Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 10/18/07 20:43

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:35:47 +0100, Brendan Gillatt
<brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:

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>Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>> I hate to ruin yer lil Hatter fantasy, Stain, but the only time I ever
>> got "fired" was at Sykes...and technically I quit about three months
>> before they fired me, I just went all Office Space on 'em, which was
>> hella fun. I really must recommend that to anyone working as a
>> cubical monkey (which is most of you tards...well, except for you
>> Stain, I guess yer still in middle school, huh?).

>I suppose that's going on your resume then.

Well yeah, of course. At least at any job in the Walla Walla area.
See around here, Kiddo...Sykes is like a big joke. Mostly cause they
had really fucked up business practices which wound up drivin 'em
straight into an inescapable hole of shit. Basically they screwed all
the people they workin for 'em who really knew their stuff and then in
retaliation all the good people either quit or wound up gettin fired
for 'not playin nice'. To further complicate things they had this
idiot policy of NEVER hiring anyone back if they quit or got fired.
So needless to say it didn't take them very long to go through every
semi-technical oriented person in the entire area and afterwards they
were just left with the fuckin dregs of society. Then, to compound
matters even worse, they couldn't afford to pay people benefits, so
they had this bullshit story about how if you worked there for six
months you'd get benefits...except about five and a half months in
they magically always seemed to come up with an excuse to either fire
or layoff those about to get benefits. And so then as a result they
very quickly built up a reputation around town. The big joke for a
long time was how EVERYBODY knew someone who "used" to work at Sykes.
LOL

Oh and then, because they lost all their technical minded
people...well, it reached a point where they simply could no longer do
computer support...at all. So they wound up downgrading to telephone
tech support and a few months back I guess they were downgrading even
further to do bank/billing support for some financial outfit. Their
original staff was somewhere around 300...now it's like 30. Their
building used to be the pinnacle of modern coolness, with doors that
opened using your ID badges, top of the line computer systems, this
uber cool looking server room encased in glass, beautifully landscaped
with sod and trees...gone, all gone. The landscape was left for shit,
it turned brown, the grass died, most of the trees died and weeds took
over everywhere. All those computer that were top of the line in
1999...yeah, they haven't been upgraded since and so all their systems
are nearly a decade out of date. Their server room...nearly
dismantled, all the good, viable equipment was sold off and now it's
just running a little bare-bones network setup. They don't do the
name badges anymore either, they switched the doors over to the
traditional lock and key, etc, etc.

So yeah, I don't mind having Sykes on my resume...it's like a fuckin
badge of honor around here in this town. People are like, "Oh
Sykes...so how long did you serve?" It's like our hometown fuckin
Vietnam of sorts. LOL

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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
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Hatter Quotes
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"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."

"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."

"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."

"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

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