Got a request for phone interview back from one employer, which also asked me "what are your relocation plans?" because i'm almost exclusively applying to DC-based jobs. I said that I had an uncle in the area who was willing to give me temporary housing (half true, i do have an uncle there, but i doubt he'd let me stay there any length of time), and then she didn't email me back all day (when i responded at 11:00 AM)
obviously a full business day is needed (my own boss sometimes takes days to respond to certain routine emails, bosses in fundraising can get very busy very fast) before i panic, but it does beg the question: what's the right answer to that? Employers are always skeptical of out-of-towners and their ability to move in quickly, did my answer seem like a transparent lie? (it could well be true, if i asked my uncle and did get a favorable answer), and if so, what would be a better response to that? An honest guess that i could make the move in 2 weeks if i needed to? (which is also true)
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Corporate won't let me work due to my hip injury restrictions until Saturday. I was off Friday anyways, so gotta burn the last of my sick time to cover yesterday, today, and all but almost two hours of tomorrow. Made an appointment with a nearby orthopedic & sports medicine clinic through my insurance because the VA hospital can fuck right off with their antiquated wanting to burn my nerves so the pain isn't a problem instead of actually treating the core problems that make me wish we had bionic legs and cyber-spines.
This is the annual heads up that Costco is getting ready to ramp up hiring for the holiday season. Tips on getting your application looked at over someone elses. Open availability is probably the most important thing they are looking for. The more places they can put you the better. It is extremely unlikely that you are going to be able to choose where you go so get that out of the way first thing. While we do not accept applications at locations anymore, you can still go inside and ask for the hiring manager, just to get your face in front of them. They are going to be very busy though so don't expect much more than two or three minutes. If there is more than one building in your area, go to all of them. All the buildings can see the same applications. If you get called for an interview, be on time and dressed well. We don't need a suit, but slacks and a button down wouldn't hurt. If you know somebody already working there, ask them if you can use them as a reference. Costco is pretty insular and a word from inside really does help.
Thanks for the advice @Krieghund! Got an interview set up for tomorrow!
For the past couple of days, I've been playing small pranks on co-workers: changing their computer wallpapers to hated sports rivals.
Really, no big deal.
And after the last one was discovered and retribution was promised, I let them know I'd take payback in the spirit in which it is intended
But should they choose to elevate the conflict.... Well, blood and fire, tears and the gnashing of teeth were mentioned.
Unrelated, one of the co-workers got pooped on by a bat last night.
Came back from lunch to be greeted by a "I am woman, hear me roar" wallpaper.
I'm a man, but not mad like they were. I hope there's not more coming, and they're not teaming up to ramp up against me.
Why are you not locking your computer when you leave it? Why is no one in your office locking their computers when they leave them. That's just bad procedure.
whenever someone leaves a computer unlocked:
I open up whatever word document is on the screen, I write "PRIVACY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS", copy it, and then I just spam that ctrl-v like I'm an olympian.
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
For the past couple of days, I've been playing small pranks on co-workers: changing their computer wallpapers to hated sports rivals.
Really, no big deal.
And after the last one was discovered and retribution was promised, I let them know I'd take payback in the spirit in which it is intended
But should they choose to elevate the conflict.... Well, blood and fire, tears and the gnashing of teeth were mentioned.
Unrelated, one of the co-workers got pooped on by a bat last night.
Came back from lunch to be greeted by a "I am woman, hear me roar" wallpaper.
I'm a man, but not mad like they were. I hope there's not more coming, and they're not teaming up to ramp up against me.
Why are you not locking your computer when you leave it? Why is no one in your office locking their computers when they leave them. That's just bad procedure.
whenever someone leaves a computer unlocked:
I open up whatever word document is on the screen, I write "PRIVACY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS", copy it, and then I just spam that ctrl-v like I'm an olympian.
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
I just mess up the parentheses in a line of code and then run away.
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For the past couple of days, I've been playing small pranks on co-workers: changing their computer wallpapers to hated sports rivals.
Really, no big deal.
And after the last one was discovered and retribution was promised, I let them know I'd take payback in the spirit in which it is intended
But should they choose to elevate the conflict.... Well, blood and fire, tears and the gnashing of teeth were mentioned.
Unrelated, one of the co-workers got pooped on by a bat last night.
Came back from lunch to be greeted by a "I am woman, hear me roar" wallpaper.
I'm a man, but not mad like they were. I hope there's not more coming, and they're not teaming up to ramp up against me.
Why are you not locking your computer when you leave it? Why is no one in your office locking their computers when they leave them. That's just bad procedure.
whenever someone leaves a computer unlocked:
I open up whatever word document is on the screen, I write "PRIVACY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS", copy it, and then I just spam that ctrl-v like I'm an olympian.
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
I just mess up the parentheses in a line of code and then run away.
Place I work has two floors; when I'm working with customers it's on the first floor.
Had a kid wandering around on the first floor, calling for her mother. Lady says to her, "We'll find your mom!" I peer around the corner (lots of displays on this floor) and say to the lady, "Is she with you?" And she says "Well, no"
As I'm asking her this question the kid bolts toward the entrance, which will take her out into the mall and effectively into the ether. I tell a coworker to page the code for a lost child while I do the "I can walk faster than a 2-year-old can run" bit and cut her off, corralling her. I squat in front of her.
"Hey there. My name's [Wyborn]. Are you looking for your mom?"
Now I've dealt with lost kids before, and most of them are fine if you introduce yourself and offer to help them find their parents. Not this one. She had that "Oh fuck oh Christ there's a stranger and he has a deep fucking voice and he's going to kill me" look, and even as I'm trying to calm her I can tell she's getting ready to bolt, just to motor her way out of there. If I hadn't been squatting right there she would have tried to get around me. I've heard over the paging system that her mom is upstairs.
"I hear your mom's upstairs. Do you want to go get her? Do you want me to take you to her?"
And she looks like she is going to fucking blow up. I am getting ready for her to try to run, and that means I'm getting ready to lose the hearing in one ear because if she does that I'm going to grab her and carry her upstairs and this kid is 100% a screamer.
My manager swoops in, a woman about my age who signals that she's got it from there, and has a look that suggests maybe I'm not handling things in a way conducive to keeping the kid calm, so I swap out with her. Maybe she'll have better luck, some kids are less scared of women. So she goes through the same routine, and there's this moment of relief and happiness on the kid's face until the manager occupies the same space and oh fuck it's another stranger talking to her and she's about to be killed or something, kids don't even know
Manager keeps her occupied for the forty-five seconds it takes the mother to come down in the elevator pushing a double-wide baby stroller, her other (younger) kid asleep in it and mom herself looking like dinosaurs are roaming around the first floor with her child
"Look! There she is!" my manager says, and the kid still doesn't look, but because mom is already in her line of sight she looks up as mom gets within range and then bolts toward her, and she's already squalling fit to bring the roof down before mom even picks her up
Happy ending and I'm relieved for the whole family but boy howdy that's a special kind of situation, dealing with a terrified child that thinks you are Bad News
For the past couple of days, I've been playing small pranks on co-workers: changing their computer wallpapers to hated sports rivals.
Really, no big deal.
And after the last one was discovered and retribution was promised, I let them know I'd take payback in the spirit in which it is intended
But should they choose to elevate the conflict.... Well, blood and fire, tears and the gnashing of teeth were mentioned.
Unrelated, one of the co-workers got pooped on by a bat last night.
Came back from lunch to be greeted by a "I am woman, hear me roar" wallpaper.
I'm a man, but not mad like they were. I hope there's not more coming, and they're not teaming up to ramp up against me.
Why are you not locking your computer when you leave it? Why is no one in your office locking their computers when they leave them. That's just bad procedure.
whenever someone leaves a computer unlocked:
I open up whatever word document is on the screen, I write "PRIVACY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS", copy it, and then I just spam that ctrl-v like I'm an olympian.
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
I work for a government ministry where leaving your machine unattended so people can access citizen's private information is grounds for disciplinary action, so not only is it an enforced policy that your computer has to be locked if you're not at your desk, not locking is likely to result in another team member jumping on your PC and sending a group email saying 'Just to let everybody know, I'll be buying drinks/shouting lunch for the whole team on Friday!'.
For the past couple of days, I've been playing small pranks on co-workers: changing their computer wallpapers to hated sports rivals.
Really, no big deal.
And after the last one was discovered and retribution was promised, I let them know I'd take payback in the spirit in which it is intended
But should they choose to elevate the conflict.... Well, blood and fire, tears and the gnashing of teeth were mentioned.
Unrelated, one of the co-workers got pooped on by a bat last night.
Came back from lunch to be greeted by a "I am woman, hear me roar" wallpaper.
I'm a man, but not mad like they were. I hope there's not more coming, and they're not teaming up to ramp up against me.
Why are you not locking your computer when you leave it? Why is no one in your office locking their computers when they leave them. That's just bad procedure.
whenever someone leaves a computer unlocked:
I open up whatever word document is on the screen, I write "PRIVACY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS", copy it, and then I just spam that ctrl-v like I'm an olympian.
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
I work for a government ministry where leaving your machine unattended so people can access citizen's private information is grounds for disciplinary action, so not only is it an enforced policy that your computer has to be locked if you're not at your desk, not locking is likely to result in another team member jumping on your PC and sending a group email saying 'Just to let everybody know, I'll be buying drinks/shouting lunch for the whole team on Friday!'.
Same here, except that they're buying donuts. If the person finding it is nice, they'll simply open up PowerPoint and type in something stupid like "OPSEC Matters!" and then lock the screen so the person gets shamed when they come back.
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
oh h*ck
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Ok so.
I used to be in software. There was some... ugliness back in March with layoffs that led to me being basically kicked back down to analytics but in a different department. It's been about four and a half months since I started in the new job and I'm getting a little bored. So I've been angling to get my old job back with my old boss as I thought he was such an excellent mentor.
It's been going well, I now have my current boss on board with a transition plan, my old boss in software indicated he wanted to work with me again and that my layoff was against his wishes, and the head of HR is on board as well.
THEN
Had a conversation with my old boss in software last week in which he reveals that he will not be managing the team I used to work on any more.
He'll be managing a larger, vastly better funded team, with a substantially more ambitious mission and powerful mandate that impacts literally every function of the business.
:eh:
I'm the second person he's told about this and he wants me on the team.
:biggrin:
Me: "So what role and area of the business do you see me working on?"
Him: "I would turn that question around to you: what do you want to work on?"
:cool:
I get to do aaaaannnnnyyyyythiiiiiiinnnggggggg aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
There have been some mild bouts of terror as I think about the responsibility that comes with the power they're gonna hand me but then I think, nah. I'll just have to make it up as I go along, same as ever.
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
Biking is infinitely more fun than running, and you don't have to wear the lycra.
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
Biking is infinitely more fun than running, and you don't have to wear the lycra.
But you should! Lycra diaper-pants are the biggest comfort upgrade I ever made to my biking.
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
Biking is infinitely more fun than running, and you don't have to wear the lycra.
But you should! Lycra diaper-pants are the biggest comfort upgrade I ever made to my biking.
Seriously. I went once without the lycra bum padding and regretted it for days afterwards. You just have to get over how ridiculous you look and be comfortable.
One reason not to cycle is like today - 7 miles in and just under halfway there I got a rear puncture and then couldn't fit the new inner tube in due to it being my first roadside tyre change so I had to call my dad out to pick me up, take me home and get the car.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
To be honest, $50 per month doesn't sound like much to me for downtown/central business district parking. That sounds good and I'm glad the situation has sorted itself out for you!
yeah, downtown pittsburgh, the lot I was parking is was 295/month.
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
Goddamn, it is way too early to have a discussion with this idiot customer. For some bizarre reason he doesn't want to use a finite element solution because "it's too straightforward".
For the past couple of days, I've been playing small pranks on co-workers: changing their computer wallpapers to hated sports rivals.
Really, no big deal.
And after the last one was discovered and retribution was promised, I let them know I'd take payback in the spirit in which it is intended
But should they choose to elevate the conflict.... Well, blood and fire, tears and the gnashing of teeth were mentioned.
Unrelated, one of the co-workers got pooped on by a bat last night.
Came back from lunch to be greeted by a "I am woman, hear me roar" wallpaper.
I'm a man, but not mad like they were. I hope there's not more coming, and they're not teaming up to ramp up against me.
Why are you not locking your computer when you leave it? Why is no one in your office locking their computers when they leave them. That's just bad procedure.
whenever someone leaves a computer unlocked:
I open up whatever word document is on the screen, I write "PRIVACY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS", copy it, and then I just spam that ctrl-v like I'm an olympian.
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
I work for a government ministry where leaving your machine unattended so people can access citizen's private information is grounds for disciplinary action, so not only is it an enforced policy that your computer has to be locked if you're not at your desk, not locking is likely to result in another team member jumping on your PC and sending a group email saying 'Just to let everybody know, I'll be buying drinks/shouting lunch for the whole team on Friday!'.
I work in a place where you need a security clearance to get through the door, and to log on to your computer you need to insert a personal ID card. If you remove the card, the computer automatically locks until it is reinserted. You are required to remove the card if you leave your desk.
If you don't, and leave the card inserted, then the IT folks who are walking around looking for precisely that will steal your card, and insert a note in it's place informing you that you now need to do the walk of shame up to the fourth floor to get it back.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
Its always nice when a decision that was made a year and a half ago that you told the person in charge was "a bad decision" gets confirmed long after the fact that it was, in fact, "a bad decision".
Not so much when I get blamed over the person that actually made the judgement call over my advice, but I've long since checked out of caring about this project's success. I'm fixing bugs in my queue and other than that who cares.
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
Biking is infinitely more fun than running, and you don't have to wear the lycra.
But you should! Lycra diaper-pants are the biggest comfort upgrade I ever made to my biking.
Seriously. I went once without the lycra bum padding and regretted it for days afterwards. You just have to get over how ridiculous you look and be comfortable.
One reason not to cycle is like today - 7 miles in and just under halfway there I got a rear puncture and then couldn't fit the new inner tube in due to it being my first roadside tyre change so I had to call my dad out to pick me up, take me home and get the car.
On a related note - I need to bite the bullet and get an actually comfortable saddle for my mountain bike. It's disappointing, I used to ride a BMX with a hard white plastic seat, I spent hours on that thing every day. Now I can't handle a firm (yet still padded) leather seat on a dual suspension mountain bike for more than about an hour.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
To be honest, $50 per month doesn't sound like much to me for downtown/central business district parking. That sounds good and I'm glad the situation has sorted itself out for you!
yeah, downtown pittsburgh, the lot I was parking is was 295/month.
$300/month for parking?!? Did you buy a bicycle and start riding to work?
I get excited over stupid things - I got to place the request for my first company business cards yesterday and it just felt so grown up. Of course, I really have no one to give said business cards to until I have to travel to one of my fleets, but hey, it means they aren't getting rid of me in the next few weeks I suppose.
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FaranguI am a beardy manWith a beardy planRegistered Userregular
Don't forget to throw a card in every draw for a free lunch you can find.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I have got this feeling that the intern who was given a permanent job below the role that I have just been promoted into was actually the preferred choice for the more senior role, but I was offered it just because I've been here longer. And I feel like he would probably be better at it. I don't know if I'm thinking rationally or this is just brain spiders but either way it feels pretty crappy.
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Once when I was working at Best Buy Mobile, some teenage girls came in and were playing with our display devices, which is what they're there for of course, so we didn't think anything about it until later when we realized that every single device in the store had their wallpapers changed to pictures of Nicholas Cage.
@Mr Khan do you already live in the DC area? If you aren't sure about a viable place to stay I have a couch or extra room you could use as a base in a pinch. I'm not in DC, I'm north of it by a bit (Odenton if you want to look at it), but I am near a MARC station that can get you into DC.
Overall though I don't think you need to go into details with the HR person until it becomes an absolute "when are you able to start?" You should be able to give them something like "I'm already planning on moving to the area and have made arrangements to do so."
I'd make sure to give them the impression that moving to the area is already going to happen, with or without the job. Because otherwise they may be looking at you negatively thinking you may expect relocation assistance (which you could ask for).
I was talking to some teachers who bike to school and discovered that I could fairly easily bike the entire way from my house on a major bike trail which is mostly flat. Google tells me it is 9.6 miles and I wouldn't have to go on a major road once during the ride.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
Biking is infinitely more fun than running, and you don't have to wear the lycra.
But you should! Lycra diaper-pants are the biggest comfort upgrade I ever made to my biking.
Seriously. I went once without the lycra bum padding and regretted it for days afterwards. You just have to get over how ridiculous you look and be comfortable.
One reason not to cycle is like today - 7 miles in and just under halfway there I got a rear puncture and then couldn't fit the new inner tube in due to it being my first roadside tyre change so I had to call my dad out to pick me up, take me home and get the car.
On a related note - I need to bite the bullet and get an actually comfortable saddle for my mountain bike. It's disappointing, I used to ride a BMX with a hard white plastic seat, I spent hours on that thing every day. Now I can't handle a firm (yet still padded) leather seat on a dual suspension mountain bike for more than about an hour.
Just get the shorts! Embrace the lycra.
Become a MAMIL like me
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
AuralynxDarkness is a perspectiveWatching the ego workRegistered Userregular
So I'm walking into work and find a couple guys in union t's clearly trying to figure out the best way to pull an old phone terminal out of our outside wall. We didn't do anything to set this up, but they're here!
They were nice about hanging on until I could figure out what the deal was, at least. There will shortly be new holes in my workshop wall, then they'll be fixed.
Then I call the guy I'm supposed to deliver some gear to and now he wants more stuff which has never, to my knowledge, been mentioned. He needs it by tomorrow.
It's that kind of day, apparently.
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MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
Surprise interview! Today in three hours. Please wish me luck!
So, literally after that rant post, I got super super lucky: I've been cold-calling nearby businesses and lots using Google Maps at work, and found a tiny bail bonds store that just opened up a spot today. They were already servicing employees like me trying to find parking, but one of their clients went silent after two weeks, so the lady said I could take his spot.
I couldn't wait until after work: I took one of my 15 minute breaks that I never use and walked over there to set up payment. At the most it's barely two minutes where I was parking before, and the lot is behind their store where the lady assured me that nobody would go into and potentially burglarize the vehicle.
$50 a month for parking still sucks, but the alternatives (pay $100 for some asshole lot that wasn't even approved, fight it out with other employees over a tiny $40 lot at 6:00am every month, or go jobless again) were far worse.
My heart is literally beating out of my chest in relief.
I genuinely can't think of a safer place than a bail bondsman's office or parking lot. Criminals are not usually complete idiots. All of them have the desire to be bailed out, and can quickly make the connection as to why that would be much more difficult with a few pissed off bondsman.
Hey job thread. So my job just announced they are reorganizing our floor staff, taking a couple closely linked teams and turning them into one larger team. They also said that they are hiring two new Leads for the team. Last time I applied for the Lead position I was pretty high in the running but they picked someone with over 20 experience in education, so I can't blame them. I'm excited there's another opportunity so soon and trying to temper my expectations that I'm a shoe-in. Because of course I still have to apply and interview and all that but I think I have a good shot at it. Especially since I've worked in both the teams that are being combined
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obviously a full business day is needed (my own boss sometimes takes days to respond to certain routine emails, bosses in fundraising can get very busy very fast) before i panic, but it does beg the question: what's the right answer to that? Employers are always skeptical of out-of-towners and their ability to move in quickly, did my answer seem like a transparent lie? (it could well be true, if i asked my uncle and did get a favorable answer), and if so, what would be a better response to that? An honest guess that i could make the move in 2 weeks if i needed to? (which is also true)
Thanks for the advice @Krieghund! Got an interview set up for tomorrow!
Since I work with, you know, adults who respect other people's property, time, and research, I don't expect to have to lock my computer every time I get up to get coffee, and if I got back and found something like that on screen I'd track down the 9 year old responsible and weld them to a desk.
Downsides. I'd have to get up at five am and also I'd need to buy a bike and whatever other things that are required.
This is something my friend brought up too.
I'll have to remember to try it.
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I just mess up the parentheses in a line of code and then run away.
I just change their default editor to Emacs.
Had a kid wandering around on the first floor, calling for her mother. Lady says to her, "We'll find your mom!" I peer around the corner (lots of displays on this floor) and say to the lady, "Is she with you?" And she says "Well, no"
As I'm asking her this question the kid bolts toward the entrance, which will take her out into the mall and effectively into the ether. I tell a coworker to page the code for a lost child while I do the "I can walk faster than a 2-year-old can run" bit and cut her off, corralling her. I squat in front of her.
"Hey there. My name's [Wyborn]. Are you looking for your mom?"
Now I've dealt with lost kids before, and most of them are fine if you introduce yourself and offer to help them find their parents. Not this one. She had that "Oh fuck oh Christ there's a stranger and he has a deep fucking voice and he's going to kill me" look, and even as I'm trying to calm her I can tell she's getting ready to bolt, just to motor her way out of there. If I hadn't been squatting right there she would have tried to get around me. I've heard over the paging system that her mom is upstairs.
"I hear your mom's upstairs. Do you want to go get her? Do you want me to take you to her?"
And she looks like she is going to fucking blow up. I am getting ready for her to try to run, and that means I'm getting ready to lose the hearing in one ear because if she does that I'm going to grab her and carry her upstairs and this kid is 100% a screamer.
My manager swoops in, a woman about my age who signals that she's got it from there, and has a look that suggests maybe I'm not handling things in a way conducive to keeping the kid calm, so I swap out with her. Maybe she'll have better luck, some kids are less scared of women. So she goes through the same routine, and there's this moment of relief and happiness on the kid's face until the manager occupies the same space and oh fuck it's another stranger talking to her and she's about to be killed or something, kids don't even know
Manager keeps her occupied for the forty-five seconds it takes the mother to come down in the elevator pushing a double-wide baby stroller, her other (younger) kid asleep in it and mom herself looking like dinosaurs are roaming around the first floor with her child
"Look! There she is!" my manager says, and the kid still doesn't look, but because mom is already in her line of sight she looks up as mom gets within range and then bolts toward her, and she's already squalling fit to bring the roof down before mom even picks her up
Happy ending and I'm relieved for the whole family but boy howdy that's a special kind of situation, dealing with a terrified child that thinks you are Bad News
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I work for a government ministry where leaving your machine unattended so people can access citizen's private information is grounds for disciplinary action, so not only is it an enforced policy that your computer has to be locked if you're not at your desk, not locking is likely to result in another team member jumping on your PC and sending a group email saying 'Just to let everybody know, I'll be buying drinks/shouting lunch for the whole team on Friday!'.
Same here, except that they're buying donuts. If the person finding it is nice, they'll simply open up PowerPoint and type in something stupid like "OPSEC Matters!" and then lock the screen so the person gets shamed when they come back.
I know you're in Seattle, but there's some companies that are starting more work in this field down in Silicon Valley and also on the East Coast.
Just got hired for a geographic analyst position, but it's on the east coast and I don't know if you're willing to relocate.
Don't do it! Biking is just another form of running with worse clothes.
I used to be in software. There was some... ugliness back in March with layoffs that led to me being basically kicked back down to analytics but in a different department. It's been about four and a half months since I started in the new job and I'm getting a little bored. So I've been angling to get my old job back with my old boss as I thought he was such an excellent mentor.
It's been going well, I now have my current boss on board with a transition plan, my old boss in software indicated he wanted to work with me again and that my layoff was against his wishes, and the head of HR is on board as well.
THEN
Had a conversation with my old boss in software last week in which he reveals that he will not be managing the team I used to work on any more.
He'll be managing a larger, vastly better funded team, with a substantially more ambitious mission and powerful mandate that impacts literally every function of the business.
:eh:
I'm the second person he's told about this and he wants me on the team.
:biggrin:
Me: "So what role and area of the business do you see me working on?"
Him: "I would turn that question around to you: what do you want to work on?"
:cool:
I get to do aaaaannnnnyyyyythiiiiiiinnnggggggg aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
There have been some mild bouts of terror as I think about the responsibility that comes with the power they're gonna hand me but then I think, nah. I'll just have to make it up as I go along, same as ever.
Can't swim and not the right fit for the former. Never thought about the latter.
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Biking is infinitely more fun than running, and you don't have to wear the lycra.
But you should! Lycra diaper-pants are the biggest comfort upgrade I ever made to my biking.
Seriously. I went once without the lycra bum padding and regretted it for days afterwards. You just have to get over how ridiculous you look and be comfortable.
One reason not to cycle is like today - 7 miles in and just under halfway there I got a rear puncture and then couldn't fit the new inner tube in due to it being my first roadside tyre change so I had to call my dad out to pick me up, take me home and get the car.
yeah, downtown pittsburgh, the lot I was parking is was 295/month.
Just WTF man.
I work in a place where you need a security clearance to get through the door, and to log on to your computer you need to insert a personal ID card. If you remove the card, the computer automatically locks until it is reinserted. You are required to remove the card if you leave your desk.
If you don't, and leave the card inserted, then the IT folks who are walking around looking for precisely that will steal your card, and insert a note in it's place informing you that you now need to do the walk of shame up to the fourth floor to get it back.
Not so much when I get blamed over the person that actually made the judgement call over my advice, but I've long since checked out of caring about this project's success. I'm fixing bugs in my queue and other than that who cares.
On a related note - I need to bite the bullet and get an actually comfortable saddle for my mountain bike. It's disappointing, I used to ride a BMX with a hard white plastic seat, I spent hours on that thing every day. Now I can't handle a firm (yet still padded) leather seat on a dual suspension mountain bike for more than about an hour.
$300/month for parking?!? Did you buy a bicycle and start riding to work?
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
We left it like that for like three weeks.
Overall though I don't think you need to go into details with the HR person until it becomes an absolute "when are you able to start?" You should be able to give them something like "I'm already planning on moving to the area and have made arrangements to do so."
I'd make sure to give them the impression that moving to the area is already going to happen, with or without the job. Because otherwise they may be looking at you negatively thinking you may expect relocation assistance (which you could ask for).
Just get the shorts! Embrace the lycra.
Become a MAMIL like me
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They were nice about hanging on until I could figure out what the deal was, at least. There will shortly be new holes in my workshop wall, then they'll be fixed.
Then I call the guy I'm supposed to deliver some gear to and now he wants more stuff which has never, to my knowledge, been mentioned. He needs it by tomorrow.
It's that kind of day, apparently.
I genuinely can't think of a safer place than a bail bondsman's office or parking lot. Criminals are not usually complete idiots. All of them have the desire to be bailed out, and can quickly make the connection as to why that would be much more difficult with a few pissed off bondsman.
I used to use them a lot in forum posts...found out it drove some people nuts so...you know...