HaemishM
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Chimpy
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Good luck on increased job security! And potentially getting back out of being in IT  |
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Merusk
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Thanks. IT when not working for a tech company is bullshit. I also only meant it to be a stepping-stone here into additional responsibilities and a greater vision I had for how Technology could work within the firm. However, that's not working well and is requiring too much handholding of people who are supposed to be self-starters and professionals. |
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Chimpy
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IT is bullshit everywhere. Of course, pretty much every job is bullshit everywhere.  |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Tannhauser
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P&G is in town, too bad they have no need for Architects.
Wait.. what? They do?
*applied*
"You know, I've always wanted to pretend to be an architect." Good luck man! |
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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So I'm supposed to find out on Monday what offers I have for my next assignment. Should be...fun.  |
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Viin
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Gold Coast! Gold Coast!
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Teleku
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So I'm supposed to find out on Monday what offers I have for my next assignment. Should be...fun. So how did it turn out? Randomly enough, 3 different people I'm friends with here (and their spouses) are all going to El Salvador next. Also know several people (in State, not just Moscow) heading to Israel. Funny how things seem to cluster like that. |
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Gold Coast! Gold Coast!
More like the Sword Coast. So, for once, I actually got my #1 bid. At some point next summer, I'll begin a 1 year assignment as an Observer with the Multinational Force and Observers, out of North Camp, El Gorah, Sinai-Egypt. Interesting fact - MFO is a completely independent organization. It's not a part of the USG, or the UN; I actually have to technically "resign" from the USG for a year to go do this (with a rehire contract). |
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Teleku
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Wow, that's pretty awesome man! I didn't even know that was an option. I really want to get to an area where I can at least do neat stuff like that on the side. Friend of mine in Ukraine did election monitoring for the OECD. Sounded neat. Curious of tech positions are available for these conflict zone monitoring missions.
I bid for real for the first time next summer. If nothing I really want seems likely, I might try to go for a position in Erbil or something.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Ironwood
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Microsoft London Expo was a great big bag of dicks.
Not even a well run bag of dicks.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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HaemishM
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Microsoft London Expo was a great big bag of dicks.
Not even a well run bag of dicks.
After the words Microsoft, the rest of your post was all redundant. |
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Yegolev
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In Bizzarro World: Ditched the W7 laptop permanently Installed basic "Mac+devops" things on the new MPB, almost a real boy now Started using a Magic Mouse, enduring my wife calling me a hipster and cracking artist jokes Put my dotfiles on github Installed chef-dk and made shit happen, got a small erection Installed Terraform a few minutes ago and used it to do shit, then had to go sit down since it was so easy Ditched SaltStack permanently, just a few minutes ago Have not gotten angry at the workstation once, since this one wants me to do real work instead of provide it attention like a defective girlfriend Earlier this week, I had to google multiple sites to figure out how to prevent W10 Explorer from displaying file history. So awful. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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Stop saving porn to the HDD and that's not an issue anymore.
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Yegolev
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Am I just supposed to play games on it?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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No, use an incognito window and stream porn like everyone else you heathen. Saving porn is so 90s.
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Ironwood
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True dat. The trick is remembering the actresses and movie titles you like. |
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Yegolev
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That is pretty much it. I can't remember what I searched for sometimes, or the streaming site name associated with some particular deviant action/person/object.
How's that for getting to know someone, Ironwood?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ironwood
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lol. I think that's just a marker of a certain age mate.
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Merusk
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That is pretty much it. I can't remember what I searched for sometimes, or the streaming site name associated with some particular deviant action/person/object.
How's that for getting to know someone, Ironwood?
That's what Google docs with innocuous names like, "Fantasy League Stats" are for. |
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Yegolev
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Heh, so you weren't serious when you said I was stuck in the 90s.
Edit to say that a file named so would actually cause my wife to want to read it, since we are in a league together.
Is this still the Job Thread?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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HaemishM
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It's starting to sound like "I'm too old to remember what pr0n I like."
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Thrawn
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Somehow in about two weeks I went from not even looking for a job to having an offer on the table to do the exact same job, in a city with comparable living costs at roughly a 35% increase in salary. Except the offer would require me to move, which would require my wife to sell her bakery that is pretty much her dream job, that also pays her less than minimum wage constantly for going on 5 years now thanks largely to the fact that it's in a town of 1,400 people. This will be fun to talk out. |
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My advice: Open a bakery in the new town? Actually have customers? Send me yummy baked goods?
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Yegolev
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Move to new town, open another bakery, mail cakes to the five customers in previous town.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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Yeah, you've got the equipment and that's most of your expense in opening. You're not going to be able to sell for the price an established bakery should get for location + 5 years + equipment in a town of 1,400 people. Just pay to move it all to the new city and start building again. Hell it's a business loan and not a personal loan because you've got it set-up as an LLC, right? ( ) |
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Paelos
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Use the internet to ship baked goods to people in other places.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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RhyssaFireheart
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Use the internet to ship baked goods to people in other places.
Preferably to those of us here on F13. I'm sure that after a sufficiently large sample size, we'll be able to analyze how well the new bakery will do.  |
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Yegolev
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We are still hiring, if anyone was doubting. Looking for meteorologists and devops alike. Just hired a new director who is going to need some help.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Viin
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But Atlanta, ewww. (Was just there last week, sure was rainy/overcast!)
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Yegolev
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We like to play "What Season Is It Today?" here. Yesterday was Spring. I got a nose full of pollen from some smartass shrub while driving with my windows down, because it was in the mid-seventies I think.
Getting devops engineers to help deploy scientific computing systems into a cloud is definitely interesting.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Paelos
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Yesterday it was 72 and sunny in Atlanta. This weekend it will be in the 30s. Because the weather is drunk here.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Thrawn
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Use the internet to ship baked goods to people in other places.
Preferably to those of us here on F13. I'm sure that after a sufficiently large sample size, we'll be able to analyze how well the new bakery will do. Gets expensive though since shipping almost has to be one day so it's fresh. Who wants donuts that have been sitting in a UPS box for 3-5 days? |
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Tannhauser
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Yesterday it was 72 and sunny in Atlanta. This weekend it will be in the 30s. Because the weather is drunk here.
Here in Naples it's 88 degrees and sunny EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. |
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Yegolev
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Lots of moaning about the IBM benefits plan. I can't wait.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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