nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0q2wkcw49x5vpxsp4y8usuz0jx64tv2rvnfxpy54wrqcsvkuywcqncnhxp it's not the world's greatest facility but it has a pet cat and it's cheap and it's ne...
Nearby and cheap are both excellent qualities. ALSO HAS A PET CAT?! I do not have sufficient words of awesomeness. Curiosity piqued!
I don't even remember the last time I had badge access to a DC anywhere, maybe around 2016? I have been somewhere beyond alt.sysadmin.recovery BOFH levels of burnout for a while.
Yet, once upon a time? I was one of five sysadmins in the ops group as Sauce Labs, which (again, at the time) ran the cross browser development/CI/CD infrastructure for the likes of "Fortune 1" (which, again, at the time, was Walmart: boo). We had more than 40 racks of gear spread across 2 DCs in Silly Con Valley (including SV1, which was the largest peering point in California at the time) and we were looking to establish another POP somewhere in the EU (probably, Amsterdam? Though I was chatting with someone in Frankfurt who had 100GbE cross connects in Frankfurt that seemed chill enough he was hanging at a hackerspace I helped co-found in SF; so probably good peeps?). Alas, when I was terminated, I was also told that I was their "highest paid person on the team" and they weren't open to a pay cut for me to keep my job (so much for my hopes to get out of debt and homelessness! Things which: seem to persist, still.). Admittedly, what I was paid, relative to others? I think was a pittance? Not as bad as some employers (I recently did some calculations of a previous employer and realized that once they put me back on call 24x7 despite that being a stipulation to not happen as part of my hiring agreement, that they were paying me below the minimum hourly wage: by a fractional penny. The bastards!).
I started a second job last Monday. It has some other weird complications such as: not only can I not work more than 8 hours a day (good, I am still burnt out from being on call 24x7 for YEARS). I also: cannot work more than 40 hours a week, keeping the schedule of a fellow employee in mind (the two of us I guess are the only paid employees out of a swath of volunteers, and they have only allocated funds for a 40 hour work week for one, and there are two of us) making for all sorts of logistical challenges that are the sorts of things that make me wonder: I am now 50. I was forced to work (unpaid) as a minor. Will I ever, before I die: find a job that pays a livable wage with no more than a 40 hour work week?
I was wondering that before starting the second job, but the strange permutations that capitalistic paradigms seem to invent to provide me with new challenges I had never before imagined, seems: boundless! Not the sort of infinities I would be into contemplating, so much as the ones I am beset with against my will!
C'est la vie!
No data center! Though, I do have a badge. It is a very different sort of badge. One that seems: largely superfluous, yet required a lot of criminal background check stuff. Thankfully, also not a police badge nor CBP nor ICE badge. There are badges and then there are badges and this is just a pretty run of the mill not particularly useful to anything beyond the systems of domination and control in which I find myself subsumed because of others' paranoia I guess level of badge.
Also: no pet cat. ;(
I don't even remember the last time I had badge access to a DC anywhere, maybe around 2016? I have been somewhere beyond alt.sysadmin.recovery BOFH levels of burnout for a while.
Yet, once upon a time? I was one of five sysadmins in the ops group as Sauce Labs, which (again, at the time) ran the cross browser development/CI/CD infrastructure for the likes of "Fortune 1" (which, again, at the time, was Walmart: boo). We had more than 40 racks of gear spread across 2 DCs in Silly Con Valley (including SV1, which was the largest peering point in California at the time) and we were looking to establish another POP somewhere in the EU (probably, Amsterdam? Though I was chatting with someone in Frankfurt who had 100GbE cross connects in Frankfurt that seemed chill enough he was hanging at a hackerspace I helped co-found in SF; so probably good peeps?). Alas, when I was terminated, I was also told that I was their "highest paid person on the team" and they weren't open to a pay cut for me to keep my job (so much for my hopes to get out of debt and homelessness! Things which: seem to persist, still.). Admittedly, what I was paid, relative to others? I think was a pittance? Not as bad as some employers (I recently did some calculations of a previous employer and realized that once they put me back on call 24x7 despite that being a stipulation to not happen as part of my hiring agreement, that they were paying me below the minimum hourly wage: by a fractional penny. The bastards!).
I started a second job last Monday. It has some other weird complications such as: not only can I not work more than 8 hours a day (good, I am still burnt out from being on call 24x7 for YEARS). I also: cannot work more than 40 hours a week, keeping the schedule of a fellow employee in mind (the two of us I guess are the only paid employees out of a swath of volunteers, and they have only allocated funds for a 40 hour work week for one, and there are two of us) making for all sorts of logistical challenges that are the sorts of things that make me wonder: I am now 50. I was forced to work (unpaid) as a minor. Will I ever, before I die: find a job that pays a livable wage with no more than a 40 hour work week?
I was wondering that before starting the second job, but the strange permutations that capitalistic paradigms seem to invent to provide me with new challenges I had never before imagined, seems: boundless! Not the sort of infinities I would be into contemplating, so much as the ones I am beset with against my will!
C'est la vie!
No data center! Though, I do have a badge. It is a very different sort of badge. One that seems: largely superfluous, yet required a lot of criminal background check stuff. Thankfully, also not a police badge nor CBP nor ICE badge. There are badges and then there are badges and this is just a pretty run of the mill not particularly useful to anything beyond the systems of domination and control in which I find myself subsumed because of others' paranoia I guess level of badge.
Also: no pet cat. ;(
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