What do we do for jobs?

[Eteocles]

Yeah...lord some of the things I see...thankfully we don't process for porn companies so no dealing with shemale bangers disputes ;p But we do process for places like Steam, Gravity(Ragnarok Online's company) among many others...my first few months I didn't like half the shit I saw either, but thanks to Visa/MC's processing rules if the cardholder submits the right info we have to automatically debit it and then the Merchant's got 45 days to prove 'em wrong =\ I feel so bad for some of 'em but I don't have much of a choice, I'm the messenger basically...s'why I took up the Good Faith(last chance/after 45 days're up) work queues, helps a little to give merchants that last shot before they go after the cardholder themselves if the bank says no.

Though that's not to say some are asking for it either...if you ever own a non-online business, DO NOT SELL A DAMN THING WITHOUT GETTING THE SIGNATURE AND CARD IMPRINT OR SWIPE. Soooo many don't bother and it fucks them in the end. You get a signature and you're golden in most non-Airline fraud cases. And if you buy shit online, actually READ the "Click to accept" bullshit they give you; that alone can return the chargeback to the bank on non-fraud cases :p

Luckily for our merchants though Pinot, it's been policy since about 1 year ago to represent any chargeback a merchant responds to around the "5 days left" mark if there's anything remotely useable, in an attempt to help out the Merchants being screwed around like you mentioned. Doesn't mean the greedy bastards won't come back in on you in Arbitration though, but even if that happens there's always Good Faith then good old fashioned Collection Agencies ;p

(And in that hotel example above, the manager was pissed because he sent us a response within 3 days of the debit...useless information, we sent him a letter asking for specific info such as anything signed by the cardholder to validate the charge, he sends us the same shit again, we send another letter bolding what we NEED according to visa and stating a picture of the charges isn't going to help since we know what was charged already, and the THIRD time he sent us the SAME shit. That's when we had to call him up and the above happened.)

Yeah, it's quite the business. lol; and as I said, I specifically avoided the phone team, I was just listening in...the only people I ever spend time on the phone with are the banks trying to get Good Faith stuff taken care of

[Simulacra]

I'm a IT Contractor Java/C#/Sybase/Sql Server. I mostly work for filthy merchant banks to help them extract as much money as possible from their unsuspecting clients by writing systems they don't really need and charging them for the privilage. I've been in the industry for over 20 years - no degree and I even dropped out of high school. I got my start in a mining company, the boss called out from his office and asked if anyone wanted to be a programmer, I put my hand up and never looked back. 20 years later I make AU85 per hour and generally work 40 to 45 hours per week, of which 10 would be reading these forums lol.

[junx]

I guess my job would be being lucky. I was one of the first 20 hires at Amazon.com(I'm still haunted by Jeff Bezos laugh) and then later managed to stumble into a somewhat ground floor position at Google(I worked in Labs). I left both companies with large stock options when the companies got too cult like for my taste. I'm currently doing contract work with NY government.

[Hoho]

I'm a C++ programmer writing some sonar software atm. Before that I wrote some Java/PL/SQL/Apex stuff for Estonian central bank.

[Gallo]

I guess my job would be being lucky. I was one of the first 20 hires at Amazon.com(I'm still haunted by Jeff Bezos laugh) and then later managed to stumble into a somewhat ground floor position at Google(I worked in Labs). I left both companies with large stock options when the companies got too cult like for my taste. I'm currently doing contract work with NY government.

Those stock options must be treating you pretty well

[Rhod]

15 Years US Air Force Special Operations (it stopped being fun for some reason), Then became a Deputy Sheriff (13 years) where I was a Cybercrimes Investigator and SWAT Certified (Room entry, Breaching, etc) was on my way to K9 and Sniper but life threw me a curve and I crippled my shoulder on a call of a burglary alarm. So now I'm unemployed and looking for work with the exceptions of my part time jobs that pays most of the bills and allows me to box when I have time.

Correctional Officer - Clinical Care, Maximum Security,

and a full time student studying business and computers.

Nice to see some other LE people. I'm currently an Investigator with a mid-size suburban department. A few of us play Wow, and 2 of us are multi-boxers.

[Molt]

I'm a research engineer for the BBC, nice organisation to work for and get to play with shiny toys.

Very nice to see the range of skills we multiboxers have in real life, interesting to know what others do and also a nice retort to the "All multiboxers are losers who live in their mother's basement" style quips.

[briyan]

I do IT/support and some software development for a furniture wholesaler. Work from home, make about $85k salary which is pretty solid here in my home state of Colorado. I am 26 yrs old, however, and my inner entrepreneur is going crazy; I am taking steps toward launching my own online business, complete with a big pay cut (initially) and more enjoyment (I hope)

[Dinkydau]

Retired Army Warrant Officer - Air Defense systems was my speciallity, but moved into the automation support field for the Army's logistical systems before I got out. I've been a computer geek ever since I was trying to load all the drivers into high memory of DOS 6.2 to play games.

Still working as a contractor to the Army here on beautiful Fort Bragg. Airborne!

Johnny

[deidriana]

wow... I work tech support at the cable company, Teir 2... wich means idiots are already pissed off by the idiot agents they talked to before me... And then they want to act like i am a retard because i'm a girl. After reading this post and seeing the tons of people out there with 'real' jobs makes me want to actually go back to school. I am turning 21 this month and have been going back and forth on what I want to do in life in general. There is a new game development program here i was wanting to get into, I took a few classes in it but work got in the way and... lets say I like to eat. I was wondering if there are any game coders/graphics/designers with any regrets or wishes. Any body want to give me an idea for a cool job? I like art and I like logic... And i dont want to be an architect.... Oh and I will begin 5boxin my locks as soon as i get the accounts and my old pc ghosted to run 2 of the accounts so i am excited about that.