Turns out he was in cider trading
My renewal just came up and I was like "HEY! I paid all that money last year for (nearly) nothing!"
To sum it up, there’s a small medium at large.
He had the Bespin.
I'd like to share some of my experiences working for a Fortune 50 company in IT. I work at a very large company that makes medical products. I have lots of stories to tell, most of them ending with me sobbing into my coffee. I want to share some of them here both to educate and to vent. I don't know if this will be interesting to anyone, but it's therapeutic to type. My apologies for the length.
*edit: I've fuzzed/changed a few details to limit how many people can guess my employer. Thank you for not trying to figure it out... with the Internet available, it's not impossible to do. I won't confirm or deny any guesses.
TL;DR: Fortune 500 company ships a complete copy of all its most important data by insecure means, loses the receipt, and now has no chance of tracking where it all went..
Background: The company prides itself on being a "good" company, and valuing its employees and treating them well. From what I've heard, many other parts of the company do this to varying degrees. Ensuring pay levels are consistent with the market, retraining and moving rather than laying off people, training and building up employees to increase their value to the company, etc. Lots of companies say they do this, few really do. Ours somewhat does, but not in all departments.
My part of the company doesn't really drink that kool-aid. It's made up mostly of people who started at an entry level job like "computer operator" and got enough seniority to get promoted, all the way up to the director of our area. Imagine computer operators being managed by computer operators who are themselves managed by operators from 20 years ago, none of whom have really been trained for management and you'll have some kind of picture.
There has been very little hiring into management from outside the company, so it's a big echo chamber for ideas and practices, and the phrase "that's not how we do things" is prevalent.
Story time:
Today's story is about the first major WTF moment in my job after being hired. Our team had a variety of functions in operations, and one of those was managing backup tapes. For "historical reasons" we still used large tape robots at several sites. The main sites near HQ had the biggest ones with the most up to date drives/highest capacity tape format.
When we ran out of space in the robots or near it, it was time for a new generation of tape. Higher density meant fewer tapes and more space. Over time, older gener
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My own fault though, I kept her out too long.
I walked in and stole some guy's Rolex.
