“If you’re going to shoot the king,” he says ominously, “you better be goddamned sure you kill him. Laurie won’t fire him, because firing back-to-back CEOs will make Raviga look bad. Summoning Richard into his office (which has a really cool remote controlled door), Action Jack informs him that, despite Laurie’s objections to the Pied Piper appliance, they’re still going to build it. “What information do I not already have?” Action Jack asks, before angrily calling Erlich’s spiel “some free-form jazz odyssey of masturbatory bullshit.” Action Jack gets angrier after Richard’s visit to Laurie results in a rage-fueled phone call. But when Erlich goes to Pied Piper HQ, he finds a different Action Jack than the one he met in the season premiere. “I want you to want me to go talk to Barker!” he tells Richard, who acquiesces.
His decision to complain to Laurie Bream is sidetracked temporarily by Erlich, who once again injects himself where he is not needed. In order to keep his team together, Richard swings into crisis mode. Your recap tip for the week: Never meet your tech pimp at a bar. I, on the other hand, was once cussed out by a drunken recruiter when I turned down her offer. Gilfoyle’s experience runs counter to my own he is showered with gifts like a hoverboard, good booze, and seven tons of gourmet popcorn when he rejects their offers. Now, I should mention that you can’t get a job in this profession without a recruiter. The second he makes himself available on LinkedIn, the tech recruiters pounce on him. A good stint in a server room will wake you up faster than guzzling a dozen Red Bulls.Īfter such a depressing experience, Gilfoyle resigns from Pied Piper. I can also tell you that it’s freezing in there - a ubiquitous means to stave off overheating. “There’s no difference between day and night down here,” he tells Richard. “I thought that way,” says the perfectly cast actor playing their tour guide, “until I saw them all.” Like any good network/infrastructure engineer, the guide mysteriously disappears at the most inopportune moment, leaving the team to fend for themselves in the quest to find one of the 16 stairwells out of this pit of doom.īefore he vanishes, the guide mentions that part of the Pied Piper package includes an engineer whose job is to physically sit in that room to monitor the boxes around the clock. “If you’ve seen one rack, you’ve seen them all,” Richard nonchalantly says of the similar-looking equipment that seems to stretch on for miles.
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If a programmer’s life is a movie by Werner Herzog ( Fitzcarraldo comes to mind at least once a day for me), a network admin’s life is as Kubrick-like as the huge room of servers Richard, Dinesh, and Gilfoyle find themselves in during this episode’s pre-credits sequence.
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The software company now peddles hardware that will sit in one of the millions of anonymous racks in some obscurely located server farm. In an effort to give the sales people “something easy to sell,” Pied Piper has morphed into a data-backup appliance.
The episode’s title has military origins, as does “ skunkworks,” the term the Pied Piper gang use for the secret plan to defunkify the putrid smelling future of Richard’s compression engine. I bet that skunk’s pissed off yellow face looked a lot like Action Jack Barker’s at the end of “Meinertzhagen’s Haversack,” the season’s best episode so far. The skunk immediately gave her this dirty look, as if to say, “Lady, if I weren’t defunkified, you’d be in serious trouble!” “Who the hell wants a yellow skunk?!” my H.R. The pet shop worker explained that, while the average skunk is black and white, skunks can also come in other colors. When she arrived, she was presented with a brightly colored animal in a cage. After calling several pet stores, she found a place that had one for sale. To wit: An old HR manager of mine was looking for a pet, and for some reason, she settled on a skunk. This week’s episode of Silicon Valley reminded me that skunks deserve more respect than they get in the animal kingdom.
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