Man, you should save quality posts like this for the new board:
And that book, LMFAO. They gave it to us at a big company where I worked once. Can't recall which stupid downsizing it was for... there were a couple when I was there.
One time, they even offered every computer programmer in the damned company a package to walk away. I'd been there maybe three years and my bribe was something like $10,000. Can't even imagine what the old timers would have received.
Most people didn't take it because they liked living on the Coast and there really aren't that many jobs there outside the casiners. And the casiners use old minicomputers, not the shit we used. (You wouldn't want to let Winders run a casiner... that'd be a bad, bad idea.)
Anyhow, they had me programming for them for about $50,000 per year. That was a really good deal for them. That's not programmer money, not even close. I was young, stupid, and complacent.
That company was sofa king stupid that they didn't even realize what they had. The CIO running IT for their parent company was this cute woman who'd announce the downsizings in slick, well-produced videos. She didn't even realize how insulting that was... you've got money to produce videos that look better than the local news and yet you can't afford IT people?
So glad I left that place. No, no, no idiots the cheese didn't get stale on me. I moved your cheese, fucknuggets.
Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.