OT: I Remember When

Stone Mill · #1 September 23rd, 2002, 02:42 AM

Atrocities,

I remember when I was out of work for a brief time. I enjoyed the (brief) leisure but jumped right back in. Now, sometimes I reflect on the percentage of time I spend in my life working for some huge corporation vs. the laughable time I have off... 2 weeks (ack!) I guess the only time you get to reap the rewards of your hard work is when you move to Florida and wheel around with the geriatrics. To me, that is a crime. I wonder how many of those geriatrics actually don't wish that they took a little more time for themselves, friends, and family.

And it's a joke now because companies don't take care of you any more. There used to be an expectation that you got on board with a good company and they would take care of you after many years of service. Now, that's a pipe dream. You will be downsized without a second thought or flat out screwed like employees of Enron who lost their entire pensions due to corruption.

Last but not least, there is no penalty for gross mismanagement, either corporate or public administration. The US has a crappy stance and track record for dealing with white collar crime. At best, these idiots get fired, but there is no help for all the people who are irrepairably financially damaged, such as shareholders or taxpayers. I agree with you Atrocoties, there should be heads on stakes for this.

tbontob · #2 September 23rd, 2002, 04:25 AM

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Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
My first computer? An Apple II with 48K of memory... 8 whole colors... Basic in ROM... Yep, it was STATE OF THE ART

Edit: My first computer that I owned. First computer I worked with... A PDP-11.

Hey, Taz, I too had an Apple, only it was the Apple II+. It too came with 48K, but I immediately upgraded it by a whopping 16K to 64K.

[ September 23, 2002, 03:27: Message edited by: tbontob ]

tbontob · #3 September 23rd, 2002, 04:30 AM

Hey Taz...Do you remember the Apple magazine called "NIBBLE"?

I wonder how many people know what "nibble" is?

Stumped my MBA prof with that one!

ZeroAdunn · #4 September 23rd, 2002, 07:35 AM

Nibble was the shi....

Anyways, I loved all that stuff back in the day... I didn't think many people remembered that.

Ahhh, how I remember delving into my fist programming project ever, battleship, with help from nibble. Of course I had to change it so you couldn't win.... It was only fair...

tbontob · #5 September 23rd, 2002, 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Nibble was the shi....

Anyways, I loved all that stuff back in the day... I didn't think many people remembered that.

Ahhh, how I remember delving into my fist programming project ever, battleship, with help from nibble. Of course I had to change it so you couldn't win.... It was only fair...

Yeh, those were the days when we did our own programming. Not like today, where almost everything comes canned & off the shelf.

Mylon · #6 September 23rd, 2002, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Atrocities,

I remember when I was out of work for a brief time. I enjoyed the (brief) leisure but jumped right back in. Now, sometimes I reflect on the percentage of time I spend in my life working for some huge corporation vs. the laughable time I have off... 2 weeks (ack!) I guess the only time you get to reap the rewards of your hard work is when you move to Florida and wheel around with the geriatrics. To me, that is a crime. I wonder how many of those geriatrics actually don't wish that they took a little more time for themselves, friends, and family.

And it's a joke now because companies don't take care of you any more. There used to be an expectation that you got on board with a good company and they would take care of you after many years of service. Now, that's a pipe dream. You will be downsized without a second thought or flat out screwed like employees of Enron who lost their entire pensions due to corruption.

Last but not least, there is no penalty for gross mismanagement, either corporate or public administration. The US has a crappy stance and track record for dealing with white collar crime. At best, these idiots get fired, but there is no help for all the people who are irrepairably financially damaged, such as shareholders or taxpayers. I agree with you Atrocoties, there should be heads on stakes for this.

Companies think about the bottom line. They can pay Mr. Middle Aged Experienced $40,000 to do his job because he's been here for 10 year, or they can "cycle" him out and hire Joe Schmoe for only $30,000. Keeping old employees means less money for the CEO, of course.

Atrocities · #7 September 23rd, 2002, 06:18 PM

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Companies think about the bottom line. They can pay Mr. Middle Aged Experienced $40,000 to do his job because he's been here for 10 year, or they can "cycle" him out and hire Joe Schmoe for only $30,000. Keeping old employees means less money for the CEO, of course.

[RANT]
The company I used to work for called it "scaling" and disposed of most of the senior employees through false terminations, forced retirements, and down right ****ty tactics to make them loose hope and just quit.

Then they were replaced by fresh out of school teenage blond girls who giggled more than they talked, and were very happy to be doing highly dangerous work for minimum wage. [/RANT]

I remember when you could get a large Pizza with everything for $12.99.