[โ€“] 3 points 1 month ago

When you're hired they ask if you want to push carts or work the foodcourt. Fuck me for it being the summer and 100 degrees thinking it would be better to be in the AC. Avoid the foodcourt. If you push carts and have a degree you can start applying for corporate rolls in 6-12 month. Costco historically never hires externally unless its a highly skilled position.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You basically have two options when you starts pushing carts or working in the food court. If you start in the food court you will never get out of the food court, ever. If you push carts you could be in a register or stocking in a few months. I worked the food court for 3 years and its close to second class. I mean its a really good place to work and the people are generally nice but I knew a guy that had been there for 10 years have to threaten quiting to get out of the food court and they still would call him back in whenever things got crazy.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago

    Ok, so my mega corp company's InfoSec decided to turn off network file sharing for company assets with unknown user which seems smart but the house of cards is held up by closet "desktop servers" from people that long ago left the company. The day this happens all systems Enterprise wide goes down for 48 hours. I'm talking 100k+ employees just unable to do anything, even unlock doors in buildings. They finally just revert and call it a day. Most thought it was a cyber attack but my IT guy asked me if I had any unknown assets and what their plan was. Told him this is exactly what would happen having found a few of these closet servers.

    Serious, there's an ancient Zebra printer that spits out some random barcode stickers every now and then and I thought to unplug it but doing so creates some weird interaction that will crash some serious dependencies.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 months ago

    OK, sure, theyre selling shovels but theyre lending a bajillion dollars in shovels for equity in unprofitable companies and when the bubble bursts they'll have no cash and pieces of paper in defunct companies. Unable to meet their operating costs they'll die or be pieced off. You can't run a company off of IOUs.

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