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Reply #910 on: March 20, 2013, 06:43:28 AM

Years ago my fiancee found my former supervisor's monthly report in the printer. It was basically a list of things I'd done plus some stats other people generated.

We had a funny meeting where the boss put us on the hot seat. List major recent accomplishments, current projects, and pipeline for the next year. I came in without notes and was able to list at least a dozen for each category, he hemmed and hawed without giving anything. Then he said his core duties were getting in the way of his pet project (note: he doesn't really do his core duties). (He's also the second highest paid employee after the boss)

It's a similar thing to Fab's situation, but I'm finally pretty much on the other side of it and we've made the first steps towards making him report to me for tech things. He's been a family friend for decades, he's a nice guy and means well, makes it a really tough situation.

Pay freeze, heh. We did finally get a 2% increase this year, first in 5 years. Of course, that was after I asked for 6% because I've been kicking ass and taking names for the last six years without bitching about the freeze (and really mostly because health insurance is finally putting me in the red). So I was a bit pissed that my best professional year where I executed a big project under budget and on time, I got the same raise as the guy who did nothing at all.
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Reply #911 on: March 20, 2013, 07:30:43 AM

I thought you worked in a library.
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Reply #912 on: March 20, 2013, 08:59:17 AM

I do.
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Reply #913 on: March 20, 2013, 09:04:58 AM

What the fuck kind of library do you work in? The Public Library of Drama Hill?
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Reply #914 on: March 20, 2013, 09:08:42 AM

My sister worked at libraries for years before she left to work full time on her sculpture and illustrating and there was always tons of drama.  And not always quiet drama!

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Reply #915 on: March 20, 2013, 09:52:29 AM

Having worked for over a year in a library, it many times has more dramatic moments than working in a professional theatre company

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Reply #916 on: March 20, 2013, 12:59:49 PM

I'm not sure I can, or even could if I worked there, take anything seriously that happened among the staff of a public library.

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Reply #917 on: March 20, 2013, 01:31:32 PM

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."
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Reply #918 on: March 21, 2013, 06:22:20 AM

Yep.

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Reply #919 on: March 21, 2013, 09:27:19 AM

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

'And of academic realms of contention, the shared departmental printer shall be ground zero for the fight of champions'

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Reply #920 on: March 21, 2013, 10:17:20 AM

Ah, shared printers. There's few things more likely to cause a good office dramabomb.   My favorite so far was the one where a guy canceled the printing of (5) copies of a 60-page RFP due at noon.  Done so he could print his floor plan sketch rather than walking across the floor to the other printer and without telling the folks using the good printer.

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Reply #921 on: March 21, 2013, 10:57:41 AM

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.

Sorry I came in late with this but the new fad education-wise is Slot Machine maintenance (cities are even paying for your training for this), which requires pretty hefty tech and programming skills.  Since slots are the main source of income for casinos and the rules are more lax (hence they're pretty much in every state) it's much more lucrative.  Granted, it's not as sexay as being a croupier.   Ohhhhh, I see.

update for me:  I've bit back the urge to return to the richfuck "service industry."  Being a broke-ass student is kinda liberating, but something tells me it may get old pretty soon.  To combat this I've since finally starting building my lab/workshop and am positioning to flip my prior biz into something I might be able to do on the side while in school.  (going 'inactive' would end up costing me more, so better to just change name and service/product) 
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Reply #922 on: March 21, 2013, 11:03:30 AM

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.

Sorry I came in late with this but the new fad education-wise is Slot Machine maintenance (cities are even paying for your training for this), which requires pretty hefty tech and programming skills.  Since slots are the main source of income for casinos and the rules are more lax (hence they're pretty much in every state) it's much more lucrative.  Granted, it's not as sexay as being a croupier.   Ohhhhh, I see.

And since slot tech's rarely get tips (and in most situations are not allowed to accept them) they get to keep some shred of humanity.
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Reply #923 on: March 21, 2013, 11:09:16 AM

To be clear, it's a mad scramble to find guys to work on those damned machines (at least here in SoFla).  Easy.  Fuckin.  Money.  I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to climb aboard actually since I think I can sink it into my IEEE stuff.

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Reply #924 on: March 22, 2013, 12:46:52 AM

To be clear, it's a mad scramble to find guys to work on those damned machines (at least here in SoFla).  Easy.  Fuckin.  Money.  I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to climb aboard actually since I think I can sink it into my IEEE stuff.
Even when I was in Vegas back in the early 90's slot techs made decent money for a vocational school type of thing ($16+ an hour) and any non-podunk casino is going to have them on staff 24x7.
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Reply #925 on: March 22, 2013, 03:23:02 PM

... being on most county's "high job demand" list also means slot techs get free and paid on-the-job training.  My city will literally pay the contractor to hire you to the tune of up to 60% your 1st year's salary; all as part of the WIA [workforce investment act].  Basically, if a job is on WIA's list the company makes shittons of money hiring newbs.  It amazes me how many people fail to bring that tasty bit of knowledge to an interview.

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Reply #926 on: April 01, 2013, 12:56:18 PM

I'm not really getting a great level of service from Novell's web sites and the general certification junk.  I'm wondering, is it bad timing on my part or are they just shit?

I guess for a bit of background, the people who like me want some proof that I can wrangle things other than AIX.  So I get a SUSE cert, no problem, but I can't find the damn thing.  I want a PDF so I can request a voucher for taking the CLP practicum, which may hopefully cause me to study for it and perhaps successfully set up a couple machines in VMware.  All so I can spend lots of time working in Excel, it seems.

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Reply #927 on: April 01, 2013, 02:07:28 PM

Wasn't Novell bought by a patent trollish services company and put on a skeleton maintenance cycle?  I realize they are still used in the "Enterprise" but does anyone expect them to actually gain market share ever again? Why don't you just start learning Sanskrit?

edit - On a serious note just go get your RHEL certification.
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Reply #928 on: April 02, 2013, 05:53:11 AM

Unfortunately (?) SUSE is alive and well; don't know about the rest of Novell (or whoever).  SUSE is big in Europe and so it is the primary linux for SAP, not absent from the enterprise at all.  Also the classes were free, as are the tests.  I think yast is a piece of shit, but what can you do?

I'll get a RH cert soon enough, and I assume if I can pass a SUSE admin test with minimal studying that I should be able to pass a RH test with zero studying.  I'm more worried about HPUX than RH.


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Reply #929 on: April 02, 2013, 06:47:17 AM

My only SUSE experience was with SLES, yum and yast had me running back to an apt based distro, I wasn't a RH fan either so I guess I am just too small minded to get along with products that contain the word "Enterprise".  I certainly never appreciated it when my organization felt the need to hook up our webservers to the Novell tree, we only had 5 or so users with access to them and the permissions profiles needed there certainly weren't something that already existed in edirectory.  All it seemed to do was overly complicate and crappify something that originally was pretty simple.
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Reply #930 on: April 02, 2013, 10:19:42 AM

The actual benefit (only?) of an enterprise distro is the support.  If you can handle your linux support in-house, go for it and skip the support contract, but maybe it would be cheaper to pay support than another FTE or two.  In our case, we aren't going to be doing homegrown linux support at all.  It would be completely unfeasible.

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Reply #931 on: April 02, 2013, 10:36:08 AM

Its a real pity about SUSE. Back when I was playing with it in 2005 it was one of the only professional looking distros outside of Red Hat that could install over the internet with relative ease and wasn't clunky. It inspired some confidence in me that Linux could one day reach a broader market. Then Ubuntu happened and SUSE was caught asleep at the wheel, it seems.

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Reply #932 on: April 02, 2013, 10:58:20 AM

Oh shit, I'd rather support SUSE I think. awesome, for real

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Reply #933 on: April 03, 2013, 03:02:28 PM

Counted up, actually have 30 resumes out for positions I am either qualified for, overqualified for (and tailored my resume for), or a monkey could do - I have gotten only a handful of callbacks. Buh.

I need work. Like yesterday.
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Reply #934 on: April 03, 2013, 03:24:13 PM

If you'd like to join a massive bureaucracy, get paid well with great benefits, but be under appreciated by douchbags with Ivy league degrees, and have to roll the dice on being sent to either Geneva Switzerland or Bamako Mali every 2-3 years, then the Foreign Service may be for you!

Seriously, from what I've seen, you could probably sweep into this job without too much trouble Schild.  You'd just have to, you know, accept the above (and I hear they have a great embassy community in Mali!)

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Reply #935 on: April 03, 2013, 04:03:16 PM

I'd help if I could.

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Reply #936 on: April 03, 2013, 04:03:52 PM

I'm getting married in December, that is a no go. (to the foreign service)
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Reply #937 on: April 03, 2013, 04:10:05 PM

They'll fully pay for her to come along with you as well!

But yeah, I understand.  I'm amazed about how many of my co-workers are married with children.  Crazy lifestyle for that, it seems to me, but they seem to manage.  But if all else fails down the road, seriously consider it.  Not a lot of people do, and it provides great stability/benefits/pay if you need it.
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Reply #938 on: April 03, 2013, 04:12:10 PM

Commuting for sixteen years, I noticed that people drive more slowly on the way home than on the way to work.

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Reply #939 on: April 03, 2013, 04:14:45 PM

Shhhh, that's a secret married men are supposed to keep.

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Reply #940 on: April 03, 2013, 04:25:26 PM

Today I realized that the people on the road at 4:30 are women headed home before their husbands get there.  Also not in a hurry.

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Reply #941 on: April 04, 2013, 09:40:52 PM

Is there a polite way to tell a new boss that reporting to them makes you want to find out what a just-fired .357 tastes like?

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Reply #942 on: April 04, 2013, 10:51:55 PM

Is there a polite way to tell a new boss that reporting to them makes you want to find out what a just-fired .357 tastes like?

Yes, it's called a leave of absence.

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Reply #943 on: April 04, 2013, 11:44:43 PM

They'll fully pay for her to come along with you as well!

But yeah, I understand.  I'm amazed about how many of my co-workers are married with children.  Crazy lifestyle for that, it seems to me, but they seem to manage.  But if all else fails down the road, seriously consider it.  Not a lot of people do, and it provides great stability/benefits/pay if you need it.

Funny. In Australia the Department of Foreign Affairs is one of the harder places to get a grad position.
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Reply #944 on: April 05, 2013, 05:53:47 AM

Is there a polite way to tell a new boss that reporting to them makes you want to find out what a just-fired .357 tastes like?

Hah.

My old boss quit (in the drama a month ago) and the VP that "took over" her role is obnoxious, meeting happy, makes everyone stress out, and wayyy too much of a micro-manager for our type of group.  I finally called the CTO a few days ago and told him he needs to get her to back off before people get fired for telling her off.
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