[geeks] WHATS WRONG WITH YOU

[Clay Mellender]

Dont hold yer breath. Immigration is the slowest branch of the
government, and they make the IRS look like gods of customer service.
Clay

Tim Harrison wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Katz wrote:
> 
> > 3 races, a basketball team who almost had the title (this middle
> > finger is for you, Shaq), HQ of Prime Computer at one point
> > (remember them?)  ... what else? Eli Lilly (maker of Prozac) HQ
> > is here.
> 
> 1.  Hate cars.  Don't drive.  F1 is the only interesting thing relating
> to cars that I can deal with watching.
> 2.  My father is an avid basketball fan/coach, hence my non-athleticism.
> :)
> 3.  Know of, but not much.
> 4.  I prefer Celexa. :)
> 
> > Canadian! Stealing our precious American oxygen! LOL Welcome aboard!
> 
> And choking on every last gasp of it. :)  Don't be so quick to welcome
> me.  The US immigration rules and proceedures are a pain, and you never
> know when they'll decide to kick me out.
> 
> > That's like going into Times Square and asking any random
> > passer-by if they have an asshole. The NYC job-market for
> > Unix Admins is amazing. If you have a problem getting a
> > job as a Unix Admin in NYC via dice.com let me know so I
> > can come visit you and put you out of your misery. LOL
> 
> Oh, it's not the finding of jobs that's the problem.  It's the keeping
> of them I have issues with. :)  I tend to be a little overly honest, and
> when I see boneheaded things happening, I call 'em as I see 'em.  That
> has led to enough problems (an incident where I called the CEO of a
> major company an asshole because he thought that it was smarter to put
> everything onto NT and move it all offsite -- too bad their stock is in
> the shitter... ;0).
> 
> > FYI, when typing in 'solaris admin' in the New York search
> > page at dice I got 207 matches.... some consulting (contracting)
> > and the rest full-time. Check this (and notice the hourly rate):
> > http://www.dice.com/DandL/d/davidlaw.UAACG02.html
> >  OR
> > http://www.dice.com/DandL/c/cxcisny.2001-2-BF.html
> 
> I've already started looking in preparation for the day the papers come
> through. :)  I'll be done with people taking advantage of me (which they
> do -- I've heard the words "If you don't like it, you can go back to
> Canada" waaaay too many times).
> 
> > Take care, and good luck!
> 
> I shall, and my humblest thanks. :)
> 
> --
> 
> Tim Harrison
> Network Engineer
> harrison at timharrison.com
> http://www.networklevel.com/
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