I started my new job today. It’s nothing too difficult, pays as much as I was getting paid before, and there’s a lot of room to move up.
My responsibilities are very simple and straightforward. While the job is seemingly repetitive, and I have to stand the entire time, I really don’t mind it. I get a line of 4 Acer laptops that customers have shipped back for whatever reason, test a few things, recover it to its system defaults, and move onto the next batch. The only thing that really slows the process down is that these are all laptops that run Vista. Most of them weren’t even used by the customer for a week when they were sent back, some were never even turned on for whatever reason. So when turning the laptops on there’s all the trial software that loads, Windows bitches about security settings, and a few other pop-ups that obviously slow the booting process. Testing the laptops works like this:
-Reset the bios to defaults, enable the boot menu
-Boot from a CD to reset all passwords
-Boot PC normally, log into Administrator account
-Format the D: drive (Acer laptops use that as a DATA drive, where user data is stored)
-Check the webcam (if present) to make sure it works
-Check all the USB ports, just plug in a flash drive
-Open the device manager to see if there’s any bad hardware
-Reboot with factory restore CD
That’s pretty much the process for these, we’re expected to do like 60 a day and it’s quite easy to obtain. And if there’s any part of the process that fails, we just mark it with the problem and put it in a separate pile, let the repair guys deal with it. It’s no longer our issue.
There’s a chance to move around too, like I can move over to repair if I get sick of testing, or work in the warehouse section boxing or unboxing the PCs. And there may be a 2nd shift starting, which I would definitely jump on.
So I’m pretty content with this. Not to mention the dress code is 100% casual. Score.