at the age of 16 I was working for a local ISP doing dialup support when we got a call that couldn’t be resolved by level one techs … but was apparently in the same building, across the hall. After going around and around with them for 4+ calls and realizing we were right there, I just walked over on my lunch break, got hired as their helpdesk, walked back, quit, and started connecting all their desktops up to a novell netware network to use their paired ISDN line instead of having dozens of desktops dialing in for 28.8k
This work went on for 8 months, and I was always struck by how many desktops and offices they had, but so few people were ever there. Slept with my future wife on a couch in the lobby lol. Anyway, after almost a year of this, they were raided by the feds for selling fake ‘executive personality analysis’ and helping tons of companies pick their c-suites based on woo-woo garbage surveys they were selling to fortune 500 companies for thousands of dollars each. Turns out the entire business was lies layered on lies but I cashed the fuck outta those checks and appreciated not having to work fast food.
never underestimate money laundering and scams, there’s shittons out there
hey were raided by the feds for selling fake ‘executive personality analysis’ and helping tons of companies pick their c-suites based on woo-woo garbage surveys they were selling to fortune 500 companies for thousands of dollars each. Turns out the entire business was lies layered on lies
Obviously this is just a surface level description, but what you’ve described just sounds like capitalism to me. I’m struggling to figure out what law was broken.
I guess the mistake was ripping off wealthy people.
Obviously this is just a surface level description, but what you’ve described just sounds like capitalism to me. I’m struggling to figure out what law was broken.
valid. iirc the thing that broke the dam was their psychologist being disbarred or having their license revoked, and everything fell apart after that.
After going around and around with them for 4+ calls and realizing we were right there, I just walked over on my lunch break, got hired as their helpdesk, walked back, quit
What made you switch over? Better conditions? Or just that the job sounded more interesting?
100% not having to answer calls. and it was $3 more per hour. easy choice. (iirc minimum wage at the time was 4 something? 1994-5 so that was huge for me)
at the age of 16 I was working for a local ISP doing dialup support when we got a call that couldn’t be resolved by level one techs … but was apparently in the same building, across the hall. After going around and around with them for 4+ calls and realizing we were right there, I just walked over on my lunch break, got hired as their helpdesk, walked back, quit, and started connecting all their desktops up to a novell netware network to use their paired ISDN line instead of having dozens of desktops dialing in for 28.8k
This work went on for 8 months, and I was always struck by how many desktops and offices they had, but so few people were ever there. Slept with my future wife on a couch in the lobby lol. Anyway, after almost a year of this, they were raided by the feds for selling fake ‘executive personality analysis’ and helping tons of companies pick their c-suites based on woo-woo garbage surveys they were selling to fortune 500 companies for thousands of dollars each. Turns out the entire business was lies layered on lies but I cashed the fuck outta those checks and appreciated not having to work fast food.
never underestimate money laundering and scams, there’s shittons out there
Obviously this is just a surface level description, but what you’ve described just sounds like capitalism to me. I’m struggling to figure out what law was broken.
I guess the mistake was ripping off wealthy people.
valid. iirc the thing that broke the dam was their psychologist being disbarred or having their license revoked, and everything fell apart after that.
Ah yeah that could do it
What made you switch over? Better conditions? Or just that the job sounded more interesting?
100% not having to answer calls. and it was $3 more per hour. easy choice. (iirc minimum wage at the time was 4 something? 1994-5 so that was huge for me)