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They still have those questions on the A+? Do they still ask questions about troubleshooting Windows 3.1/95 and NT4 like when I took it back in 2005? When I first moved to Kansas a buddy of mine got me a job at compUSA. I was under the impression that I would be working in the repair shop and doing home network installs and poo poo like that since I had a pretty freshly minted A+ and Network+. Nope. You had to be promoted into the tech shop from the sales floor where the manager had loving ridiculous "goals" set for each employee. I think mine was something like $80k a month in gross sales with a 20%(!!!) margin and $5k a month in warranty sales. For a dingy store about 1/3rd of the size of a best buy. We weren't really on commission, there was a compensation scheme for selling extended warranties but it was ridiculously low, like $4-10 for selling a product that was 80%+ margin. Yeah sure buddy I'm going to bust my rear end off doing something ethically pretty terrible for $8/hr so I can have the chance of making a buck or two more an hour fixing people's awful PCs. Specious logic aside (good salesmen do not necessarily make good computer repair men, if anything the correlation goes the other way) the amount of emotional abuse I received from both management and customers (the customers I can excuse but management hell no) basically turned me off from working retail ever again. I'd rather be homeless, honest to god.
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Science posted:I feel for you, mostly because you probably have to hear the "Guess they should have named it Office 363 hurr More like Office 356, which is punny in more ways than one!
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I'm kind of surprised services like Lojack don't do something like that already.
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It's a SA meme that xkcd isn't "funny" enough for webcomic connoisseurs who prefer to read incredibly inscrutable War and Peace length treatises filled with so many inside jokes and meta references that the only people who get them are the ones who have suffered through the whole pile of poo poo from the beginning and wear it like a badge of pride, e.g Homestuck.
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Hey 100 meters is the standard right? You're fine!
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I sure do love troubleshooting wireless network bridges with no loving documentation whatsoever
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The whole idea of "customer service" for internal IT seems kind of weird to me to begin with. They're your co-workers not someone who is trying to buy poo poo from you.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'm new to IT, but I've been a technician for a long time. The theory I've heard was described as "Bozon" field theory. See, there's these Bozon fields everwhere, they're just part of nature. The problem is that electronics are very sensitive to Bozons, too much Bozon radiaton in one place and buttons stop working, equipment won't turn on, glitches show up, etc. This is some Terry Pratchet poo poo and I mean that as a compliment
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I still use winamp 2.97, everything after 3 when AOL bought them was poo poo.
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Crowley posted:Such blasphemy.  Classic skin 4 lyfe
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Sep 5, 2013 21:58
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Vin BioEthanol posted:I don't care about drinking at work, the few times I've tried to have a couple drinks at lunch all I wanted to do was sleep the rest of the day. I want to know about grills! Where do you work that trusts cube drones to walk through the building with raw meat? I'm not calling you out personally but poo poo like this post is what has been pissing me off lately. If you're phone postin' and using swiftkey or w/e check your god drat posts to make sure they actually parse correctly.
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I took more umbrage at the whole "menstruations of my boss" thing than another goon being a goony goon (although I suppose that fits neatly into the goony goon part as well)
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Inspector_71 posted:I assume he meant ministrations. I'll just refer back to my post where I rage about people not giving their posts a good one over before posting on their phones/tablets then 
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors owned but I never beat that drat game.
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Yeah my ASUS laptop doesn't have physical lights for num/caps/scroll lock and it can be annoying at times.
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