1. Re: Win32Lib (and 0.60.5, and William Heimbigner)
<rant type=work>
Amen! I work for TekConnect. We install school and district wide
coputer systems and upgrades. I am a technician. I install Windows XP
and any necessary software on everyone's computers. I also help
diagnose hardware, software and network issues. Well I opened my big
mouth the other day and the found out I've been taking computer
networking classes and that I'm well versed in Active Directory, DNS,
DHCP, Ghost Console, Terminal Services, VNC, VB 6, VBA, VB Script and
HTML and JavaScript. Stupid me. Now they have a $10/hour 'assistant'
systems administrator. I signed a contract saying they'd pay me
$10/hour and *only^ $10/hour, so I'm stuck and not getting a raise.
AND they're not going to promote me until I actually have my degree,
which is in March. I don't mind the on-site training and experience
before I'm done with school, but is it fair that they're taking
advantage of me and using my skills for and absurdly low rate? our
resident systems admins get paid $30 to $60/hour. Our head admin gets
more than that. Luck me doesn't have to write the login scripts, I
just get to debug them.
</rant>
~Greg
P.S. And they insist we stick to VB and not switch to Euphoria! 
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:03:35 -0700, Chris Burch <guest at rapideuphoria.com> w=
rote:
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> posted by: Chris Burch <chriscrylex at aol.com>
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> Hi
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> Is there something in the air at the moment? Solar particles hitting the
> ozone layer particularly hard?
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> Chill chaps.
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> Derek your Win32Lib is wonderful - go at your own pace, we ALL appreciate=
> it.
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> William - I'm sure no personal insults were intended by CoJaBo, just
> expressing a personal opinion.
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> Someone said to me about my surgery program the other day, 'Well thats
> not what I wanted it to do'. Well you never bloody asked me to make it do=
> that did you? I've had this all my computing life, being the (unpaid) com=
puter geek
> of the practices I worked at (well why can't you make this work, or what
> did you do to make it stop, or have you been fiddling again). Never mind =
the
> number of up hours the places I've worked at have had because of me, or
> the number of =A3=A3=A3=A3's they've saved because of me, or the late nig=
hts I've
> spent getting stuff working etc etc. Or the families that a lot of us hav=
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> No one sees this.
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> The point of this is that we all do what we do because (for some strange
> warped reason) we love computers, and we like to be appreciated, just tha=
t
> sometimes other poeple don't see what we do, and / or if they do, don't
> sometimes express their questions / queries / requests in the way that we=
> would like. (Doesn't mean to say they do or don't appreciate what we do,
> just that we are sometimes a bit touchy with our responses.)
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> Have I ranted enough. Ok off to bed now, time to re assure my loyal and
> lovely wife that she is more important than this machine.
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> Chris
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