Posted on 11/26/2024 11:19:27 AM PST by Red Badger
Is there a particular employer you work for who assigns these hours? Are you free to freelance?
If I had made the other choice for my last guess, I’d have been right there with you.
Good morning. Happy Friday!
If I can get everything to a transfer station tomorrow then we *should* be done with all the junk and ready to talk to realtors. They had a battery operated rip saw that’s not spoken for yet and we will try to give away. But I plugged the battery in last night because I probably have some boards too long for the transfer station. Mrs. ArGee is afraid for my fingers.
I got a reprieve from Wordle madness for the last day of the owrk week.
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A dentist recommended that combo to me quite some time ago... I recall it being very effective...
Hopefully they find something to keep you busy soon!
It is amazing that we have so many similarly structured words in the English language...
Good Friday Morning!
What a week it has been... sounds like you will be moving to the next ‘fun’ stage of the process soon... hopefully you will be blessed with a good listing agent! 🤞🏻
I also got a bit of relief from the Wordle madness...
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So now I have a crumbling internal corporate culture that works well, to a now Global corporate structure that is badly mismanaging our client base.
I used to have a set of local clients, 32 at one point, that were my primary responsibility. I'm down to 3 at this point since we did away with the idea of having a Primary Engineer assigned. In the last two years, we've easily lost half of our clients in my Market to competitors with no real sales effort up here to replace them.
Predictably, management is firing the wrong people, implementing even more bureaucracy to firm up the “numbers”, and in general not doing much to get us back to where we were growing instead of shrinking.
Sorry for the novelization.
Happily in to the Friday we go...
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https://youtu.be/u8kVTxAX-aI?si=6cET-hBu3fsxieWE
No problem. It’s a familiar sad story.
I went to Compaq when it was still under Rod Canion. They hired a consulting company which lead to the first ever layoff and replacing Rod with Ekhard Pfeiffer, who was a great salesman. Somehow he managed to acquire Digital Equipment and not do very much with that IP and finally get Compaq sold to HP. In the meantime I saw lots of management decisions that didn’t make sense to me. I bailed before HP bought the company.
Just because the management decisions didn’t make sense to me doesn’t mean I could have done better. But I’m often amazed at how little common sense seems to drive corporate decisions.
I was at Microage during those days... I remember the DEC scramble and the weirdness between Compaq and HP.
What is interesting is that when Microage folded, most of the engineers went to a company that was then bought by the company I was hired in at, before they were bought in turn by the current Multi-National corp...
And yeah... being deliberately vague on names. Sorry.
Oh yeah... and one other note... I still have my Compaq multi-bit screwdriver that was part of the swag bag they were giving folks who went through their server hardware build certification course. *shrug*
Excellent choice.
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I still have my Blockbuster card.
I wound up at Compaq after a try with a startup computer magazine called Personal Workstation (originally MIPS).
When I went to interview at Compaq they handed me a folder of information about the company. One of the items in the folder was a reprint of an article I had written.
I found out later that my time at the magazine made me pretty-much a shoe-in.
Yeah, and we were talking about the old empires like CompUSA, Radio Shack, etc.
Suddenly those AI systems that answer the phone and drive you crazy because you know they won’t direct you to the correct place make the sound of typing after each answer, like the AI is actually Googling the question or something.
I have to wonder whose bright idea that was, and why it’s catching on. Does anyone actually think there’s a person there typing?
Kinda like Ozymandias.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
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