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Reply #875 on: February 10, 2013, 10:18:19 PM

I've started vocational training as a Casino Dealer. The casinos in the Los Angeles area are all experiencing expansion and in need of new blood. Two casinos are building hotels -- Hollywood Park and Bicycle.

So, yeah, I'm done with the "video" games industry.  Ohhhhh, I see.

I spent 6 years working in Vegas, I felt like a con man the entire time, there were no customers just marks who owed me a tip.  This was not a healthy time in my life.
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Reply #876 on: February 11, 2013, 06:33:17 PM

Game is shutting down, studio is closing and I need a new job. So far looking at positions in Paris, Dusseldorf, Montreal and SIngapore.
Paris - Eww.  Montreal is okay as long as it's not Funcom...

Hope it comes quickly regardless.

I love love love Paris.  It's one of the cities I could actually live in even though I'm not much of big city dweller.  Lots of art, nice restaurants that I'd actually go to, jazz clubs, and  the Paris Metro... once you figure it out.

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Reply #877 on: February 12, 2013, 01:48:40 AM

2 hour 4 man tag team interview today.  This will be fun.

I wish I could even say that this will be the last stage, but apparently being interviewed by the heads of the company isn't enough.  Fun, Fun.

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Reply #878 on: February 12, 2013, 06:17:28 AM

I spent 6 years working in Vegas, I felt like a con man the entire time, there were no customers just marks who owed me a tip. 
The guitar player in my band turned into one of those while selling speakers out of a van. Broke up the band because he was such a soulless insufferable douchebag who called everyone a duck or a flea.
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Reply #879 on: February 12, 2013, 06:42:15 AM

2 hour 4 man tag team interview today.  This will be fun.

I wish I could even say that this will be the last stage, but apparently being interviewed by the heads of the company isn't enough.  Fun, Fun.

At the end of this, if you don't have access to the Intelligence Corps I'll be disappointed.

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Reply #880 on: February 12, 2013, 06:59:44 AM

OK, that WASN'T fun and I blew it bigtime.

Awesome.

If anyone needs me, I'll be up in the tower with a fucking rifle.

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Reply #881 on: February 12, 2013, 07:00:36 AM

OK, that WASN'T fun and I blew it bigtime.

Awesome.

If anyone needs me, I'll be up in the tower with a fucking rifle.


Wait, how? Did you say you wanted to do the guy's daughter in the interview?

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Reply #882 on: February 12, 2013, 07:10:13 AM

Pit Boss, there's a job I wouldn't want.  Like a cop you're seeing the bad in everyone as you see cheat after cheat but you also have to let people ruin their lives so you can have a job.
So, basically the exact same thing as being a designer working in social games.
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Reply #883 on: February 12, 2013, 07:12:48 AM

OK, that WASN'T fun and I blew it bigtime.

Awesome.

If anyone needs me, I'll be up in the tower with a fucking rifle.


Wait, how? Did you say you wanted to do the guy's daughter in the interview?

Funny you should say that :  the line I used to a colleague was 'They only way that could have been worse is if I did his wife in the boardroom.'

I dunno.  It just whiffed and it's mostly me not being in the game.  Fuck it.

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Reply #884 on: February 12, 2013, 08:50:13 AM

Pit Boss, there's a job I wouldn't want.  Like a cop you're seeing the bad in everyone as you see cheat after cheat but you also have to let people ruin their lives so you can have a job.
So, basically the exact same thing as being a designer working in social games.
This.

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Reply #885 on: February 13, 2013, 08:51:49 AM

Livestream (used to be Mogulus) has migrated a bunch of stuff to NYC and I think they're looking for an operations manager.  They haven't advertised it yet.  Someone should go work there.

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Reply #886 on: February 13, 2013, 09:56:14 AM

Pit Boss, there's a job I wouldn't want.  Like a cop you're seeing the bad in everyone as you see cheat after cheat but you also have to let people ruin their lives so you can have a job.
So, basically the exact same thing as being a designer working in social games.
This.

We'll see if I feel similarly in a couple years, but right now it's the only thing I feel strongly about to pursue, and I seem suited for it.

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Reply #887 on: February 14, 2013, 06:15:06 AM

My agency is currently seeking a Video Production Specialist and a Locksmith.  Located in SW Florida.  PM me for details.

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Reply #888 on: February 14, 2013, 06:17:08 AM

Got an interview confirmed for Ubisoft in Paris for a line designer role. I'm pretty excited about it as it's an excellent way to get a lot more design experience across a wide variety f genres and platforms in a short amount of time. I already had a Skype interview and submitted a design test so now I will be off to Paris for an onsite interview on the 25th.

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Reply #889 on: February 14, 2013, 06:26:21 AM

That's great, congratulations.

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Reply #890 on: February 14, 2013, 06:52:04 AM

Sorry about Paris, but sounds awesome otherwise.

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Reply #891 on: February 14, 2013, 07:51:46 AM

Closing in on 2 years at my current gig, big changes on the way (that are more methodology rather than "everyone is fired!") and I dislike the vast majority of them. Moving to a bad ticketing system (numara footprints), changing how/who watches what queues, pointless office rearranging, etc. Short version is that my team lead is kind of a slug and this will result with them being able to be more of a slug while dumping more work on all of us lower on the totem pole.

I'm in academia so just transferring around to a different area is possible and likely easy to do but fuck that; I don't like being ran out. I like it here.

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Reply #892 on: February 14, 2013, 07:57:32 AM

Got an interview confirmed for Ubisoft in Paris for a line designer role. I'm pretty excited about it as it's an excellent way to get a lot more design experience across a wide variety f genres and platforms in a short amount of time. I already had a Skype interview and submitted a design test so now I will be off to Paris for an onsite interview on the 25th.

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Reply #893 on: February 19, 2013, 06:28:23 PM

First day back with the new "everyone works all the queues" thing and my slug of a team lead.

Ticket comes in from some muckity muck's secretary, it's a genuinely weird/annoying issue she's having.

My boss (in one of our main Jabber channels): <Queue-Item> - We should really take a look at this.
My Team Lead on Jabber: On it.

PM from my Team Lead literally 2 seconds later: Would you look at <Queue-Item>?

Ohhhhh, I see.

Yeah, I'll get right on that. I proceeded to not even look at it the entire day. Cockholster.

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Reply #894 on: February 22, 2013, 03:03:09 PM

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

So last December my company laid off 35 people off (about a 200 or so person company).  They claimed the reason was that they needed to focus on products that actually had the hope for profitability and to stop wasting money on things that didn't bring in revenue.  Truth be told, most of the 35 people were genuinely terrible people that were wasting the company's money and causing the company to throw money against the wall and desperately try to see what stuck.

Fast-forward to 2 weeks ago and a contract that we were competing to renew for fell through, mostly because the organization that put the RFP out wanted to bring their development in house (and honestly, they would have been stupid to go with our company due to time zone differences and various other issues.

Monday my boss brings us aside and tells us that she doesn't feel comfortable keeping information from us.  Apparently the reasoning behind the layoffs in December wasn't 100% truthful.  The fact of the matter was that the company is so strapped for cash that if they didn't do those layoffs they wouldn't have been able to make payroll in January, and the situation hasn't improved much since.  She didn't know how long the company could last at its current outflow since she's not privy on the up to date information on that, but to be aware that our department has never turned a profit and us losing the contract is not good.  We were also told (though I knew this from when a coworker left 3 or so weeks back) that the company is trying to get some new investors/owners, and who knows if they would keep the web dev team.

In the meantime, our company for a year has been working on moving us to a new building downtown.  They've spent a *ton* of money on this move and have been hyping it up.  We were supposed to move into on Monday.  So today, amid our packing, we get an email at 3pm saying that the city hasn't issued us a "certification of occupancy" yet and we can't move in until Wednesday (which has a big smell of bullshit).  10 minutes after that call I get a call from my boss (who took a personal day) to do some stuff for her while I was at the office.  Meanwhile, we got confirmation from one of the project managers that the CEO called her to get information about handing stuff off (to who is anyone's guess) and him flat out telling her that web/mobile isn't profitable.

So it feels like Russian Roulette right now, seeing if the shot is coming monday or not.
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Reply #895 on: February 22, 2013, 03:15:15 PM

First day back with the new "everyone works all the queues" thing and my slug of a team lead.

Ticket comes in from some muckity muck's secretary, it's a genuinely weird/annoying issue she's having.

My boss (in one of our main Jabber channels): <Queue-Item> - We should really take a look at this.
My Team Lead on Jabber: On it.

PM from my Team Lead literally 2 seconds later: Would you look at <Queue-Item>?

Ohhhhh, I see.

Yeah, I'll get right on that. I proceeded to not even look at it the entire day. Cockholster.

You have no idea how much of my sympathy you have.

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Reply #896 on: February 23, 2013, 06:14:25 AM

So it feels like Russian Roulette right now, seeing if the shot is coming monday or not.

All signs of that story point to yes. My condolences. Even if not, I think it's probably time you asked yourself if it's time to find something better. The company sounds like it's going under.

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Reply #897 on: February 24, 2013, 02:45:40 PM

All signs of that story point to yes. My condolences. Even if not, I think it's probably time you asked yourself if it's time to find something better. The company sounds like it's going under.

I ended up calling up the CTO and asked him wtf was going on, since from my interactions with him he has seemed to have respect for me and has seemed like a pretty down to earth person.  As retarded as some of the executive decisions have been I have generally enjoyed my job very much and they have been pretty good to me (promoting me to senior at my 1 year mark with a $12k pay raise).

Long story short, the project manager in charge of moving the buildings really is that incompetent that he couldn't get all the inspections done on time.  The conversation the project manager had with the CEO was compelelty out of context (cause our CEO doesn't watch his wording), he was making a remark to one of the other execs about us not being profitable and what would it take to hand it off, which he really meant that he wants our CMS to be more commoditized so it requires less direct maintenance on our part to support clients and have the client handle a lot more of the tasks.  This doesn't seem like a lie to placate the doom rumors because I have heard it mentioned a while ago that that's the plan in the long run (even though I'm not totally sold on it being a viable plan).

It wasn't all roses, but it's not as dire as it seemed after the project manager was causing everyone to panic.  We shall see......
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Reply #898 on: February 24, 2013, 02:54:08 PM

When do you move into the new building then?

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Reply #899 on: February 24, 2013, 03:03:26 PM

When do you move into the new building then?

Supposedly they are aiming on having the electrical inspection Monday and the fire inspection Tuesday, so they are hoping Wed.
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Reply #900 on: February 24, 2013, 03:30:49 PM

Alright well here's hoping that happens.

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Reply #901 on: February 24, 2013, 03:57:47 PM

When do you move into the new building then?

Supposedly they are aiming on having the electrical inspection Monday and the fire inspection Tuesday, so they are hoping Wed.

If they're so incompetent that they couldn't get the CO by last week I wouldn't hold my breath.*  I hope your company and the architect did a thorough punch list.

*Unless this is the second inspection.  Which would explain the delayed CO.

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Reply #902 on: February 26, 2013, 08:25:28 AM

Important part: is you shit still boxed up?

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Reply #903 on: February 27, 2013, 10:25:55 PM

I'll be starting as a tournament hold'em dealer within the month. I love doing this so far. When I pitch a card perfectly, it just glides off my hand and I feel so cool and confident. Sleight of hand is sexy. Money is also good for me -- once I learn California Asian Games, I can expect to make over $20 / hr. The weekly hours appear to be under 40 as well.

Focusing on my training techniques has also given me a great incentive to curb drinking and partying. And the best part -- no fucking QAing software projects with more working parts than atoms in a human being, or having to reinvent the wheel and come up with innovative and compelling mechanics, brands, and storylines just to keep your head above water.

Just players, cards, rules, probability ... and away we go. It's dream simplicity after so much complexity.
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Reply #904 on: February 27, 2013, 11:24:02 PM

We have 3 Night Shift RN spots open.  So if ya know any RN's with at least 2 years or critical care experience who would like to try ER nursing, point them my way.  We also have 2 PRN slots it looks like, but not for sure yet.

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Reply #905 on: February 28, 2013, 05:10:44 AM

When I worked as a croupier, dealing poker tournaments was my favourite thing. You get to sit down for your stint and the atmosphere is much more relaxed in the card room than in the pit.

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Reply #906 on: March 19, 2013, 10:38:46 AM

I just signed up for a new job, since it doesn't look like my expedition into independent game development will really pay enough for rent. Oh, well. So I've downgraded that to hobby status (I'm having too much fun there to stop entirely) and starting next Monday I'll be doing Java dev in a banking environment.
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Reply #907 on: March 19, 2013, 11:58:08 AM

May the gods have mercy upon your soul.

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Reply #908 on: March 19, 2013, 12:23:33 PM

First day back with the new "everyone works all the queues" thing and my slug of a team lead.

Ticket comes in from some muckity muck's secretary, it's a genuinely weird/annoying issue she's having.

My boss (in one of our main Jabber channels): <Queue-Item> - We should really take a look at this.
My Team Lead on Jabber: On it.

PM from my Team Lead literally 2 seconds later: Would you look at <Queue-Item>?

Ohhhhh, I see.

Yeah, I'll get right on that. I proceeded to not even look at it the entire day. Cockholster.

You have no idea how much of my sympathy you have.
You too have a team lead/fake supervisor who can just dump everything on you as they wish so they can continue sitting on their asses? Up to this point the "team lead" thing was basically honorary- they had the same actual job title as me but seniority so they were trusted with kinda being pseudo teamleads.

I got an email today from my bosses saying they're officially codifying the Team Lead as a real position. I dunno what this entails but if it means he gets write up privileges I may just start looking elsewhere at the university or quietly asking to be switched to another queue because I have no respect for him as a 'superior' despite getting along with him pretty well personally. And he's probably getting a pay raise for it since it's going to be a for-real position/job.

Did I mention the new president of my university just issued a pay freeze to pay for a tuition freeze? The tuition freeze is great though- tuition is fucking ridiculous. I'm just annoyed since I get to watch this shit burglar likely get a pay bump for having papers shuffled while I get stuck with a freeze and no Cost of Living Adjustment.

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Reply #909 on: March 20, 2013, 03:50:49 AM

Daniels trying to turn higher education in Indiana into yet another race to the bottom of the wage scale employer?  Color me shocked! 

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