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Deep Rock Galactic [Job] Thread
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Management would like everyone to know that the latest Job Thread has been sponsored by Deep Rock Galactic, the only video game [Legal Disclaimer: Except the others] to feature Gold, Dwarves, Beer, Gold, Mining, Asteroids, Gold, Alien Bugs*, Alien Plants**, Gold,, and a Benevolent Corporate Ownership That Only Has Your Best Interests At Heart***. Also, now a boardgame!
*That will try and eat you.
**That will also try and eat you.
***And would feed you to the bugs and plants for a shiny nickel.
DISCLAIMER
This is the thread to bitch about our jobs. Please show sympathy and support for your fellow posters, as often they need a place to vent some steam, unwind, or otherwise talk themselves out of doing stupid things in a fit of pique. Practically everyone has worked retail at some point, so can understand both the issues with being a retailer as well as the issues that customers experience. The same is true for office work. One place it isn't often true, but brings up a lot of feelings, is with our fellow teachers and librarians. We all went through, typically, at least 12 years of education, and it's impossible to live 12 years doing anything without suffering some trauma. However, please don't use the stories shared by our educators as a jumping board to bring up your own childhood trauma. It's very disheartening to receive nothing but negative feedback in response to your career, and they need our support, not our psychological issues. Everyone should have a safe space to complain.
So, as has been tradition for like the last 6 or 7 of these threads, I'll use this space to talk about how my life is going. The TLDR is that I'm dealing with some tough stuff, but holding up really well and in general I think things are going pretty well. I've had some bumps in the past 6 months, but nothing I couldn't get through.
At the end of March, my step father passed away due to pneumonia. He was in late stage dementia, and I had said goodbye to him several years ago before he was totally gone, but it's still been rough on my mom. I took a week off in April to help my mom make the funeral arrangements and to spend time with her. My mom lives 8 hours of driving away, near where my brother and sister still live. My sister has been awesome in helping my mom out, although she hates my guts. My wife started spending a week of every month visiting my mom to give my sister a break, and at the end of May, I was talking to my mom and she broke down because everywhere she looked in her house, she saw her husband. So, we got her to come visit us in Houston for 3 weeks, then fly to Denmark (where my wife is from) for my son-in-law's wedding and to visit her family for 3 weeks. Then my wife took her home for a week while I was out of town on a business trip, and she came back to stay with us for a couple of weeks more before my wife and mom went to an annual weekend quilt retreat. By the time everything was said and done, I think my wife spent 10 weeks with her over 3 months, and I spent 7. When she finally got back home, she did tell my wife that the time away had really helped her a ton, so she doesn't see him everywhere she looks.
For work, I was on a bubble assignment as the engineering manager at our plant for 2 years. I was able to finally hire someone to fill that role so I could go back to my global role, and the guy I found has turned out to be an excellent manager. I had my bubble assignment exit interview a few weeks ago, and got a lot of good feedback, as well as being informed that a salary increase has been approved by our executive engineering leader, and is just waiting on processing with HR.
Things have really ramped up with moving to our new location about 10 miles away, along with closing another plant across the US and moving them here. Because the product I work on is safety related, we have a ton of certifications to obtain, and I've been tapped as one of the experts to support the certification process. I'm also finally finding the time to do a lot of deep dives into our SAP data and do some sweeping cleanup that has been needed for years.
Rose, our 5 year old mutt, recently got a bug bite or something while at the dog park and worried it until it turned into an infected sore. She ended up needing surgery to remove the infected area, with about a 3 inch (75mm) incision, but has healed up perfectly. They took out the staples and stitches today, so about 2 more days and we can stop using the cone of shame.
I've told my wife before that I only paint when I feel happy, and over the summer I did a couple of small model kits. With the recent release of the DRG board game, I picked up a copy and have an absolute blast painting the models. All I have left at this point is the largest alien, the 4 dwarves, and their equipment; so in the past 5-6 weeks I've been painting roughly 1 model per day (although, it's in batches).
I know there are challenges ahead. We have the largest order ever coming to our site starting in January, and I don't think the site is prepared for just how difficult even a simple large product order can be when compared to our normal aftermarket business. But, I not only know, but have really internalized that some shit is going to go wrong, and that stressing about it doesn't make things any better. The factory move is the same way, since it was announced around April, they've already delayed significant parts of the plan by several months.
Because of the factory move, I did quit smoking pot. It's still illegal here, and if they do like they've done in past instances, I expect everyone at the site to be randomly drug tested within the next year. Even though I haven't been tested once since I moved here almost 9 years ago. I've already seen a couple of waves go through, but it seems like this time they are focusing on only the folks least likely to fail. I'm glad I quit when I did, because 2 months later, because I come off as such a straight laced guy, I was in one of the first lot.
If you're still reading this, go buy yourself something nice. You deserve it!
*That will try and eat you.
**That will also try and eat you.
***And would feed you to the bugs and plants for a shiny nickel.
DISCLAIMER
This is the thread to bitch about our jobs. Please show sympathy and support for your fellow posters, as often they need a place to vent some steam, unwind, or otherwise talk themselves out of doing stupid things in a fit of pique. Practically everyone has worked retail at some point, so can understand both the issues with being a retailer as well as the issues that customers experience. The same is true for office work. One place it isn't often true, but brings up a lot of feelings, is with our fellow teachers and librarians. We all went through, typically, at least 12 years of education, and it's impossible to live 12 years doing anything without suffering some trauma. However, please don't use the stories shared by our educators as a jumping board to bring up your own childhood trauma. It's very disheartening to receive nothing but negative feedback in response to your career, and they need our support, not our psychological issues. Everyone should have a safe space to complain.
So, as has been tradition for like the last 6 or 7 of these threads, I'll use this space to talk about how my life is going. The TLDR is that I'm dealing with some tough stuff, but holding up really well and in general I think things are going pretty well. I've had some bumps in the past 6 months, but nothing I couldn't get through.
At the end of March, my step father passed away due to pneumonia. He was in late stage dementia, and I had said goodbye to him several years ago before he was totally gone, but it's still been rough on my mom. I took a week off in April to help my mom make the funeral arrangements and to spend time with her. My mom lives 8 hours of driving away, near where my brother and sister still live. My sister has been awesome in helping my mom out, although she hates my guts. My wife started spending a week of every month visiting my mom to give my sister a break, and at the end of May, I was talking to my mom and she broke down because everywhere she looked in her house, she saw her husband. So, we got her to come visit us in Houston for 3 weeks, then fly to Denmark (where my wife is from) for my son-in-law's wedding and to visit her family for 3 weeks. Then my wife took her home for a week while I was out of town on a business trip, and she came back to stay with us for a couple of weeks more before my wife and mom went to an annual weekend quilt retreat. By the time everything was said and done, I think my wife spent 10 weeks with her over 3 months, and I spent 7. When she finally got back home, she did tell my wife that the time away had really helped her a ton, so she doesn't see him everywhere she looks.
For work, I was on a bubble assignment as the engineering manager at our plant for 2 years. I was able to finally hire someone to fill that role so I could go back to my global role, and the guy I found has turned out to be an excellent manager. I had my bubble assignment exit interview a few weeks ago, and got a lot of good feedback, as well as being informed that a salary increase has been approved by our executive engineering leader, and is just waiting on processing with HR.
Things have really ramped up with moving to our new location about 10 miles away, along with closing another plant across the US and moving them here. Because the product I work on is safety related, we have a ton of certifications to obtain, and I've been tapped as one of the experts to support the certification process. I'm also finally finding the time to do a lot of deep dives into our SAP data and do some sweeping cleanup that has been needed for years.
Rose, our 5 year old mutt, recently got a bug bite or something while at the dog park and worried it until it turned into an infected sore. She ended up needing surgery to remove the infected area, with about a 3 inch (75mm) incision, but has healed up perfectly. They took out the staples and stitches today, so about 2 more days and we can stop using the cone of shame.
I've told my wife before that I only paint when I feel happy, and over the summer I did a couple of small model kits. With the recent release of the DRG board game, I picked up a copy and have an absolute blast painting the models. All I have left at this point is the largest alien, the 4 dwarves, and their equipment; so in the past 5-6 weeks I've been painting roughly 1 model per day (although, it's in batches).
I know there are challenges ahead. We have the largest order ever coming to our site starting in January, and I don't think the site is prepared for just how difficult even a simple large product order can be when compared to our normal aftermarket business. But, I not only know, but have really internalized that some shit is going to go wrong, and that stressing about it doesn't make things any better. The factory move is the same way, since it was announced around April, they've already delayed significant parts of the plan by several months.
Because of the factory move, I did quit smoking pot. It's still illegal here, and if they do like they've done in past instances, I expect everyone at the site to be randomly drug tested within the next year. Even though I haven't been tested once since I moved here almost 9 years ago. I've already seen a couple of waves go through, but it seems like this time they are focusing on only the folks least likely to fail. I'm glad I quit when I did, because 2 months later, because I come off as such a straight laced guy, I was in one of the first lot.
If you're still reading this, go buy yourself something nice. You deserve it!
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@Librarian's ghost
I know your imposter syndrome is strong and you are having a hard time.. but I want to say this quite firmly:
You are exactly the kind of person I would've sought out in school to hang around and be buds with, and learn from. I wish more people in education were like you. I know it's a stressful job, but you are giving your students refuge and a safe space. Something more kids need, IMO. The school day can't be end to end drills and lectures - kids need to explore on their own. You provide that.
I can only hope that if I have kids someday, they'll get the honor of meeting you and learning from you.. or if not you, someone you approve of.
I love seeing your stories here.
It drives me crazy. I know it's a little thing, but it's the litter things that get under your skin.
Yeah, the stories you post here make it clear how much you care about the students and making your library a good space for them, your boss is exactly correct.
I'm not saying I made sure to schedule my shot midweek to take a sick day rather than lose a weekend day.
But I'm not not saying that
Youths
Edit: and yet somehow their requirements list is still missing like 6 packages required to run their demo code. Which is also helplessly dependent on some very dubious research modules that haven't been updated in three years.
double youths
Yuuuuuup.
Especially because I'm off Friday, definitely not risking losing part of a 3-day Fridax.
So, by the metric of 'be the person you needed when you were a kid ' I can say you're absolutely killing it and I am certain you've had a positive impact on people and never even noticed.
So anyway, Netflix, I give you *no* feedback and go fuck yourself.
I think I'm on the right path, but could use someone to either confirm or point me in the right direction, please.
My current desk set up is two monitors (one vertical, one horizontal), all off my desktop rig with the standard set of peripherals (mouse, keyboard, some shitty little speakers, and a webcam). What I would like to do is stop using my personal set up for work and use my company laptop instead...but with all the peripherals and monitors.
Ideally I'd be able to plug in the switch with the laptop closed and use it that way. Two monitors would be preferred, but I suppose is not technically required.
Basically envisioning a workflow that is single button push to access and use the laptop to get all the work stuff done, take video calls, etc and then *click* I'm onto my personal rig for gaming and other stuff.
At the moment, research has pointed me to the following page (and many like it) - https://www.tesmart.com/collections/dual-monitor/products/hdk0402a1u-2-port-dual-monitor-kvm-switch-kit-hdmi-dp-4k60hz-with-edid, but I'm not 100% sure that this is going to be able to accommodate what I'm looking for and I'd like to be sure before I shell out for it.
Anyone have experience with a similar setup?
For about 3 months I was being paid adequately for what I've been doing, that has once again ended.
I have a monoprice switch but i'm running an ultrawide so only one monitor.
I would definitely recommend doing a kvm that supports usb 3.0 at least; the mouse/keyboard labeled ports on them are actually intercepting the signal to allow shortcuts directly to the kvm and don't work with every mouse and keyboard so i'm running a hub into the kvm to support mouse, keyboard, microphone, stream deck, & numpad
it works really well, the only issues i've had are with my numpad occasionally not working but switching back and forth resolves it
its faster to switch to my personal rig because it's got more power behind it but the work laptop is able to handle multiple switches a day without issue, just slightly slower to be ready to use
I crave a death that won't come.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Pretty sure that's the exact KVM switch I had before I moved and got a dedicated office for work.
It's fine. It notably didn't support my gaming mouse (the mouse worked, just not as a programmable and could sometimes act weird and need to be reset).
I couldn't find many options that supported two monitors.
I'm also hoping i can trade routes with someone so i don't work sunset to sunrise tonight and then sunrise to sunset Friday
I should make another visual novel
Once you’ve gone manual you can’t still call them automatic
manual auto? what is this, some sort of tunnel ventilation system am I right?
I don’t know. I just remember when “Sportronic” transmission was a thing.
I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU
Like some weird sort of dream
I get paid the same rate either way, but it's very stressful in a nebulous way
This is what I get for trying to do something like take notes in a sharable fashion
Edit: and you can't put special characters in section names?
1: I woke up a 4 am after I had a sad dream where unknown people at the public library were being mean to me and making me cry. (I wanted to buy a t-shirt from them with a picture of the branch I worked at for ten years on it but they wouldn't let me).
2: I am very tired.
3: I have to be here till 9pm.
4: One of the vice principals tasked me with calling this vinyl wrap place to make an appoint for them to come out and look at two windows in the library the principal wants graphic'd up. I really hate calling people and I really don't care if the windows are covered so I'm delaying this as long as possible.
5: The ladies from the district who ran that all day meeting in here send me a bunch of soda as a thank you for setting up for them.
6: I got some Imperial Guard Rough Riders to paint and I bought the new Tyranid Codex to read.
7: I am very tired.
At my work sometimes when "auto" mode doesn't work for a system they'll try to bastardize our procedures and call it "semi-auto"
no you fuckers, its manual