His name was Pedro...

Temp jobs are a double edged sword. On the one hand, you only have to put up with these people for...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:41:45 -0500

Temp jobs are a double edged sword. On the one hand, you only have to put up with these people for a specified amount of time, but on the other hand, you have to put up with these people for a specified amount of time. Aye, there’s the rub.

And I’ll go one step further and say that temp jobs in IT are the worst kinds of temp jobs. Oh, you can go on about data entry all you like, but have you ever put up with the same person asking how to “do” an attachment ten times a day?

Now I graduated with honours in Computing Studies, I could build a server from scratch with little more than an Apache framework and a thimble full of Javascript. I don’t tell you this because I’m proud, I tell you this because I’m murderously angry.

For instance, I should have spent the last week working on a better solution for our company’s internal security protocols, in regards to power outage scenarios. But in fact, found myself resetting passwords, and telling people that shutting of their monitor did not equal restarting their computers. The point is my job is very, very beneath me. And yes, I know that all our jobs are beneath us, and yes I know I’m a nerd, and yes I know I’m an angry nerd, but to quote the esteemed scholar, Mr Geoffrey Lebowski, this aggression will not stand.

Now, it should be mentioned at this point that my boss is not a bad person. He’s an old man, walks with a cane - looks like an older version of the posh british guy from The Great Escape. He also is very good at giving the appearance of being lovely, like your grandpa, or father christmas. The fact remains however, that the job stank.

Sorry. I should be more direct. I work at an amusement park. A fairly big amusement park. You’ve heard of it. Well I worked there. And my job - which really twelve people should have been doing - was to set up, debug, maintain and oversee the park’s security. A pretty important job, you might say? Something worthy a decent paycheck perhaps?

Something worthy of realistic operating hours, perhaps? But no. Being a new park, the startup costs were simply to great to afford such luxuries as operating hours, fringe benefits or human loving decency. The cost of the garguantuan attractions alone precluded the idea of any of us mere staff drawing anything approaching a fair wage for a fair day’s work.

So, I got approached by a competitor. This is surprisingly common in my field of work. Industrial espionage is depressingly par for the course in the American amusement park industry, despite what anyone might tell you. I’m not saying this is secret agent poo poo, I’m saying that frequently what you know is worth more than what you do.

Now I’d already signed a non-disclosure act and I’m sure a lot of armchair lawyer-goons are going to scream that what I did here was illegal or maybe even ‘morally wrong’, but try to understand I was being underpaid, overworked and hosed upon all for a company that was not only jeapordising my safety but, arguably, the safety of the park’s patrons with cost-cutting, rationalisation and unnecessarily unsafe standard working practices. Cunts.

So in this environment, try to understand that when a competitor makes contact offering me much needed rent money in exchange for some information - really in exchange for some experienced consultation, nothing more - I’m going to consider the proposition. In fact, a reasonable company wouldn’t even see anything wrong with this. They own my work, not my future work, not my experience, certainly not any work that was directly born from my contributions to our IP.

And yes, I took with me some of our new tech - some of the embryonic research that made our company unique. I appreciate this stuff has value. I’m not saying I wasn’t actively seeking to make back some of the money these guys owed me. But the fact is that Six Flags would kill for the kind of tech we’re working on, and if my boss isn’t going to pay for the hours or even use the technology responsibly, I’m going to have to take it elsewhere. Free market, right?

So that is exactly what I do. It was pretty easy given that the cite was to be visited by outside consultants a couple of days beforehand, and every one was so distracted enough with this circus that I could leave my desk without too much bother.

But in order to get out of the park, the electric fences that kept in some of the living exhibits needed to be shut down. After that it would be a quick trot through the rain and a car drive to safety. I took the chance, took the embryos and in a whipped-cream can, fled them through the gates. What I didn’t realise was the creatures were breeding of their own accord, and all because of the frog DNA. We thought we were gods. I was later killed by one of those spitting dinosaurs. You may have seen me in seinfeld.

Workman says things: Tumblr Directory Staff Pick

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:20:00 -0500

Workman says things: Tumblr Directory Staff Pick:

9gag:

What’s the criteria of the staff pick? We never got picked even though we keep being voted by our followers (love ya ♥).

NEVER MIND. Screw the staff pick (not the staff, you guys are awesome)! If you have not yet voted for us in “Humor”, try here!

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Note from Ron: The reason 9Gag doesn’t get a staff pick is because 9Gag reblogs with no credit. Takes work that others created and gives no credit. And it also posts 3 links to its own post in each post. None of these things work with how Tumblr works. They work when Tumblr is used as…

Best music video EVER.

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:46:23 -0500

Best music video EVER.

I'm going on a PLANE!

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:32:25 -0500

yeah, todays the day i fly out to TN for a new life. hope my computer isint trashed by TSA :<

Click and Wait for it.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:37:00 -0500

Click and Wait for it.

It just hit me, Microsoft banned about one million Xboxes...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:13:31 -0500

It just hit me, Microsoft banned about one million Xboxes recently, they totally crashed the used console market for xbox360s. It’s now too high of a risk to buy an Xbox 360 that’s 200-300 bucks. but I’m sure the fifty-ish dollar Xbox 360s are selling like hot cakes for people who don’t give a fuck for live and want to play burnt games. Any one know how to track sales/prices on eBay?

riser: Learning to kiss the Captain Kirk way That’s how...

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:39:31 -0400

riser:

Learning to kiss the Captain Kirk way

That’s how you hit it and quit it.

First time I given a street musician money.

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:36:00 -0400

First time I given a street musician money.

This is fucking AWESOME.

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:00:24 -0400

This is fucking AWESOME.

This is my local barber shop. I never noticed their sign till...

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:41:00 -0400

This is my local barber shop. I never noticed their sign till today. I guess they really did go franchise.

tear pedobear: You better watch this!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:38:10 -0400

*tear*

pedobear:

You better watch this!

Fuck, i want a Slice of this now. thisiswhyyourefat: The Pizza...

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:16:10 -0400

Fuck, i want a Slice of this now.

thisiswhyyourefat:

The Pizza Party

A DiGiorno pizza on top of a Jack’s pizza topped with Totino’s pizza rolls.

(submitted by schizocentral)

Too cute.

Sat, 02 May 2009 11:40:13 -0400

Too cute.

This is a in game screen shot.

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:25:43 -0400

This is a in game screen shot.

thevelcro: cannibalcalvin: I feel sad now. There’s a bunch of...

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:32:40 -0400

thevelcro:

cannibalcalvin:

I feel sad now.

There’s a bunch of parodies of this video. There was one where they edited him into Jurassic Park 2, ~~but I can’t seem the find it~~. T’was hilarious.

found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXreZP3R2w

looks like a new numanuma

Great momments in LARPing history.

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:00:03 -0400

Great momments in LARPing history.

This looks better than anything I ever seen come out of...

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:40:06 -0400

This looks better than anything I ever seen come out of skywalker ranch recently.

I can't explain this.

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:25:00 -0400

This is EPIC?

logandavis: I have a new favorite clip ever. Dr. Shine, you will...

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:56:11 -0400

This needs to be the plot for the new top gun movie.

logandavis:

I have a new favorite clip ever. Dr. Shine, you will forever be my Top Gun of Deliverance.

Father builds his daughter her own custom "pink" arcade cabinet

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:57:23 -0500

Father builds his daughter her own custom "pink" arcade cabinet:

This man loves his daughter so much.