Last Friday was my last day of my year long contract. Worked on the biggest title of my career and had a pretty crazy time. During my last lunch I get an offer for a full-time permanent position at a nearby game company. After 8 years of contracts I've finally been given the opportunity to have some stability. I'm so fucking thrilled to have this.
can you say which company?
Crystal Dynamics! You know, the folks that made the hit game Gex: Enter the Gecko
okay now trick them into making a sequel to legacy of kain: defiance
Sure but I'm pretty sure you meant Gex so I'm gonna do that instead
Last Friday was my last day of my year long contract. Worked on the biggest title of my career and had a pretty crazy time. During my last lunch I get an offer for a full-time permanent position at a nearby game company. After 8 years of contracts I've finally been given the opportunity to have some stability. I'm so fucking thrilled to have this.
can you say which company?
Crystal Dynamics! You know, the folks that made the hit game Gex: Enter the Gecko
okay now trick them into making a sequel to legacy of kain: defiance
Sure but I'm pretty sure you meant Gex so I'm gonna do that instead
Last Friday was my last day of my year long contract. Worked on the biggest title of my career and had a pretty crazy time. During my last lunch I get an offer for a full-time permanent position at a nearby game company. After 8 years of contracts I've finally been given the opportunity to have some stability. I'm so fucking thrilled to have this.
can you say which company?
Crystal Dynamics! You know, the folks that made the hit game Gex: Enter the Gecko
okay now trick them into making a sequel to legacy of kain: defiance
Sure but I'm pretty sure you meant Gex so I'm gonna do that instead
Last Friday was my last day of my year long contract. Worked on the biggest title of my career and had a pretty crazy time. During my last lunch I get an offer for a full-time permanent position at a nearby game company. After 8 years of contracts I've finally been given the opportunity to have some stability. I'm so fucking thrilled to have this.
can you say which company?
Crystal Dynamics! You know, the folks that made the hit game Gex: Enter the Gecko
okay now trick them into making a sequel to legacy of kain: defiance
Sure but I'm pretty sure you meant Gex so I'm gonna do that instead
Can you say the game/company your most recent contract was for?
Phone interview tomorrow morning. Trying not to panic, especially since one of my coworkers told me that it was possible I'd be passed over for this job if they're really going to be looking for that archivist soon.
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If you empty the water jug, replace it. Its not hard. Its polite! If you can't lift the jug, politely ask someone else to do it, or maintenance, since when I'm not here they wind up doing it anyway in the morning.
Also because of the huge ass snow storm, they ordered us all Jimmy Johns. Well the day shift. There was a box in the fridge with sandwiches for the night shift, but when I came in it was empty and the guy who was in at 4:30 told me it was empty when he got in too.
Assholes. That is some bullshit, taking someone else's sandwich before they even clock in.
So, stadiums have food places, right?
Working as staff in stadium, doing back of house security stuff, we are sometimes given extras from pizza shops and other places.
I never new and never paid attention, but I'm with the massive group getting ready to check out, and we spy this trio of ladies looking barely out of high school carrying the entire 4' stack.
The glorious spicy latina who was my supervisor screamed across the expo hall at their conduct. I'm going to say she did not call them the b-word, but it would have been in line.
This was the same supervisor I was with when we had a guy disappear halfway through the night, and when she went to check me out, learned we had 3 staff get kick out that claimed they worked under her. Pregnant white woman is different from the black man we saw.
The worst I ever was with work food was putting some in a container to take home for dinner AFTER everyone had already eaten, plates had been made for the people who weren't able to make it, and the food was ready to be put away after everyone had gotten their seconds or thirds or whatever.
Northern England is set to get a whole lot greener. On Sunday, the U.K. government unveiled plans for a vast new forest spanning the country from coast to coast. Shadowing the path of the east-west M62 Highway, the new forest will create a broad green rib across England from Liverpool to the east coast city of Hull.
Its probably not gonna happen, but its a lovely idea. At least not in the way they phrase it.
They're saying this to distract from how they're cutting up habitats and woodlands with HS2, cutting up long established communities and ancient field patterns and rural villages. All the while upping the house prices around those areas and encroaching even further on the greenbelt land. As well as how desperately low the budgets are for existing green spaces which are in much need to revitalisation.
Prediction:
1) They'll plan it out.
2) Then will come the: "well we can't plant here" because a lot of that land may be farmland/private owned land and they won't want trees on because its going to devalue the land for when they sell it down the line to built shitty cookie cut houses on.
3) It will become more about boosting existing forests and adding street trees in the urban areas, but people will complain in urban areas about having street trees when they'd rather the money go elsewhere (don't blame them, we're going through an NHS funding crisis, but street trees are important).
4) I don't see anything about a maintenance plan. You can't just plant a bunch of trees then go fuckity bye. You've got to have in mind 10-20 years worth of yearly maintenance, felling, arboricultural assessments, ecological assessments which the local councils are going to have to take on which is not what they are going to want then they're scraping the barrel as it is for funding. So the cost will either skyrocket or become an issue down the line.
Better solution would be to put that money into:
1) Urban existing and new parks for people who are deprived of green space and can't afford to travel to the countryside. Get it in schools and hospitals.
2) Flood mitigation in terms of green sustainable drainage solutions which can double up reduce the cost of flood repair, be attractive and stop people losing their homes. Also green water management to recycle water.
3) Street tree and hedgerow development for tackling the urban heat island effect (hedgerows are better for this than street trees, less costs and larger surface area and better for wildlife habitats).
4) Green roof initiatives/incentives. Give businesses levies/encouragement to put green roofs on their buildings, again climate change/urban heat, good way of giving people access to green space.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
This means you get a very broad variety of customers.
Sometimes you need to do rather specific tech support for customers.
And that's why I'm looking at a porn site at work.
I worked on a service desk for a mobile telecoms network. Back in the day before pornhub etc people would pay for downloadable porn on their phone.
And that's how one day I covered for Becky who resolves downloadable content complaint tickets and had to watch same-sex porn at work.
And then write a bug report
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Okay so I had two weeks off for winter break, one teacher work day, which is basically a day off, two days of actual school, a snow day, one day of school, then a four day weekend due to the cold day yesterday and MLK Monday.
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I phoned the company that installed the solar power system and explained that the panels had caught fire. The person sounded very surprised and said "That's not supposed to happen."
No
shit.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I phoned the company that installed the solar power system and explained that the panels had caugt fire. He sounded very surprised and said "That's not supposed to happen."
No
shit.
But Solar Panels catching energy is a feature, not a bug
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I phoned the company that installed the solar power system and explained that the panels had caugt fire. He sounded very surprised and said "That's not supposed to happen."
No
shit.
But Solar Panels catching energy is a feature, not a bug
Fire is a sudden release of energy. Not a requested feature typically...
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I phoned the company that installed the solar power system and explained that the panels had caugt fire. He sounded very surprised and said "That's not supposed to happen."
No
shit.
But Solar Panels catching energy is a feature, not a bug
Fire is a sudden release of energy. Not a requested feature typically...
Some clients would be very happy with a high energy payload in such a short amount of time why can't you just be happy
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I don't think I can remember a time it's been this cold before. Without wind!
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
There was actual snow on the ground.
Alabama is not handled to deal with snow, at all.
All businesses are closed until at least 10 AM as a result today.
Gonna make dealing with this insurance and doctor hassle shit so much harder today.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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My partner has had to work at 6am today and yesterday, so I've also been rolling into work at that time and that makes me the first person into the office. I like working alone in the morning, it's quiet and cool and dark in the office. But it's also frustrating, because I've discovered that all of the electrical outlets are tied into the motion sensors for the lights. The outlets for my cube are not tied to the motion sensor for my area, but for the area on the other side of the corridor from me. I can't activate the sensor from where I sit.
I had to get under my desk yesterday to reroute the cable for my PC and one of my monitors to the cube next to me, but until someone else comes in and sits in the area adjacent to me, I'm limited to one monitor.
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Sure but I'm pretty sure you meant Gex so I'm gonna do that instead
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I don't need much, only like half a dozen phrases, but I can't use PE anymore because of work fuckery.
It's Tail Time!
a not very powerful enemy you have made this day
Can you say the game/company your most recent contract was for?
The biggest reason why the two options need to be in the same program together is response readiness and time to response.
Essentially it is worse to have a delay getting the warning out, when minutes count, then it is to issue a false warning accidentally.
The leaked UI, however, is complete shit, and what ever contractor delivered that deserves to be shamed (not the operator).
Listen not all of us have the keen eyesight of a Regular Human Father, okay?
If you empty the water jug, replace it. Its not hard. Its polite! If you can't lift the jug, politely ask someone else to do it, or maintenance, since when I'm not here they wind up doing it anyway in the morning.
Also because of the huge ass snow storm, they ordered us all Jimmy Johns. Well the day shift. There was a box in the fridge with sandwiches for the night shift, but when I came in it was empty and the guy who was in at 4:30 told me it was empty when he got in too.
Stupid day shift taking my sandwich.
Assuming they ordered enough it isn't that surprising. The other shifts rarely think about the overnight shifts.
She apparently has dreams about all of her coworkers dying at work, in ways that are even more horrific, even for Koro’s old place.
Also, she wanted to be a surgeon, just so she could feel what it was like to kill someone, while having plausible deniability.
There’s something off about that kid..
WoW
Dear Satan.....
what the holy eff
I feel like that's the kind of thing that a shrink would ask about to diagnose psychopathy in a patient.
So, stadiums have food places, right?
Working as staff in stadium, doing back of house security stuff, we are sometimes given extras from pizza shops and other places.
I never new and never paid attention, but I'm with the massive group getting ready to check out, and we spy this trio of ladies looking barely out of high school carrying the entire 4' stack.
The glorious spicy latina who was my supervisor screamed across the expo hall at their conduct. I'm going to say she did not call them the b-word, but it would have been in line.
This was the same supervisor I was with when we had a guy disappear halfway through the night, and when she went to check me out, learned we had 3 staff get kick out that claimed they worked under her. Pregnant white woman is different from the black man we saw.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Its probably not gonna happen, but its a lovely idea. At least not in the way they phrase it.
They're saying this to distract from how they're cutting up habitats and woodlands with HS2, cutting up long established communities and ancient field patterns and rural villages. All the while upping the house prices around those areas and encroaching even further on the greenbelt land. As well as how desperately low the budgets are for existing green spaces which are in much need to revitalisation.
Prediction:
1) They'll plan it out.
2) Then will come the: "well we can't plant here" because a lot of that land may be farmland/private owned land and they won't want trees on because its going to devalue the land for when they sell it down the line to built shitty cookie cut houses on.
3) It will become more about boosting existing forests and adding street trees in the urban areas, but people will complain in urban areas about having street trees when they'd rather the money go elsewhere (don't blame them, we're going through an NHS funding crisis, but street trees are important).
4) I don't see anything about a maintenance plan. You can't just plant a bunch of trees then go fuckity bye. You've got to have in mind 10-20 years worth of yearly maintenance, felling, arboricultural assessments, ecological assessments which the local councils are going to have to take on which is not what they are going to want then they're scraping the barrel as it is for funding. So the cost will either skyrocket or become an issue down the line.
Better solution would be to put that money into:
1) Urban existing and new parks for people who are deprived of green space and can't afford to travel to the countryside. Get it in schools and hospitals.
2) Flood mitigation in terms of green sustainable drainage solutions which can double up reduce the cost of flood repair, be attractive and stop people losing their homes. Also green water management to recycle water.
3) Street tree and hedgerow development for tackling the urban heat island effect (hedgerows are better for this than street trees, less costs and larger surface area and better for wildlife habitats).
4) Green roof initiatives/incentives. Give businesses levies/encouragement to put green roofs on their buildings, again climate change/urban heat, good way of giving people access to green space.
This means you get a very broad variety of customers.
Sometimes you need to do rather specific tech support for customers.
And that's why I'm looking at a porn site at work.
I worked on a service desk for a mobile telecoms network. Back in the day before pornhub etc people would pay for downloadable porn on their phone.
And that's how one day I covered for Becky who resolves downloadable content complaint tickets and had to watch same-sex porn at work.
And then write a bug report
I don't remember how to library.
Hmmm...
They've just hit their peak efficiency
Specifically the fire extinguisher bit.
Also why are gifs showing up when I click on the video tab on google? Is that new? It is very unhelpful.
This one is my favorite:
No
shit.
But Solar Panels catching energy is a feature, not a bug
Fire is a sudden release of energy. Not a requested feature typically...
Some clients would be very happy with a high energy payload in such a short amount of time why can't you just be happy
I don't think I can remember a time it's been this cold before. Without wind!
Alabama is not handled to deal with snow, at all.
All businesses are closed until at least 10 AM as a result today.
Gonna make dealing with this insurance and doctor hassle shit so much harder today.
It was 11 with wind chill according to my weather app, so don't remember if we've ever had a time where ice has stuck around for 24+ hours.
Edit: even with the heat it has to be like 30 in our warehouse.
Steam
And eventually I just go "ok put the computer up and read cause I can't help you"
I had to get under my desk yesterday to reroute the cable for my PC and one of my monitors to the cube next to me, but until someone else comes in and sits in the area adjacent to me, I'm limited to one monitor.
motherfuckers if I have to hold it you can hold it too