Subj : Re: macOS 26
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Wed Dec 24 2025 01:32 am
On 19 Dec 2025 at 07:38a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
pF> -=> tenser wrote to rootroot <=-
pF>
pF> te> He wants to see things like high school transcripts if you
pF> te> go to work for Canonical, regardless of what you've done in
pF> te> industry or how long you've been out of, you know, high
pF> te> school.
pF>
pF> I had a government job ask for a copy of my college diploma. From 1985.
pF> 31 years later, with a full resume and references. I thought that was
pF> kooky, then realized it was government.
Yeah, I've been surprised at the number of places that have
asked for a college transcript.
pF> The fact that I had to sign 40 documents, provide fingerprints and have
pF> a background check should have been my first clue I was going down a
pF> process hellhole.
...let me tell you about when I enlisted in the Marine Corps.
"Fill this out in triplicate..." doesn't begin to describe it.
The bureaucracy is so bad that Marines joke that the Corps
floats on a sea of paperwork.
pF> Two weeks after I left, they realized that they underpaid me by a day
pF> or so of wages. Instead of just cutting a check for the difference,
pF> they clawed back the paycheck out of my account and issued a new check.
pF> In a week.
When I became an officer, I had a kid with a pay issue: he hadn't
been paid something from when he deployed. So I told him to go to
Admin and talk to Sgt. So-and-so. So instead, he wrote his
congressman, who then ordered us to do a full audit of his pay from
the time he enlisted until the present.
Turned out, he'd been _overpaid_ by a few thousand dollars and
actually owed the government money, so they started docking his pay.
Had he just gone and talked to the Marine I told him to, he'd
probably have gotten whatever the original issue was sorted out
and no one would have ever realized he'd been overpaid.
He went UA (Naval service speak for AWOL) a few months later. No
idea what became of him.
