screwturner68

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by screwturner68 3y ago
When I was young and learning my trade I had a group of older co-workers who decided they liked me enough to invite me to join their lunch group. It was a very informal mentorship, they showed me the ropes, provided guidance and generally
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by screwturner68 3y ago
A lot of this is because of WFM, 5 years ago when you applied for a job you had to compete with all the bozos within 50 miles looking for a job but now you have to compete with all the bozos in the country looking for a job. five years ago
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by screwturner68 3y ago
so are you saying that I shouldn't be testing a product I purchased or a product that someone mandated I have in my house? I shouldn't have to notify anyone, I own it and I should be able to do with it whatever I please. In addi
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by screwturner68 3y ago
But a tool for the most part is open source, a screw driver is a screw driver, if you turn a screwdriver to the right it pushes a screw into the wood. It doesn't take notes of the type of wood you are using and then strongly suggest t
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by screwturner68 3y ago
It was for college kids, it was for hooking up.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Show me a merger that has been good for the customer and good for the employee. I'll wait.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
It just assumes that only people that work for companies like Amazon and Tesla have the pedigree to manage a company. I look at it like how every politician either elected or appointed seems to have gone to one of 10 well known universities
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I've been a part the security/hacking community for years so some people know me or know me by reputation. I actually wasn't looking for a career change but we had a product that straddled both my area and security so I step
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by screwturner68 3y ago
As I was told at the last security conference I attended, we are all in security. Security isn't getting smaller it's just expanding into every aspect of IT. Unfortunately our industry has become the go to for job changers and th
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by screwturner68 3y ago
goat herding, maybe bee hive tender
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by screwturner68 3y ago
We plumped up to over 350,000 after the Compaq, HP, EDS mergers. When the HP and the DEC engineers got together it was like a 1960's love in and then...Czarly.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I worked for a company with over 200,000 employees and honestly it feels like working at a small company that is at war with 1000 other small companies and four times a year we get together to re-sign cease fire agreements. Except for the
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by screwturner68 3y ago
IF people have a problem with 1000+ people applying for every job the answer is pretty simple, get rid of WFH. Five years ago you had to live within and hour or so of the job site but now those barriers are gone and people went from compe
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by screwturner68 3y ago
The difference of course is that Black Hat is really expensive and DEF CON used to be really cheap -you also couldn't pre-purchase a badge so it was more egalitarian. DEF CON used to have more of the punk/libertarian/anarchi
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by screwturner68 3y ago
tHOTCON is pretty cool, I'm not sure if I'd consider it White hat as much as it is non-corporate.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I've been WFH of over 20 years and my wife has been WFH for 10, we live in the city so our living space is smaller than most ~1100sqft and we've worked within 10 feet of each other for a decade. I do have a small office but I onl
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by screwturner68 3y ago
The second point hasn't really helped me much, I opened a new line of business basically doubling my groups revenue. I spent almost three years trying to convince my boss to stop leaving all sort of money on the floor and actually pic
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I just want to be paid well and be left the fuck alone. I've been in consulting for over 30 years and I'm used to being treated poorly. I don't need a fancy office with a view. I don't need a coffee bar or a beer frid
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by screwturner68 3y ago
when unemployment goes to 7% they won't be compensating for a damn thing and WFH will be a thing of the past.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
There was a study about that and there was a direct correlational between the size of you home and your desire to return to the office, people with small apartments enjoyed the office much more than those with larger houses. I'd also
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I lived 5 minutes away from work for a few years, I could see my office window from my apartment window. Going into the office wasn't a big deal, it was just a 5 minute walk. I really didn't care about going home for lunch becau
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by screwturner68 3y ago
we use taxes to encourage/discourage political and social agendas all the time why should this be any different?
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Mostly I do it by getting the job done significantly faster. I help with our bidding and usually the off shore team bids want 3-4 times as many hours as I would take. I just had one project on my desk this week and they said it was going
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I do consulting so I often go to customer's offices but I haven't seen one of my companies offices in about 6 years, I enjoy a little office time every now and then. That said, the "open office" and the hot desking is a
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by screwturner68 3y ago
One of the reasons I hate remote learning is that it eliminates the informal knowledge swap. If you've ever taken an in person class with a wide range of people you know how much swapping of knowledge happens during breaks and before
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Here's my take on WFH in general, I've been WFH for over 22 years so I have a little perspective. One thing we learned from Covid is that remote learning has pretty poor results, ask any school teacher and they will tell you that
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by screwturner68 3y ago
They hold a public trust like judges (and in theory politicians) and because of this they need to be held to the highest standards and not the lowest standards (which is what we do now). In my opinion a cop breaking the law is much more eg
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Let's take a step back, telling someone to F- off!, even a cop is considered free speech and has been verified by the SC. On the other have telling someone I'm going to rack your F-ing skull open could be considered assault -this
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by screwturner68 3y ago
You can legally tell a cop to fuck off, the SC ruled on that years ago, that said if you did that where I lived (and were a minority) you'd likely get your skull cracked. It's pretty sad that a civilian goes to jail for not knowin
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by screwturner68 3y ago
likely not, most of the buildings you mention were torn down or burned in 1871. There only a few areas in the city where these buildings still exist and they are small single/multi family building that will stand until somebody decide

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