Re: Working hard here, third shift.
OK, for those of you coming down on me... <br /><br />I work in an information technology customer support environment supporting midrange and enterprise servers and applications. Customers come to our site to do D/R testing. metimes they are here for days. Sometimes they are here for hours. Sometimes when they are here for days, they go home at night. We stay manned 24X7 in case someone has an issue while they are on site, so we can respond with a 0 minute turnaround. No calling or paging people at 3:00am, there is always someone (me) right there to answer the phone, and walk into their testing center to help them. Sometimes there is just nobody around, especially weekend nights. Do you think I would be able to do it in such obvious plain sight if it was that much of an issue? I don't work a mill. I don't work an assembly line. I don't make a quota. It's a totally different environment than most people, including me, have ever worked in. <br /><br />I remember when I started, coming from a production environment, when things slowed down I would find myself looking for things to do. There wasn't much besides set up for the next test, and once that's done, there really IS nothing else except wait for a problem to arise or a test to end. <br /><br />So what's the difference if I spend a while surfing Iboats, or doing something else like throwing on a game? As long as I am in the building I am doing my job. If a customer calls, it's drop everything and assist them until they no longer need assistance. <br /><br />With that aside (didn't really have to justify it but I felt like it), <br /><br />Yeah KaGee I Halo2. I also HalfLife2 as well. HalfLife2 only on PC for multiplayer though. I'm "DeadBeef".<br /><br />PS - Not sure what generation you think I am from, but I have had a job since I was 15, non-stop, no exceptions. That includes going to high school and two colleges. I have worked full time since I was 19. That was over 10 years ago. I also have a wife, a daughter, a quarter-million dollar house, three cars, a motorcycle and a boat. And not a dime of any of that came out of your pocket, it came out of mine.
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<br /><br />Pics are blurry due to camera phone. Monitors are crystal clear in reality. <br /><br />Xbox fits nicely in my laptop bag, so nobody is the wiser coming in or going out of the building. 
<br /><br />Dell 20.1" flat panel LCD (model 2001). VGA/DVI/Svideo/Composite input. Using svideo for xbox. <br /><br />Also once I corrupt a few coworkers, all these rooms have individual gigabit switches, so can you say lan party?<br /><br /> 
