OT: Re: DBA Job at a Chocolate Factory

From: Jim Conboy <Jim.Conboy_at_trw.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:41:29 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002D38BB.20010321102042@fatcity.com>

Yeah, scofflaw seems to be a common ailment among presidential types. Our current prez is no stranger to the handcuffs either and he and the veep total 5 arrests between them.

Jim

>>> rockyw_99_at_yahoo.com 03/21/01 12:56PM >>> I had a short gig setting up a database in Tallahassee State prison. They had the prisoners entering data for underground utility lines. I had to train the DBA who was in for 10 years for 3 counts of assault and battery. That was like being on another, very bad, planet. If anyone has any intrest in commiting crimes (unless you're a certain recent former President then you can do whatever you want without fear of justice) I urge you to tour such a facility. You'll never have an intrest in commiting crime again.

-Rocky

• Steve Orr <sorr_at_arzoo.com> wrote:
  > Seven years ago I was offered an Oracle DBA job at a chocolate factory
  > and
  > turned it down. (Please don't tell Rachel, she already thinks I'm
  > crazy.) I
  > had two simultaneous offers for the same salary and took the one closer
  > to
  > home. While on the interview they gave me the full tour of the factory
  > starting with the bags of cocoa beans on the docks. The smell was
  > intoxicating and even wafted into the office area where I would have
  > worked.
  > They had unlimited stashes of chocolate in every cubicle. I asked the
  > employees if they ever got sick of chocolate and the answer was a
  > resounding
  > NO. Now my kids will never forgive me for not having taken the job at
  > the
  > chocolate factory.
  >
  > This begs the question... Where and what are some of the most
  > interesting
  > Oracle DBA jobs out there? I heard of one deep underground at a mining
  > operation in the middle of the Nevada desert. Database is a basic
  > technology
  > that can be applied to just about any business anywhere. Any interesting
  > stories? Personal experiences?
  >
  >
  > Steve Orr
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