Frustrated, I quit my job in the best possible way...

[csnarpy]

Temp jobs are a double edged sword. On the one hand, you only have to put up with these people for a specified amount of time, but on the other hand, you have to put up with these people for a specified amount of time. Aye, there's the rub.

And I'll go one step further and say that temp jobs in IT are the worst kinds of temp jobs. Oh, you can go on about data entry all you like, but have you ever put up with the same person asking how to "do" an attachment ten times a day?

Now I graduated with honours in Computing Studies, I could build a server from scratch with little more than an Apache framework and a thimble full of Javascript. I don't tell you this because I'm proud, I tell you this because I'm murderously angry.

For instance, I should have spent the last week working on a better solution for our company's internal security protocols, in regards to power outage scenarios. But in fact, found myself resetting passwords, and telling people that shutting of their monitor did not equal restarting their computers. The point is my job is very, very beneath me. And yes, I know that all our jobs are beneath us, and yes I know I'm a nerd, and yes I know I'm an angry nerd, but to quote the esteemed scholar, Mr Geoffrey Lebowski, this aggression will not stand.

Now, it should be mentioned at this point that my boss is not a bad person. He's an old man, walks with a cane - looks like an older version of the posh british guy from The Great Escape. He also is very good at giving the appearance of being lovely, like your grandpa, or father christmas. The fact remains however, that the job stank.

Sorry. I should be more direct. I work at an amusement park. A fairly big amusement park. You've heard of it. Well I worked there. And my job - which really twelve people should have been doing - was to set up, debug, maintain and oversee the park's security. A pretty important job, you might say? Something worthy a decent paycheck perhaps?

Something worthy of realistic operating hours, perhaps? But no. Being a new park, the startup costs were simply to great to afford such luxuries as operating hours, fringe benefits or human loving decency. The cost of the garguantuan attractions alone precluded the idea of any of us mere staff drawing anything approaching a fair wage for a fair day's work.

So, I got approached by a competitor. This is surprisingly common in my field of work. Industrial espionage is depressingly par for the course in the American amusement park industry, despite what anyone might tell you. I'm not saying this is secret agent poo poo, I'm saying that frequently what you know is worth more than what you do.

Now I'd already signed a non-disclosure act and I'm sure a lot of armchair lawyer-goons are going to scream that what I did here was illegal or maybe even 'morally wrong', but try to understand I was being underpaid, overworked and hosed upon all for a company that was not only jeapordising my safety but, arguably, the safety of the park's patrons with cost-cutting, rationalisation and unnecessarily unsafe standard working practices. s.


So in this environment, try to understand that when a competitor makes contact offering me much needed rent money in exchange for some information - really in exchange for some experienced consultation, nothing more - I'm going to consider the proposition. In fact, a reasonable company wouldn't even see anything wrong with this. They own my work, not my future work, not my experience, certainly not any work that was directly born from my contributions to our IP.

And yes, I took with me some of our new tech - some of the embryonic research that made our company unique. I appreciate this stuff has value. I'm not saying I wasn't actively seeking to make back some of the money these guys owed me. But the fact is that Six Flags would kill for the kind of tech we're working on, and if my boss isn't going to pay for the hours or even use the technology responsibly, I'm going to have to take it elsewhere. Free market, right?

So that is exactly what I do. It was pretty easy given that the site was to be visited by outside consultants a couple of days beforehand, and every one was so distracted enough with this circus that I could leave my desk without too much bother.

But in order to get out of the park, the electric fences that kept in some of the living exhibits needed to be shut down. After that it would be a quick trot through the rain and a car drive to safety. I took the chance, took the embryos and in a whipped-cream can, fled them through the gates. What I didn't realise was the creatures were breeding of their own accord, and all because of the frog DNA. We thought we were gods. I was later killed by one of those spitting dinosaurs. You may have seen me in seinfeld.







(hope this wasn't already posted.....)

[valo403]

well that was a waste of time

[Diemenz]

http://forums.beyond.ca/st/295365/i-...way-possible-/

It was already posted on about 6 calgary area forums.
Except the swears have been edited out in your version

[csnarpy]

Originally Posted by Diemenz

http://forums.beyond.ca/st/295365/i-...way-possible-/

It was already posted on about 6 calgary area forums.
Except the swears have been edited out in your version

so in otherwords, NOT fata. but thanks....

[Option84]

Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there
I'll tell you how I become the prince of a town called Bel-Air

In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said you're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said "Fresh", and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought man forget it yo homes to Bel-Air

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'yo homes smell ya later'
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air

[Ren]

Why do I feel dirty and cheated like I just got rick rolled?

[Hack&Lube]

Harness the Power

[Lithium]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Harness the Power

This used to be my desktop background at work!

[Antithesis]

Cool story, bro.

[Huntingwhale]

[Madman]

I don't get it - I didn't think Callaway Park had dinosaurs.

[Boblobla]

Weak to poor imo.

I want my 2 minutes back.

[Resolute 14]

tl;dr

[keratosis]

Well, looks like I didn't miss anything by not getting past
the first couple of sentences.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Madman

I don't get it - I didn't think Callaway Park had dinosaurs.

I thought that was the point of that whole Flintstones theme that I never really understood. It's like they decided to make the whole place a Flintstones themed park and then gave up halfway and kept all the cheesy props and foam rocks out of budget concerns.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I thought that was the point of that whole Flintstones theme that I never really understood. It's like they decided to make the whole place a Flintstones themed park and then gave up halfway and kept all the cheesy props and foam rocks out of budget concerns.

It used to be an all-out Flintstones park, with Flintstones mascots walking around etc. Then for whatever reason (probably licensing agreement) the Flintstones left but they kind of left those old rides around.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

It used to be an all-out Flintstones park, with Flintstones mascots walking around etc. Then for whatever reason (probably licensing agreement) the Flintstones left but they kind of left those old rides around.

It was a full-on Hanna-Barbera park with the Flintstones as well as Scooby-Doo and Yogi Bear and the rest.

I think that lasted probably 5 years or so.

[onetwo_threefour]

It was shaving cream... that is all...

[Gozer]

Originally Posted by Madman

I don't get it - I didn't think Callaway Park had dinosaurs.

They've spared no expense.

[Azure]

I don't get it at all.