What do you do for work, anandtech offtopic folks?

[Lanyap]

I try and herd cats towards a common goal. Right now I manage a group of people who do IT work for higher Ed - basically consulting. My group is a new group at my company so we're still evaluating whether we'll keep doing what my group is doing - which is being more involved in implementation. It's a bit of a risk to see how it is received by our clients but if it works I should get another promotion and pay raise out of it. If it falls through I'll likely go back to being a Solution Architect but should be able to keep the salary and benefit bump I took to take on the new team.

Heh, herd cats. I used to work for that company after being outsourced from a regional telco then we got bought out by a printer company then...

 

[vshah]

Software Engineer / Engineering Manager

 

[Dr. Detroit]

IT Tax Consultant - Specifically related to state Sales/Use Taxes (+ Other excise taxes) and implementing software solutions for medium to large-scale companies.

So specifically being hired to consult clients and review that they have everything they need for SOX compliance?

So you put a sales tax plugin on companies websites like a avalarra or taxify. KPMG has there own in-house solution they sell now too. I just assumed ERP's were configured to correctly pull sales tax from tables once you entered ship to.

I'm done consulting - work private now. Spent a decade in public.

 

[JEDIYoda]

I have been retired for several years now!
When I did work, I traveled mostly to countries in the middle east and just did as the US Government or the Israeli Government asked me to do!
I am fluent in most Arab languages as well as Russian and Hebrew and several other languages!
I did alright for myself! I am alive and enjoying my retirement!
NO -- I don`t answer the phone anymore! lolol...….But those who need to know do know how to find me!

 

[ch33zw1z]

Enterprise Systems support. Fancy for parts monkey.

 

[AlanWade]

Retired and loving it!
Back in the day I was an electrician.

 

[stargazr]

Tool & Diemaker

 

[purbeast0]

I'm a principal software engineer on some pretty important projects.

 

[dank69]

I'm a principal software engineer on some pretty important projects.

Does your office smell of rich mahogany?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Does your office smell of rich mahogany?

Probably, with many leather bound flow charts

 

[purbeast0]

Does your office smell of rich mahogany?

wat?

 

[Exterous]

Probably, with many leather bound men

FTFY

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I worked corporate all my life.

You have my condolences.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Surplus Russian Roulette

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

So you put a sales tax plugin on companies websites like a avalarra or taxify. KPMG has there own in-house solution they sell now too. I just assumed ERP's were configured to correctly pull sales tax from tables once you entered ship to.

Bit more complex then that... and by bit more I mean a lot more haha. Sadly sales tax isn't as simple as using the ship-to. All of these can play a factor in determining your jurisdiction, the rate, and if it's taxable or not: Ship From, Ship To, Point of Order Acceptance, Product (some products simply aren't taxed such as groceries in TX), Buyer (exemptions), Seller, Date of the Invoice (Tax rates change by date)... plus you have to configure the software to determine where your company is required to collect.

A good example I find is IL - It's a Point of Order Acceptance state. If I order a product from Widget Inc - and they ship it from their warehouse in Bloomington, IL to me in Chicago, IL it doesn't necessarily get taxed based on either of those, but rather the IL jurisdiction in which they "accept" the order into their system... Which yes, often times can be the same as the Ship-From, but it isn't always.

Tables? Nope. Not in the slightest heh - well, I guess any database can be referred to as "tables" to a certain extent. But the two most common solutions are Vertex and OneSource. Both are the two main players for any large Fortune 500 company as far as sales tax. Both release multiple updates every month - because thats what it takes to keep up with the latest in law changes, rate changes, etc.

So yeah, ERPs in and of themselves have absolutely nothing configured as far as sales tax. Honestly I've kinda wondered why SAP/Oracle haven't simply bought out one the solutions I mentioned above, it would serve them well especially after the SCOTUS passed Wayfair v. South Dakota.

My one experience with implementing tax engines to a website was that the tax system was connected to the back-end order management system as well as the front-end website. The reality is though, the tax amount you see on websites is really just a quotation - The actual tax amount is handled by the order management system because your tax rate is based on when the item ships - not when it is ordered.

 

[Charmonium]

Haven't been able to work for many years but I worked as a lawyer for a few years, mostly in a support role. Then I worked as an analyst at a mortgage bank for a few more years. Finally settled into a career as a programmer and later IT consultant.

I still enjoy writing code for my own little projects. My mother tongue is COBOL but that was so long ago I'd probably have relearn it if I were to try to use it now. So I taught myself some basic Python and use that.

 

[deadlyapp]

Oil & Gas strategy

 

[DietDrThunder]

Embedded Software Engineer Senior Staff - I lead a technical team developing Skynet.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I do work I can't stand, for people I don't like, for not enough money. Needless to say I fucked up along the way to get where I am. Multiple felonies will do that.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I'm a warehouse flunkie with a high I.Q. I want to have a day where you work 80 hours and get something called a "check" for it ... Note: I'm not related to Trump!

School? If you are smart, semi young, without a record you have no excuses.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Retired Game Programmer / Rock Star. (Well, I could have passed for one, back then, in my 20s, with my long hair. I had some chick in the back of a limo roll the window down and say hello to me, when I was walking past the Hard Rock in Boston.)

Well, a bunch of the programmers and artists on the project had long hair, we could have all passed for Rock Stars. And in our own way, we were.

But that feels like a previous life right now.

 

[Insomniator]

Server Operations/Engineering for a large Healthcare organization.

Awesome job with good benefits and the freedom to do/learn almost whatever I want.

Unfortunately I am not smart or ambitious enough to take full advantage of the opportunities they provide. I'm by no means the worst, but there are some seriously dedicated and talented people that make me feel like an idiot here.

 

[Zeze]

You have my condolences.

Thank you. I need it.

 

[IronWing]

I work in a NOC for a major telco. Basically this, except with 1/100th the budget.

Why? Why would anyone other than Hollywood set or video game designers build a room like that? The layout is ridiculous for getting actual work done.

I was in such a state of disbelief that anyone would really build like that that I went and looked it up. Yep.
https://www.corp.att.com/corp-briefing-center/

 

[Red Squirrel]

TBH, it's management that wants it to "look cool" for when the higher end managers come to visit. No joke. When we got a new manager he wanted to change everything around as we were not all facing the front and we only had a couple random TVs setup for global stuff that we all look at. Most of the stuff we watch is on our own PCs. Now we have like 10ish TVs up front that we hardly even look at because all the stuff we need is local. Though we did get 3 4k monitors and 1 HD monitor, instead of 4-6 HD that we had before so that was a bonus. Most of us were bringing extra monitors from home as they keep adding new stuff for us to watch and we just had no screen real estate left.

The stuff on the TVs is realistically too small to view from a distance and you have to remote into it if you want to interact with it, it's only management that really looks at that.

It looks cool though.