What Did You Do At Work Today?
 

I flipped 2 85" TVs out of the ceiling. There's one in the video below.

https://youtu.be/VbF_bIRe7NY

I will never be rich enough to live there, or own a TV that big.

Those living in places like that are most likely shameless showboats, and that screen makes me think of the Superbowl commercial advertising the first Macintosh. Not so much the screen itself, but what was done to it.

I did something at my job... to make my boss angry.

At least you have a boss. ;)

Personally I've been unemployed for a year, unable to find anyone to hire me. And it's been absolutely a nightmare as my credit debt has gotten so high, I might have to sell my car in 2 months.

Sounds a lot like my region. It's probably better to concentrate on getting out of there and just leave it to the retirees.

Honestly, I want to resign today. But when I read your post, maybe I just need to be more patient with my boss. Nowadays it's really hard to look for jobs that suit your taste.

Retired. No boss, no jerk co-workers, no alarm clock!

What do you do? I got laid off a few months back and have been able to keep myself afloat with freelance work. Wasn't easy at first, especially finding clients. But all it takes is one, and if you do a good job, they'll keep you busy and possibly refer you to others! :thmbsp:

Been working from home for the last 7 1/2 years online. Not a bad gig at all, but it has its ups and downs. Some days you live at the office, some days you work from your house.

John sure has an interesting job, integrating (new) AV equipment. I help keep the electricians of our state institutions safe by managing infrastructure improvements.

The only real excitement besides checking VK, is showing up after a event to analyze a high-voltage power distribution failure, sometimes before the smoke has cleared. :)

I make up void for that by working on tube electronics.

I had worked total 7 years doing tech related jobs, support, PC repair, even refurbishing PCB's off of HP printers.. Anything electronics is my thing, or even PC repair and stuff.

What I'm finding is no one calls back, or at worse, you get signed up for junk mail just by trying to apply.. And now that I've been unemployed for a year, they look at the gap.

Naturally. I say ditch Ben Kenobi and find yourself a Yoda. Better than having the same problem come up again and again working for a series of rich dummies for chump change.

I'm not sure what that first part means but it was used in a similar context on Corner Gas.

Might be worth wile to get a job at a fast food joint or some other "we hire anyone" type of job in the meantime (grab the best one you can find)....That way when they see your current employer and the last technical one you can say..."The job search was taking too long so I had to do something to keep the bills paid"....As my friend says "it's easier to get a job when you have a job."

Kamakiri is lucky...He don't have no stinkin' commute! I had a fairly decent commute ~30min one short optional leg of highway 45-50MPH speed limits most of the way and reasonably sane traffic levels....Till spring when the F'n Wisconsin DOT started working on every damn route between home and work. They decided to replace an overpass on Capital Dr. (major non-highway artery) and crunch the east bound (to work direction) down to 1 lane....I started taking county K as a more direct alternate and it worked well (granted the colosal bottle neck caused by the light at county F sucks), then those morons decided to to close and add a detour to K so I went back to capital....That is a crap shoot. A couple of weeks ago I94 closed from a pileup and people were dumping on to capital at the 1 lane bottle neck creating such a backup that my commute was almost double and I was 5 min late before I even got in to the 1 lane zone....Now those dummies closed my off ramp on the highway segment I use to make some time in the morning, and some of the roads I take during lunch and leaving work are crowded detour/construction roads too. ...I've been seriously thinking about writing an angry letter to the DOT...What kind of morons do construction on a road then it's closest parallel alternate at the same time?...Much worse and they may as well erect a wall between home and work.
If I had more time on my hands I swear I'd invent a practical flying car...

I was actually planning on applying for an Amazon at home work position after I get my general class license this weekend.

Then I wouldn't have to put miles on my aging Chevy which is starting to rust through in every corner now.

That could work. What would you be doing?

I just renewed my driver's license which felt like work because of the trip to the DMV, the wait and the trip back. Poorly-designed infrastructure, more often than not it causes significant delays. As Brent LeRoy once said "It was harder than it should have been but not harder than I expected".

I worked overtime and missed my favorite show! I need to meet the deadline.

It's a lousy situation to be in, that's for sure. I would suggest getting a copy of "What Color is Your Parachute" and giving it a serious read. There's a reason why people call it the definitive book on finding a job!

I work from home...(semi-retired...or retarded). I worked on an early 50's Fender Super that I had rebuilt several years earlier.
It needed new output tubes and a 1N4007 diode that had replaced a selenium stink bomb.

http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1499987190
http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1499987190

Another job site I visited today... This installation was done in 2014 with a Sony 85". This one is cool for way different reasons than the 1st. The cabinet was custom made for this TV (I'm sure the cabinet was twice as expensive as the TV). This thing really reminds me of an old school TV with the beautiful wooden cabinet.

http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5eppdits.jpg

The Photobucket image...


http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1500010783

I'm guessing you missed the memo: http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=269246

If I can eventually find the time, and if my home computer works correctly after last night's annoyance*, I plan to migrate all my bucket-photos to my flicker account and go through my old posts and replace the images with stuff from flicker. The bucket is dead to me....They were money grubbers that I was not going to pay before, but now that they've killed external hosting they can go outa business for all I care.:thumbsdn:

*After slowing to a crawl yesterday, and then making me wait over 1.5 hours while it installed updates during a restart I finally gave up on my laptop and went to bed....I wanted to email some schematic docs to help a new member, but my rig was giving me too many problems to fire off an email.:thumbsdn::sigh: Darn thing kept me up late, since I normally look at stuff on the web to get to sleep, and I did not want it doing stuff unsupervised. Either windows 10 installed a service pack, the longest freaking update in history, or I've got a virus on my home rig.....I Think I'll run my anti-virus software once I get home.:scratch2:

Probably the creators update - they got me on Tuesday, and reset a lot of preferences, much to my surprise. Had to turn off Cortana, make something else the default browser (Edge? YUK.) and tell it where my network drives were, and then wait until it started to index them - so I could defeat the indexing. Yes, 30 years after Windows rescued some of us, we need rescuing from Windows...

DOS 3.3, DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, WinXP, WinVista, Win7, Win10...make them stop, please!!

And......
 

What about Win8 and Win8.1 ?

There are lots more versions than than those, i.e the first version of 95 which couldn't use the FAT32 file system and had a myriad of other problems, 95A which wasn't much different, then 95 OSR2, 2.1 and 2.5 which were only available to OEMs. The first release of 98 wasn't much more than 95 OSR2.5 made available in a retail package; USB support was still pretty dodgy. This was corrected for 98SE. I guess versions older than 3.1 were not very widely used. I used to have Windows 3.0 on 5.25" floppies, installed it just for kicks but never really used it. I just remembered there were several versions of NT as well, XP basically being one of them released a few years too late. Considering what just happened to 10, I'm glad I'm still on 7 Pro.

A friend was a beta tester/got a production copy for free, and hated it.

I had to jump to Windows 10 from Vista, as IE9 became the most hated browser out there, with an increasing number of sites that either blocked it, or pop-upped you into oblivion. It's the reason I'll NEVER order again from All Electronics. Their website always popped up a dialog box one EVERY page with "update your browser for best viewing" when using IE9, yet the underlying code of their site never changed. Just attitude. When I complained, they told me where to go, so I did. Pure asinine, "we-know-better-than-you" umpti-ness. I proved them wrong with an order, and cancelled the order with a "see, folks with IE9 get along just fine with your website, so why the attitude?" Note to world: HTML5, XML, XHTML and TLS all work with IE9 - quit listening to W3, Kaspersky and Google.

When Google, Reuters and CNET all started with the same BS, I jumped to Win10 from Win Vista - by way of a new Acer computer with Intel i5 processor, 1TB hard drive, 8GB memory, 9 USB ports and full Office 2013 Standard - 'twas being dumped by Walmart for 200 dollars because it shipped with Win7, which I promptly upgraded to Win10...so I missed the 8/8.1 fiasco altogether. With ClassicShell, she acts like a WINXP speed demon, and gives me a browser others can live with. I just wish some Office functionality still worked - it does let me use Office 2007 alongside, no problems.

You both missed WIN Me - Millenium Edition, 98 with "media center" and messenger enabled all the freaking time. Shipped with minimum memory, they bogged down with anything beyond Adobe Acrobat reader installed. Even at 512MB, the OS bogged down. Blue screens were common as well - I never had it, but a dear friend (who's husband WON the computer and WinME) had it, and I was their guru. Wipe the IE and AOL cache for them and it worked okay for a while....

Crap, I had it in there but went through so many edits I omitted it altogether. I never used that one fortunately. System restore was so troublesome it would fill the hard drive with useless files and crash the system. There is a way to remove the restore files/folders and create a fake one so ME wouldn't re-create it, I'll have to see if I can find it again.

Funny, the thread hijack, but I did do some electronic work today - built a grid cap lead for my TV-7 tester, and tried to convert an Excel spreadsheet to an HTML table, but with distractions, I blew it.

I've got parts that I'm slowly trying to get inventoried. I don't like using Excel, but don't want to scrap the 1300 item listing, so I figured I'd put it on a website where I can access it from work and home, always knowing what I've got should the need arise 24/7. I tried all the tutorials on the web I could find, but can't get it to work with that many cells and rows. I can convert to PDF and then to an HTML table, but it doesn't like more than a few dozen characters per cell. I tried the CSV method, and even an Access table to HTML with less than desirable results. I probably should just get to typing in Frontpage or Bluefish and be done. I can always add more columns....

There is nothing more frustrating that to find I had a part that someone needed, but I was beaten to the task by someone else, simply because I had no way of checking while I was at work...

Maybe get a portable copy of LibreOffice and run it from a USB drive..and keep the XLS file. :scratch2::scratch2:

:scratch2:hmm, define "at work"...
I'm kinda...self employed at the moment.:yes: Today I mowed 3 lawns... Does that count?:D Also laid some gravel for someone. Yesterday, I was working on tractors and pushmower's.

Been doing some construction work for a small company, but I plan on quitting that job. I don't need it, or the bull-s**t that seems to be coming from/with it.:grumpy:

Spot on. God damn the creator's update....Damn thing filled my C drive (~100MB free space)....Even after deleting the 'old os' files I've only got 6GB free and it keeps complaining low memory and forcing firefox to close....I'm not amused. :grr:

Soon I'm going to have to juggle space on my spare drives make an image of my hard drive then re-image/resize this drive to increase the size of the C partition...I've done it before (when I upgraded this rig to an SSD), but did not think I'd need to again...I'm probably going to tack another 50GB onto my C so this won't happen again too soon. When I went to SSD I intentionally left ~1/3 to 1/2 of my newer bigger drive un-partitioned and empty...Both for this scenario and to follow a rule I heard that SSDs that never are more than half full have longer service life.

This reminds me of a friend who got a 40GB SSD for win, win filled it in a few months, he got a bigger one, it happened again, and he went back to disk....
Windows seriously needs to limit/stop drive filling updates or at least build in a tool to allow us to change the size of our C partitions more conveniently....An update should not amount to sabotage!


It is sad two once favorite software products (Windows and Firefox) that ~3-5 years ago were rock stable for me have degraded to crap through 'upgrades'....

Don't have it. Don't want it. Can't see using it. Definitely WON"T recommend it! When my WIN7 dies I'll go to Linux as I've already done with four other computers. M$ can take a long walk off a short pier!!! (WIN10 REQUIRES an internet connection!!! UGH!!)

"What Did You Do At Work Today?"

with a generous retirement ........NOT but before that I couldn't one day in here anyway:tongue:

Win 10 is free ,EZ & legal if you know how even outside of the old free upgrade window now .

you are on the web NOW, PC I presume ????????

Win 10 can run fine without an MS account just no window UWP store privileges or UWP outlook email client ,thats all.

If you don't use use UWP windows runtime apps
beyond the defaults who cares ? ,

Won 7x64 sp1 is past its time and if you are running win7 x32 on ancient PC y you need a new one long time time ago or a mobile or make a NIX box with a PC with many ignorant windows hater NIX heads and a dying platform or play it smart with free Windows 10 activated ,faster ,more secure & legal how you want it & the W10 nagware & privacy [off] or [on] ,not what you think within your misconceptions here :smoke: