The only time I ever got blowback from being a fat white male was when I became the crew leader for an Italian resturant and all the Mexicans on the line complained to the other fat white male (kitchen manager) that I worked them too hard. I lasted a month in that position. I became the backup cook because no one wanted the job. I still got complaints that I was working too hard and making them look too bad. Not speaking Spanish didn't help either. Put up with that nonsense for three years before I moved on.
I had a coworker who took a cruise down to Mexico. He got plastered one night, blacked out and woke up without his pants. People pointed and laughed at him after he got dressed for breakfast. He discovered that he was the daily highlight on the CCTV channel, ripping off his pants and dancing Saturday Night-style.
If you have a cop car parked outside, most drug dealers would hightail over the back fence and take their business elsewhere. What most communities need are officers out of their comfortable police cars and walking the beat to know the neighborhood.
Which is why you want to be very poor or very rich. If you're in between those two extremes, you're paying for everyone else in taxes. My father had an old union bumper sticker that sums this up: "Work harder! Millions are dependent on YOU!"
Not true in California. Drought or no drought, the water-demanding almond trees are still getting water. The people of California lacks the political will to tell corporate farmers to take their almond trees somewhere else.
2. Replace computer with identical pre-imaged computer.
This megacorporation doesn't have any extra pre-imaged computers. They do have a couple of loaner laptops for the executives. Everyone else has to wait two- to four-hours for the technician to clean up their system. Re-imaging a system is only allowed if Windows can't boot up and the data can't be recovered. The hiring manager conceded that an anti-spyware tool would fix many of these systems in 15 minutes. But that wasn't megacorporate policy.
If the email limit is 2GB, and the company has 30,000 employees, it's 60TB of storage. If the email limit is jacked up to 15GB, then it becomes 450TB of storage. The cost of implementing new storage on the IT side and supporting larger email files on the help desk side might make some companies stick with the legacy 2GB email limit.Especially if a bean counter sends out emails to remind everyone that each "reply all" email cost the company in $800 in lost productivity.
The hiring manager told me that 90% of the job would be manually removing the crud from systems because anti-spyware and virus infections were frequent events. The last Fortune 500 company I worked for that had a virus outbreak was back in the 1990's. I guess Microsoft Defender isn't that good. I've never seen an IT shop so screwed up before.
The hiring manager also told me that the companies I worked for before -- Cisco, eBay, Fujitsu, Google, Intuit, Sony, and many smaller companies in between -- weren't real companies. This smug arrogance got on my nerves. He was shocked when I rejected his job offer. The job I did accept paid $8/hr more with benefits and has a network that's 20X larger than the "real" megacorporation.
Gmail offers you 15 GBs for free and IT customers wonder why they only have 2GBs at work.
A 2GB limit on corporate email has more to do with older versions of Outlook and Outlook Exchange being limited a 2GB file size. Getting users to delete old emails and move emails to archive files was a PITA back in the day.
I turned a down job offer from a MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR MEGACORPORATION (the hiring manager emphasized this point a half-dozen times during the interview) that refused to use an effective anti-spyware program because the smaller company made ONLY several million-dollars in yearly revenue, forcing their IT technicians to spend hours manually removing rootkits, viruii and other crap. If IBM made the anti-spyware program, no problem. Little company, forget about it. I've never seen a more elitist form of corporate dysfunction.
When my Black MacBook (2006) gave up the ghost after eight years of faithful, I switched over to my Windows 8.1 computer. Since my data was in platform-neutral formats, I had no problem making the switch. I guess I'm the exception to the rule.
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To quote the black kid from the movie, Love At First Bite: "It's people like you who gives the neighborhood a bad name."
The only time I ever got blowback from being a fat white male was when I became the crew leader for an Italian resturant and all the Mexicans on the line complained to the other fat white male (kitchen manager) that I worked them too hard. I lasted a month in that position. I became the backup cook because no one wanted the job. I still got complaints that I was working too hard and making them look too bad. Not speaking Spanish didn't help either. Put up with that nonsense for three years before I moved on.
Or, better yet, if you're white, why not smile at your black neighbors? Works wonders in my apartment complex in the Silicon Valley.
Only racists ever get this bent out of shape.
I had a coworker who took a cruise down to Mexico. He got plastered one night, blacked out and woke up without his pants. People pointed and laughed at him after he got dressed for breakfast. He discovered that he was the daily highlight on the CCTV channel, ripping off his pants and dancing Saturday Night-style.
Arrgh, matey, have some Somali pirates with your simulator!
America is all about race. Only cowards would deny the obvious.
A person defies a valid court order? They're arrested and in jail for contempt of court.
Unless, of course, the person is a white cattle rancher.
Let's repeat the Trial of Tears from the 1830's.
My parents would disagreed. I was constantly reminded as a child that they brought me into the world and could take me out of the world.
If you have a cop car parked outside, most drug dealers would hightail over the back fence and take their business elsewhere. What most communities need are officers out of their comfortable police cars and walking the beat to know the neighborhood.
Which is why you want to be very poor or very rich. If you're in between those two extremes, you're paying for everyone else in taxes. My father had an old union bumper sticker that sums this up: "Work harder! Millions are dependent on YOU!"
Not true in California. Drought or no drought, the water-demanding almond trees are still getting water. The people of California lacks the political will to tell corporate farmers to take their almond trees somewhere else.
Or that the Republican Party in California has more in common with the spotted owl than the country's most populous state? Yeah, baby, global warming.
I used to teach Sunday school. Need some lessons?
2. Replace computer with identical pre-imaged computer.
This megacorporation doesn't have any extra pre-imaged computers. They do have a couple of loaner laptops for the executives. Everyone else has to wait two- to four-hours for the technician to clean up their system. Re-imaging a system is only allowed if Windows can't boot up and the data can't be recovered. The hiring manager conceded that an anti-spyware tool would fix many of these systems in 15 minutes. But that wasn't megacorporate policy.
If the email limit is 2GB, and the company has 30,000 employees, it's 60TB of storage. If the email limit is jacked up to 15GB, then it becomes 450TB of storage. The cost of implementing new storage on the IT side and supporting larger email files on the help desk side might make some companies stick with the legacy 2GB email limit.Especially if a bean counter sends out emails to remind everyone that each "reply all" email cost the company in $800 in lost productivity.
The hiring manager told me that 90% of the job would be manually removing the crud from systems because anti-spyware and virus infections were frequent events. The last Fortune 500 company I worked for that had a virus outbreak was back in the 1990's. I guess Microsoft Defender isn't that good. I've never seen an IT shop so screwed up before.
The hiring manager also told me that the companies I worked for before -- Cisco, eBay, Fujitsu, Google, Intuit, Sony, and many smaller companies in between -- weren't real companies. This smug arrogance got on my nerves. He was shocked when I rejected his job offer. The job I did accept paid $8/hr more with benefits and has a network that's 20X larger than the "real" megacorporation.
Windows for Workgroups was so old school.
Gmail offers you 15 GBs for free and IT customers wonder why they only have 2GBs at work.
A 2GB limit on corporate email has more to do with older versions of Outlook and Outlook Exchange being limited a 2GB file size. Getting users to delete old emails and move emails to archive files was a PITA back in the day.
I turned a down job offer from a MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR MEGACORPORATION (the hiring manager emphasized this point a half-dozen times during the interview) that refused to use an effective anti-spyware program because the smaller company made ONLY several million-dollars in yearly revenue, forcing their IT technicians to spend hours manually removing rootkits, viruii and other crap. If IBM made the anti-spyware program, no problem. Little company, forget about it. I've never seen a more elitist form of corporate dysfunction.
Are your planes belong to us.
No need for a real cup of coffee if a printer can print a coffee-stained cup ring on the page.
When my Black MacBook (2006) gave up the ghost after eight years of faithful, I switched over to my Windows 8.1 computer. Since my data was in platform-neutral formats, I had no problem making the switch. I guess I'm the exception to the rule.
Please explain why I'm an asshole and/or douchbag for mastering a computer chess game on the hardest difficulty settings?