I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.

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I design big iron. The hardware is great, don’t blame us.

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I googled big iron. I still don’t understand what you two are talking about, don’t blame me.

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Big iron means a mainframe. The Ferrari of servers.

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Ferrari? More like the passenger train of computers.

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Thank you!

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Big iron on his hip

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What is “big iron”?

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Mainframe computers

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Thanks.

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Found Texas Red.

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What’s texas red?

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Big Iron is a song by Marty Robbins, about a criminal named Texas Red, who wore a big iron on his hip.

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