The Energon Pub

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:34 am

Social awareness sounds like hippy crap.

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:38 am

Ironhidensh wrote:Social awareness sounds like hippy crap.

Right, because knowing your audience is never a good idea. :roll:

News Credits: 5 · by **Mr O** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:47 am

megatronus wrote:
Ironhidensh wrote:Social awareness sounds like hippy crap.

Right, because knowing your audience is never a good idea.

Knowing your audience is great if you refuse to pander to them. Nothing which provokes thought should be taboo as a subject of conversation.
Rumble is black, with red bits and gold bits.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:48 am

A bunch of fully grown overweight nerds talking about children's toys on the website?

News Credits: 5 · by **Mr O** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:54 am

Ironhidensh wrote:A bunch of fully grown overweight nerds talking about children's toys on the website?

Why not? I find it entertaining, and surely there must be others like me...

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:00 am

Mr O wrote:
Ironhidensh wrote:A bunch of fully grown overweight nerds talking about children's toys on the website?

Why not? I find it entertaining, and surely there must be others like me...

There are, my brother, there are. Also, I was describing myself.

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:01 am

Hey! This is General Discussion. Toys are off-topic!

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:14 am

duragrip wrote:Are you strong and muscular Shajaki? I could not do such hard work. I' m too weak.

Back on topic...... I can't speak for Shajaki, but my job is similar in the heavy lifting department. I work for Coca-Cola and for many years my job consisted of picking up cases of pop over and over. You build up an ability for it. I would say I'm strong, but not muscular. It's not a true focused work out.

News Credits: 5 · by **Mr O** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:20 am

Ironhidensh wrote:I was describing myself.

Amen. While I'm stuck at my ideal weight no matter what I do, shape is a real problem.

It Is Him wrote:Hey! This is General Discussion. Toys are off-topic!

In a general sense, they are the root of all the topics on these forums :shock:

......

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:46 am

As of yesterday, I am fully qualified first aider and fire marshal - part of becoming duty manager for a venue here in Norwich.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:55 am

Va'al wrote:As of yesterday, I am fully qualified first aider and fire marshal - part of becoming duty manager for a venue here in Norwich.

You keep things from me which I have to learn about here with everyone else.

Secretive bastard.
But seriously ... well done old bean.

by **Nemesis Maximo** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:13 am

It might be easier for Va'al to post a lost of things he doesn't do.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:52 am

Burn wrote:
Va'al wrote:As of yesterday, I am fully qualified first aider and fire marshal - part of becoming duty manager for a venue here in Norwich.

You keep things from me which I have to learn about here with everyone else.

Secretive ****.
But seriously ... well done old bean.

Thanks. I thought I had told you!

Nemesis Maximo wrote:It might be easier for Va'al to post a lost of things he doesn't do.

I'm just a little exhausted.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun May 03, 2015 3:44 pm

I just wasted 20 minutes of my life "cleaning" this thread. I could have used that time to cook breakfast and watch Orphan Black.

Stay the **** on topic.

by **duragrip** » Sun May 03, 2015 9:01 pm

I watch TV for a living.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun May 03, 2015 9:21 pm

duragrip wrote:I watch TV for a living.

duragrip wrote:I test software.

So which is it?

by **duragrip** » Sun May 03, 2015 9:33 pm

TV is digital now, meaning it's all 1's and 0's. You need software to process all those 1's and 0's. It's software that makes those 1's and 0's into a 1080p HD picture on your TV screen.

News Credits: 1 · by **SKYWARPED_128** » Sun May 03, 2015 10:18 pm

Kiiiiiinda stretchin' it, don't ya think?

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Sun May 03, 2015 10:20 pm

Just... sigh.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Mon May 04, 2015 12:40 pm

megatronus wrote:Just... sigh.

Ah, I didn't know you could sigh for a living. :grin:

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Mon May 04, 2015 1:29 pm

Ironhidensh wrote:
megatronus wrote:Just... sigh.

Ah, I didn't know you could sigh for a living.

Ha! If only.

News Credits: 1 · by **SKYWARPED_128** » Mon May 04, 2015 7:24 pm

Ironhidensh wrote:
megatronus wrote:Just... sigh.

Ah, I didn't know you could sigh for a living.

If some people can "watch TV for a living," I can't see why not. >:oP

by **Ebonsaber** » Mon May 18, 2015 3:54 am

I run my own "sari-sari store"(local term for a corner shop/convenience store) invested from five years doing sales and customer service in various call centers.

wilcosu35 wrote:it just happens that my mother.... who is also a woman... claims women can't drive properly.

True Story: I accompanied my mom on a trip, she was driving an SUV, when a car cut her off. Seeing the driver was female, she blurted out in disgust "Bah! Damned women drivers!". For the rest of the trip I was all :lol:

by **SG Roadbuster** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 12:03 pm

I'm a security guard for a shipping/receiving company.
i've previously worked in liquor distribution, and demolitions, been a bouncer, and a farmhand. and for a brief 3 month period performed as a Luchadore under the alias "el Gigante Tortuga del Diablo" until I injured my knee.
i also occasionally do volunteer work for an animal rescue

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:29 pm

I'm a Business Analyst.

Worst. Title. Ever. I'll explain.

In Agile Software Development (and other methodologies as well, Scrum just happens to be my specialty) there's a concept of defining your software requirements around "User Stories", which basically means you try from every point to think about why someone using the product would actually want or need said new feature/bug fix/improvement/etc. Without going into too much detail, someone has to define these User Stories. That's what I do, although many other concepts work their way in, such as putting together related Acceptance Criteria, performing stakeholder analysis, holding design review with internal folks from other cross functional teams, helping the Scrum Master keep things on task, assisting the Product Manager with vendor and customer relationships, and really, it can go on and on and on.

Basically, in the software world, Management is usually really bad at telling the actual folks writing and testing the code what they want. I'm one of the points in between, taking the big ideas and turning them into documentation that the technical folks can look at to get the job done and the product out to market. Currently, I do this job for a CRM software company that specializes in providing a product to the financial planning space, and I previously did this for a reverse mortgage loan software company.

tl;dr, I'm this guy:

As good as this pays, my first non-retail gig over four years ago that led me down this path was at a tiny startup, and I absolutely loved the atmosphere and sense of ownership. I don't like being a cog in a machine, even if I'm an expensive and important component. A machine is still a machine, so ideally I'd really like to start my own company soon. I don't have resource problems like most (I know where and how to get startup capital from smart, experienced people that do such things, yay networking!), just need that one good idea. And then I need that one good idea to not show up in a google search showing me where someone has already done it and succeeded at it :lol: