20 years ago - what were you doing?

[Scruff]

I was a top notch IT contractor just like I is now.

I thought you were a purveyor of sleds? [emoji12]

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[BR14]

getting 1000 gbp per day to monitor some mainframes, just in case

[NickFitz]

I’d just finished a gig in Cheltenham involving cutting edge stuff like JavaScript and XML

New Year itself was spent in a pub that’s long since been demolished, like all the best pubs in this benighted city that thinks digging up kings who were peacefully resting under car parks is all the heritage it needs

[DoctorStrangelove]

Like NF I'd just finished a 12 month contract in Cheltenham working on burglar alarms and some sort of ATE tester thingie, all of which was embedded, some of it bare metal just to make it that little bit more tedious.

I was on my way towards a 7 month or so contract in Rugby bare metal coding for a thing that ended up being sold in Argos for £79.99, reduced to £39.99 when it turned out the basic concept was a pile of ordure.

The other pile of ordure from the same source was a battery operated portable fridge for drugs & such like that would have required a forklift for the batteries once I'd done the maths on the amount of power required and the U value of any likely insulation.

Peltier coolers are not the most efficient of devices.

[original PM]

I was working in recruitment at the time.

Had to go in and check the photocopier and fax machine still worked.

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[JohntheBike]

getting 1000 gbp per day to monitor some mainframes, just in case

getting £250 ph to monitor some HP3000 midrange machines - just in case.

[TwoWolves]

I had just started a gig working on the trading floor at Credit Suisse.

There was a big hole in the department following a slew of sackings as blowback to the "flaming Ferraris" insider-trading scandal.

How 'Flaming Ferraris' burned their bridges | Business | The Guardian

So I got a pile of source code, a production system to manage and no handover!

[JohntheBike]

I had just started a gig working on the trading floor at Credit Suisse.

There was a big hole in the department following a slew of sackings as blowback to the "flaming Ferraris" insider-trading scandal.

How 'Flaming Ferraris' burned their bridges | Business | The Guardian

So I got a pile of source code, a production system to manage and no handover!

So I got a pile of source code, a production system to manage and no handover!

par for the course then! and future instructions on the bag of a fag packet no doubt!

[Lockhouse]

I had just started a gig working on the trading floor at Credit Suisse.

There was a big hole in the department following a slew of sackings as blowback to the "flaming Ferraris" insider-trading scandal.

How 'Flaming Ferraris' burned their bridges | Business | The Guardian

So I got a pile of source code, a production system to manage and no handover!

We would have been at CSFB at the same time. I was there from Jul 1999 to Oct 2000. Equities. It was the tail end of the Wild West years. Attitudes were changing pretty quickly around that time.

[WTFH]

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar...