Posts by ecofeco

SUCKERS!

See title.

Military Asset Manamgement?

There's a joke in there somewhere.

Asset management is second only to IT security in frustration.

Hurting the market?

Cry me a river. I have no sympathy for any industry saying consumer are not consuming enough and it's hurting the industry.

I've seen similar

I was hoping I could confirm one of those names was a person I had to deal with, but alas, even though it was the same time frame, it's been too long for me to remember their name.

I'm not going to go into details, but I had a contract agency representative "chisel" an out of town expense claim that I had submitted. I made damn sure to keep both the original and the one they fiddled. That's when when I first learned the REAL importance of covering my ass.

Same person who tried to directly screw me out of pay on another job a few years later. After raising holy hell, I am now permanently blacklisted from that agency. Got my money though. Don't miss the agency one bit either.

But I really hope that person is on that list.

Stick a fork in all of it

It's done. We're screwed.

Fun while it lasted!

They what?!

God help us all.

Is this a trick question?

The details really are not important, but this is a good article.

But it always comes down to two things: corruption and corruption.

About time

The rules of who is a contractor, who is salary and who is hourly have been clearly stated for decades.

About time they were enforced.

This is old news

Well not that old, but this has been known for almost two weeks.

But potential new wave? Quite a few hospitals around the world have gone back to turning patients away due to overcrowding. More like kinetic.

The critical question is...

Do I have enough popcorn for what will be an EPIC pig fight!

And here we are

"Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted"

XP was garbage

XP when I got my first large scale corporate support job. I'd been fixing PCs for years before as far back as DOS 3 and worked my way up to NT 4 as a small scale server admin. But it wasn't until XP that I was working for really large deployments. i.e. thousands instead of a few hundred.

XP was a bloody nightmare. Unstable, slow, and unpredictable. XP was where I learned to hate MS.

The love for XP is insanity. Win 7 was also garbage until SP 2 made it tolerable. How have people forgotten about the BSOD?

MS has never made a good OS, but at least I've hardly ever seen a BSOD in years. Still hate MS though. An OS that constantly gets in its own way.

Good!

I've worked contract for years only it's really temp work. And once you get on the temp train, almost nobody wants to hire you onto the client company, or any company. Oh they say temp-to-hire, but it never is.

Temp workers are always treated as second class. No paid sick days, no paid holidays, no raises, the most expensive self-paid "benefits" plans. (how paying for your own "benefit" is a benefit in any way has yet to be explained to me.)

So good the NLRB told google to kiss ass! Long term temp work has to go.

Deleted the first day

My laptop received this a few months ago as part of a regular update.

I actually opened it and took one look at it and deleted it immediately. It's next level cruft relying on analysis by a company that I wouldn't trust to tell me the sky was blue.