It'll probably just turn into a blend or session. I'm still mad about it, though. Should've double checked.
Also they won't let me ice distill our cider because of "laws".
Speaking of dessert meads I have a 10 gallon batch I gotta do something with. Gonna bentonite it now and check the SG and see where it's at. Gotta find some figs.
That's like 2 syllables away from being a post about potions and witchcraft
Applying around to programming jobs and generally I've been applying to the ones with the word "developer' in them but should I consider "engineer" jobs? I know people here have mentioned in the past that "engineer" jobs are usually tightly regulated and one cannot be an "engineer" without proper licensing, is that true for programming type jobs?
If you are in the USA there is no regulations around the term engineer, so apply away.
Oh nonono
I mean, yes, software engineering and computer engineers and the like, maybe. Depends on where you are. They are not professionally regulated, and are pretty much just words to throw around in many places. But not all places.
The term "engineer" unrelated to programming and computers is highly regulated, I think, everywhere in the US. I dunno, I'm not an an engineer. But I'm engineer-adjacent, and yeah. There are regulations for most types of engineering that can be rather strict.
But if you are applying to jobs with the term "engineer" in the description, they will likely put in the job description if licensure is actually needed. And if you apply and it's needed and you don't have it? They'll just either ghost you or say thanks-no-thanks and move on.
Really depends on the section. I've been in manufacturing for like 20 years now and I've met, uh, one licensed PE? Who didn't work as a PE. It just isn't a thing. Now it's been component production for OEMs who probably had some PE stashed in an office somewhere but they did not lead projects and weren't doing the design work. Quality Engineers almost never have a PE license either.
Completely different situation in Civil Engineering.
My battle against the two pains in my neck in the office continues. There is one job in particular that both of them are responsible for and they’re the only two in the unit that are supposed to be covering it.
And my supervisor just shot me an IM as I was literally about to log out for the day telling me she was going to write an email to them and copy me on it to help them out because they’ve fallen way behind.
Boy howdy I am peeved! It turns out this new job of mine has a requirement of taking on call shifts. It's only a few times a year, but... BUT! No one told me about this during the job hunting phase, the interview process, or the onboarding! I learned from a random comment from another co-worker, but got the details this week.
This on-call sucks: I would be on-call for 7 days straight: each weekday night and all day for weekend days and holidays. And I would only be paid for "hours worked" if & when a call comes in. That rule seems to be -at best- in a legal grey area.
Boy howdy I am peeved! It turns out this new job of mine has a requirement of taking on call shifts. It's only a few times a year, but... BUT! No one told me about this during the job hunting phase, the interview process, or the onboarding! I learned from a random comment from another co-worker, but got the details this week.
This on-call sucks: I would be on-call for 7 days straight: each weekday night and all day for weekend days and holidays. And I would only be paid for "hours worked" if & when a call comes in. That rule seems to be -at best- in a legal grey area.
Don't Canadian engineers get issued special rings of power or something? Two of my coworkers have them.
When you graduate from an accredited engineering program from a Canadian university you get the Iron Ring, yep
You put it on the pinky of your writing hand to remind you of your obligation that you made in performing the Calling of the Engineer, a sort of ritual where you hold a chain and swear on cold iron, to basically not fuck up and do good work. The originals were made from the wreckage of a bridge that fell due to poor engineering in Quebec but these days they're $20 stainless steel guys. You can tell how experienced an engineer someone is based on how the corners on the ring have rubbed away, but also you're supposed to return them when you die for the next engineer's Calling, so it is apparently possible for you to also be given a dead person's ring
They're neat, you can recognize other engineers in the wild, it's particularly fun when you're international and find somebody with one
They still don't let you *say* you're an Engineer, mind, unless you pay the PE organization for your province and work the required number of hours under a PE/take an ethics exam. That also opens you up to unpaid overtime and the ability for people to make you personally liable, though, so I have no interest in following through there as I never stamp drawings (like HVAC mechanical engineers would, for example).
It'll probably just turn into a blend or session. I'm still mad about it, though. Should've double checked.
Also they won't let me ice distill our cider because of "laws".
Speaking of dessert meads I have a 10 gallon batch I gotta do something with. Gonna bentonite it now and check the SG and see where it's at. Gotta find some figs.
That's like 2 syllables away from being a post about potions and witchcraft
Same thing - there were cultures where women would brew alcohol in very large pots, and hang brooms over their doorway to indicate they were a brewery (idk), and wear big obvious hats to market so they were easier to find.
This is all probably completely bullshit but I read it on the internet and it's fun so I've decided it's true and awesome
Boy howdy I am peeved! It turns out this new job of mine has a requirement of taking on call shifts. It's only a few times a year, but... BUT! No one told me about this during the job hunting phase, the interview process, or the onboarding! I learned from a random comment from another co-worker, but got the details this week.
This on-call sucks: I would be on-call for 7 days straight: each weekday night and all day for weekend days and holidays. And I would only be paid for "hours worked" if & when a call comes in. That rule seems to be -at best- in a legal grey area.
That’s a bullshit on call shift and you have every right to be pissed. I’m thankful my job has an awesome on call policy. One week a month, 7 hour shifts (same as our normal shift, but in the evening from 4pm-midnight, minus a lunch/dinner hour), but we get paid for the entire shift even if we don’t field a single call (and about 90% of the time we don’t).
If a company wants you to be free and ready to take a call or do work on a moment’s notice, they better be fucking paying you for taking your free time.
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The parent company of the company I work for gave us one of those "phishing tests" last week. Several people in our organization detected it as such and reported the email to our IT admin, who sent the rest of the company a notification that we appeared to be getting subjected to a phishing campaign impersonating the company IT department, and if you got the phish, please report it. Not being the kind of person who compulsively checks his inbox, I scrolled past this exchange several hours after it happened, and went ahead and used the "Report Phish" button in Outlook to report my copy.
Several days later, I got dinged with a "YOU FELL FOR THE PHISH, YOU DIPSHIT, YOU ABSOLUTE BABOON" follow-up and got enrolled in mandatory anti-phishing training.
While I was navigating the parent company's training website (whose legitimacy I confirmed with our local IT admin before visiting on the suspicion that we were somehow being meta-phished), I noticed that there was one of those (?) markers they use to show you a mouse-over tooltip near the training, and it helpfully explained why I'd been assigned the training: I'd received their exercise phishing email, and "replied, clicked, or submitted information" to it. And that's when the penny dropped: the "Report Phish" function in Outlook forwards the email to whoever it's been configured to receive it for evaluation. Which was treated as "replying" to the phish (because I did literally anything with it in the thread).
Great job, parent company security department!
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The parent company of the company I work for gave us one of those "phishing tests" last week. Several people in our organization detected it as such and reported the email to our IT admin, who sent the rest of the company a notification that we appeared to be getting subjected to a phishing campaign impersonating the company IT department, and if you got the phish, please report it. Not being the kind of person who compulsively checks his inbox, I scrolled past this exchange several hours after it happened, and went ahead and used the "Report Phish" button in Outlook to report my copy.
Several days later, I got dinged with a "YOU FELL FOR THE PHISH, YOU DIPSHIT, YOU ABSOLUTE BABOON" follow-up and got enrolled in mandatory anti-phishing training.
While I was navigating the parent company's training website (whose legitimacy I confirmed with our local IT admin before visiting on the suspicion that we were somehow being meta-phished), I noticed that there was one of those (?) markers they use to show you a mouse-over tooltip near the training, and it helpfully explained why I'd been assigned the training: I'd received their exercise phishing email, and "replied, clicked, or submitted information" to it. And that's when the penny dropped: the "Report Phish" function in Outlook forwards the email to whoever it's been configured to receive it for evaluation. Which was treated as "replying" to the phish (because I did literally anything with it in the thread).
Great job, parent company security department!
Yeah that happened once with our IT phishing tests. The slack outcry was Extremely Loud.
Fucked up a 27 gallon batch of mead. Plugged the SG into the calculator to get my amount of honey needed to backsweeten and accidentally typed 1.0010 instead of 1.010 so I ended up adding an extra 7 pounds and now it's basically too sweet to use for its intended purpose.
Dessert mead?
I bet you could make some kind of honey spirit from that batch. A melliferous rum, if you will.
Melliferous Rum sounds like a Harry Potter character.
I don't know what's wrong with my brain today but instead of adding .75 tps of k meta I added... 1.75 tsps.
So that's basically a big batch of fart water now.
Goddammit.
Are you still killing yourself working at the meadery on top of your regular job? Because these are the kinds of mistakes you make more often when you're exhausted.
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Fucked up a 27 gallon batch of mead. Plugged the SG into the calculator to get my amount of honey needed to backsweeten and accidentally typed 1.0010 instead of 1.010 so I ended up adding an extra 7 pounds and now it's basically too sweet to use for its intended purpose.
Dessert mead?
I bet you could make some kind of honey spirit from that batch. A melliferous rum, if you will.
Melliferous Rum sounds like a Harry Potter character.
Sounds like a Star Wars character, if the character was a literal keg of rum, covered in honey.
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This is only probably true in software fyi. The title “engineer” is definitely regulated for mechanical, chemical, electrical, civil, etc.
I'm in a Facebook group where there once was this guy who kept stalking people's LinkedIn profiles and going "you're not a real engineer!" if they didn't have an actual degree.
He got booted pretty quickly.
Fun fact, in Swedish there's a "civil engineer" title that comes with a degree, because just plain "engineer" was originally purely a military title.
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Boy howdy I am peeved! It turns out this new job of mine has a requirement of taking on call shifts. It's only a few times a year, but... BUT! No one told me about this during the job hunting phase, the interview process, or the onboarding! I learned from a random comment from another co-worker, but got the details this week.
This on-call sucks: I would be on-call for 7 days straight: each weekday night and all day for weekend days and holidays. And I would only be paid for "hours worked" if & when a call comes in. That rule seems to be -at best- in a legal grey area.
That’s a bullshit on call shift and you have every right to be pissed. I’m thankful my job has an awesome on call policy. One week a month, 7 hour shifts (same as our normal shift, but in the evening from 4pm-midnight, minus a lunch/dinner hour), but we get paid for the entire shift even if we don’t field a single call (and about 90% of the time we don’t).
If a company wants you to be free and ready to take a call or do work on a moment’s notice, they better be fucking paying you for taking your free time.
@Curly_Brace I want to start by saying your situation is BS. They should be upfront about that kind of thing in the interview, or at least in the hiring negotiations.
I'm in a similar boat here at the university. We rotate on week shifts, where we will get the call after hours or weekends. Our on-call person's entire responsibility is to notify the primary admins of the system - they aren't responsible for systems they don't maintain.
The big difference is that our positions are full salary. This change was made explicitly because of the on-call rotation. It's still complete and utter wage theft, but the bosses usually will let you take the day off or otherwise flex stuff if you get an after-hours call. And it's not as egregious as requiring internet, phones, etc. and not getting compensation.
Boy howdy I am peeved! It turns out this new job of mine has a requirement of taking on call shifts. It's only a few times a year, but... BUT! No one told me about this during the job hunting phase, the interview process, or the onboarding! I learned from a random comment from another co-worker, but got the details this week.
This on-call sucks: I would be on-call for 7 days straight: each weekday night and all day for weekend days and holidays. And I would only be paid for "hours worked" if & when a call comes in. That rule seems to be -at best- in a legal grey area.
Getting to work was interesting this morning. Apparently a bunch of cops on a training exercise were run down by a motorist so they shut down a colossal segment of the freeway and surface streets for miles around, far beyond the location of the incident so the paramedics would have no obstructions.
They have never done anything similar for any amount of civilians injured.
Made getting to work interesting for me being diverted into a neighborhood I've never been through when the geography of this area already throws me off because the roads are always curving so I can go in heading north and come out heading south without realizing the direction change.
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That's like 2 syllables away from being a post about potions and witchcraft
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Really depends on the section. I've been in manufacturing for like 20 years now and I've met, uh, one licensed PE? Who didn't work as a PE. It just isn't a thing. Now it's been component production for OEMs who probably had some PE stashed in an office somewhere but they did not lead projects and weren't doing the design work. Quality Engineers almost never have a PE license either.
Completely different situation in Civil Engineering.
The US is a whole other matter
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My battle against the two pains in my neck in the office continues. There is one job in particular that both of them are responsible for and they’re the only two in the unit that are supposed to be covering it.
And my supervisor just shot me an IM as I was literally about to log out for the day telling me she was going to write an email to them and copy me on it to help them out because they’ve fallen way behind.
I am annoyed.
This on-call sucks: I would be on-call for 7 days straight: each weekday night and all day for weekend days and holidays. And I would only be paid for "hours worked" if & when a call comes in. That rule seems to be -at best- in a legal grey area.
If that's not illegal as hell it should be.
One thing to note is that US schools restrict the fuck out of degrees that have "Engineering" in them. That's absolutely a whole thing.
Only in the second age.
When you graduate from an accredited engineering program from a Canadian university you get the Iron Ring, yep
You put it on the pinky of your writing hand to remind you of your obligation that you made in performing the Calling of the Engineer, a sort of ritual where you hold a chain and swear on cold iron, to basically not fuck up and do good work. The originals were made from the wreckage of a bridge that fell due to poor engineering in Quebec but these days they're $20 stainless steel guys. You can tell how experienced an engineer someone is based on how the corners on the ring have rubbed away, but also you're supposed to return them when you die for the next engineer's Calling, so it is apparently possible for you to also be given a dead person's ring
They're neat, you can recognize other engineers in the wild, it's particularly fun when you're international and find somebody with one
They still don't let you *say* you're an Engineer, mind, unless you pay the PE organization for your province and work the required number of hours under a PE/take an ethics exam. That also opens you up to unpaid overtime and the ability for people to make you personally liable, though, so I have no interest in following through there as I never stamp drawings (like HVAC mechanical engineers would, for example).
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Same thing - there were cultures where women would brew alcohol in very large pots, and hang brooms over their doorway to indicate they were a brewery (idk), and wear big obvious hats to market so they were easier to find.
This is all probably completely bullshit but I read it on the internet and it's fun so I've decided it's true and awesome
That’s a bullshit on call shift and you have every right to be pissed. I’m thankful my job has an awesome on call policy. One week a month, 7 hour shifts (same as our normal shift, but in the evening from 4pm-midnight, minus a lunch/dinner hour), but we get paid for the entire shift even if we don’t field a single call (and about 90% of the time we don’t).
If a company wants you to be free and ready to take a call or do work on a moment’s notice, they better be fucking paying you for taking your free time.
So that's basically a big batch of fart water now.
Goddammit.
Where's the trebuche?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Fuck that
We called her today. She had an interview to go to.
I hope I am not too late!
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Several days later, I got dinged with a "YOU FELL FOR THE PHISH, YOU DIPSHIT, YOU ABSOLUTE BABOON" follow-up and got enrolled in mandatory anti-phishing training.
While I was navigating the parent company's training website (whose legitimacy I confirmed with our local IT admin before visiting on the suspicion that we were somehow being meta-phished), I noticed that there was one of those (?) markers they use to show you a mouse-over tooltip near the training, and it helpfully explained why I'd been assigned the training: I'd received their exercise phishing email, and "replied, clicked, or submitted information" to it. And that's when the penny dropped: the "Report Phish" function in Outlook forwards the email to whoever it's been configured to receive it for evaluation. Which was treated as "replying" to the phish (because I did literally anything with it in the thread).
Great job, parent company security department!
Thankfully the file did not have a name on it and the position was one I would not have to interact with
But it was still interesting to know those were several High ranking categories of email lists
Equally entertaining was the 2 or 3 request to recall email that I saw afterwards
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Yeah that happened once with our IT phishing tests. The slack outcry was Extremely Loud.
Melliferous Rum sounds like a Harry Potter character.
Are you still killing yourself working at the meadery on top of your regular job? Because these are the kinds of mistakes you make more often when you're exhausted.
Which were delicious. Thanks, YouTube. Use fridge to dry them out overnight after seasoning
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
that's it, that's the post
Sounds like a Star Wars character, if the character was a literal keg of rum, covered in honey.
So it has a home now, right?
a bus stop is a house not a home
I'm in a Facebook group where there once was this guy who kept stalking people's LinkedIn profiles and going "you're not a real engineer!" if they didn't have an actual degree.
He got booted pretty quickly.
Fun fact, in Swedish there's a "civil engineer" title that comes with a degree, because just plain "engineer" was originally purely a military title.
@Curly_Brace I want to start by saying your situation is BS. They should be upfront about that kind of thing in the interview, or at least in the hiring negotiations.
I'm in a similar boat here at the university. We rotate on week shifts, where we will get the call after hours or weekends. Our on-call person's entire responsibility is to notify the primary admins of the system - they aren't responsible for systems they don't maintain.
The big difference is that our positions are full salary. This change was made explicitly because of the on-call rotation. It's still complete and utter wage theft, but the bosses usually will let you take the day off or otherwise flex stuff if you get an after-hours call. And it's not as egregious as requiring internet, phones, etc. and not getting compensation.
I'm the whitest white whitey that could ever be. But still.
I forgot my phone charge, and my battery is already down to 62%
Fuck
Then, in between our front door and the garage, a bird shit on her so bad that it got both her jacket and her pants
She decided that it was a sign to just stay inside and not go to work today
Seems like the right call
Surprise dragon scat duty?
No thank you.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
They have never done anything similar for any amount of civilians injured.
Made getting to work interesting for me being diverted into a neighborhood I've never been through when the geography of this area already throws me off because the roads are always curving so I can go in heading north and come out heading south without realizing the direction change.