Long story short... Most of the money the company earned was from the credit union. I went through a depression phase and tried to kill myself (I'm doing better now) so I was inpatient in a mental ward for about a month.
The credit union got a computer security audit from the ncua(similar to fdic but for credit unions). My boss could not access any system. No servers, no firewalls, no intrusion detection systems, nothing. I had the passwords but was unable to be contacted and "documentation was a waste of time".
They failed the audit. Credit union basically asked "we pay you for computer security, we failed an audit for computer security, so why do we pay you?"
Contract was lost and company went under shortly afterwards.
Ok, I'll give my experience. I was hired as basically a paid intern. I was in high school, I "knew" computers like a nerdy teenager knows computers... Not real knowledge of their workings but I played with some programming(I got hello world to work using perl) , I could install linux(in the early 2000s, I bought copy of Debian Linux on 7 cds). I was basically told I would be an assistant to the other computer technician.
A week after I got hired, he got fired. For the next several months people got hired and fired after a 2-3 weeks. The company was 3 people, myself, the owner, his wife did the accounting. I didn't know what I was doing, googling what I could to figure stuff out(i now know that's normal but also now know how to Google correctly). I leaned on the owner to figure out things. I don't know if your job is in computers but these are things I learned later were absolutely idiotic.
If a computer came in with a suspected virus, standard protocol was no research or investigation... Format and reinstall.
We had corporate clients (main client was a credit union), we gave the windows CD and license code to each teller with no record of what they were. He sold the license at the price he bought then for from staples.
All servers had local admin accounts. All local admin accounts had similar passwords. I was the only person who knew what those passwords were.
My boss thought time spent documenting was time wasted.
Anyways I stayed there for 4 years. It was not perfect and I learned so much wrong stuff. It was a decent job, my boss had really weird rules(why so many people got fired), and my time would of been spent better learning correct information.
That said I ended up causing the company to go bankrupt and the owner and his wife are now Christian consulers...
I'm tempted to start a community about the country between Chad and Mali... A nice wholesome community... I'm completely unqualified and know nothing about it but the amount of removed words would be amusing...
I work for a medical device manufacturer and you are missing a important reason for that exception. Yes human lives are on the line. In addition WE (meaning my company) are responsible for finding out why it broke and how we will prevent other devices we make from breaking.
We make a device and say it will last 10 years, 2 years later it stops. We have to replace it, We have to investigate to the best of our ability, We have to report our findings to the government, if several cases happen We need to come up with a prevention for the future dailures(or prevention if severe enough). We have entire departments for this. It is our burden not the consumer and it's our burden so we have enough evidence to determine root cause and final solution so we can prevent further failures.
I agree with your sentiment but that's not how taxes work... Only the money after 578k is at taxed at 37%... So the first 22k is taxed as 10% even if you make a billion dollars.
I've done some gcode but moved onto other programming(mostly c# so completely different. One thing I HATED about gcode, I don't know if it was just my machines or gcode in general(most of mine were based on fanuc cnc controllers typically seen as top of the line) , we were not able to name variables.
I create a variable and assign it #315. What does #315 do? What does it mean? Who knows... Better have notes or comments to explain or your fucked. I can't say variable x_offset_tool_15 nope...just #315.
You might like "the old man's war" series by John Scalzi. Basically aliens came to earth gave us technology and we created an earth defense army in space to fight the other aliens, but to join the army you must be 70 years old.
Another good series is expeditionary force. Aliens attack earth and one guy takes the fight to the aliens and with the help of a sentient super fast intelligent Ai captains a spaceship fighting aliens. This one is good but after the first few books the story beats and jokes start to repeat. The author should of stopped in my opinion around book 5 but he kept going with the same stories.
I didn't know Dr. Suess was a dm...