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Post by
ExDementia
An extremely brief search didn't bring up a thread like this before, and even if there is, its not up to date :)
Where do you work, how long have you been there, and what do you do there?
I work for in the IT dept. for a company called Garden Fresh Corp. It is the parent company/corporate office for Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes restaurants. Four of us in the department take care of tech support for all our stores (128 locations and 21 central kitchens across 16 states). I've been there for almost two years now.
What I do there:
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POS (Point of Sale) software, programming, and hardware. We run NCR touch screen cash register terminals with biometric log-in (thumbprint). We worked with our software developer to create custom software specifically for us. All our systems run Suse and Fedora Linux.
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Firewalls, routing and networking. All our data is transferred through VPN tunnels to our servers at corporate. There are heavy regulations on how this is done since we are in the top tier of credit card compliance. The fines for something being out of PCI compliance start in the millions.
We recently had to put anything that processes a credit transaction on a virtual separate network than their other computers, security cameras, and alarm systems. Separate static IP's and SNMP for each. Talk about a headache...
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On location installation. We travel out to all the stores ourselves to install new hardware. This includes assembling and mounting the hardware and minor building wiring/set up. (Cat 6 runs terminated on both ends with standard or cross-over depending)
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Dealing with people who hardly speak English. We have LOT of Hispanics working out in our restaurants. Especially here in California, Arizona, Texas and Florida. You know how hard it is to figure out they have a bad touchscreen when they don't know the words "touch" or "screen"?
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Next project is putting VoIP into all our stores. This requires an internet upgrade in 60% of our locations (expensive!).
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Let's hear where all the money you give to Blizz comes from, whether from your jobs or your parent's pockets... post up!
Post by
Orranis
My father works as a senior editor at Time Magazine, my mom owns a small-business T-shirt printing company. I 'work' at an early college high school program that gets you your high-school credits in two years and the equivalent of two years of college credits, though I'm likely to go through four years of college as well. If my grades tank, so does my play-time. Or sometimes even if they don't.
Post by
324987
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Post by
variable303
Let's just say I work for a company I know you're all extremely familiar with. If told you the company, and what I do, you'd all probably hate me >.<
Post by
Cambo
Let's just say I work for a company I know you're all extremely familiar with. If told you the company, and what I do, you'd all probably hate me >.<
The US Government?
I work in shipping. I handle the discharging (unloading) of vessels at port, most of which is steel and containers.
Post by
Squishalot
Where do you work, how long have you been there, and what do you do there?
I work at a boutique analytical consulting firm. (Gogo buzzwords!) Basically, we're consultants that help deal with business problems that can be solved by analysing data or inputs. If that sounds broad, it is, and intentionally so - we've got a flexible team that can deal with most anything, which is awesome, because it means that I've got other great geeks in the office to bounce ideas and questions off.
Typically, we build and/or review Excel models to do our work. Think about the most hard-core theorycrafting DPS / TPS / HPS model you've heard of, multiply its complexity by a factor of up to 10 or so (or more, if you haven't seen Theck's TPS model), and that's the sort of model we deal with on a day to day basis.
I've been working here for about 8 months now. Still great fun!
What I do there:
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Building cashflow models (both corporate and project finance). We take business inputs and produce cashflow and financial statement outputs, as well as any other reporting metrics that might be useful (gearing, DSCRs, ROIs, etc.),
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Reviewing project finance models. There are hundreds of big projects going on in the world - mining sites, power plants, toll roads, even hospitals - that are privately owned and funded. Most of these will have an Excel model that the owners and banks use to forecast how much they'll make, and whether they can repay debt, etc. We do full reviews of these models, cell by cell, formula by formula, and using a number of other tools that catch other common problems, in order to provide assurance that the models are fit for use. These first two items are our bread and butter.
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Corporate advisory. One project we have ongoing is documenting the process that a large accounting firm is taking to fix a problem that they have, and providing advice on whether that's the best / most correct / cleanest way of fixing things up.
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Spreadsheet building. We've recently done a number of projects to produce internal request/survey spreadsheets for well known banking organisation. These sheets are designed essentially to save the users time when it comes to cleaning and reporting on the data.
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'Weird' stuff. We built an inventory and ordering platform for a wholesale fashion distributor earlier this year. Input different garment styles, colours, sizes, automatically generates and emails out blank order forms to retailers. It then collates the completed order forms, and puts it into a form to send to their supplier, and keeps track of what's been delivered from supplier / sent to retailers when the stock comes in. It's non-standard, but it's an example of some of the weird and wacky things that Excel is actually capable of doing.
Post by
ExDementia
Where do you work, how long have you been there, and what do you do there?
Sounds like it pays well, that's for sure.
Post by
ExDementia
Whoops, double post.
Post by
Squishalot
Sounds like it pays well, that's for sure.
Never enough, mate ;)
Post by
Skreeran
I sell my plasma.
I rest easy knowing I've helping fight the war against necromorphs.
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386234
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Post by
Dragalthor
Where do you work, how long have you been there, and what do you do there?
I work for I work on support ships for the British Royal Navy.
What I do there:
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Navigation including passage planning and execution and pilotage duties. Basically that means that once I find out where the ship needs to go I plot the quickest/safest/specific route for the ship to get there avoiding dangers etc. Once we arrive at the port we need to be at I will then pilot the ship in and out of the port with or without the help of a local commercial pilot
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Operations Officer which includes organising and arranging the ships operations for the next few months which includes programming what the ship needs to do and when, liaising with other units if we are working as part of a task group etc.
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Bridge Team Management which means that I have to ensure that the Officer's of the Watch (OOW) (of which on some ships I could be one) know what they are doing and when they should be doing it. I'm also (when not a fellow watchkeeper) on 24 hour call in case the OOW need help or assistance.
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Various other small and, usually, annoying little jobs that nobody else wants to do and as the lowest ranked senior officer these will invariably get passed to me as they are too important to leave to one of the junior officers
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Don't get me wrong I love my job and it is a shed load more fun than I am making it sound here.
Post by
killerdinoblood
I dont work,im focused on studying so i can actaully get a really good job in the future.How do i make money to buy my subscription?Easy:Everyday i go to school my father gives me 10 bucks for food and water.I usually spend 4 bucks for those stuff and the other 6 i gather for a subscription.
Post by
Azazel
I focus on studying AND have a job.
Post by
killerdinoblood
Believe me thats impossible.But i guess its also impossible to play WoW and be focused on studying too :D.
Post by
Azazel
I find it very possible. Not the second one though. :P
It's a luxurious job really, I can come as I want to as long as I work every week.
Post by
mindthegap5
I work in the kitchen of a Toby carvery.
But i'm still not going to subscribe until i get a better PC, it could hardly run Wotlk, i'm not even going to try it with cataclysm.
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238331
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Post by
donnymurph
Where do you work, how long have you been there, and what do you do there?
I am a cleaner at Glad Retail Cleaning, I've been there for about 20 months.
What I do there:
→Basically my job is to maintain the tidyness and hygiene of a large shopping centre, owned by Westfield, on the NSW Central Coast.
→Generally this involves sweeping floors, emptying bins, flushing toilets and the like. Although occasionally I have to deal with something ^&*!ing charming, like someone who crapped their pants and then walked 200 metres to the nearest bathroom, leaving a nice trail through the mall.
→I get paid $700/week, which is slightly more than half of Australia's average weekly earning of $1350/week.
→My previous jobs were more interesting, I do this because it was 2009, the economy was %^&*ed, no-one had jobs, and I had to take what I could get.
Post by
Squishalot
@chaos - is that internal corporate tech support or external? i.e. do you fix RIM's computers, or do you provide tech support for Blackberrys?
(And is the plural of 'Blackberry' 'berrys' or 'berries'?)
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