My current employer had an online "Survey". I thought it would take 15 minutes; easy lunch-time time-killer. But it ended up taking 4 hours after I answered each question in the detail I felt required. Since it was done in surveymonkey, I really couldn't come back to it later :P
Alright so I have a source from across the street so here's the true story
The jet takes off for the Air Station and the lose a wing and the trainer dumps the fuel and ejects. The plane slams into the apartments but AFAIK no one was in that side.
@WesleyDavid Yeah, but way too applicants were supposedly "weeks" away from getting their CCNA and MSCT certifications but can't even explain getting hostname and address assignments except that it comes "from the domain".
Basically people have been encroaching on the flight line for years and then they Bitch from the noise and when this happens. Guess what buy a goddam house not on the flight line...
@Adrian Srsly? I think you should allow remote candidates and just hire me :)
@AaronCopley Thats a map of my location to the accident
@Jacob I think the primary problem is our candidate selection process isn't that great. But that's as far as I'm going to go when this chat room is indexed by Google
@Jacob So you've gone from starring out vowels in swear words to open blaspheme. Wow - we've dragged you down to our level and you're not even old enough to smoke. Let's all pause for a moment at the passing of innocence.
I absolutely hate Devs who desperately need to shove 99 different pieces of functionality into 1 script. Develop your damn software properly and you won't need to change things in 99 different places even if it's 99 different scripts each doing 1 discrete thing.
@AaronCopley No that doesn't scare me, what does is that I live on the Norfolk Intl. Flight line. The stories of the hours/ training of airline pilots scare me.
@Jacob Sure they do... They do that all the time if over water before emergency landing. (Of course I say all the time as if emergency landings are a frequent occurence, but I'm sure the first I've heard of dumping fuel was a commercial incident.)
@AaronCopley I think, between all of us, you are a 3 on a one-to-ten scale of inappropriateness. I might be a 9 - but I'm scaling it back. Really, I get too carried away IRL as well, so - time to straighten up.
@AaronCopley Fortunately, chat isn't a prominent feature of SE, so even if someone sees Careers 2.0 or a reference to your Serverfault profile, they'd have to really dig to come up with chat.
I might be venting a little more here. The new staff person I'm hoping to hire is from a large corporate setting with very strict professionalism rules.
However, said person also seems to have a brain, which is nearly unique among the other applicants.
@David I'm getting a nervous twitch whenever I see a new avatar descend into the room. I expect that if I've never seen you before, it's only because you've been hard at work on the next Facebook and now need help LAMPing your servers. =)
@WesleyDavid This one was kinda cool, actually. Very structured, but the humor was kinda geeky. Even made a few jokes about some of the more horrific ideas revolving around best practices in network support. Which was refreshing.
@David Even the weather is batshit insane. The worst one I ever did was a ride from Eureka to Redding in August. 37F at the beach and Zero-vis fog to 29F at the summit to 105F in downtown Redding.
@84104 Seriously though. I"m getting awfully fscking tired of the juvenile BS around the Linux distributions and what's supported and what's not. I still haven't found a way to deploy LDAP in a mixed CentOS-Debian/Ubuntu environment without rolling my own IPA solution.
@84104 Yeah, I really don't have my head wrapped around all that stuff well enough to be deploying me own IPA infrastructure from the individual pieces. Too many things that are actually actively broken to focus on it at the moment and was hoping FreeIPA would get me there. =/
Anyways, my laptop has stopped overheating whenever I play ME2. I no longer require cold packs on my lap when I play. It helps significantly that I blew the dust out of the cooling fins.
Nice. Devs changed the API on their database scripts without any formal notice. All my password update automation completely broke this afternoon. Assholes.
@84104 No and Yes. In this case, they decided to have the scripts spit out username and password from the same script call with a carriage-return field delimiter.
That kinda breaks Expect.
err, not username. Password concatenated with the User Fullname
@Adrian Yeah, you guys are crazy. I still want to convert our kerberos backend to LDAP, but I haven't had the time/hardware to put that Ouroboros in place.
@84104 Well, the Devs would really we rather just left them alone and did everything manually with duplicate processes for everything. Management isn't quite willing to let them get away with that.
