From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #227 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, August 28 1998 Volume 03 : Number 227 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Bonnie Has Arrived [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Goodbye Mr. Jurkan, I'm sick and tired of workin' ["Keith Stan] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:17:29 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Bonnie Has Arrived In a message dated 8/27/98 4:44:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, TBlagg@aol.com writes: << It made me for one moment contemplate just how amazing technology has become. We all sit at various corners of our 'Flat Earth' thousands of miles apart yet within a few seconds of each other! >> i know exactly what you mean Trevor... I can still remember all too vividly the California mudslides, when meanwhile all of New England was encrusted with ice! The internet helps me to get all my worrying done AS IT HAPPENS rather than having to hear about the natural disaster from safe & sound friends after the fact. Thanks, technology! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:47:47 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Goodbye Mr. Jurkan, I'm sick and tired of workin' Crackers, Melissa and all. Thanks for relating these work stories. I am currently looking to further my career (and avoid possible downsizing). Your stories give me a better idea of what to look for in my next employer. Lately things have been picking up with my search. I had an interview on Tuesday that if I end up getting an offer, and take the position will get Dennis Alexander a $1000 bonus. However, I also have an interview on Tuesday with EDS at IBM near Jean Benet' s America (Boulder). Wish me luck, and look for me as "Mack McBroom" if I decide to go into the porno business. - -Keith Denver - -----Original Message----- From: Chris Cracknell To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 4:18 PM Subject: Alloy: Goodbye Mr. Jurkan, I'm sick and tired of workin' > >In article <35E4C3E3.59CA@erols.com>, you wrote: > >>All this is making me realize that I do not want an office job. I >>generally dislike office jobs. I want to be writing and designing >>full-time. Now, when do I win the lottery to get to do this? I did get >>my first freelance art job last week -- a designer in town needed images >>of women for a website, and I got to draw up some sketches that will >>eventually be out there for all to see -- and made a modest fistful of >>cash. It's sure as hell not rent, but it's a start. >~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ ^~ > >Nothing can suck the creativity out of you faster than a miserable day-job. > >Many a year ago I used to work as a System's Engineer for a company that >sold computers to fortune 500 businesses. I designed systems for companies >such as Coca Cola, General Electric, and Kodak to name a few. I loved the >job when I started there but a few years later my co-worker quit and the >company hired an absolute asshole. > >The man lied like you wouldn't believe on his resume. He said he was a >purchasing manager for Wang computers. In truth it turned out he was a >truck driver at Wang. He knew absolutely nothing at all about computers >and came to work as our purchaser. It made my life there a living hell. >He would constantly screw up the customer's orders and then I'd have >the salesreps having fits in my lab wondering why I hadn't built their >computers (the dockets would first go to purchasing so they could buy >the componets we didn't have in stock before coming to me). I got pretty >sick of explaining that I can't build a system if I don't have a docket >for it, or if the purchaser ordered the wrong parts (since he didn't have >a clue he assumed that "parts is parts" so would order whatever was cheapest) >If a salesrep requested 2mb PC simms (this was in the days when 2mb was the >biggest simms got) he would order 2mb MAC simms because they were cheaper, >or even worse... DRAMs. The other thing he would do would be to sit on a >huge order until the day it was due and then give it to me. I'd get an order >to build 50 custom machines for Blacks Photography on the day they were >due at the clients. The order was made two months ago and we've had all the >parts in stock the whole time. Then I'd have the salesrep screaming at me >because the order was late. > >Not only was the man an occupational fuck-up, he was a complete social >fuck-up as well. He really resented the fact that I was in a bi-cultural >marrage and was quite openly racist. He would brag about how proud he >was of the fact that he and a gang of his friends beat the crap out of a >boy from India when he was in the boy scouts. > >I can remember one day when he came into my lab and saw me and the other >technicians sitting at a table talking. None of us had any work to do >because every work docket was either missing parts or the wrong parts >had been ordered (it was not too uncommon for there to be no work for me >and my guys to do because of these kinds of purchasing screw-ups since >Hal took over the job). So he comes in, sees us, and says, "How can we >get some productivity out of you guys. I come in here and I see you all >just lazing around. If you didn't come here to work maybe you should >just not come here at all." > >Well at this point I had had about all I could take and I exploded at >this guy unlike I had ever exploded at anyone in my life. I gave this >guy a downdressing more severe than any downdressing I'd ever seen anyone >receive when I was in the army. I explained how much I'd love to be >doing anything other than "lazing around" and if he really wanted to >increase productivity he should stop being a complete screw-up and do >his job right. Appearantly everyone in the company could hear me chewing >this guy out (including the VP who was in the next room getting a cup of >coffee). Hal was completely at a loss for words and slunk back to his >desk and I had people comming up to me all day congratulating me for >finally putting this asshole in his place. > >A few days later he went to the boss and made up a story about me throwing >a monitor at him in a fit of rage. I ended up getting fired. A few weeks >later they found out he was a complete crock and fired him. I was told I >could have my job back but I didn't want it. In such a short while it had >gone from being a job I absolutely loved to being a job I absolutely >dispised. > >I took a teaching job instead at a local boy's and girl's club teaching >kids classes in computers and audio/visual production. It was for much >less pay but the job was so much more enjoyable. Later, when my son was >born I left that job to stay home and look after him. Now I raise kids >by day and play accordion by night and my professional and home lives have >never been happier. > >It's much better to read a Dilbert strip than it is to live it. > > CRACKERS > (Found my place in the sun from hell!!!) > >-- > >Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan >*** http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base *** >*** http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo | Hozer Video Games *** >Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh > > > ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #227 ***************************