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for an Electricity distrbution rec.. Kinda geeky but kinda cool

What the hell is sap? Here if you really are bored but it might just send you to sleep

 Guestford_junkie

The site never actually says. At least not that I could find.

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Told you I'm a geek..

Rachel Guestford_junkie

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I develop traditional classroom and online training for Ion Implanters at a prominent semiconductor company here in New England.  In a nutshell, Implanters are mini-charged particle accelerators used in manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as computer chips and solar cells. For more info, see this Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_implanter

Before that, I was in the US Navy as an electronics technician and nuclear reactor operator (USS Carl Vinson)... and a technical instructor in both fields.  For more info, see this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_reactor

On the side, I do graphic design and anything requiring artistic creativity: sketching and drawing, product design, corporate branding, graphic design, desktop publishing, etc., etc., etc.  You can see some of my examples of this here and here.

I'm currently going to school here at Southern New Hampshire University for a dual Bachelors degree in Communications and Graphic/Multimedia Design... should be done in another 2 years.

Oh, and I love long walks in the park, holding hands, and of course reading, reading, reading... you should see my library...   


Road Captain for the Chang Bangers Bike Club • SciFiGeek2.0 • Artist for the Damned • Linebacker for the Mars Planets

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Ooh, SAP - a bone of contention in my day job!

but SAP can rock if you implement it right :)

 Guestford_junkie

All we technicians do is complain that Sap relies heavily on a broadband connection, and when you're in the field, that's not always possible!

I'm sure it's fine but we think it sucks!

Yes, really! For the past 11 years, I've worked in sexual health and HIV prevention. I used to be an outreach worker, providing one-on-one health education, support, advocacy, etc direct to brothel workers (sex work/prostitution is lawful in Australia). These days I work in State and Federal sexual health/rights policy, research and legislative analysis.

I'm also a columnist for a local horror magazine and a book/movie reviewer for a horror website.

~Writer, activist, book nerd, boozehound, gamer, slapper, sandgroper, accident waiting to happen~

As far as I know the only place in the US where it's legal is Nevada (except Clark County, where Las Vegas is). If two people want to make a business arrangement out of sex, that seems perfectly okay to me.

It's the violence and drugs that often are associated with the profession that can be a problem. So you give the government one more thing to regulate and make it safer for everyone involved!

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But I hear that the electrical utility add-on for SAP is woefully lacking.  When you have guys paid by the hour saying that the system is preventing them from getting work done, that can't be good.  Just sayin'. I have no personal experience with it myself  :-)

Our company rolled it out and we techs out in the field have to use it for everything - timesheets, work orders, ordering parts, service orders etc.

Its far too heavy - ok if you're in the office.

we opted for an in house app instead because of the bad reviews... I'm glad we did now! Allthough SAP would like us to buy it and keep pushing.. See I don't work for SAP... I work for the Electricity rec trying to make SAP fit the business because when we tried it the right way round (SAP and make the business fit) It didn't go down to well with the field guys.. they hated it and said it stopped them from doing thier job properly.. we are now spending sqillions to try again

 Guestford_junkie

you need PM, PS, MM & FICO to make that work... but I hear ya..

Guestford_junkie

and most of it is true... withut good mobile devices.. saportal and a fully intergated interface suite it can be painful for those on the sharp end...  the confrimation bits can be the pits if you have to do it at operation level. It gives the dudes in finace all sorts of analysis (productivity, actual vs estimated etc).. but I sometimes think the companies get a bit carried away with all that and forget the basic cost vs benefit of collecting data at that level. - at the end of the day they want us to do the best quality job for the best price and forget that data collection ramps up the cost and stops the WORK from getting done (but the reports look good  ).

Thats why I do the job that I do - I try and pu some reality back in there so we don't go too far down that road.

Guestford_junkie

And for the record, it's just g_j's techspeak...

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Gutter Sistren whipping boy, innoventor of words, Life Coach to the Damned.

I have an office job supervising a data entry department.  Not very interesting stuff there.  I also have second job getting busy at night!  Okay, that one is not really that exciting either, it's just typing - but it sounds so much better the other way! 

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The Pure Essence of Randomness, Captain of the Touchback, Pusher and Proud member of the Gutter Sistren

"But I'm always dreaming. Even when I'm awake."

Richno3.......out

PEPSICO!!!!

So you ARE a lady of the evening!

And I guess, exotiKali is a lady of the late night...

And del_detriment is a lady of the far future morning!

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Gutter Sistren whipping boy, innoventor of words, Life Coach to the Damned.

The fact that they entertain us for Crack Hits is not relevant at all.

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MESS WITH THE BEST, DIE LIKE THE REST

  (What - I just love that game Operation!)

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The Pure Essence of Randomness, Captain of the Touchback, Pusher and Proud member of the Gutter Sistren

"But I'm always dreaming. Even when I'm awake."

I work for a before / afterschool program for kids, I do moslty tech lessons and video production.

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