I hated working as a programmer at this metal castings place.  The plant itself was pretty cool, but my working conditions sucked.  I had to clock in at 7:30.  1 minute late and I was docked 15 min of pay.  Lunchtime was between 12:00 and 1:00.  If you clocked in at 1:01, 15 min of pay gone.  If you left at 12:25, you had to be back at 1:00.  If you worked through lunch, you were docked 1 hour of pay for lunch.  If you took lunch, you had to clock out.

My boss was diagnosed with bipolar about a month after I left.  That explained a lot.

I worked in a largish office, but became much smaller when crammed in with 7 women, 5 of whom were bona fide white trash.  They spent the whole time flirting with the floor workers and avoiding the fathers of their love-children.  No, I'm not exaggerating.

I was the only programmer, their jobs were typing up requests for data.  They would complain that I wasn't working as hard as them because I was typing as much, and I would just "stare at the screen" all day.  I started to explain what thinking was, but I quickly gave up.

Oh, and to top it all off, the girl whose desk was facing mine (open floor plan, no cube walls, just desks pushed up against each other) talked incessantly with a West Virginia accent.  No, she wasn't cute.  I wore my ear plugs all the time.  Radio/music, even w/ headphones, was explicitly forbidden.

I didn't have a CD drive in my computer.  I had to walk halfway across the plant (about 3 blocks), put the CD in the shared drive, and run back to my desk to use it, hoping that someone didn't eject the CD while I was in transit.

My bosses boss was a major egolomaniac.  He was really short and was always try to puff himself up to look better.  He claimed he was a database god, but had no idea what a primary key was. 

The databases were full of misspellings and inconsistencies, so queries were a huge mess.  It was my first full-time job, so I stayed much longer than I should have, because I didn't know any better.

Can I prevail upon someone with access to add the following quote to the sidebar..

"I started to explain what thinking was, but I quickly gave up."

Thankee.

replying to this thread http://crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=386&Posts=9 caused this whole rant to well up inside me.

Damn, he's out-ranted me in lesser words.
It has to go into the sidebar.

I get a 404 error for that link

the link works in IE.  *shrug*  it's Philo's thread about finding out the superstar programmer was less than stellar.

WFM too.

Doesnt work in FF or IE at all.
Nathan, it's from your cache.

Works fine here.

Vineet, you are an incredible idiot.

Duh, I flush my cache everyday; so I know the link doesnt work at all.

I've never clicked the link before.  It was blue.  Therefore, it couldn't be in my cache.  It worked fine for me.

Are you trying to troll, or something?  Because you're no good at that either.

Grrr..
DNS prob.
This link should work - http://crazyontap.codaris.com/topic.php?TopicId=386

It links to crazyontap.com which seems to have some dns problems..
This should be the right one.
http://crazyontap.codaris.com/topic.php?TopicId=386&Posts=9

Morons ;)

DNS on www.crazyontap.com is still ummm flaky.

"I've never clicked the link before.  It was blue."

Apparently, my boss would have said the same thing. I expected a better answer from a person of your calibre.

If it's not in my history, Vineet sweety, it can't be in my cache.

You can change the color of visited links to blue and still claim the same. I'm not impressed by your writing today; it's down a few notches. Or maybe it's that tummy upset again.

I nominate Vineet as most obtuse user of the day.

Yay! Finally I get to figure in the sidebar.

Obtuse is not a good thing, its certainly not something to aspire to which to aspire.

Gah, interrupted in mid edit.

We should have a way to rollback what we wrote.

Nah, the embarrassment is worth more than the cleanliness, unless its my site of course and I can edit to my heart's content.

Top quality rant.