"...and remember next Friday is... - Hawaiian shirt day..."

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:32 pm

When I got axed in Memphis I was told it was because KMart declared bankruptcy owing the company about $10mil.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:53 pm

Ah... work.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:17 pm

Resume posted on dice.com. We'll see who meets my price.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:43 pm

Resume posted on dice.com. We'll see who meets my price.

bottle of liquor a day and cheap prostitute monthly?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:15 am

Resume posted on dice.com. We'll see who meets my price.
bottle of liquor a day and cheap prostitute monthly?

That option was not present. The sad bit is that the more I think about that price, the more I might be willing to settle for it.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:18 pm

My old boss contacted me earlier this week. Apparently, he's got some simple, yet tedious web dev shit that has been piling up since I left. Since neither of the other two techies can or will touch it, my services have been temporarily retained for the day.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:59 pm

for 50% more, right?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:13 pm

for 50% more, right?

I figured I'd just do what I did when they "employed" me -- stretch out the project as much as humanly possible w\o arousing suspicion.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:20 pm

Holy shit, today has been priceless. The CEO is having the customer support staff put in charge of installing Norton Anti-Virus. The CTO won't do it cos it's tedious work & it's Windows. & since I'm not around anymore, it's simply not getting done.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:14 pm

Holy shit, today has been priceless. The CEO is having the customer support staff put in charge of installing Norton Anti-Virus. The CTO won't do it cos it's tedious work & it's Windows. & since I'm not around anymore, it's simply not getting done.

Drama queen.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:04 pm

Holy shit, today has been priceless. The CEO is having the customer support staff put in charge of installing Norton Anti-Virus. The CTO won't do it cos it's tedious work & it's Windows. & since I'm not around anymore, it's simply not getting done.
Drama queen.

I appreciate my entertainment when it's available.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:36 pm

The saga from the beginning :

I got hired back at this joint in May or June, I don't quite recall. The boss has this "brilliant" idea of opening up an online mall & do drop shipping w\ all his products. He put some dumb, underqualified ex-salesbitch in charge of this. She fucks things up badly & then quits, leaving me in charge of shit. The CEO says to look into some of the things she couldn't figure out, namely the two vendor apps that, when used in tandem, should let us upload about ten thousand products. I do so & proceed to use said apps.

After about a week of using app A, I tell him that while it will indeed allow us to upload thousands of things at once, there's certain (important, might I add) shit I just can't do cos the app won't let me. He says he understands & to proceed w\ uploading.

I then use app B & tell him that, yes, we can download thousands of products from this distributor's site; however, I noticed there's a considerable amount of missing info without which the products will look like shit. He says he understands & to upload these particular products.

I've spent the past two months or so setting the machinery in place to automate this crap as much as possible. I can most certainly upload the goal of quadruple or even quintuple digits.

Yesterday, he apparently decided that the info on these products is so sparse that we can't realistically use them. Two months. Two fucking months seemingly pissed away. This ain't the first time he's bitched at me to do something like this only to decide a few weeks later that the project I'd been feverishly working to complete was worthless & not worth the time.

My new assignment is to figure out how to get the fifty or so websites he wants up & functional by the end of the year. There's no time to change hosting companies, & even if there's the chance I could hunt one down w\ decent services, there's no way in hell we could find enough vendors to supply us w\ that much accurate product info to get 10% of the sites he wants up. The best hope he's given me is that he's investigating a few kits that we can buy lock, stock, & barrel to spew out the cookie-cutter websites. Problem is that there's no chance in hell they'd be up & running till October, if that.

Goddamnit, I need a new, less schizophrenic job. Weeks ago, I told him WEEKS ago in the middle of summer that proceeding w\ the upload would make things look like shit. No one ever fucking listens.

I get the feeling that my warnings several weeks ago went completely unheeded & now I'm being forced to justify my position (given that, you know, my primary duty has just been nixed out from under me whilst I was absent yesterday).

DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:44 pm

My company is still looking for developers. Just walk away.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:37 pm

DoctorChaos wrote:My company is still looking for developers. Just walk away.

I've been relegated to glorified data entry drone again. Where's that company of yours located again? Don't suppose it's in the Twin Cities region, is it?

DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:15 pm

No but we do offer telecommuting. It's out of Austin, TX, I'm in Columbus, OH
Job Listing

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:11 pm

DoctorChaos wrote:No but we do offer telecommuting. It's out of Austin, TX, I'm in Columbus, OH
Job Listing

I seriously did consider it, man, but I'm thinking that sort of thing mixed w\ my school load could kill me.

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:01 pm

Do you fear success?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:27 am

TheCatt wrote:Do you fear success?

Depends what area of existence we're talking.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:23 pm

Laid off just a few minutes ago. For the second fucking time. Same fucking reason. There's actually not enough work for me to do.

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:34 pm

Time to find a real job.