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I quit a job a couple of years ago where (I kid you not) I had no desk, no allocated seating, and no PC. I was expected to bring in my own laptop. Whenever ther

by m0nty 18y ago

I quit a job a couple of years ago where (I kid you not) I had no desk, no allocated seating, and no PC. I was expected to bring in my own laptop. Whenever there was a director's meeting, we all had to surrender our communal office and hide in the server room. Duration of job: less than six months. It would have been shorter if I'd know what assholes they were (I had some idea they might sort out the problems if I waited a while). Worst. Company. Ever.

kragen 18y ago
...and you're not bothering to tell us who it is, so someone from HN might get suckered into working for them next month.
- mhb 18y ago
  Even without the name, maybe they would be tipped off when asked if they mind not having a permanent desk and bringing their laptop to work every day.
  - kragen 18y ago
    I had a good experience working for a company like that, actually.
- m0nty 18y ago
  Well, I'm guessing most of you guys are in the US anyway. But if you find yourself in the county of Somerset, UK, and get a chance at an interview with a company providing IT services to a well-known defence contractor, and they tell you it's web development, systems administration and "a bit" of support work, just ask them to define "a bit" rather more precisely. I can't be too specific because we have some rather repressive libel laws over here.
  - kragen 18y ago
    Awesome :) Me, I'm in Argentina.
stcredzero 18y ago
I worked for a state agency a long, long time ago. I was doing Perl-CGI web app, but I was only given a tiny table, a wooden chair, and a little teeny green-screen CRT I could use to rlogin and have shell access. This was actually a machination by the current system administrator who wanted the project to fail because we were impinging on his territory. (He wanted all of that State's Public TV related online publishing to be on an old-style text BBS he had set up.) Well, my project was wildly successful anyways and I ended up being moved to a proper office and he ended up getting a different job.

by m0nty 18y ago

kragen 18y ago

...and you're not bothering to tell us who it is, so someone from HN might get suckered into working for them next month.

mhb 18y ago
Even without the name, maybe they would be tipped off when asked if they mind not having a permanent desk and bringing their laptop to work every day.
- kragen 18y ago
  I had a good experience working for a company like that, actually.
m0nty 18y ago
Well, I'm guessing most of you guys are in the US anyway. But if you find yourself in the county of Somerset, UK, and get a chance at an interview with a company providing IT services to a well-known defence contractor, and they tell you it's web development, systems administration and "a bit" of support work, just ask them to define "a bit" rather more precisely. I can't be too specific because we have some rather repressive libel laws over here.
- kragen 18y ago
  Awesome :) Me, I'm in Argentina.

stcredzero 18y ago

I worked for a state agency a long, long time ago. I was doing Perl-CGI web app, but I was only given a tiny table, a wooden chair, and a little teeny green-screen CRT I could use to rlogin and have shell access. This was actually a machination by the current system administrator who wanted the project to fail because we were impinging on his territory. (He wanted all of that State's Public TV related online publishing to be on an old-style text BBS he had set up.) Well, my project was wildly successful anyways and I ended up being moved to a proper office and he ended up getting a different job.