gaffa2002 wrote on 2023-05-29, 13:53:

When I was being interviewed they said they were specialized in fetish, which 18 year old me innocently though was about people […]
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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote on 2023-05-29, 12:51:

Ah, I see. The good old persuasion instead of harmful URLs.

What kind of adult contents did the company offer, by the way? Could you tell us more details?

When I was being interviewed they said they were specialized in fetish, which 18 year old me innocently though was about people wearing leather and whipping each other. I was wrong, VERY wrong 🤣. Their categories included:
- People taking a dump on each other, and playing with the stuff.
- Farting
- Vomiting
- Spitting
- Golden shower
- FIlthy/bad smelling feet
- Combinations of the above

Have you ever thought of taking a dump in a blender, add vomit, some urine and make a delicious shake to share with your friends? Well, somebody already did... and made a movie out of it 🙁. Usually at the end of such videos people would look like Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting the Predator.

Aside from the more "messy" categories above, there was some other specific stuff like:

-People standing or sitting over other people's heads
-People having their stomachs punched (punched hard! Like the opening scene in Double Dragon)
-Suffocation, people being strangled or drowned, sometimes both.
-Dead people, which were actresses pretending to be dead, but bizarre nonetheless. They called this category Necrobabes 🤣

They did the whole process as well, I mean, they produced the movies and pictures, hired actors and used studios... Believe it or not there was a lot of investment behind it and I got surprised that such market even existed. The company was physically located in Brazil, but the vast majority of customers were from US and Europe.
Despite the bizarre line of business, it was legit and looked no different than any office I worked until now. Didn't stay long as already mentioned but they ended up out of business sometime later, probably because internet became accessible and people could find similar stuff for free.

I don't know how to respond to this. That's the most horrifying post I've read in years 🙁 , I think I would've bolted out of that interview.

OldGameGlitches wrote on 2023-05-29, 14:10:

I don't know how to respond to this. That's the most horrifying post I've read in years 🙁 , I think I would've bolted out of that interview.

Looking at the bright side, at least that job was somehow bringing happiness and joy to some (very specific) people
Nowadays I work for the tech industry, focused in telecommunications (internet/TV/phone providers). In other words, my job now only brings sadness and misery to all people 🤣.

gaffa2002 wrote on 2023-05-29, 14:24:

OldGameGlitches wrote on 2023-05-29, 14:10:

I don't know how to respond to this. That's the most horrifying post I've read in years 🙁 , I think I would've bolted out of that interview.

Looking at the bright side, at least that job was somehow bringing happiness and joy to some (very specific) people
Nowadays I work for the communication industry (internet/TV/phone providers) and help them bring sadness and misery to people 🤣.

Lol. I still have to eat breakfast and I'm nauseous 🙁

I don't think any of us could beat that job.

I haven't actually had a "real" IT job. I fixed a few computers, but I never wanted to do it full-time. I got desperate enough to try around 2016, but I got a different job at about the same time that I ragequit the A+ because so much stuff on the practice test and study material was completely wrong. It gave me the feeling that nobody at CompTIA has seen the inside of a computer (or even the back of a computer, considering that their study material listed USB as a legacy port and they seem to think the UK doesn't use HDMI). All that test taught me was that ESD gloves exist, which look even more pointless to me than those wireless wrist straps that were all over eBay a few years ago. I don't see how they can possibly protect against ESD (you still aren't grounded), they won't even keep your hands clean because they're fabric, and you lose some level of sensitivity to touch through gloves.

I wonder if my current impostor syndrome as an engineer is an improvement. I'm sure it is.

My first computer-related job was "programming" alarm panels over a modem at a security company. That was a very hectic, frustrating job, because the guy who trained me had some kind of mental breakdown and quit soon after I started, and so it was just me having to handle requests from 5-6 alarm technicians all over the place installing alarm systems. It was like a call center job. From the minute I arrived, until the minute I left (excluding lunchtime), it was just neverending work, three phones ringing constantly while I was connecting to 2-3 alarm panels over our modems.

From there I worked in IT for another 10 years in various positions (I have been working in a completely different field for 10+ years after that), some more stressful than others, but it really taught me a lot about how to deal with frustrated end users.

First computer related job was working as a phone tech for Gateway 2000 through an outsourcer. I didn't work directly for GW2K, but worked for a company they hired. It was a call center that held, I don't know, 400 people or so.

It was really eye-opening to see first hand just how little many of the people there knew, and they were the ones answering calls at the other end of the big tech support hotline queue. I distinctly remember sitting in on a call when I first started there to "learn". I ended up helping the guy with this customer's modem because he had no idea how to troubleshoot it.

My least favorite call ever was trying to walk someone through some setting in BIOS in a, at that time, older computer. The worst part is they were using TDD and there was no way to tell them to stop "talking". They would read the entire BIOS screen every time. That call lasted hours....it makes me anxious just thinking about it 25 years later.

lti wrote on 2023-06-01, 01:39:

I wonder if my current impostor syndrome as an engineer is an improvement. I'm sure it is.

In my opinion having a little bit of impostor syndrome is good, an indicator that you are genuinely trying to understand what you are doing.

That might be right, but there are a lot of times when I feel so clueless that wonder how I got this far.

Now reading that line in my last post makes it sound like I don't like IT people in general. I don't think I would like the helpdesk, but what comes after it sounds interesting.

I felt that way for years. Helpdesk wasn’t my dream either, but it taught me how to ask better questions and spot patterns fast. I moved into network ops after I started documenting fixes and shadowing the folks who handled escalations. That’s when the impostor thing eased up a bit, because I finally had time to go deep instead of sprinting call to call.

My first computer job was on a small ISP help desk. Spent nights walking folks through modem setups, NIC drivers, and weird routing glitches. The busiest days were citywide outages, juggling two lines and a chat, logging every call, then doing QA on my own tickets later. It taught me to keep calm, script the basics, and document everything like a hawk. We eventually ditched the creaky PBX for a cloud call center. Browser calling and a softphone made remote shifts easy, IVR/queues trimmed wait times, and call recording plus live coaching helped training. Real-time stats were clutch during spikes.

Doing repairs, setups, raw HTML web design, and house/business-calls for my small town ISP, circa early 1990's. 😀

Started out as a software engineer at a company that made advert booking and management software for newspapers. My two most memorable moments were putting The Scotsman newspapers balance sheet out by £1m - I’d done everything right testing a bug fix but it exposed another bug in the database and caused quite a commotion in the office…

The other, I was doing an upgrade at I think the Scarborough Evening News when the news about Jill Dando https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Dando came in late afternoon and the call went out to stop the presses, which was a really big deal back then.

Some good times though, the weekend upgrades were usually very busy but very much work hard, play hard, and all expenses paid! And we had great fun with networked multiplayer games at lunchtimes - Quake2/3, C&C Tiberian Sun etc.

My first job with computers was as a sales person for an online retailer that advertised Computer Shopper magazine. As a very introverted person and someone who despises sales people, I didn't do very well at the job. I wanted to move into the build department but management wouldn't let me for some reason. I ended up getting fired for not generating enough in sales.

My first job involving computers was at a local brewery in the office.
My job was basically to type out letters and other dictated notes into word.

The company had text formatting rules that were...
So we had to double space between words which was ok, it meant you had to relearn typing, but it was doable but when one of the other office workers figured out you could use find/replace to turn a single space into a double space with one click we were told it will lead to errors in formatting and so we were not allowed to do it.

Basically they tried to make it as difficult as possible to do the job.
I ended up walking out. I got sick of it all one day after being told we were not allowed to have any food or drink on the desk at all, even if you do not intend on consuming it. I just stood up grabbed my coat and left.
I remember listening to my walkman walking down Grafton street thinking thank god its over.

I dont remember the computer itself, I do rememeber you had to type win to get to Windows to start the word processing program.
This was in the early 90s.