Posts made by MattKing

@Reid-Cooper said:

Hopefully they get someone to come in and be active. Since they are not active "over there" any longer, it is that much better of an opportunity to be busy here!

That's a good idea! I'll run it by a few people.

@Reid-Cooper said:

Is ServerMonkey going to send someone in to replace you here? It will be hard for them to maintain a presence on par with what you have been providing.

Well, in all honestly I was here mostly on my own accord after we stopped posting in the community "over there". Charlotte is always on the ball in community engagement, so I would suggest sending her an email for feedback on anything website/community. Andy is my favorite sales rep (don't tell anyone!), and I've trusted him to white-glove most of the prospective clients I receive for us.

Thanks for all the warm wishes; obviously I'll stick around for the 9-5 conversation in the least. I mostly wanted to avoid an "Oh, I don't work there anymore" conversation. I assumed since I was emailing my vendors, I should drop a line here as well!

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to announce that I am resigning from my position in purchasing at ServerMonkey.com. I will probably stick around in the community here and there, but all further contact for business should be directed towards one of the contacts below.

Due to my past military experience, I believe that a position in an industrial setting would be more appropriate. I hold everyone here in the highest regard and wish to maintain a positive relationship with everyone here. I will be assembling the supply chain department for a local oil/gas company and am very excited for the future. It's been a very bittersweet week for me.

Feel free to reach out, I'm friends with SAM on Facebook, and my LinkedIn is below.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wetkoala
[email protected]

Sales Contact: Andy
[email protected]
Direct - 713-335-9809

Marketing Contact: Charlotte
[email protected]

Thanks so much,
Matt (MonkeyMan)

I had a really good drink one time where they smoked the drink. It was similar to an old fashioned; the good kind not the maraschino cherry kind.

@scottalanmiller It was an unfortunate phase.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattKing said:

Speaking of horrible things, I went through a phase where I would order "whiskey, splash of soda" when I went out, for a good 8-9 months.

Pretty sure that's why I grew chest hair, but not a phase I'm impressed with.

You should be pretty embarrassed. You should never water down whiskey.

Even well? whoof

@SarawithanH Welcome, enjoy your stay and watch out for the ones whom bite.

@Minion-Queen said:

To clear things up a little more. I do not own NTG. NTG is my day job. I love my day job and don't plan on leaving anytime soon. However I really did just see a huge need. Not just for IT Pro's either. The plan is to have many sites. ML is our flagship but I hope to grow this into a major Social Community and Social Marketing Firm. Marketing is my first love (not IT). This gives me a way to get back to it in a small way for now.

I will say congratulations again then, the world works in weird ways. I'm always happy to see when somebody uses their main career to "niche" their way (back) into their real passion.

This is really interesting, I'm curious how this will effect future international legislation. Can you imagine when "Data sanctions" become a thing, I really think we're going to see a LOT more of "where is the hardware" in the next few years. At least how it relates to law/international-relations.

Speaking of horrible things, I went through a phase where I would order "whiskey, splash of soda" when I went out, for a good 8-9 months.

Pretty sure that's why I grew chest hair, but not a phase I'm impressed with.

Can the catchphrase be "Bar opens at noon."?

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattKing said:

I think a sales engineer is more of a "fellow" type job and isn't something you can set out to do per-se, but that's very limited knowledge.

As a "fellow", I don't think that they are that close typically. But maybe. But I totally agree that it isn't something that you set out to do necessarily. It's a career that you fall into, not one that you target.

Oh of course, it was more just relating to the "falling into" job type, and not so much as where they relate on the totem pole.

I think a sales engineer is more of a "fellow" type job and isn't something you can set out to do per-se, but that's very limited knowledge.

Do you enjoy sales? I think maybe testing the waters for 6mos before you set your heart on something might be a safe bet. I always steer clear of anything commission-based, but you may really like it.

Yum! This reminds me, I've been looking for a good local Texas one.

Well, I think a congratulations is in order for you, and GroveSocial!

P.S. if this is your site you may want a coming-soon page http://grovesocial.com/

@scottalanmiller said:

In some ways spelling is getting horrible. But in other ways it is improving as people see correctly spelled words so much more often.

Personally, I can never spell "definite" to save my life, no matter how many ways I try to remember it.

I've been curious how many spelling errors you would find just grabbing random people off of the street and having them write a short post card or note.

Recently I feel data retention is on the decline with Google and auto-complete at our fingertips.

Thank baby jesus, are they giving up on G+ now?

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And then get weird malware that takes over your printer.

And then the robots take over..

SKYNET, or was it ARPANET?