester when my supervisor almost got fired for ignoring my documented warnings that the project I was managing was a slow moving train wreck. That incident was serious enough to get him promoted out of the department. My new supervisor thought I deliberately tried to get my old supervisor fired and told me to not document any his actions for my next project. Since this supervisor had a sleazy reputation of always getting his numbers (including making them up), I told him to bugger off. Every time I documented something he did that adversely affected my project, he wrote me up for insubordination. After he gave me "his way or the highway" speech, I turned in my resignation and got a help desk job that paid more money for a 40-hour work week. (As a lead tester, I worked 60 hours a week for 28 days straight on my last project.) I was the third of a dozen senior testers who left the department before the company went into bankruptcy.
A rational person would have dropped a PC from the 12-story building to hit his boss, eliminating the source of his troubles.
So basically the college has no interest in giving students an education, just in training people up for a job?
Community colleges provide the first two years of a four-year bachelor degree, and vocational training to any adult who can benefit from the instruction.
Teach someone how to program in C++ and they can use any fucking IDE.
Not according to the survey from local employers. Like everything else these days, employers are not doing any job whatsoever. That's someone else's responsibility.
Thus proving this could have been done all along.
Everyone except the college administration knows that.
What was your point again?
The California GOP has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than one-tenth of the U.S. population.
Apple HW is good stuff but the whole myth of Apple HW lasting longer than PC is just that, a myth.
My 2006 Black MacBook is strong running strong with Mint Linux. You can even run Windows 10 on it (see video link).
The 8-Bit Guy: Is it Obsolete - The Core Duo MacBook?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJw8aSxEFwQ
Apple will feel this fact in a recession.
Apple was so successful during the Great Recession that Republicans complained about people dropping their extended unemployment benefits on new iPhones and Macs. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple is even more successful during the forthcoming Trump Recession.
Is the Red Hat Certification any good for Linux jobs?
And which C++ variant is that?
Java.
I worked at Accolade when it got bought out by Infogrames, which later changed its name to Atari after buying Hasbro Interactive, which owned the Atari intellectual property rights. The CEO pushed for every game title to be available for every platform (Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube/GameBoy Advanced, Sony Playstation 2). That worked well for some titles. But not all titles were suitable for all platforms. The multiplatform strategy fell apart when Nintendo rejected the PS2 ports to the GameCube and demanded that each game take advantage of the GameCube features. The dot com bust didn't help. The company sold studios for pennies on the dollar after paying two to four times more than what each studio was worth during the buying spree. Bankruptcy came and went again.
But you wouldn't expect to go into a physical Apple Store and have to inspect the merchandise to make sure it isn't fake, would you?
Brick-and-mortar stores are not immune to selling fake products. Sometimes the fake products are so good that the manufacturer can tell the difference. Saw a TV report many years ago on high-end purses and watches.
If there are that many illegal immigrants voting, shouldn't we have a nationwide recount to weed them out?
That's unrealistic. The only people who work landscaping these days are Latinos. Why would they weed out their own votes?
Not once was I taught how to program.
That doesn't surprise me. When I was at the Google IT help desk, I had to walk a newly minted computer science graduate student on how to turn on his workstation. Unlike the computer labs at the university, cubicle farms don't have someone standing around to turn on the workstations.
I'm surprised to find that colleges teach programming. What for?
Community colleges pump out programmers with A.S. degrees in computer programming to provide workers for Silicon Valley companies. Someone has to implement all the stuff that the CS guys come up with.