New Official ATOT Nef Thread II

[MotF Bane]

My boss was understanding, says it's a pity I couldn't have found out sooner (just as a comment, he understands I couldn't) because I could've gotten my normal 40 hours/week, and said I should talk to the higher level manager about possibly getting more hours, he has some projects he can keep me busy with.

The projects won't be as fun as getting class progress done would've been, or even as fun as neffing on this computer, but at least I'll get paid. And there would be a possibility I'd end up back in this room with someone else on the projects, given my understanding of this place.

The question is whether the budget can handle the extra strain, and the answer is probably a no. My hourly rate was cut because of it already, so I figure there can't be much room left.

 

[MotF Bane]

There will be no Monday.

I would not weep for its loss; not for this Monday, nor any Monday ever to have existed.

 

[alfa147x]

projects for halmark?

 

[MotF Bane]

I think the fiscal year resets at the end of June though. :hmm:

 

[alfa147x]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2166378

 

[alfa147x]

I think the fiscal year resets at the end of June though. :hmm:

I hope I get paid before that

 

[alfa147x]

Still havent been paid for my internship

 

[MotF Bane]

projects for halmark?

No, projects here.

Hmark doesn't need me. There's no Hmark holidays during the summer, and my sister takes my shifts there so I can work over here. She was the preceding employee before me, went away to college, I took the job, now we switch off.

They absolutely love her, work her 20-30 hours a week or more, three stores, whatever. They appreciate my abilities (I fix things very well, and I'm a young tall male in a store full of women), and largely tolerate me because of my sister.

 

[MotF Bane]

The average employee age is probably upper 40's. The average employee height is somewhere around 5'3". Everyone except the owner and myself are females. And the owner fits in around the average height.

So when it comes time to take out the trash, move some boxes, re-arrange the storeroom, unpack something, or especially take out the trash when its dark outside, that's my job. And if the owner has something special he wants done, it usually goes to me.

 

[MotF Bane]

So it works for everyone.

And I've learned something - if I need to get another retail job, either a) go get a job at BB or something where my interests fit the merchandise and I know what we're selling, or b) get a job at another place with mostly females, and fill a niche.

 

[MotF Bane]

There is a rumor a laser-tag place is coming into the town where the old mega drugstore used to be. I really hope that's true and it is done soon, because that'd be pretty much the ultimate job. Well, I know, I fucking hate little children, but HOLY SHIT LASER TAG!

 

[MotF Bane]

And for the fun part this weekend - telling my parents I failed the class, and have to take it yet again, and have no summer courses. Woo...hoo...

 

[sdifox]

ni

 

[MotF Bane]

So I guess I might be able to restore some of my hours, but I'll have to wait to talk to the higher manager about it.

 

[MotF Bane]

And then, since the time is flexible, I could fit in on-campus free courses, two of them, which would probably have to be Calculus II and Physics II, for obvious logical reasons.

 

[alfa147x]

So where do you work now?

 

[alfa147x]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2166378

 

[MotF Bane]

But those would take far less time, if for no other reason, there isn't a 90 minutes round trip drive attached to them.

 

[MotF Bane]

So where do you work now?

I'll tell you when I get home.

 

[MotF Bane]

I'm a little paranoid.

 

[alfa147x]

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[MotF Bane]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2166378

Can't help you much. My server is an E5200 stripped-down dual-core, with 4GB of DDR2, sitting in a full size case with a full ATX EP45 motherboard. The board has eight SATA ports, which is the reason I used it (and it's Gigabyte, because I trust the company's products).

I don't know what your load level is on the storage machine, you may wish to add that to the thread. For my server, which streams music to my computer frequently, gets Linux distributions downloaded directly to it, and feeds at the largest 1080p video files back to my computer, the hardware it has is sufficient, and indeed, probably quite excessive.

I believe it's streaming limitations are rooted in the subpar networking solution.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2166378

Meh, dude, get a Dell!

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I am seriously considering a second server even though my ideal would be to ditch ALL my servers.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I am back to running VMWare on my HTPC in addition to my main server, and disk I/O is horrific on the HTPC. I just don't have the space in the case to RAID some drives though.