Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground
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I wished I had saved the webpage to prove this but sometime around 1999-2000 on http://WUnderground.com they had a job posting for a new webmaster that could also double as a car mechanic. I'm not joking, I swear on my grandmother's grave.
My guess is the company was super small, probably a CEO, 1 webmaster, 1 network guy and a secretary and they ran everything remotely at a NOC. The webmaster probably liked cars and would fix the CEO's car for him.
Well anyways, I couldn't stop laughing when I read this absurd request and I showed all my coworkers. I eventually emailed the company and said "I'm a web master and I also do boat repair work and a little jet plane repair but I have no car repair exp, would you still be interested?" They never replied :)
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Found it - "Auto Repair" under "Preferred Additional Skills".
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You're a bad ass for finding it, somehow I obviously passed it. I was actually afraid nobody would believe me without a url. I saved this one to my local humor directory as it's a keeper.
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Ha ! That's great! Awesome find, too, in the Archive!
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I'll save a screenshot here while the link is still working
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That's actually hilarious.
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position : web developer
responsabilities:
Learn existing code base (C / HTML on Linux)
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Install and maintain Linux hardwarePrefered additional skills (not absolutly required)
Phoshop
Auto repairWeb development in C?
I see they are very hardcore...Linux hardware?
But...But... it will be insecure!!!
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@cabrito quoted in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
Prefered additional skills (not absolutly required)
Phoshop
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@sockpuppet7 I'm not ASE certified and I only do minor work on my own car, but I never thought that'd still be a combination of qualifications that would make me more qualified than 99.999% of the rest of the workforce.
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@The_Quiet_One They couldn't find a better way to express "must be an expert in car analogies".
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@sockpuppet7 said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
I'll save a screenshot here while the link is still working
is stuff prone to disappear from the Internet Archive nowadays?
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@marczellm why should I trust the webarchive will be around for the next 10 years?
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@sockpuppet7 said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@marczellm why should I trust the webarchive will be around for the next 10 years?
We need an internet archive archive
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@ben_lubar I actually think IA has made arrangements for such. Don't recall the specifics
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@cabrito said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
Web development in C?
They're out of their uncle-fucking minds.
This was also true 13 years ago.
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@Gribnit Yeah, web development in Rust is a much better idea.
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@pie_flavor said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@Gribnit Yeah, web development in Rust is a much better idea.
As long as you stay away from SSDs, you can get
fa-spinning Rust.
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@Weng said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
I actually think IA has made arrangements for such.
Yes. They're funded by a mix of national libraries IIRC (such as the Library of Congress in the US) to archive as much of the web as possible.
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@The_Quiet_One Yeah, I've got an interesting professional past, and can tear down and rebuild engines and shit. Not that I want to do it for a living. Nor do I particularly like working on cars, they are dirty, cramped and incredibly mechanic hostile in their design.
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@travisowens I look after networky stuff for a large public body, including stuff on hill sites. My colleagues and I are getting frustrated with the organisation's inability to book generator engineers to service the standby gennies on hilltop sites. Buuuut - they're all powered by the same Perkins 3-cylinder diesels that I grew up with in tractors, which I've known how to fix since I was in school. So I guess I'll just add diesel mechanic to my job description, and fire in the receipts :-D
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@Gribnit said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@cabrito said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
Web development in C?
They're out of their uncle-fucking minds.
This was also true 13 years ago.
I worked in a project like that. It was a large ISP, but the higher ups were old people that loved C.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@marczellm why should I trust the webarchive will be around for the next 10 years?
It is in Alexandria, Egypt. We know what happens to libraries in Alexandria.
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@dkf said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
to archive as much of the web as possible.
IOW, they have a huge porn collection
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@tharpa said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@sockpuppet7 said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@marczellm why should I trust the webarchive will be around for the next 10 years?
It is in Alexandria, Egypt. We know what happens to libraries in Alexandria.
Someone said:
Every book in here either agrees with Quran (and hence is redundant) or disagrees with it (and hence is heretical).
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@PleegWat said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@tharpa said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@sockpuppet7 said in Webmaster/Car Mechanic combo job @ WUnderground:
@marczellm why should I trust the webarchive will be around for the next 10 years?
It is in Alexandria, Egypt. We know what happens to libraries in Alexandria.
Someone said:
Every book in here either agrees with Quran (and hence is redundant) or disagrees with it (and hence is heretical).
At the risk of providing known info:
Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia
