Over my 20+ year career as an IT Support contractor, I've kept a blacklist of recruiters that I refused to deal with. Tek Systems, Robert Half and Microsoft tops my blacklist.
Tek Systems always call you in for an interview, are more interested in who you interviewed with previously than your qualifications, and never offer a job after repeated interviews.
The San Jose office for Robert Half have recruiters who always get a better job for themselves than trying to help you get a job. I went through six recruiters in three month because of the turnover.
Microsoft requires that the hiring manager considers five applicants even though he plans to hire his drinking buddy. During a six week period in 2005, I had five Microsoft recruiters leading me by the nose for jobs that went to drinking buddies.
Is it possible to get banned in the industry? I've worked with an accused murderer who got fired for not revealing that he got charged with murder on his criminal background form prior to employment. That came about only because another employee searched the Internet, found a news article about him from a decade before and forwarded it to HR. He just went down the street to get another tech job. It might have been different if his dismissal got splashed all over the news. Such a controversy would die out soon enough.
As usual, you completely misunderstand a simple idiom and misapply it.
Uh, no. That's one definition. The most common definition that I've read regarding Silicon Valley is providing enough money to get someone to leave the company and avoid a lawsuit. Hence, "fuck you" money is substantially more than severance money.
This guy almost certainly thinks of himself as a 'computer scientist,' but he does exactly what you're not supposed to do as a scientist. He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it.
In a world where California is full of actor-waiters, you specialize yourself as the IT-janitor.
I specialized in finding solutions to problems that IT people don't want to deal with. Most often because they think it's someone else's problem rather their own. There are IT closets that the janitors won't even touch.
When you work in IT but willfully demote yourself to janitor, no wonder you get paid the wages of a janitor.
Why do you care how much I get paid for cleaning up other people's messes? For the line of work I'm doing, I get paid quite well.
Look where they've gotten you: a 47 year old virgin who is 200 pounds overweight and lives in a shitty studio apartment, bragging about his $2/day "business" of spamming a technology site.
1) Only Slashdot has a problem with me being a virgin.
2) My "skinniest" weight was 325 pounds. Even if I dropped 200 pounds (which is extremely unlikely), I'll still be obese by BMI. 3) My studio apartment is not a "shitty" dump. If anything, it's too large since I got rid of all the clutter. 4) A revenue stream is not a business, you're still low-balling the number, and it pisses off the trolls.
1999 Pontiac Grand Prix. I never had a tire blow out before. I was wondering what the knocking sound was. That's when I noticed the front passenger tire going off into the field.
One time I was driving north on I-5 towards Sacramento when I had a tire blowout, which I hadn't noticed until I saw my tire go flying off into the field. I pulled over, called AAA and fetched my tire. After an hour, I was told they couldn't find me as I had no clue to where I was past the last exit. I gave the AAA operator the GPS coordinates of my cellphone. The AAA driver showed up 30 minutes later.
I've been in this situation a few times. My solution for staying busy — besides playing with the trolls on Slashdot — is to find the one problem that no one else is willing to deal with. For many IT departments that I've worked in, it's usually a storage closet filled with old hardware that no one has touched in years. IT managers loved to reclaim space that was previously unavailable.
Yeah, how you got from me saying, "You fail to outperform my low expectations," to me suggesting you "commit suicide," I can't imagine.
I sometimes take logical leaps. The highest expectation that ACs have for me on Slashdot is that I commit suicide. In fact, that's the answer for every inconvenient problem in life is to commit suicide. Too fat? Commit suicide. Too ugly? Commit suicide. Don't make enough money? Commit suicide. I call it Slashdot nihilism.
How do you arrive at that conclusion? Show your work.
This is Slashdot. The AC's answer to every problem is for the person to commit suicide. If you're too fat, too dumb, too poor, or too whatever, the AC's response is always to commit suicide (yours, of course, never their own). I call this Slashdot's nihilism. I've disappointed many ACs over the years by not committing suicide.
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Over my 20+ year career as an IT Support contractor, I've kept a blacklist of recruiters that I refused to deal with. Tek Systems, Robert Half and Microsoft tops my blacklist.
Tek Systems always call you in for an interview, are more interested in who you interviewed with previously than your qualifications, and never offer a job after repeated interviews.
The San Jose office for Robert Half have recruiters who always get a better job for themselves than trying to help you get a job. I went through six recruiters in three month because of the turnover.
Microsoft requires that the hiring manager considers five applicants even though he plans to hire his drinking buddy. During a six week period in 2005, I had five Microsoft recruiters leading me by the nose for jobs that went to drinking buddies.
Follow this advice, and you'll lose weight, feel better, and have a good chance at a long life.
Or you could have read my blog post and posted your rant there. As it is, this is off topic on Slashdot.
There aren't any definitions for ircc yet.
One of hazards of commenting from the toilet at five in the morning.
The "firehouse", huh? You illiterate tick.
I blame autocorrect. I'm also 20 mikes away from my skinny vanilla latte for this morning.
Surely the Slashdot editors wouldn't publish this piece of drivel? Must be a slow news day...
creimer really needs to drop the facade and go here
IRCC, That used to be a police bar, as SJPD is down the street.
Remember earlier this year, when you went through a few weeks where you called people "fags" and "ladyboys"?
What does this have to do with your mother?
Is it possible to get banned in the industry? I've worked with an accused murderer who got fired for not revealing that he got charged with murder on his criminal background form prior to employment. That came about only because another employee searched the Internet, found a news article about him from a decade before and forwarded it to HR. He just went down the street to get another tech job. It might have been different if his dismissal got splashed all over the news. Such a controversy would die out soon enough.
NOW do you see why interacting with Creimerus Idioticus Thickus is so addictive?
That's a good name for my trolls who have nothing better to do with their life than reply to my comments.
As usual, you completely misunderstand a simple idiom and misapply it.
Uh, no. That's one definition. The most common definition that I've read regarding Silicon Valley is providing enough money to get someone to leave the company and avoid a lawsuit. Hence, "fuck you" money is substantially more than severance money.
Go eat a cock burger asshole.
Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts with your whine.
Because maybe if you got paid more for your day job then you wouldn't annoy everyone by spamming affiliate links all day to supplement your income.
You seriously think I need extra coffee money to supplement my income?
If only someone would do the community a favor and pay you shut-the-fuck-up money.
The proper term is "fuck you" money.
This guy almost certainly thinks of himself as a 'computer scientist,' but he does exactly what you're not supposed to do as a scientist. He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it.
Maybe "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez? Or was it "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton? It can't be "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse, as I just started reading that one last night. All three books have douche bags in common, especially from Google and Facebook.
In a world where California is full of actor-waiters, you specialize yourself as the IT-janitor.
I specialized in finding solutions to problems that IT people don't want to deal with. Most often because they think it's someone else's problem rather their own. There are IT closets that the janitors won't even touch.
When you work in IT but willfully demote yourself to janitor, no wonder you get paid the wages of a janitor.
Why do you care how much I get paid for cleaning up other people's messes? For the line of work I'm doing, I get paid quite well.
Look where they've gotten you: a 47 year old virgin who is 200 pounds overweight and lives in a shitty studio apartment, bragging about his $2/day "business" of spamming a technology site.
1) Only Slashdot has a problem with me being a virgin.
2) My "skinniest" weight was 325 pounds. Even if I dropped 200 pounds (which is extremely unlikely), I'll still be obese by BMI.
3) My studio apartment is not a "shitty" dump. If anything, it's too large since I got rid of all the clutter.
4) A revenue stream is not a business, you're still low-balling the number, and it pisses off the trolls.
The actual advice would be:
On assumptions that say more about you than me.
Really no wing or screw jack say under the spare in that thing? Strange....
The Pontiac Grand Prix was my father's old car. I wasn't surprised that the jack wasn't missing. My father probably had it in his tool shed.
Your tire blew out, and you noticed NO difference in the handling or performance of your vehicle, until you saw the tire fly off your vehicle?
Knocking sound.
Also, how does a 47 year old man survive to the age of 47 and not know how to put a fucking spare tire on his car?
I had no jack.
What kind of vehicle was it?
1999 Pontiac Grand Prix. I never had a tire blow out before. I was wondering what the knocking sound was. That's when I noticed the front passenger tire going off into the field.
One time I was driving north on I-5 towards Sacramento when I had a tire blowout, which I hadn't noticed until I saw my tire go flying off into the field. I pulled over, called AAA and fetched my tire. After an hour, I was told they couldn't find me as I had no clue to where I was past the last exit. I gave the AAA operator the GPS coordinates of my cellphone. The AAA driver showed up 30 minutes later.
I've been in this situation a few times. My solution for staying busy — besides playing with the trolls on Slashdot — is to find the one problem that no one else is willing to deal with. For many IT departments that I've worked in, it's usually a storage closet filled with old hardware that no one has touched in years. IT managers loved to reclaim space that was previously unavailable.
Yeah, how you got from me saying, "You fail to outperform my low expectations," to me suggesting you "commit suicide," I can't imagine.
I sometimes take logical leaps. The highest expectation that ACs have for me on Slashdot is that I commit suicide. In fact, that's the answer for every inconvenient problem in life is to commit suicide. Too fat? Commit suicide. Too ugly? Commit suicide. Don't make enough money? Commit suicide. I call it Slashdot nihilism.
You've been here for years - there's no way you were "just about to leave."
My interest in commenting on Slashdot comes and goes. If I was left alone six months ago, I would have gotten bored and move on to something else.
How do you arrive at that conclusion? Show your work.
This is Slashdot. The AC's answer to every problem is for the person to commit suicide. If you're too fat, too dumb, too poor, or too whatever, the AC's response is always to commit suicide (yours, of course, never their own). I call this Slashdot's nihilism. I've disappointed many ACs over the years by not committing suicide.
Also, another recycled comment - I remember this comment being posted before, almost word-for-word.
I don't see you complaining about Slashdot reposting the same kind of story, sometimes two or three times in the same day.
You may choose not to acknowledge them, but you certainly fail to achieve anything higher than my low expectations.
You mean commit suicide? Not happening.