Things you wish you could say

[Oob Child]

I am the duck. I speak for the ducks. If you harm the ducks, If you harm the duck, you get the cluck.

 

[-Chanticleer-]

Reminds me of, you mess with the croc you get the Glock.

 

[tripletfeb]

It wasn't a question.

Bwahahahaha!!

 

[Ponypoor]

and I thought I ran in nerd circles

Sure are a bunch of us here

I used to make my coworkers laugh when I worked at Sears in the IT dept - if I had trouble with some code or technical issue I couldn’t figure out, I would go home and clean stalls - mindless work - and presto a solution, I would then call my work phone and leave a msg to myself on how to solve my issue. Next morning I would check my voicemail and get my solution haha.

So when Sears was bought by Ed Lampert, he called it Sears Holdings so can you figure out the acronym for Sears Holding IT??? - I doodoo you not! I started answering the phone with Hi SH…., they then changed it the Sears Business Systems - so I started answering Hi Sears BS…. My manager finally had a chat with me. I told him hey if the bigwig mucky-mucks weren’t smart enough to think through their business functions names well what’s a gal to do?!

Oh oh oh and Sears Furniture and Appliances was known affectionately as Sears FnA (really? And my manager talked to me ? Ha!) Gosh I loved working at Sears it was the best place to work shop and invest ever. Until it wasn’t
Ooops sorry memory lane.

Anyways those are all things I did say - fun times

This is Fluffy can you tell heads from tails?

 

[azurbanclucker]

Sure are a bunch of us here

I used to make my coworkers laugh when I worked at Sears in the IT dept - if I had trouble with some code or technical issue I couldn’t figure out, I would go home and clean stalls - mindless work - and presto a solution, I would then call my work phone and leave a msg to myself on how to solve my issue. Next morning I would check my voicemail and get my solution haha.

So when Sears was bought by Ed Lampert, he called it Sears Holdings so can you figure out the acronym for Sears Holding IT??? - I doodoo you not! I started answering the phone with Hi SH…., they then changed it the Sears Business Systems - so I started answering Hi Sears BS…. My manager finally had a chat with me. I told him hey if the bigwig mucky-mucks weren’t smart enough to think through their business functions names well what’s a gal to do?!

Oh oh oh and Sears Furniture and Appliances was known affectionately as Sears FnA (really? And my manager talked to me ? Ha!) Gosh I loved working at Sears it was the best place to work shop and invest ever. Until it wasn’t
Ooops sorry memory lane.

Anyways those are all things I did say - fun times

This is Fluffy can you tell heads from tails?

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Long story short, I fell into tech through a couple of "perfect timing" events and pure luck. So far it's done right by me. I've made a lot of friends, I've learned TONS, and it's the perfect kind of role for my ADHD brain. I've done OK for my family and my current company takes good care of me, so I'll probably finish out here unless some kind of stupid money offer comes in.

 

[Nabiki]

and I thought I ran in nerd circles

I own the CoG forums now. I was an admin there for many, many years, but when Texas passed those laws saying that you can't delete posts on a forum, Keeper of Tickets handed them over to me.

 

[Brooks_]

You clearly just want confirmation that your bad advice from facebook is good. I won't waste my time telling you how it is wrong and what to do instead.

 

[Ponypoor]

Long story short, I fell into tech through a couple of "perfect timing" events and pure luck. So far it's done right by me. I've made a lot of friends, I've learned TONS, and it's the perfect kind of role for my ADHD brain. I've done OK for my family and my current company takes good care of me, so I'll probably finish out here unless some kind of stupid money offer comes in.

I went from being a Nurse, and then a new provincial govt cut schools and health care costs. I retrained in IT and had a blast working there, I have since moved into more administrative work. But once an IT geek always one haha

 

[Ponypoor]

I own the CoG forums now. I was an admin there for many, many years, but when Texas passed those laws saying that you can't delete posts on a forum, Keeper of Tickets handed them over to me.

I got handed stuff that way also.

These days I try to keep my head down so people don’t see me - sometimes it works…

Meant to ask what are these CoG forums - not familiar with that acronym.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I went from being a Nurse, and then a new provincial govt cut schools and health care costs. I retrained in IT and had a blast working there, I have since moved into more administrative work. But once an IT geek always one haha

I was going to school to be a geologist. The plan was I was going to do grad work in volcanology and wifey was doing grad work in marine biology and we were both gonna get research grants and live in a trailer on the beach in Hawaii. Turns out, there's a lot more money in tech and in graphic design than in geology and marine biology, so now that's a retirement goal instead