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[strredwolf]

So I'm up again, and this time instead of think up ways of installing Perl on a Zaurus (it involves NFS) I've gotten my hands on an old NEC Pentium 100 system.  Granted, the hard drive's only a gig large (I'll add another one) and the memory's 72 pin (got that covered, I got some more still), but I think I can max it out and get a decent terminal out of it.  I'm slapping Slack 10 on it now -- it's a tight distro.  I just wish Gentoo's portage didn't take up like half a gig of space.  The CDROM on it needs to be swapped out -- it's not ATAPI compatible and Linux is tripping over a burn I did. 

Comcast directly offered me a position as COT (read: tech support) which is something I've done already, no problem.  I'm waiting for them to call me back and say "Come in, we want to hire you" after I taken a drug test and consented to a background check about two weeks ago.  Dad and a friend in Texas are saying that five (business) days are sufficent for that to be done.  I'll have to bug them tomorrow while babysitting the neices.

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[kesarra.livejournal.com]

Have you been "bad"? Taking too much heroine again? Or did they find that case involving manslaughter? ;)

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Nope. I haven't committed a crime, nor have I taken illegal drugs -- unless that tox screen is so sensitive that if I breathe in the exhalings of a druggie that just got on the Metrorail they day before, it'll flag.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

You mean that they really DO do drug tests in the USA for jobs? I thought that was only for hiring people for security positions.

FYI, they don't do drug tests here.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, Kisai. They drug test. You don't want anyone high on the phones telling customers that you're dripping color.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

I work in a call center which is why I find it odd.