The two supervisors were standing behind me going on about their retirement plans and one mentions how his son's moving in with him again because he can't find a job, etc
And the other supervisor just says "AND YOU'RE STILL VOTING FOR OBAMA?!?" And begins to lecture him on how Romney will change everything
At work today, I had a guy get pissed off at me, because I had to take his bottled water. I said, "Sorry, I didn't make the rules. Obama did. Vote Romney."
...except I wasn't being serious.
probably not the best idea to be "funny" with people already stressed about being in a security checkpoint.
also, how did your day in court go?
Shitty, but I took it like a man and didn't have to pay any additional court fees.
Also, the only benefit of this job is being able to be "funny" with passengers as they go through screening.
Gonna kill the next motherfucker who puts like a half dozen bitwise operations on a single line of code
your vainglorious attempts at optimization are not helping this is not a performance-critical app aaahhhhhh
I haven't a clue what that means.
It means he works with an annoyingly flagrant programmer who thinks he his smarter than the compiler
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nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
So it seems like my job is actually pretty nice.
But my coworker (the only one on the same exact team not the larger team that composes us) just seems to want me to quit right away so he can score a raise/promotion out of it.
:S Not entirely thrilled (read: not even a bit) about that, but I'm going to ignore that.
He's been at the company a long time, so he has a lot of friends, even if not much influence.
So I spoke with a prospective employer over the phone. Not sure if it was an interview, because he didn't really ask me anything technical, but we hit it off and he seems really cool. He wants me to speak with his counterpart and then he mentioned an in-person meeting following that. Maybe they'll want to talk about skills then.
The problem is I've never worked in software development before and I'm super nervous that someone with those skills is going to come along and yank my magic rug out from under me.
I mean, the job is mainly systems/SharePoint admin, but he mentioned that he's looking for people to do it all. Which I don't mind! I'm just nervous as fuck.
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nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
just show up and be awesome, dickhead over there doesn't matter
Except he's supposed to be the guy showing me around, explaining the systems, etc.
He did a pretty good job of presenting a lot of things that were true, just spinning them in different ways.
He made several jokes about how burdensome Microsoft products are and referenced their terrible documentation, so if anything ever goes Super Wrong I can just be like, "Oh, Microsoft!" *Chuckle, shake head, and shrug in a "What can you do?" gesture*.
He made several jokes about how burdensome Microsoft products are and referenced their terrible documentation, so if anything ever goes Super Wrong I can just be like, "Oh, Microsoft!" *Chuckle, shake head, and shrug in a "What can you do?" gesture*.
Yeah, you'd think that.
But no.
No, the teams will light torches and gather pitchforks.
He made several jokes about how burdensome Microsoft products are and referenced their terrible documentation, so if anything ever goes Super Wrong I can just be like, "Oh, Microsoft!" *Chuckle, shake head, and shrug in a "What can you do?" gesture*.
SharePoint is a necessary evil but users get really tired of "oh that doesn't work because Microsoft stinks"
Our SharePoint site wouldn't be so bad, but everyone just keeps loading their junk directly to the shared drive anyway, so the SharePoint docs are all outdated and uncared-for.
and I like Usagi's dick. But if it came down to "Be a Sharepoint Dev" or "Usagi loses her dick"
I'm sorry Jess.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
I used to maintain a Sharepoint wrapper app that was only used as a document repository for other applications. No user access; only other software. Defined syntax. No visible access without navigating a security sequence that was more or less incomprehensible to human interaction.
About once a month I'd get a user request from someone who wanted to use Sharepoint instead of our other, user-accessible Document Management System. And every time, I was like 'Why?'.
3 hours into the shift and we've done pretty much everything we can do
Now I need to appear busy for the next 5 hours otherwise the boss will find some bullshit job for us
Like cleaning
Do you have any idea how pointless it is to clean a steel mill?
Going from grunt to management did really weird things to my "oh we have some downtime, let me just stand here and relax and maybe talk to somebody for a minute" habit. In that none of my employees are allowed to have it
Currently I am strongly considering moving back in with my parents and maybe scaling back to part-time employment if possible so I can actually reasonably go back to school.
Bleh.
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Favlaudjust straight up awfulRegistered Userregular
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Shitty, but I took it like a man and didn't have to pay any additional court fees.
Also, the only benefit of this job is being able to be "funny" with passengers as they go through screening.
Then we flew to California together.
I don't know if she ever wants to fly anywhere with me again.
Take the sign off your back that says "creep me!"
It's written in sequins on the back of my jacket.
Sequins.
as soon as my boss told me and left my office, this came up on my Pandora
Free unlimited coffee forever.
It is nice for those days when I have to be at work at 3am
also having a 5 minute drive to and from work in the opposite direction of rush hour
your vainglorious attempts at optimization are not helping this is not a performance-critical app aaahhhhhh
I haven't a clue what that means.
It means he works with an annoyingly flagrant programmer who thinks he his smarter than the compiler
But my coworker (the only one on the same exact team not the larger team that composes us) just seems to want me to quit right away so he can score a raise/promotion out of it.
:S Not entirely thrilled (read: not even a bit) about that, but I'm going to ignore that.
He's been at the company a long time, so he has a lot of friends, even if not much influence.
just show up and be awesome, dickhead over there doesn't matter
The problem is I've never worked in software development before and I'm super nervous that someone with those skills is going to come along and yank my magic rug out from under me.
I had hope back then, and dreams, and pride. I even thought that somewhere good people existed and were happy.
ahhhh youth.
Except he's supposed to be the guy showing me around, explaining the systems, etc.
He did a pretty good job of presenting a lot of things that were true, just spinning them in different ways.
I am here, I am queer, and also awesome.
Ugh
sorry. Man. I almost made it through that whole sentence.
He made several jokes about how burdensome Microsoft products are and referenced their terrible documentation, so if anything ever goes Super Wrong I can just be like, "Oh, Microsoft!" *Chuckle, shake head, and shrug in a "What can you do?" gesture*.
Yeah, you'd think that.
But no.
No, the teams will light torches and gather pitchforks.
SharePoint is a necessary evil but users get really tired of "oh that doesn't work because Microsoft stinks"
"Creative ways to force this pile of shit to be actually usable."
"It doesn't work that way." will be met, every time, with "Your job is to fix that."
this is what I'm saying.
and I like Usagi's dick. But if it came down to "Be a Sharepoint Dev" or "Usagi loses her dick"
I'm sorry Jess.
About once a month I'd get a user request from someone who wanted to use Sharepoint instead of our other, user-accessible Document Management System. And every time, I was like 'Why?'.
I HATE TFS
let's take all the aspects of Quality Center and Visual Studio and Jira that work, and remove them
then take what's left and toss it in a blender, make it a full-time job just to admin, and force your teams to use that.
ohh and lets make it cost more than all three combined.
I totally understand
In a way I'm really happy that our is unsecured because it's forcing us to move to a more useful system that someone else is administrating
SIGH OF RELIEF
Now I need to appear busy for the next 5 hours otherwise the boss will find some bullshit job for us
Like cleaning
Do you have any idea how pointless it is to clean a steel mill?
TFS is lame and its VS integration has caused me nothing bt pain
Going from grunt to management did really weird things to my "oh we have some downtime, let me just stand here and relax and maybe talk to somebody for a minute" habit. In that none of my employees are allowed to have it
it is changing me
Bleh.
tell me your dreams