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Comment Having worked in the field for way too long... (Score 1) 709

Occasional browsing is one thing, but when half of one's work day is related to doing nothing, then it becomes a problem.

I was responsible for a tri-branch office managing the network for about 800 desktops, 50 servers, and 300 employees on the clock around the clock. Nobody wanted to do what I did, so I had to do it by myself. Management wanted bandwidth reports. I gave it to them. Wanted email stats. Gave that to them. Over half the email was FW: FW: FW: FW: garbage, which I was instructed to /dev/null. Done. Such sites like youporn.com were in the top site lists. They wanted it blocked. It was blocked.

Needless to say, people would do nothing but talk crap about me because I'm "the web nazi" or "internet nazi" and other such crap.

And having worked at such a company for over a decade, one day, out of the blue, the same management that told me what to block was the same management that said after XX years, if I didn't take a 75% paycut, that I could take a hike.

I believe in working. If you're not working, you do not deserve to be paid.

And to this day, I still get daily status reports of all of the servers I once ran, nearly 3 years after the fact - because the guy they hired to change my passwords did only that, without checking on anything else.

I've never worked in IT since. There is no reward.

Comment Re:Dr Seuss explains IE (Score 1) 782

Yeah, I don't know where I first saw that, but here's the original, author unknown:

f a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and you screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory, and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.

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