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I remember a foreign language news drama show as a kid, didnt understand a word but good filmography
Children playing in field
Cut Distant shot of same children with foreground blurry
Change focus from children in background to pair of thresher spikes in foreground
Cut to operating room
Hence why farming communities sired children by the dozen
"What the hell, there's nothing earlier?!?!"
Lady I'm sorry we haven't invented fucking teleporters.
I used to volunteer at Farm Safety Day Camp when my mom was working for the extension office.
The highlights were always the lawnmower safety station, which involved a surgical glove filled with sealing foam on a stick, and the grain entrapment simulator. One of these, but bigger and faster and with a Beanie Baby instead of an action figure:
All the kids at the local elementary and middle schools came every year, including and especially the Mennonite school. It was always a blast.
SRE: I can open the JIRAs just fine, check your network.
Me: Uh, yeah dawg, I can open the JIRAs too that wasn't the question??
SRE: Oh, well you posted two JIRA links, so I just assumed that's what you couldn't open.
yeah what are words for, why bother with them when you can just look at links and assume things. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
No classes means no troublecalls, but no one wants to start any install work cause we have tomorrow off and fuck that
So I took the opportunity to grab a third monitor for my desk because why not, and now I'm just kinda zoned the fuck out
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So many people will take the stance that not reading something you explicitly wrote is somehow not on them in the events of a miscommunication.
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Site Reliability Engineer
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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Mondax?
If you have the day off tomorrow? It's Fridax.
Anything that can lift 5,500 lbs can also drop 5,500 lbs.
I can't lift 5,500 pounds but I can absolutely drop 5,500 pounds.
Looks like they're going to go with a phased approach to increase the number of days in the office bit by bit and by september they'll be back up to 3 days a week. Needless to say a ton of folks are not happy about it and we're already losing devs to this announcement.
As for us in customer support I'm already personally aware of at least two support engineers planning to call the bluff of the forced one day a week in the office and are in the process of moving either out of state or further away from the office due to the insane cost of living situation here in western washington and have asked for 120 day extensions before "going back in" to account for childcare ostensibly, but I'm pretty sure they're just buying time to find work or move further away and see what management does.
As for me, I had my one on one with my manager and I'd be lying if an udon noodle had more spine than they did. Essentially I got told that "sometimes we have to do things we don't like in order to keep our jobs" and "you have to decide if being forced back into the office is a deal breaker for you". never mind that there's literally no one from my product group in the entire state of Washington, let alone near this office, never mind it takes me over an hour and half now to bus into the office, or having to pay for parking just so I can sit in a hotel desk and lug my laptop+mouse+keyboard+cables+power adapter back and forth to accomplish my job in a semi empty floor because I'm not in on the same day as other members of my management team, who by the way 3/4 of them aren't even in washington state either nor even go into an office to work in the first place.
I just can't help but feel this is a way to winnow down our north american staff even further after a bunch of layoffs earlier in the year that hit us globally, but we're the only region still that has any work from home options really in place. Most of our overseas staff are already back into the office so I wonder if this is just aligning all the offices together, local issues be damned. It's definitely depressing as fuck that's for sure and pretty much ensures they don't give two shits about us, and I won't give two shits about them.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
But I'm not on call this week and it's Fridax! 4 day weekend! 🦔
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
So, I get to have a laugh about that with a couple coworkers tomorrow. I'm pretty good at presenting that specific "this person is an idiot" rant in a funny way at this point. Hopefully I can do my part to save anyone I know from making the mistake of hiring him.
Worked in a bottling plant at twenty doing the overnight shift for about six months, no experience in the field at all, and the amount of "now here's a big, heavy, "kill-you" industrial machine, a rushed and impatient five minute explanation on how it works from someone who's done it on automatic without thinking about it for thirty years, and no official training or follow ups" was almost certainly criminal. They kept putting me in worse and worse situations, (eventually ending with me nearly getting my head taken off by the suddenly-opening clamp on a wrapping machine, the one time they treated me like a "valued member of the team" because I think they thought I'd sue) until finally I panicked and no-call no-showed one day so I'd get fired
"Oh shit, I had no idea they'd actually talk to my references!"
When I first read this I missed the "at my workplace" part and was gonna petition for a bit of compassion and grace because hey, even idiots need jobs
But yeah, if it means bringing an idiot into your shop? Forget it
File the police report online because those assholes are useless
Double up rubbee gloves to clean up the glass
Decide later if you want to work.
My condolences
Check your glove compartment
I went outside and untangled a little bird from a bunch of fishing line in my yard.
An idiot who let the reference know via (checks notes) family rumor mill?
Hehehehe
Are you working on the fourth? My last job would make us work six days if we worked on the holiday because they wouldn't have to pay overtime for the extra day since we already got the time and a half. It was always bullshit.
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Man even your first scenario is gonna be based on a lot of factors. Like do I even have a relationship with this person that isn't third hand? Can I call them and ask them why I'm a reference or will I get screamed at about it? Is it my narcissistic brother asking for a reference, the one who calls his son "stupid" on the daily and in front of other adults, and has got his wife's self esteem so low she thinks he's the best she can do?
The only scenario I can see myself just flowing with it is if one of my nieces or nephews were using me as a reference. Although I guess I do have one sibling who could get a completely positive reference from me, but she's also a person who is smart and professional enough to give me a head's up if I was used as a reference.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Also the rest of my team is either off or decided to work from home today. Walking around the floor at nearly 10, I think there's a single digit number of people here
Yeah, for context this is a cousin who's number I currently have blocked. He directly asked me last week through a Facebook message if I could just get him a job here, to which I did not reply.
And it turns out he did apply here! Though he didn't actually use me as a reference, so maybe he took the hint?
I've done my due diligence and warned folks that this is the guy driving himself around despite losing his license after three DWIs, though. So my conscience is clear on the matter.
Like, I work with glass for a living. And the most recent glass-handling experience I can think of for this guy is when he drunkenly ran a four-way stop, t-boned a little old lady (she's fine, don't worry), and sent himself hurtling through his own windshield like some kind of idiot missile.
In theory yes I could, it'd be an interesting theory to test. I'm just mainly not looking forward to waking up at 4:00am each day to lug my tired bovine ass onto the bus just to test that theory.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
It taught him to respect the glass. Now he wants to know the glass