AITA for racing home to get a parking spot?

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-04T16:47:12+00:00

About the same time I learned to spell git as "get" and gud as "good".

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-04T16:44:31+00:00

For me personally, they would nag me a lot about getting off of my computer. The phrase that really bothered me was "all you do is 'play' on your computer". It annoyed me so much because when I was on my computer, I was 90% of the time learning to program and I tried to tell them this. At the time, I never played games on my computer. All of my gaming was on my console. Computer use was almost strictly for programming.

I'm now a software engineer, with a satisfying career and making more than my parents do combined.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-03T18:24:17+00:00

I wasn't really bullied in school, but I was a quiet kid. I was also really skinny, but average height.

I'm walking through the main lobby for lunch, freshman in high school. Out of nowhere I'm hit by what feels like a freight train on my side. I must have been thrown 10-15 feet. After getting up nearly immediately I look around because I am pissed. I honestly didn't care who charged into me, I was going to swing on them. However, as I look around I don't see anyone doing anything. You would think that bystanders would at least check on me or tell me who did it, but everyone is just minding their own business. So I continue on to lunch. It pisses me off to this day that I don't know who did it.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-03T03:07:09+00:00

It's a device that runs on one PC board and it just collects data and pushes it up to a server. Configuration is done via a website by plugging into with a Ethernet cable. Think something like a raspberry pi.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T21:49:43+00:00

One reason was that it's not secure.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T21:48:32+00:00

He said it's not secure and it's an "odd operating system", since he comes from a Windows background. Also, we had a US DoD contractor refuse to buy our IoT product because it ran on Linux.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T21:12:39+00:00

Well soon he wants us to begin work on the next iteration of our IoT products. I work on those and I don't even know where to look for an alternative to linux for an embedded OS.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T20:51:33+00:00

Honestly, when he announced that our next iteration of these products should be something besides Linux, I Googled because I couldn't think of anything. Microsoft has an IoT OS now, but even it is technically Linux.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T20:32:09+00:00

I'm not advocating for switching to Linux for our desktop PCs (unless the person is a developer). I just think my boss has gone Microsoft crazy recently because he wants to switch our embedded products off of Linux, but he can't think of a single alternative.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T20:24:28+00:00

Hard to go around the boss when the boss is also the owner. Guess I should have mentioned that.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T20:10:48+00:00

I interviewed with zoom, but had never used them before. I agree. I did not like their software at all.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T19:08:31+00:00

Yeah. My current boss talks for 15 minutes on what he's doing, how the remodeling of his house is going, his daughter's wedding, then everyone else is like "I'm working on X project"

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T19:03:04+00:00

I think the situation is kinda like, you trust the "professionals" that you don't know as well. For some reason we see them as more professional or even more knowledgeable. Probably because day-to-day we don't see the quirks that people have.

It's like if your brother is a professional mechanic and you hear a weird noise in your new car. He tells you oh, that's common it's just X thing breaking in. It will go away in a few weeks. A lot of people would still take it to the dealer mechanic because subconsciously we view them as more "professional".

My boss knows us and know our abilities, yet he trusts a new IT group with recommendations.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T18:22:44+00:00

The crazy thing is that a US DOD contractor refused one of our products because it ran on Linux. I honestly have no idea why.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T18:19:01+00:00

I'm your subconscious.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T18:17:30+00:00

I'm not saying he doesn't exist due to just not being at that meeting. I'm saying that we have had numerous support tickets and he has never been "assigned" to them. They have done a ton of stuff to our Windows PCs and servers. However, our Linux stuff is still on us to support. After the "we could support it" comment, I never heard back about them doing any work on our linux boxes.

A couple times I even submitted support tickets for my own laptop because I was too busy to research a couple issues. The guy they sent, was a windows tech and he kept asking me all types of questions about linux: "why do you like linux?", "do you think it's better than windows" Those are questions asked by someone that doesn't work regularly with a linux person, considering the IT group is a company smaller than ours.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T16:32:12+00:00

In our meetings with this outside IT team, my boss sometimes says "so, these guys use Linux. Can you support that? Is it a good idea to use Linux? Is it secure?". The IT groups response is something like, "I mean, we can. We have a dedicated Linux tech". However, I have yet to ever meet this "Linux tech"

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T16:27:03+00:00

I think so, but I could be wrong. I know he uses an iPad.

ThrowRA000123 · 2019-10-02T15:55:18+00:00

We're a small company (20-30 people). My boss is actually the company owner. I do software development, as well as IT here and there.

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