Reply to: Back on the Bench

[SBK1972]

Corny, but very funny. :-)

SBK

[thunderlizard]

so the PCs using their PCs were all very PC?

sorry, that didn't contribute anything but was too corny to miss!

[Ruse]

:-)

IVe never worked in an office that was so PC. I used to working in fun environments, bit of banter, joking around, light hearted ribbing. Not here ! As Im writing this, all I can hear are the fans of the many pc's running in this office. There are at least 15 people here, and no one talks, and if there do, its like cheesey talk you have during an interview.

I find it so hard talking to anyone, you try and chat without any form of upset to any creed, colour, gender, social group, country, organisation. People are constantly reporting each other over what they say, and how they act.

I would challenge anyone to be 100% white / pure, and then try discuss things ? You cant, hence why I sit here so quiet !

SBK

Sounds really grim, not sure I have ever worked anywhere like that.
You should have spent more time on here

[SBK1972]

:-)

IVe never worked in an office that was so PC. I used to working in fun environments, bit of banter, joking around, light hearted ribbing. Not here ! As Im writing this, all I can hear are the fans of the many pc's running in this office. There are at least 15 people here, and no one talks, and if there do, its like cheesey talk you have during an interview.

I find it so hard talking to anyone, you try and chat without any form of upset to any creed, colour, gender, social group, country, organisation. People are constantly reporting each other over what they say, and how they act.

I would challenge anyone to be 100% white / pure, and then try discuss things ? You cant, hence why I sit here so quiet !

SBK

[TheFaQQer]

Upset them how exactly ?

It could (perversely) be an acronym that does not show due reverence towards the Holy Father Benedict XVI.

Indeed - **** The Pope.

Really, that's a new one on me, something very specific to Scottish football sectarianism I suspect.

And in graffiti as well. I'd not even considered it until I was there (seen the graffiti but not really considered how upset people might be) - people nearly walked out of the bid presentation because we said that was how we were transferring files.

[thunderlizard]

Yes. It goes without saying that the people objecting to it have hardly ever been inside a church in their lives.

[Ruse]

It could (perversely) be an acronym that does not show due reverence towards the Holy Father Benedict XVI.

Really, that's a new one on me, something very specific to Scottish football sectarianism I suspect.

[thunderlizard]

It could (perversely) be an acronym that does not show due reverence towards the Holy Father Benedict XVI.

[Ruse]

I once worked somewhere in Glasgow where we weren't allowed to call it 'ftp'. Had to be referred to as "file transfer protocol" in full so as not to upset some people on the project.

Upset them how exactly ?

[SorenLorensen]

I once worked somewhere in Glasgow where we weren't allowed to call it 'ftp'. Had to be referred to as "file transfer protocol" in full so as not to upset some people on the project.

[TheFaQQer]

Im so tired of the public sector morons who hate change, who call themselves Technical but dont know what ftp is

I once worked somewhere in Glasgow where we weren't allowed to call it 'ftp'. Had to be referred to as "file transfer protocol" in full so as not to upset some people on the project.

[SuperZ]

How do you guys find public sector contracts ?
SBK

Sometimes good, sometimes a bit of a joke. I can relate to many of the points you`ve made although personally so far have no had someone stabbing me in the back, well, not over work matters anyway

[SBK1972]

Cheers for your comments guys. SBK is always smiling ! :-)

Im working down my last 1.5wk here and I must admit, Im so bored. Ive done all my projects, docs, tasks, and if Im honest, Im so tired of the public sector morons who hate change, who call themselves Technical but dont know what ftp is and a few of them who've tried ot get me out from day one, the anti - contractors.

Whilst being here, Ive re-designed the future strategy for thier Unix estate, design a new DR, built 6 high end M series servers and installed numurous zones / virtual servers, running legacy applications within them, clearing the data centre.

Ive fixed endless amounts of scripts, backup issues, performance problems, and managed to get everyone individual accounts, as opposed to everyone logging in as root ( yes 100 odd techs / developers all using root to do things ), you should of seen what the crontabs looked like ! This site is truely the worst IVe even seen in regards to setup/ control and management of the Unix estate.

Whilst doing all this, Ive had one permy unix sa constantly challenge me, putting the knife in, and trying his hardest to put everything I said, or do, down as rubbish. If he could, he would still be running Sparc Lx's, on Solaris 8 ! :-) He's managed to take credit for 90% of my work and told everyone he can do it, aka Zones / Solaris 10, despite not knowing what zones were or what SMF is ! :-) Well, time to step up.

Managed to get SC cleared though whilst here and IVe enjoyed working with M5000's, Zones / Containers and playign with Oracle 11g. Also, being 20 mins from home, Ive had quite a good work / life balance, especially good as Ive got a 9 month old son.

I'll miss having a weekly wage, miss the great work hours, but I must admit, I am glad to get out of here.

How do you guys find public sector contracts ?
SBK

[kaiser78]

Have a break, enjoy Christmas and worry about it in the New Year.
Keep smiling

[norrahe]

Market seems to be picking up for Jan, have had 6 calls in the last two days, simply by posting that I'm looking in Linkedin.