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1. runjak+Q9[view] [source] 2024-01-03 19:33:58
>>public+(OP)
I don't have much helpful to add, but I had a colleague who had a bad night, acquired some felony charges for a firearm-related assault and they got fired/blacklisted for a few years.

Subsequently, they did IT contract work behind the scenes with small contractors, kept in touch with his professional network, was super helpful to the rest of us, and after serious concerns and much debate, got back into his prior career with a new employer.

I don't even know how, because normally a felony would be a no-hire, but he pulled it off, likely because he was so helpful and giving to his professional network throughout this mess.

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2. justso+Eg[view] [source] 2024-01-03 20:06:00
>>runjak+Q9
I've had four great tech jobs since I paroled ... I'm old. You want windows 3.11 for workgroups, or you want server 2019. you want *nix, you want macos, I'm into it all. kubernetes, virtualization, hell I used to run vmware GSX for companies before ESX existed. My resume is very strong, and my skills are good. and.... it isn't enough. not so far. it's going to take someone who knows from the start, somehow.

I've made companies a lot of money in my lifetime. I worked at places like exodus communications, netapp, netcom, @home. Some old names people prolly recognize. I specialize in storage, you want ceph? Ceph and I get along great. My last cluster was over 2 PB and it started out just 150TB.

It's simple in the end, I work for companies, solve their problems, make us all money. Should be simple right?

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3. jfray2+eF[view] [source] 2024-01-03 22:18:28
>>justso+Eg
hello fellow excommie!
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4. justso+xt1[view] [source] 2024-01-04 06:24:27
>>jfray2+eF
haha. nc1895 here. I was hella late to the game. but you may even remember me, I ran abuse@netcom.com and ix.netcom.com. I am keman-the-klueless, anti-spammers once called me. I went to abuse@home.net after ICG bought us out. Then after @home went under, I went on to abuse@exodus.net. Back in the spam fighting days before adaptive intelligent filters, it was all hard work of reading email headers, tracing things back, finding the user, and closing out their account.
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