Remember a time when you entired at the bottom and worked your way up? i don't because when i entered the work force, you got a few years experience then jumped ship in order to get a higher rank because you were not likely to gain more than 1 promotion. and 2 years was about the max you'd progress in that company.

we have a few people at the office who started at store level

I'd say about a third, and half of that third are management positions

recession fucked things up and companies got away with a lot of bullshit to save money. not that i blame them given the economy at the time.

so yeah, I know from experience some HR strategies do think out what some of the applicant will be doing in 3/5 years time frame

but UK issue I think is we were just turning out too many people with bachelor degrees

most of those degrees were useless tho

and if they weren't generally useless, they'd train too many people, making those degrees useless

some years back there were hundreds too many physiotherapy graduates

not entirely useless but yes, not what the nationneeded

another year there were hundreds too many forensics specialists

I started work with a B.eng(hon) in electronic engineering and comp sci, person that was hired say day as me, had a degree in the history of art in science

for an IT role

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how did that one square?

not for long, he was gone within 8 months, didnt like helpdesk and couldnt complete the project work he was given. went on to become a sales person for a cable company

`your disertation was fantastic, maintain and fix my servers`

eh, sod off, that was my job 😃

"Fix the backup system" "what backup system?" "What? the one our director put in 3 years ago" "Right ... as I said, what backup system? its just a tape drive with a tape in it, there's no software, no schedule, and the tape has glued itself to the tape head it hasnt been used/ removed in 3 years" "oh shi...."

"no worries, dont know how to use chayenne arcserve but I'll give it a shot" .. at the same time said history of art in science student is explaining to the managing director to leave the protective tape on laptop screen on to help "protect the colour balance"

was he just trolling on the last one?

No.

oh

oooooooh

oh no

no no no

I had to explain that particular banana skin to the MD 6 months later ... without sounding like a knob and dobbing the idiot in it

then I found out why there was tape on the laptop heat sink exhaust slots .. to stop the data from falling out when it was vertical in the bag. quick fix, hurried explanation then out the door to run to the server room so I could die laughing

did you make sure that you installed adobe reader before you left?

you're not a real IT guy unless you do

😏

this was like 20 years ago when I started the job 😃 I dont remember the boring day to day stuff .. I remember the standouts, like payroll servers shooting 10 feet of flame at me (ok it was probably less than a foot of flame but still), oh and learning that HPUX servers didnt do hardware raid, they did software raid ... and the IT director who'd been hired partially due to his HPUX knowledge, didnt know this either when he set up the server (also a payroll server though this was much later than the flamethrower server)

*should prob shut up now, he does work for the largest (albeit multibrand) fast food company on the planet*

hpux, you poor guy

it got replaced 4 years ago .. with a windows / sql server :\

lol

hpux probably ran for 15 years without a problem

let's switch to windows 😃

pretty much, no one really knew how to maintain it properly but it was a lot more stable and faster than what replaced it

Why does Tim practice how he titles his videos like news stand tabloids ?

Habit?