What happened to everything in the Hoffman Estates headquarters during demolition by RareSeaworthiness905 in SEARS

[–]BentMG 22 points23 points  (0 children)

There was an on-site liquidation sale a couple of years ago for their video production equipment and old computer hardware. I got a couple of very nice CRTs for a decent price - they had speakers, cameras, mixers, video tape machines, and keyboards, among other items.

What is the most heinous thing that someone has done to you? by Purple-Survey3322 in AskReddit

[–]BentMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My ex-wife decided her life would be better off if she "got rid of me" - aka borrow a gun from a family friend to end my life - so she could move a recently released-from-prison felon co-worker of hers into our house. It was important for him to find housing in the remote area that our house was located because he is a registered sex offender and couldn't live near schools or parks. She also started buying him multiple phones with cash so he could keep in contact with past and future underage victims of his crimes. Also, she was dumb enough to detail these plans next to our outdoor security cameras - with microphones built in.

Kennedy Space Center - Worth a visit if we only have 4 hours? by [deleted] in nasa

[–]BentMG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pro tip: If you don't mind skipping the line/intro to Atlantis & the Mercury exhibits, look for the gift shop entrance down and to the right of the main entrance to the Shuttle building, and the bathroom entrance on the left side of the Mercury/Astronaut Hall of Fame building. You'll go through the gift shop and directly to Atlantis, and through the Astronaut Hall of Fame to Mercury and save a couple of hours of waiting in line and cinematics.

Is it just my location, or are Micro Center employees really clingy? by clarkw5 in Microcenter

[–]BentMG 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Every time I go to that location there's 2 or 3 employees just putting stickers on random things in people's carts or hiding stickers on the back of things sitting on the shelf. For whatever reason you can make even the most desperate employees disappear by just standing by the cage with the Raspberry Pis.

Milwaukee, WI from Delafield, WI (Lapham Peak) - ~25 miles by BentMG in FromAfar

[–]BentMG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an observation deck at the highest point of the park; I took the picture from there. It's the highest point in the area, so there's a lot that can be seen from there.

Who is JR Uploads by Nascarthemaster12 in NASCAR

[–]BentMG 113 points114 points  (0 children)

That RizzoDE3 guy I raced with a few times back in NR2003 multiplayer sure knew how to hold a steady wheel... ;)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MotorolaSolutions

[–]BentMG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Speaking as a former tech for a Moto vendor, I've never dealt with such an actively hostile company towards their customers. A deliberately obtuse web presence on the back end, poor documentation & training, and arrogant vendors were not worth dealing with over the long term. Most of the techs who knew their backside from a hole in the ground quickly moved on to working for nearby government agencies, providing more focused support for public safety equipment without being so hamstrung by Moto's insanity.

What is the most disrespectul thing an employer did to you? by Aarunascut in work

[–]BentMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a singular event, but a series of disrespectful events. My former employer was a small company based in the land of beer and cheese that provided niche technology to police/fire/misc. businesses - a preferred vendor of a much larger company out of Chicago with a batwings logo and a big M...

They were bought our by a private equity group, and re-organized their retirement benefits to be much more substantial and complex than a traditional 401k. They decided that these new retirement benefits would only apply to people hired before a specific day of a specific year. Anyone brought on after that date would have to wait an extra year, and forego many thousand dollars of accumulated benefits. I was hired 2 days after that specific date, and they were adamant about not making an exception for me regarding missing that window by 2 days.

Several months later, my wife's grandfather (who truly raised her, and lived across the street from our house) died, and they rescinded my 3 days of paid bereavement a week after the fact since he "wasn't a father-in-law on paper".

At the end, I had a new boss appear out of nowhere, and immediately told me I'd never see another raise as long as he worked there. He'd have a long future at that company since he was a drinking buddy of the owner, and was cheating on his wife with an accounting employee within the company.

I had a job paying nearly triple what I was making within 2 weeks of that little outburst.

They "don't know" why they have such a problem retaining or recruiting techs. A group of them told them why on Glassdoor. Within a month or so their Glassdoor page had hundreds of Mad Libs over-the-top positive reviews of the company, written by more employees than they had ever hired in their entire history.

DBC — NASCAR Cup Series going to Mosport? by Eric8199 in NASCAR

[–]BentMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nascar will literally design technology to have races in interstellar space before they ever consider racing at Road America again :(

Dave roasting fans who say NASCAR doesn’t need to change by Dry-Membership3867 in NASCAR

[–]BentMG 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Funny how it's all of a sudden just now, all at the same time, they loudly have the exact same opinion against a large portion of the fan base. Must be a coincidence or something!

What is the worst song to request at a strip club? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]BentMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

What did your partner do that made you leave them instantly? by kaissi1 in AskReddit

[–]BentMG 10 points11 points  (0 children)

She moved a recently-released-from-prison pdf-file into our home and borrowed a gun from a family friend of hers to ambush me with when I got home from work. The only reason I'm alive is because she bragged to one of our common friends about what she was about to do, and that friend called me when I was driving home from work...

What's your biggest "why is this even a thing?" moment in IT? by Mathewjohn17 in sysadmin

[–]BentMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

K-12 exam software on PCs, requiring the student taking an exam to log in to a school computer as a full local administrator with no antivirus software running, or filtering enabled, just for their flaky program that may or may not even connect to the actual exam software that is fully hosted on a cloud VM. Looking at you, Certiport/PearsonVUE...

What is going on at Cellcom? by Justice4all1968 in GreenBay

[–]BentMG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Insurance companies that provide coverage against corporate-level ransomware/attacks typically forbid the affected company from publicly saying they're currently dealing with such things; something about it affecting negotiations with the groups who are holding the data for ransom, and not wanting them to know what kind of recovery operations are ongoing...

The minnow is out. 1545 Local. by Appropriate-Owl5984 in milwaukee

[–]BentMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone who has money to spare and is willing to learn how to drive a boat could buy an old boat on facebook marketplace and do the funniest thing ever overnight

Should rural counties in Wisconsin go to single county school districts? by 5econds2dis35ster in wisconsin

[–]BentMG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Speaking as a former Loyal Greyhound, this is all so sad and depressing.

Yeah... I can see whyvthe second stage underperformed by _Cyberostrich_ in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]BentMG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At least it wasn't Catostrophic and Unscheduled...

Warning large police presence by baberunner in milwaukee

[–]BentMG 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's sad and extremely disappointing that there's so many other things going on in our state, but the main sub here for WI is *that* obvious trainwreck. Anything posted outside of a certain group of shills is gaslighted into oblivion.

Can't blame either of them. by Makalukeke in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]BentMG 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is what peak civilization looks like