What do we do for jobs?

[erinfudge]

<--- Recent Comp Sci grad.
Hopefully soon to be employed programmer? ;-P

[Doostin]

great conversation in resevoir dogs but what my point was, if your not going to tip the driver for delivering the pizza, get off your fat lazy butt and go pick it up yourself. in my region we use our own cars to deliver, and we get paid minimum wage and a little bit more for gas. the reason people have these jobs is because of tips. without tips nobody would deliver for the crap wage we make on our paycheck. so if the driver is a complete idiot and cant' find your house and drives around for hours looking for it and doesn't bother to call you for directions, and by the time you get your pizza its stone cold, then by all means stiff them. but if the pizza is there within the time given on the phone, i suggest you think about the service they are providing you and tip them what you feel they deserve, which in a lot of drivers and other people in this industry would agree, 15% is just peachy.

/end rant

as for my other experience. tech jobs are not for me. i've had my fair share and dont plan on going back.

Dell Dimension home Tech support 2002 (L2)
Graphic Artist for startup web based company in honolulu hawaii (weather was the only good part about that job, pay was great except for the fact i was paying to live in hawaii)
Hardware Tech 10+ years
Computer Sales manager for a used computer store 3 years

customers who chew you out forever because they broke their computer or downloaded a virus but blame you can go to hell. i've had enough of that. the pay sucks, any kid out of highschool can fix pc's now so the wage never went up with years of experience, so i left it for something else.

Currently i'm planning on attending school to get my associates in Drafting, did 3 years of it about 15 years ago, and need a refresher after i had a 3 month trial preiod at a local Structural Engineering firm. i picked AutoCAD 2007 up again quick after 10 years of not touching it but i still need to catch up on all the bells and whistles, not to mention all the other new software the industry is using now from AutoDesk, like REVit and others.

[Ken]

I'm not saying that I don't tip or that tipping is bad. It's just surreal to expect people to tip always. Clients should not be your pay check providers, you have employers for that. Don't try to shift your problems onto your clients.

For all the people that expect others to tip by default because you don't earn much/enough:
Do you also tip 15% to the cashier in the supermarket? Or the people that put the wares on the shelves? If you don't tip them, you are a lazy ass and you should just get your stuff from the storage in the back yourself.
Do you also pay the poor kid that plucked your coffee beans?
Do you also pay the sweatshop person that made your T-shirt?
Do you also tip the mechanic in the garage when you get your car back after an airco was installed(lots of them get minimum wage or something close to it)?
Did you also tip the poor man who finished off your furniture?
Did you also pay your electronics salesmen for the person who was in the assembly-line?

It doesn't matter where they are in the commercial chain of events, they all get paid badly. Why don't you tip those people?

Tipping is optional in Belgium or The Netherlands. From the moment that people expect me to tip(always), I will stop tipping.

p.s.please feel free to move this to a new topic

[darkcaster]

what i tell family:

I run an online advertising company, I have contracts with dozens of lage websites and do some advertising work for them all

take from that what you will..

[Skuggomann]

what i tell family:

I run an online advertising company, I have contracts with dozens of lage websites and do some advertising work for them all

take from that what you will..

Porn advertising?

[Load46]

Not much I dont do for my company. I write accounting software in SCO from the 80's. I also build computer based survalience systems for our storage facilities and stores. I install and maintain the systems. Rather boreing really but I get plenty of time to nap so I can play wow all night! The company I work for bought every 7-2-11 with in 300 miles of Farmington NM and 20 Storage facilities and 1,000's of investment properties in 4 states.

[scottig]

I am a siding/roofing contractor :thumbup: in the atlanta area.

[Caspian]

what i tell family:

I run an online advertising company, I have contracts with dozens of lage websites and do some advertising work for them all

take from that what you will..

Porn advertising?that was along the lines of my guess

[Temor]

I am a consultant specializing in enterprise application integration for a software company. My primary area of expertise involves healthcare transaction data which if anyone knows about enterprise application integration in healthcare, this would mean I work with HL7 patient messages mostly. Most of my work involves travelling around the U.S. to different healthcare institutions but some is done remotely working from home. I do upgrades, configuration, training and some programming in C++.

[suprahunter]

male nurse bsn :P~

[Fizzler]

I work in the Telecommunications industry specifically for a company that designs and manufactures Test and Measurement instruments. I am an engineer working from home but traveling 80% of the month which eats into my gaming time for sure. I basically go in to consult at companies that are looking for test solutions. It is actually a very fun job in that one day I might be at Google or the Boeing Weapon Center and the next day some mom and pops telco in Western Kansas.

[moji]

Tattoo Artist.

I'm on forums at work whenever I'm waiting for appointments, or like right now, sitting in my station waiting for the next walk in. Everyone makes fun of me for being such a geek, but everyone is a geek in some way.

Man I should be drawing right now, but screw it.

[Bachner]

IT admin and operations assistant at a vending company.

[shroomduck]

Network Infrastructure Engineer, specializing in Voip and WAN technologies/Lan secuirty

only 22 :)

[wougoose]

Ruby/Rails developer for a small company in SF :)

[Savage]

College Student / Work at a Wholesale store as a cashier. :thumbsup:

[Hetzer]

Cartographer, i maintian the citys data base and gis system. thrilling stuff....

[jrdn]

:thumbsup:

[Zub]

i'm 34, won $10,554,324 (australian) in January, and am now retired.

[Nogs]

Damn, great win there matey.

Anyway Im 33, and full time carer for two of my children who saddly have special needs (autism & ADHD ) Gives me the days to myself well there in school, evening can be.....S.T.R.E.S.S.F.U.L.......sometimes they're okay though. I used to be an IT Network Admin and Software Engineer till having to quit work.

Anyways thats me.

[Zub]

i'm 34, won $10,554,324 (australian) in January, and am now retired.
Sorry, was day dreaming.

I work for a software company (ex BusinessObjects, now SAP) as customer assurance/escalations engineer. And expecting my first kid in 5 weeks ;)
-Zub

[Batato]

ATM I am a programmer/software consultant for a International Organization . I have a degree on Computer Science. 31 years old.