The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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I'm a Software EngineerSo I have loads of dirt that I could tell you about. One of my favourites though...
I programmed a small "green screen" system for "An American Bank" to be used at Wimbledon. Obviously I was extremely proud to be given the chance to do something as high profile as that on my own, so put everything I had into it.
One feature we had was to enable you to have the photograph (you in front of a green screen, chroma keyed out so you appeared next to some tennis player) that was taken, sent to your mobile phone as an MMS. All of the equipment that was responsible for this was back in the office.
A few days in the MMS feature completely stopped, so I knucked down to try to find out what was wrong, then it dawned on me. We were using a Pay-As-You-Go SIM card and it only had a fiver on it to start with!
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"I've sorted the issue, required a little bit of reprogramming and "resetting" of some equipment back at base, and it's all fit to go now."
"You're a star!"
"Nah, it's all part of the job"
doh!
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 18:20,
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