March 13, 2008 at 7:18 am
My co-workers think I've gone insane. I'll be reading some of the posts and almost fall out of my chair laughing.
Boss comes by and says, "So, what are YOU doing with your time?"
Ummm, research, Boss. Really! That's all I use SSC.Com for. Honest!
We're discussing the merits of ... DBA learning opportunities. @=)
Hmm. I better double-check whether or not he subscribes to this site... (hee)
March 13, 2008 at 7:21 am
Just throw them some prok chops!
:w00t:
March 13, 2008 at 8:01 am
Here's a vote for Bob! Keep posting.
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March 13, 2008 at 8:08 am
I KNEW IT!
I told you, Bob. Didn't I tell you? Post a challenge and even SSC.Com's Lord & Master has to contribute!!!!
😀
Tell us of your geekdom, Oh Great Steve! Let us hear tales of things you impressed interviewers with that weren't quite SQL related.
Puuh-lease??
March 13, 2008 at 8:13 am
Yeah come on Steve, let's hear your best story about farting horses! 😛
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March 13, 2008 at 8:29 am
Go Steve Go....
Forget about the fact that you have to write the EDJ for tomorrow. Tell us your story... How did you get the cushy job you have now? 😉
March 13, 2008 at 8:29 am
I got hired once because I'd been in the Navy... that's as close as I've got to an "outside" talent getting me hired story... Jeez, that sounds pathetic.
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March 13, 2008 at 8:33 am
You think that is sad. Here is my best story.
I once had a situation where a company called me up and asked me if I would be interested in interviewing with them. Knowing that things were a little shaky in my current job, I agreed.
I later found out it was the company that I worked for that sent my resume out to their competition to get me a job so they wouldn't fee bad about closing the office.
March 13, 2008 at 9:44 am
Bob, I have only one thing to say to your story... OUCH!
At least your "current" employer was looking out for you, though. Still, it would have been nice if they'd asked you first.
Grant, your story is fine. You just need to hype up it up a little. Add in a bar brawl, a couple of girls and an Army private who didn't know a mast from a rudder. I'm sure we'll all be loving it then.
And don't forget the Dark Elf Ranger with the Sniper Bow and a dog companion called "Pork Chop".
@=)
March 13, 2008 at 9:50 am
Oh boy! Someone said "Pork chop"! Let me get my magic sling... 😀
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March 13, 2008 at 9:59 am
Jeff Moden (3/13/2008)
Oh boy! Someone said "Pork chop"! Let me get my magic sling... 😀
I just had a Bladerunner moment....
"Do Jeff's DBA's dream of flying porkchops?"
Definitely time for more caffeine...:cool:
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March 13, 2008 at 10:50 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/13/2008)
Bob, I have only one thing to say to your story... OUCH!At least your "current" employer was looking out for you, though. Still, it would have been nice if they'd asked you first.
Grant, your story is fine. You just need to hype up it up a little. Add in a bar brawl, a couple of girls and an Army private who didn't know a mast from a rudder. I'm sure we'll all be loving it then.
And don't forget the Dark Elf Ranger with the Sniper Bow and a dog companion called "Pork Chop".
@=)
Oh, you want sea stories...
You want to hear the one about operating a nuclear power plant while drunk or the one about cleaning up radioactive water with a bunch of towels or how to smuggle cases of wine into the engine room of a submarine to get them past the TAX MAN or, let's see, drunken routes through France, did you know everyone in Brest uses frigging identical little trash bags with these little handles on 'em that let you toss them really hard?
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March 13, 2008 at 11:39 am
Grant Fritchey (3/13/2008)
... or the one about cleaning up radioactive water with a bunch of towels ...
What a coincidence. Do you just light up a room when you walk in too? :alien:
Actually mine was different (we are drifting off topic again) Oh well...
Right out of college(pre 1990 is all I will say), with a BSEE, I got assigned to work in a Nuke Plant (I don't want to say which one). While I was there, we tried to turn it on. We had some instrumentation that said we had 18" pipes vibrating as much as 12". We thought it was a bad signal until we started breaking hangers. Lets just say when there was someone near by to watch it start up, they came out screaming :w00t:
March 13, 2008 at 12:42 pm
That's why they call us glowy bubble-heads....
I was working Engine Room Lower Level one day when the Upper Level guy was starting up one of the electrical generators. It's a turbine about eight feet across and about 15 feet long. So the steam was coming through, turning the turbine blades at some insane speed like 15k rpm. Engine Room Upper Idiot forgot to open the exhaust valves. I heard Thor himself hammering above my head and looked up to see all 15 feet of generator jumping up up & down. There was nothing to do, no where to run, so I just stood there looking at death going "Oh s**t, oh s**t, oh s**t..." in my head. Luckily he was quick on his feet and we all lived through it.
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March 13, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Grant, you and my brother would defintiely have some stories to tell. He was nuke in the Navy also. He served on CVN-65.
I wish I could remember the stories he told me, but its been over 20 years.
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