Key Fob Follies

[SwampNut]

They are identical and interchangeable.

I wonder if the JL forums have their own drama queen and a thread like this?

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[jimbom]

Be careful. I used to work at Compressor Controls Corp...

Could you please just post a list of the companies you haven't worked for. Are you 150 years old?

 

[DreamedofaJeepSomeday]

1. people are listening

Ford people?

 

[Jt-wrx]

shadowspapa

1. we've already done this on your wife's issue with keys, so unless you're slippin like ole Joe no need to do it again, i already said you have the options that work for you, you got your button & proximity stuff, despite being still far too large for todays tech abilility, you don't want to acknowledge that simpler options should also be provided for those who order basic package sports etc. that's fine, at least you acknowledge the valet mishap, but in your last rant you went on about far too many things that it's not worth quoting your post so here we lead into #2...

2. you seem to be always on the hunt for someone new to tangle with about anything, and as said, we did this already, and if you'd like to play this game again we can and i'll out a-hole you a second time?, i've seen enough of you tangling with other people to know this just your 'M O' and how you get your jollies, i'd invite the mods to keep a little closer look at you at this point

3. you may have to end up on the ignore list, which for me is saying something

4. all the best

 

[Jt-wrx]

tap tap tap...take your time fellas

i'll be here when you're ready

 

[SwampNut]

Could you please just post a list of the companies you haven't worked for. Are you 150 years old?

LOL. I've only worked in-house one time for a couple years, otherwise I've always been a consultant/contractor and traveled around. I've worked for myriad companies from five people to Fortune 500. I love being able to say that I'm a high school dropout who got to charge $1k/day in the 90s to advise a Fortune 500 insurance company how to refine their IT processes. So he's probably done the same. I have a huge breadth of familiarity with so many things because I worked for so many companies.

This is also why I discard the idea that we should allow people to choose old junk tech, like metal keys. Choice is often bad. We already waste billions of dollars just in this country to allow people to cling to their old ways. We would be so far more advanced if we stopped coddling them and forced advancement. Evolve or die.

 

[Jt-wrx]

dude, i used to watch a show called star trek first generation, you sound a lot like the borg, assimilate or die

you are definitely wrong with this view point, you also disagree with murphy's law i guess

human beings are masters of taking something simple and complicating the fack out of it for no good reason, some call it progress lol

in most cases it's spinning our wheels, 2 steps forward, 1.75 steps back etc.

it certainly creates jobs, just a bunch of useless ones in many cases, trying to come up with all the solutions and fixes for all the problems this 'progress' makes, we are comical but very predictable, sounds like you've had a few of these jobs

 

[SwampNut]

Advance or die. The world changes, try to keep up.

We waste an insane amount of time and money letting people use old junk. I spend a lot of my career telling those people "no" on behalf of the people who pay me to make them more efficient.

Right now I'm on the far edge of five people either doing as they are told or being fired. They refuse to migrate to softphones we provide and insist on having physical phones that are always giving them problems, and require hands on troubleshooting. The softphones always work and if troubleshooting is needed (almost never), it's remote.

Evolve or die.

 

[WhatExit?]

dude, i used to watch a show called star trek first generation, you sound a lot like the borg, assimilate or die

you are definitely wrong with this view point, you also disagree with murphy's law i guess

human beings are masters of taking something simple and complicating the fack out of it for no good reason, some call it progress lol

in most cases it's spinning our wheels, 2 steps forward, 1.75 steps back etc.

it certainly creates jobs, just a bunch of useless ones in many cases, trying to come up with all the solutions and fixes for all the problems this 'progress' makes, we are comical but very predictable, sounds like you've had a few of these jobs

 

[SwampNut]

I assume he's trolling, because I just don't want to live in a world with people that backwards. I mean, some of my customers' employees are incredibly stuck in the past, but not THAT much. Even the really old people.

 

[jimbom]

This is also why I discard the idea that we should allow people to choose old junk tech, like metal keys. Choice is often bad. We already waste billions of dollars just in this country to allow people to cling to their old ways. We would be so far more advanced if we stopped coddling them and forced advancement. Evolve or die.

I like and choose most tech, but not all -- I much prefer my 6-speed over the (truly fine) 8-speed. I had that in my Ram and sorry, it's just didn't suit me. I actually like to drive and it will be a sad day for me when "progress" takes that away. I also appreciate nostalgia. You mentioned the Model-T. I would love to have one sitting in my garage. Some of us like to tinker with our stuff and plugging an engine analyzer into some port just doesn't do it for me.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

LOL. I've only worked in-house one time for a couple years, otherwise I've always been a consultant/contractor and traveled around. I've worked for myriad companies from five people to Fortune 500. I love being able to say that I'm a high school dropout who got to charge $1k/day in the 90s to advise a Fortune 500 insurance company how to refine their IT processes. So he's probably done the same. I have a huge breadth of familiarity with so many things because I worked for so many companies.

This is also why I discard the idea that we should allow people to choose old junk tech, like metal keys. Choice is often bad. We already waste billions of dollars just in this country to allow people to cling to their old ways. We would be so far more advanced if we stopped coddling them and forced advancement. Evolve or die.

Pretty close - I'd go in, fix things, get bored and leave for the next job.
One time I was working in IT as an employee and the company let go over 70 of us in IT. Cost cutting, they didn't need us any more. Two weeks later they were advertising for IT staff.
I found an ad that described exactly what I used to do for that company - they had trouble finding anyone to match my qualifications.
So - I went back to that company as a consultant, doing exactly what I had done before, even at the same desk - and made a lot more money! In the end, after my contract was up, they replaced me with 3 people.
ADHD means you do a whole lot in a fraction of the time others need do it.
And I get bored easily so when there's no challenge, I move on.
Cementech contracted with me to set up their networking and automation, servers and backups. They made concrete handling equipment and had military contracts.
A trucking company hired me as a contractor to set up network and back up systems for them. Then a year later I got notice from a lawyer than I was to testify in court - that company was suing another consultant for something. I was testifying for his defense. Simple questions - did you set up a backup system? Yes. I explained how it worked. Turns out some data was lost and they blamed the other consultant. The problem wasn't the other consultant, it was the boss at the company not following simple directions. Switch tapes.
One job I turned down I sort of wish I had taken - service manager at the Des Moines AMC/Jeep dealership. That was before I got into IT.

Network security administrator advising central IT for the state - and all self-taught. No degree in IT, no formal training.

>>I have a huge breadth of familiarity with so many things because I worked for so many companies.<<
Ditto.
And - I farmed for 7 years - and have a letter from the bank congratulating me on being one of their only customers to INCREASE net worth in that decade. (the 1980s)
OCD did that for me. Intense attention to detail.

 

[SwampNut]

I have a shop with an older motorcycle, and tools going back to the 70s that I tinker with. That's different from creating new things with old tech, and allowing use of old junk when it's about efficiency and not tinkering.

ADHD means you do a whole lot in a fraction of the time others need do it.

Are we brothers?

My only in-house job ended with us showing up to work and finding yellow tape all over the doors, feds everywhere, and our entire C-suite being led out in handcuffs for insider dealing.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I have a shop with an older motorcycle, and tools going back to the 70s that I tinker with. That's different from creating new things with old tech, and allowing use of old junk when it's about efficiency and not tinkering.



Are we brothers?

My only in-house job ended with us showing up to work and finding yellow tape all over the doors, feds everywhere, and our entire C-suite being led out in handcuffs for insider dealing.

HA - could be. Twin sons of different mothers? If ever in the area, stop by. I'm minutes from I35 and I80.

WOW!
While at Compressor Controls, the manager of our Texas office called all in a panic, I mean the guy was freaked out almost crying! The feds had come in and ordered everyone to immediately stand up and touch NOTHING. Don't touch a mouse, keyboard or power button under penality of federa law. Seems someone in that office had been pirating Microsoft software........ the fine was in the tens of thousands per instance, maybe more.
I had been harping on that since I saw a guy walking around wiht disks - I told my boss not only is he risking a raid, but he could be spreading viruses. And sure enough - some of the computers that guy in our office had touched ended up with troubles. My boss allowed me to lay down the law and clamp down hard. The Texas office raid had spooked a lot of people, PLUS, when your customers include GM, Gazprom, Exxon and other big names, you don't mess with computer security. We'd lose millions in contracts for a single instance.
When I first started there I saw "suites" walk in, sunglasses and all, and asked someone - oh, that's CIA - you'll see them from time to time, as well as FBI. SERIOUSLY? Yup, we deal with Russia and former Soviet countries - and have a large Russian staff. And of course, our ISO records were checked and we were quizzed now and then - do you know where they are? Do you know who is in charge of them? Who is your company QA person? You'd better pass.
Talk about tech - the company had hundreds of patents on control systems - electric grid, turbo-compressor controllers, and other fun stuff. I was picked to design the computer that would interface with the software and controllers - and the Russians at Gazprom wanted touch-screens, which were new technology then. I worked directly with PC system board engineers and makers. (and was approved to do warranty work on Compaq notebook computers as no one could keep up with our demand)
Fun memories. And I LOVED working with the Russian people Friendly as heck, polite - hard to find anyone more polite unless they are Koreans. I made friends with a former Soviet military officer who worked there as a field engineer. He scared a lot of folks, tall, well built, and an in-your-face sort of guy when he talked.
That is one place I truly miss.

 

[SwampNut]

I did work for LG solid surfaces until they sold off the division here. Ultra polite, but also very...weird 5% of the time? You'd communicate really well until you just didn't.

My wife made the CEO a pen from his own materials, on her lathe. He almost cried that we'd be so thoughtful.

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