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Pissing me off: For the past 5 or so years where I work, the CEO has been AWOL and his ex-wife runs the show. This week CEO wants to be on the front page of our website. Bad move. We once lost a multinational deal worth potential millions because a salesperson accidentally mentioned the CEOs name. Turns out the CEO is enemy number 1 in our industry and many clients hate him personally and professionally. When quoting to restore a project that takes days to do due to it's age and getting the backups of the original project. PLEASE ask one of our department heads first. "I know you are not IT but can you do X, Y and Z please?" - this involves wasting company time as I try to learn what the heck I am looking at and then how to use it competently enough to understand how to write my google search queries to find a fix. Someone has a Buttcoin program installed on a laptop that has been in the 'stuff' cupboard for a few years. Time to plug it in and see how long it takes to get it to speed. Not pissing me off: It's YOTJ for me soon. My neighbour told me about this job with his company so I applied on a whim....1 info session, 2 interviews, 5 tests and now I am in the meet and greet stage and get to see where I will be working (I thought I wasn't going to make it after trying to shake hands with the HR person one day and realized she didn't have a hand)! Triple the pay, stable roster, equal time commute, and everyday is like a reset button, no carry over work from the previous day.
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Crowley posted:Oh come on! If they ask to learn UNIX they drat well better be prepared to pick up a CLI. I've always been of the opinion that a *nix GUI is just there as a pretty way to open the CLI  poo poo that pissed me off today: Manager couldn't figure out why his laptop wasn't charging. The AC side of the charger was plugged into the wall, the DC side was plugged into the laptop, but the cloverleaf end wasn't plugged into the AC to DC brick
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Oct 21, 2013 11:48
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Wow, and i was certain I would get shot down for the 'AC/DC Brick' explanation. I used to work for an electronics store back when you could walk in and say 'I want this resistor and these caps' and you would get it without waiting for postage. The manager of that shop is probably the closest to a powercable sperglord.
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Oct 21, 2013 13:10
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Not pissing me off: Had the final panel interview today and it went excellent. Started with a tour of the control center detailing who does what, who is who, what is what, where you sit, etc etc. Pretty much like a first day on the job. Then I was taken into a conference room where I was sat in front of 5 people, one of which I knew from previous rounds of interviews and another which is actually a friends father (whom incidentally will be training me if I get the job i discovered) - I knew he worked at this company but didn't know what he did specifically. Some of the questions were the irritating ones like "tell us how you have innovated under pressure and blah blah blah?" type questions. I was halfway through answering and was stopped by a person on the panel whom I have never met and he announced to everyone else a number of projects I have worked on at current place of employment for clients which are mutual clients to YOTJ company. That fellow had definitely been looking into what I do. We don't advertise AT ALL, most of my projects are confidential/internal and never known by other companies, my current place of employment isn't on my references, so I'm guessing some industry word of mouth perhaps? Even friends dad doesn't know the details. Lots of wows and aaahhs, the others seemed impressed. At the end everyone was joking and laughing. Regular banter, not corporate buzz words and crap. The panel were NOT HR either - the final round applicants are chosen by people I will be directly working with. Yay! Happy Happy Joy Joy! Pissing me off: First speeding ticket in 5 years on the way home to have a celebratory beer.
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Oct 22, 2013 13:12
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^^^ Definitely not my style. Drink time is when my car is safely in the garage and car keys are not on me. Something I forgot to mention. My friend with 7 years experience within the company and many promotions etc. didn't get to this stage. This is the friend who's dad was on the panel.... Pissing me off now: 4G Data costs in Australia. gently caress Telstra. $50 for 3GB. Yes, three GB.
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Oct 22, 2013 14:48
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teethgrinder posted:Bike to work in under 4°C this morning ... was over 12 yesterday. Well dammit, the backup plan if I don't get this new job is move to Canada where my partner is originally from. I was at least hoping the internet was better there.
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Oct 22, 2013 15:46
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teethgrinder posted:Internet is probably better than Australia, but worse than much of the world, including third-world. I guess I'll be screwed in Fort Mac then  I've been nearly 6 months in my new house now with no landline connection. I never realized how handy a decent connection is until now. Pisses me off: Powered USB hubs that only support 1 amp to cover 4 ports.
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Oct 22, 2013 16:36
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Pissing me off: Financial Institutions that think it is OK to CC instead of BCC to all their clients  ISPs you have been waiting 6 months for a connection from knowing full well that every excuse they tell you is a drat lie...Then claiming your order is for ADSL1 ^ The real reason for the lack of connection (due to telephonic shenanigans on a slow day I found out): some genius tech completely fried half a DSLAM due to incompetence and the ISP has been too cheap/lazy to repair Considering all calls and interactions (read: lies) with this company have been logged and recorded into a nice report with fancy graphics, the State Wide Area Manager is in a world of poo poo as it has now hit his desk and just happens to be in my remote part of the state trying to promote the latest bullshit federal broadband rollout. Fake Edit: is there a general 'poo poo that pisses you off thread' that isn't purely IT related? I feel I skirt the edge of off topic with each post and I sure have more un-IT related poo poo that pisses me off everyday I would like to vent.
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Oct 24, 2013 14:07
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Just gotta pass the medical (which is the same as the yearly one I have been passing the past 5 years. I remember Pegasus WinMail used to piss me off royally!
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Oct 25, 2013 10:46
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nitrogen posted:My manager is reasonable, but the fuckedupedness goes beyond his power to be reasonable. Our boss is adamant that we don't get penalty rates (double time, etc), we get our standard rate. Now this creates another issue where if I hit that 'sweet spot' of overtime hours (after my regular 40 hour week) I will actually enter the new tax bracket, and end up with LESS money than if I wasn't dedicated to the cause etc. This causes people to not really want to work that extra. If we had the correct legal rates we wouldn't be in this situation and would gladly work more hours. update: I travel somewhat frequently for my current job but through this whole process of applying to new company I have been lucky not to be away. So now OF COURSE it's the week I will be given my medical test appointment and I am due to be away. For two weeks.Also weighing on my head is my grandmother whose cancer treatment isn't going to well. I really want to go see her while getting treatment (4 hours flight)  (I refuse to use flying to grandma as an excuse to stay in town for medical - that's just not cool) Humphreys fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 08:46
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Kyrosiris posted:That's not how progressive taxation works. I'll find some of the payslips. EDIT: It's how it has been explained to my dumb head, when in the office I'll check it out Humphreys fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 09:11
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Technically, it *CAN* happen on a single or a few paychecks under the right conditions, and those conditions are based on poor calculations and assumptions on the payroll processor's end. You still end up getting the money back at the end of the year, but the paycheck can be lower. Again, this is because of poo poo processing algorithms. I did get a good tax return this year. Hmm.
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Oct 27, 2013 09:28
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Oh how I had love webforms that once filled out and submitted only to give an error that a field wasn't entered. Then proceed to refresh the screen which removes all the data I have input into it. Half my fault for missing a field in a rush, but drat I hate re-entering data. EDIT: critical typo Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Nov 3, 2013 02:35
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Just found out today that the boss keeps all our 'fire-safe' tape backups on their hobby farm just out of town. In a totally not dust-proof shed. Also, I have a disciplinary meeting tomorrow that covers the following bullshit 'breaches' I have apparently made: 1. Dress code violations that are not OHS compliant I have supplied uniforms, I wear them. If in the field I have the correct PPE, bought myself as the company stuff usually out of it's service date 2. Timesheets No idea what they mean by this as my timesheets have all relevant information including job number and detailed task documentation in 6 minute blocks 3. Untidy workspace I have a small desk and lots of work hardware to find spaces for, previously had a lovely huge desk to space all equipment out on before we moved office 4. Generally Negative Demeanor Of course a stressed out employee is going to seem a little down, add a touch of recovering alcoholic and depression to the mix and you get me. Boss is quite aware of my situation. 5. Lack of communication whilst working at client locations Actually got in trouble yesterday for OVER communicating issues with current task 6. Remote Equipment failure Apparently my fault when the internal testing time of new equipment is zero. Then access to remote site is not available immediately, I actually went there on my days off to tear the equipment out, 200km round trip on my dime. update - furiously refreshing my personal email account for final acceptance/denial notification from new company.(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 5, 2013 11:04
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seadweller posted:I did a minor YOTJ recently. For some reason I like old software still in it's box. Maybe I like to nostalgia too much.
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Nov 5, 2013 13:49
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Check out what's in our storeroom:
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seadweller posted:I think its the fact that there actually was something physical beyond the disc. I still remember the manual that came with Dos 6 on my first home PC. You could moore a battleship with it. If only we were still in our old office, there was some really old AVID branded 3D program manual used to prevent further sag in a desktop overloaded with gear.
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Nov 5, 2013 14:20
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An email from the boss: Humphreys, we need you to go this *website* I found and buy their 10 000 Facebook 'Likes' package. It will make us look better to our clients! 
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Nov 7, 2013 01:47
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zapateria posted:Our recently appointed head of security in the IT department just suggested that everyone should start typing https instead of http when using the internet because that is a lot more secure internet usage. That's assuming people actually type the http:// to begin with and not just type the name of the site they want and click the first google/askjeeves/bing result Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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Nov 7, 2013 13:40
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GargleBlaster posted:What else... market research calls. We now have every man and his dog from the Asian continent phoning up with this drat mobile phone study that's doing the rounds. I shall be stealing this idea for my own amusement, thankyou! Pisses me off: Go on work trip overseas and use personal laptop that I sometimes use for work. Boss OKs this and added it to the equipment insurance for the trip. The inevitable happens and it gets broken thanks to the wonderful backage chuckers in 3rd world countries. eMail the boss saying that it is busted and to make sure to lodge a claim on it. A month or so later I casually comment 'drat that insurance company takes a while to process claims'. No claim was lodged and is now outside the lodgement window. Naturally I have my own insurance though so it wasn't all bad. ^ Replace the word laptop with 'Red Scarlett Camera' and you can start to form a pattern with our company (company owned equipment runs the gamble of being insured quite often). update:New company have had some major scheduling conflicts and the filtering process is still happening, some applicants haven't even had their medical or federal security check results back yet. However the people I had down as references were called today, so that's a sign! Next stop, either drink in celebration for getting job or depression when I find out I am still stuck at current company.
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I'm betting there are some OCD folk out there just hating that and wanting to make all the black squares a perfect diagonal line. Ninja Edit: Not OCD, but those graphs always bugged me a little Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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Nov 12, 2013 11:58
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Pissing me off: Being brought into discussions with co-workers about how poo poo our management is. It's different to this thread. At work I realise that the co-workers' problems are also mine. At least here I can close a tab
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Nov 13, 2013 10:25
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underlig posted:Iphone 4s with broken wifi-chip (won't turn on / find networks) (known problem on 4s) At least your company buys name brand devices with a chain of supply for parts, you could be in a world of generic cheap android knockoffs
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Nov 13, 2013 13:12
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Holy poo poo the next time my test lead goes into the server room, remote powershell and I are going to have a party. I just need to find out where in the room the machines are so I can do the theme from jaws circling around him. That would be drat awesome! EDIT: Lum's remix of that fox song is STILL rattling around in my head. Please make it stop (it was clever but is such an ear worm)!
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Nov 14, 2013 13:30
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I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! After a number of months of interviews/panels/tests/medicals/security checks I am finally accepted into <new company>. Feels good.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:47
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Sickening posted:Jesus, what kind of job makes you go through that? Just staring at computer screens all day making sure people don't die. toe shoes posted:You always need to take the following into consideration when starting a new job Yes I understand that fully, but at least I'll be suffering with MUCH more money! Edit: Just waiting for best time to give my resignation letter. It's thrilling and nerve wracking at the same time. The boss recently mentioned that I could be replaced in a day and I am not really that important here. Meanwhile I was away on a work trip for under 24 hours and it did in fact affect productivity. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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Nov 21, 2013 06:21
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Ephphatha posted:Are you in a right-to-work state? (Whatever the one is where you can quit with no notice). 'Cause if so it looks like he's indicated a days notice is plenty. Na, minimum 2 weeks notice. Which I have given.
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Nov 21, 2013 11:26
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I actually used the words 'this is affecting production' in an email this morning
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Next up on the little annoying things that turn into mammoth tasks that take me away from some important projects I HAVE to get finished before leaving the company next week: We apparently have a corporate YouTube account and the boss wants some old rear end promotional video we made about 15 years ago to go onto the page. "This shouldn't take you too long Humphreys" Problems: 1. It's on an old DVC tape. 2. YouTube account password was changed 11 months ago with no documentation 3. Password recovery sends email to some random gmail account 4. "The video isn't HD, make it look nicer!" Solutions: 1. Find a Deck in the electronics pergatory room and get it to actually work 2. Go through the motions of password recovery 3a. Call any ex-employee that I think might have had ANY form of knowledge and see if the password recovery was sent to their gmail 3b. After all this find out that the account isn't even the LIVE account, just a half asses attempt that wasn't used as certain managers were fighting over what to call the account due to another YouTube user having what we wanted. 4. It's a 15 year old 4:3 video digitized off a tape using a lovely Deck over SD-SDI, it isn't going to be pretty. 9 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes til I leave.
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mllaneza posted:You're missing the point of "I'm leaving anyway." And dodging the "Seeing as your performance is terrible, we are going to fire you and you don't get any benefits"
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Dick Trauma posted:The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! Wow, I think it is a cardinal sin to cut ANY type of cabling directly at the connector. Always leave enough cable for future emergency usage *just in case*
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I remember a company I used to work for has the company name and a number for EVERYTHING (web hosting, server access, user logins, ftp, a shortened version for fuel card PINs, wifi, monitored security safe word, and countless other things.  Oh and the secret reminder was "Business as usual" 
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Nov 26, 2013 23:39
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Nov 27, 2013 02:57
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bitterandtwisted posted:The company's been expanding a lot faster than the IT budget this year, so I'm spending more and more time guddling about in the Ancient Pile of Broken Crap trying to put together working laptops. I actually quite enjoy it. It's kind of relaxing, like playing with lego. It has been posted before and really helped me out: http://www.laptopkey.com/
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So my situation is getting interesting. Everything is all good for new job, I know where to go, what to wear while uniforms are being tailored, and the start time...after nearly 2 weeks of no communication! Old work are being absolute cunts though. FAKE EDIT: I had a huge wall of text typed about whats going on but I'll just leave it as 'old work have screwed the pooch in multiple ways'
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Pyroclastic posted:I was recently reminded of something else I hate: tape. Staff members who decide to do their own 'cable management' with scotch, masking, or duct tape. I don't think I've seen tape not leave a horrible residue after a few years of sitting. Even if the masking tape is so old it's disintegrating, the adhesive is tenacious. Luckily hand sanitizer is everywhere in schools now and it does a reasonable job at getting that poo poo off your hands. I don't know where you are but there was a good citrus based cleaner I used to use that works wonders on tape adhesives. I'm thinking "orangeX" but can't bring find anything on google for it. EDIT: Fixed for grammar etc. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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I'm just going to leave this here, and not be pissed off about it ever again after today: Oh hi there messy cupboard, lets take a closer look at you!  Oh poo poo  I THINK yellow is for phone and blue for data  My favourite  From the top: Mystery external HDD on top doing a backup, lovely modem Our 'server' - pretty much just working as a network drive with no actual functionality enabled at all A UPS that has NEVER been hooked up The security DVR Somewhere in there is an iPod for the hold music Note that none of that stuff is actually in the rack/rails, it all just sits on top of each other. The glass door cannot close and no venilation. Turns out our 'IT Guy' was not one. And no, I wasn't that person.
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jim truds posted:Yeah, I am working on getting out and I think my boss knows. She at least said she would not be suprised if I was. Don't let teh cat out of the bag until you are definitely in the clear and have a signed acceptance letter from a new position. My old boss (last day was today) said that I could be replaced in a day and I am not special or essential to run the company in one of her rages. I just so happened to get a formal offer a few days later, and adding to the resignation letter "I give you your 1 days' notice plus two weeks for recruitment and training time" made it all the much sweeter. Especially since they still have no replacement. It is affecting productivity.
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Pissing me off: given a Samsung Galaxy S3 that seems to be one of those with (what I can gather from googling) has the bad eMMC chips. freezes randomly. EDIT: As i typed that I checked it again and it is lasting the longest it ever has since I've had it. 10 minutes and counting. EDIT 2: Nope. Broken. Either eBay or order a new NAND and reflow the board. Effort involved though. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Dec 7, 2013 |
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Development server is down. In the middle of working on it we started getting "Welcome to nginx" messages (we use Apache) and FTP, RDP was all broken. We called the hosting company, they're working on it and now the server is down. I'm torn between how I want to bet: either they've gotten confused, wiped and installed nginx, or someone has been loving around with nameservers and they didn't know what they were doing. It's on one of the threads' earlier pages I believe (I just checked first 7 and nothing yet). Let it go man, it's gone: 
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tl;dr version: YOTJ is awesome. It's now the end of my 3rd day of YOTJ and I am quite happy about this place. When done with the training/induction stuff that is during office hours (with supplied morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea!) we will be going into shift work with each day split into three lots of 8 hours. I haven't officially even done any of the work the job title states as we have been put through a course to make us all Fatigue Management Officers - which is apparently a nationally accredited cert. My god the perks, the perks are amazing. *50% car rentals with certain companies, *40% off domestic flights through 2 of the major airlines *25-35% off international flights *The company buys up a bunch of tickets for various sporting events and makes them available to staff with travel packages at greatly discounted prices. *Fleet price discounts when buying a new car (30% off with one manufacturer) *Discounts off Private Health Insurance, and the company has a 'back door key' to a number of doctors offices around the country so we get preference over walk-in public even without the private health insurance. That's all I've seen so far, when I get my login for the intranet I'll be able to find what else there is. The bosses are awesome, and the team I am with are pretty cool, some of us have some similar military background fields so the inside jokes are flying everywhere. Those of us who got in (12) were out of about 1000 qualified applicants nationwide. feelsgoodman.jpg The particular location has just start renovations on a grand scale and our operations floor is the only one completely finished with brand new awesome equipment with multiple backup hardware idling waiting to jump to if our primary gear goes down. There's even a blacked out, soundproof room with lazyboy chairs if we need to take a 'strategic nap' (official term). The company is in the middle of enterprise bargaining when I joined and looks like the pay, conditions and perks will increase from here. Pissing me off: Getting used to night shifts again and preparing for a hosed up circadian rhythm.
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