ORLY? SRSLY?

[rmd]

wait, what? msft is looking for a sr network engineer to work out of the waltham, ma, office?

i am ... intrigued by this possibility.

Comments

[muffyjo]

Wait...don't you already have the T-Shirt? :)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

well, the t-shirts are starting to wear out...

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Hey, what's old is new...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i'm positively VINTAGE. :)

[cz_unit]

As long as they give you the proper vacation and such.

C

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that 9 years means I've lost my seniority. :)

[cz_unit]

Wow. That long since you lived in (bot)hell?

Times change.

C

[rmd.livejournal.com]

time keeps passing at one second per second.

[cz_unit]

And the black train keeps coming towards me, at one second per second.

I wonder if I'm stepping off the tracks or on the tracks. Fired the big serious flare gun due to work stuff, things are popping up.

I do wonder though...

[lioritgioret.livejournal.com]

I read that as "proper vaccination"...

[fetish666.livejournal.com]

hmmm... waltham... msft...
http://www.thesteampunkempire.com/group/newenglandsteampunkalliance/forum/topics/steampunk-festival-at-the-1?commentId=2442691:Comment:97984&groupId=2442691:Group:21542

i foresee steampunk being the way msft heads next... really :)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

interesting!

one of the cool bits of info I picked up at Arisia is that Nisi Shaw (http://www.sfwa.org/members/shawl/) is working on a steampunk book ... set in the Congo, where the Victorian era got all its rubber for gaskets and such. (What would normally have been the Belgian Congo, but I'm not sure Leopold went and committed crimes against humanity down there in Nisi's alternate history.) Which is full of all kinds of interesting possibilities.

[fetish666.livejournal.com]

i totally want to read this!

[tb]

I want to read this book! Nisi rawks, both style and concept.

I also want the msft thang to work out the best way it can for you.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

It's kind of frotz's fault -- while chatting, msft and google as potential employers came up and I explained that neither was looking for netnerds afaict. After he left, I figured I'd check that this was still the case since it had been a few months, and sure enough there was a position posted just about 2 weeks ago at msft waltham.

And now I'm dropping lines to some folks I still know there asking what's up with it.

[flit.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be so sure with Google either; the rate at which they seem to want folks with my (ancient) SA-with-a-side-of-network resume implies that they could use a few pure netnerds in the mix.

[flit.livejournal.com]

Oh but they might want you to move, boo.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

No relocation for me.

If I'm unemployed for a few years, I might consider it, but for now, it's not on the table.

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

It for go....