• faded (unregistered)

    I actualy had a cusotmer in Milton PA a long time ago. Milton is a podunk place on the Susquehana river. The down town gets flooded every few years. I always wonder why they keep rebuilding the town in the same spot.

  • David (unregistered) in reply to Paulo

    I briefly worked at Radio Shack and one of the more notable regulars was this weird guy with ratty /decaying clothing who just happened to have a Masters in computer engineer. I would never have guessed except he forget some parts he was picking up for a side project and his boss came by. It turns out he made over $150K a year, his boss had bought him a top of the line RV, and kept giving him free gift cards for clothes... but the guy just didn't get the clue.

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to Paulo

    Actually, we had a DBA at our last company who did just that. Had a whole setup in there, and would park it outside. He also worked inside 1/2 the time, but hey, he had everything he needed there and would use it for testing and development. He even ran CAT5 out the window to hook it up. Really sharp, with a bit of an ancient unix wizard look. It fit, somehow.

    He just showed up for the job(s). If he needed to stay years then he would go rent an apartment I figure, but he generally didn't. And it was damn cheap to live out of, I presume.

  • hhurricane (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    ahem....delaware!

  • aaa (unregistered) in reply to faded

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • David (unregistered)

    The last one sounds scarily close to being about me... Except my optimization was incredibly innovative and I got offered the job. Still it's making me rethink my interview examples!

  • 🤷 (unregistered)

    After having had the doubtful pleasure to be forced to work at a place that used Sybase, I can safely say that Sybase is in fact NOT a database company.

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