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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I'm currently planning to retire in my current role. Might start applying for a bunch of jobs with cover letters starting out with "Listen up you motherfuckers" and see how many interview offers I end up with.
I would like to have given my 2 weeks notice today but my boss and his boss and his boss aren't here
Hmm
This was an unexpected development
If you NEED to get out soon, send it to HR and copy them
Nah, I'm not in any rush. I have a start date set for 3 weeks from now at the new place.
+1
sponoMining for Nose DiamondsBooger CoveRegistered Userregular
Oh also I am excited to start the new job, but more excited at the prospect of not being at a job for more days out of the year
2 days/week work from home
12 holidays
4 weeks pto (this is the starting point, and goes up incrementally to 7 weeks after being employed for 16 years)
Starting to get back on the job hunt and lord I forgot how much I hate writing cover letters
Tempted to get a ChatGPT sub or something
I would strongly recommend against this. As much as writing them sucks, cover letters are your first chance to give an impression of who you are as an individual, what makes you stand out and worth hiring - and in cases of jobs where you might not have the complete experience or knowhow but feel confident in your ability to do the job anyway, a chance to convince them to give you a shot. Rather than having ChatGPT write up a bog-standard, totally forgettable one, I'd suggest writing your own from scratch with the aim of making it versatile and modular to tweak and modify as needed.
For both of my last two jobs, I was told pretty directly that my cover letter was a big part of why I got that initial interview. Even in cases where the job is completely in your wheelhouse and your resume alone should be enough, the cover letter is a chance to show off your humanity and personality. At their worst they're just another way for uninterested HR peons or analysis bots to disqualify you, absolutely, but your chances certainly aren't going to be improved with a generic, forgettable cover letter. Include all the usual keywords and expected info, but it's very much worth your time to give it your own personal touch.
If you want, I'll ask our corporate ChatGPT this prompt and post the response or a link to the response here.
There's not much point -- it'd be indistinguishable from what our CEO emails us at this point. He is all-in. We're just getting pasted responses - markdown and all - blasted out to us.
He's decided that he's an expert prompt writer now and is sending us all his hard-earned tips for writing efficient prompts - todays are:
1- Ask it to be a persona before answering
2- put in factors. Like prioritization or scoring
3- Put it a crucial situation. It gives more accurate answers
The last one feels like someone telling me to rub an amethyst three times before asking who my true love will be. Some real homeopathic prompt engineering.
So if I were to spend my time today away from finishing client critical tickets I would ask ChatGPT something like "As a 17th century pirate explain to me how I can get it through to upper management that there is no one left in the company that can code in this particular language and I can't support this product after the two engineers that wrote it left for higher paying jobs. There is a gun to my head"
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
Today I have nothing scheduled in my outlook calendar. Complete blank slate. I have absolutely nothing to do except my own work.
I'm assuming that this is some kind of Sixth Sense style "V1m didn't realise he was actually dead" situation. Or fired. Did I get fired and forget? I don't want to ask because my employer is entirely capable of continuing to not just pay me but apply the annual pay review as well in this situation.
I will just clear my case load and shut up and play Civ V on the other screen.
My oceanography professor is old enough she got to watch screaming matches between old guard geologists and new ones with their radical theories about plates moving across the mantle.
+8
smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited October 16
Van battery is definitely still fucked, so had to order a replacement today (that's bad). Current one is only 10 months old so still under warranty (that's good). Proof of purchase has vanished into the ether, because of course it has (that's bad). It's also time to renew my insurance and I got a quote £100 cheaper than last year so that pays for the battery (that's good). Road tax is also due (that's bad).
Starting to get back on the job hunt and lord I forgot how much I hate writing cover letters
Tempted to get a ChatGPT sub or something
I would strongly recommend against this. As much as writing them sucks, cover letters are your first chance to give an impression of who you are as an individual, what makes you stand out and worth hiring - and in cases of jobs where you might not have the complete experience or knowhow but feel confident in your ability to do the job anyway, a chance to convince them to give you a shot. Rather than having ChatGPT write up a bog-standard, totally forgettable one, I'd suggest writing your own from scratch with the aim of making it versatile and modular to tweak and modify as needed.
For both of my last two jobs, I was told pretty directly that my cover letter was a big part of why I got that initial interview. Even in cases where the job is completely in your wheelhouse and your resume alone should be enough, the cover letter is a chance to show off your humanity and personality. At their worst they're just another way for uninterested HR peons or analysis bots to disqualify you, absolutely, but your chances certainly aren't going to be improved with a generic, forgettable cover letter. Include all the usual keywords and expected info, but it's very much worth your time to give it your own personal touch.
Yeah I mean, I know this intellectually, I just get frustrated with it
Like sometimes I write one that I feel like should just say ‘look I’m able to do this job without setting anything on fire, why not just schedule an interview and see if one of us thinks the other is too weird’
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
My oceanography professor is old enough she got to watch screaming matches between old guard geologists and new ones with their radical theories about plates moving across the mantle.
I couldn't believe this so I looked up the theory of plate tectonics. They didn't have a defined theory until 1965? That's bonkers to me, it feels like it was in so many science books and so authoritative that I assumed it was from before movies were a thing.
My oceanography professor is old enough she got to watch screaming matches between old guard geologists and new ones with their radical theories about plates moving across the mantle.
I couldn't believe this so I looked up the theory of plate tectonics. They didn't have a defined theory until 1965? That's bonkers to me, it feels like it was in so many science books and so authoritative that I assumed it was from before movies were a thing.
It is indeed bonkers that a defined theory for plate tectonics is only 5 years older than wheels on luggage.
This is bullshit you people are telling me you think the earth's crust moves on its own and not because of the Great Churning? The fucking March of the Deep Dwellers Upon Whos Back the World Doth Bend?
My oceanography professor is old enough she got to watch screaming matches between old guard geologists and new ones with their radical theories about plates moving across the mantle.
I couldn't believe this so I looked up the theory of plate tectonics. They didn't have a defined theory until 1965? That's bonkers to me, it feels like it was in so many science books and so authoritative that I assumed it was from before movies were a thing.
it's mostly that before the middle of the 20th century the technology didn't really exist to enable proper marine geology; people observed that it looked like the continents might have once fit together basically as soon as they could make accurate enough maps, but it wasn't until the mid-20th century that technology advanced enough to study the ocean floor and figure out how the hell they might actually be moving
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I’m going to start responding only with gifs in my team chat at work.
I want to see how long I can go before someone notices I haven’t actually said anything.
My oceanography professor is old enough she got to watch screaming matches between old guard geologists and new ones with their radical theories about plates moving across the mantle.
I couldn't believe this so I looked up the theory of plate tectonics. They didn't have a defined theory until 1965? That's bonkers to me, it feels like it was in so many science books and so authoritative that I assumed it was from before movies were a thing.
it's mostly that before the middle of the 20th century the technology didn't really exist to enable proper marine geology; people observed that it looked like the continents might have once fit together basically as soon as they could make accurate enough maps, but it wasn't until the mid-20th century that technology advanced enough to study the ocean floor and figure out how the hell they might actually be moving
Get deep into the ocean, get into space and not only get better views of thr world but also be able to accurately notated and measure continental movement. It was a was a steep technological plateau that prevented it plate tectonics from being fully realized. Kind of like how, to make a broad generalization, doctors working under the 'humour balancing' theory of medicine weren't doing that because they were deliberately ignorant, but they just didn't have the tools and technology to male the discoveries we all take as common, easy knowledge today.
I remember when I was a little kid, watching a disaster movie from the 60s on a local channel that showed cheap old movies on Saturdays, that was about scientists racing to find a solution after atomic testing made the earth's singular crust start to crumble, break apart, and move.
I’m not sure what I would do if they tried to bring us back into the office.
Working from home is one of the major reasons why this job actually works for me.
I just applied for a job that I am overqualifed for that wanted hybrid and I told them in my cover letter "Look, I've been remote for 4+ years and everything has been great and really this position could be done remotely and if you really need me to be in the office on occasion I'm happy to fly across the country every now and then to do so and you should take me up on this offer because look at my fucking resume I'd be a badass."
Too many tasks to do, all of equal importance, cannot get guidance on any of them
Good day to drink coffee and watch YouTube, I guess
Are you me? This sounds like me.
My kryptonite is open ended tasks that someone asked me to do but have no timeframe or actual delivery date. Those always, always get pushed for tasks that do because I always have a bunch of those and they never stop coming.
I guess I'll work on cleaning up a mess that shouldn't exist in the first place, if motherfuckers would follow the very simple very explicit directions they were given.
What's the most culturally appropriate way to say stop sending us quest for people walking across the parking lot?
Said parking lot taking up 48% of the block
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
How do you politely say
“Stop answering people’s question in the chat like you know what you’re doing because you give the wrong answer half the time but you give it with enough conviction that people believe you.”
“Stop answering people’s question in the chat like you know what you’re doing because you give the wrong answer half the time but you give it with enough conviction that people believe you.”
I'd message the offender separately and attempt to engage in a meaningful respectful discussion
That doesn't always work for me though
+5
Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
“Stop answering people’s question in the chat like you know what you’re doing because you give the wrong answer half the time but you give it with enough conviction that people believe you.”
I'd message the offender separately and attempt to engage in a meaningful respectful discussion
That doesn't always work for me though
I’ve thought about that but I know the person well and they’ll be VERY passive aggressive then try to laugh the whole thing off.
“Stop answering people’s question in the chat like you know what you’re doing because you give the wrong answer half the time but you give it with enough conviction that people believe you.”
I'd message the offender separately and attempt to engage in a meaningful respectful discussion
That doesn't always work for me though
I’ve thought about that but I know the person well and they’ll be VERY passive aggressive then try to laugh the whole thing off.
It’s a Minnesota thing!
I'd still do it, maybe by email, so you have a record of it, and if it's a big problem, follow up with them again, third time include your supervisor
Who probably won't do anything either, in my experience
I dealt with this exact problem- someone was very confident and very wrong very often-- for years
They eventually left
(They're now in charge of people)
So that's not great
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Yeah. Getting promoted often seems like it’s more about being the loudest than being the most correct
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited October 17
This application I’m working on…The person X’d out the “Are you of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin” and wrote AMERICAN over it
Raijin Quickfoot on
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sponoMining for Nose DiamondsBooger CoveRegistered Userregular
Yes but did he draw a wicked sick bald eagle in the corner?
Posts
What's wrong with just using a nice polite, 'you primitive screwheads?'
Nah, I'm not in any rush. I have a start date set for 3 weeks from now at the new place.
2 days/week work from home
12 holidays
4 weeks pto (this is the starting point, and goes up incrementally to 7 weeks after being employed for 16 years)
I would strongly recommend against this. As much as writing them sucks, cover letters are your first chance to give an impression of who you are as an individual, what makes you stand out and worth hiring - and in cases of jobs where you might not have the complete experience or knowhow but feel confident in your ability to do the job anyway, a chance to convince them to give you a shot. Rather than having ChatGPT write up a bog-standard, totally forgettable one, I'd suggest writing your own from scratch with the aim of making it versatile and modular to tweak and modify as needed.
For both of my last two jobs, I was told pretty directly that my cover letter was a big part of why I got that initial interview. Even in cases where the job is completely in your wheelhouse and your resume alone should be enough, the cover letter is a chance to show off your humanity and personality. At their worst they're just another way for uninterested HR peons or analysis bots to disqualify you, absolutely, but your chances certainly aren't going to be improved with a generic, forgettable cover letter. Include all the usual keywords and expected info, but it's very much worth your time to give it your own personal touch.
There's not much point -- it'd be indistinguishable from what our CEO emails us at this point. He is all-in. We're just getting pasted responses - markdown and all - blasted out to us.
He's decided that he's an expert prompt writer now and is sending us all his hard-earned tips for writing efficient prompts - todays are:
The last one feels like someone telling me to rub an amethyst three times before asking who my true love will be. Some real homeopathic prompt engineering.
So if I were to spend my time today away from finishing client critical tickets I would ask ChatGPT something like "As a 17th century pirate explain to me how I can get it through to upper management that there is no one left in the company that can code in this particular language and I can't support this product after the two engineers that wrote it left for higher paying jobs. There is a gun to my head"
I'm assuming that this is some kind of Sixth Sense style "V1m didn't realise he was actually dead" situation. Or fired. Did I get fired and forget? I don't want to ask because my employer is entirely capable of continuing to not just pay me but apply the annual pay review as well in this situation.
I will just clear my case load and shut up and play Civ V on the other screen.
I know that feel all too well.
"And here we are passing the glorious Jack in the Box region, known for their Taco varietals and Munchie Box Bouquets"
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Yeah I mean, I know this intellectually, I just get frustrated with it
Like sometimes I write one that I feel like should just say ‘look I’m able to do this job without setting anything on fire, why not just schedule an interview and see if one of us thinks the other is too weird’
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I couldn't believe this so I looked up the theory of plate tectonics. They didn't have a defined theory until 1965? That's bonkers to me, it feels like it was in so many science books and so authoritative that I assumed it was from before movies were a thing.
It is indeed bonkers that a defined theory for plate tectonics is only 5 years older than wheels on luggage.
You're all idiots holy shit
It SUBDUCTS you FUCKING TROGLODYTE
I will BURN this faculty to the GROUND where in 40-50 MILLION YEARS it will be BURIED by NATURAL FORCES
it's mostly that before the middle of the 20th century the technology didn't really exist to enable proper marine geology; people observed that it looked like the continents might have once fit together basically as soon as they could make accurate enough maps, but it wasn't until the mid-20th century that technology advanced enough to study the ocean floor and figure out how the hell they might actually be moving
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I want to see how long I can go before someone notices I haven’t actually said anything.
It makes the last half hour pass so slowly
Get deep into the ocean, get into space and not only get better views of thr world but also be able to accurately notated and measure continental movement. It was a was a steep technological plateau that prevented it plate tectonics from being fully realized. Kind of like how, to make a broad generalization, doctors working under the 'humour balancing' theory of medicine weren't doing that because they were deliberately ignorant, but they just didn't have the tools and technology to male the discoveries we all take as common, easy knowledge today.
I remember when I was a little kid, watching a disaster movie from the 60s on a local channel that showed cheap old movies on Saturdays, that was about scientists racing to find a solution after atomic testing made the earth's singular crust start to crumble, break apart, and move.
It's a delicate balance.
It'll be months, I reckon. Like 6+
towards
the weekend
my brain
fills
with data
please
heal
my coworkers
this shit is
this shit is
annoying
If I knew I could have slacked off on office attendance until now, I definitely would have taken the opportunity to save hundreds of £s.
Yesterday I spent £12.60 to go to the office and listen to podcasts all day whilst I work. Then go home.
Working from home is one of the major reasons why this job actually works for me.
Too many tasks to do, all of equal importance, cannot get guidance on any of them
Good day to drink coffee and watch YouTube, I guess
I just applied for a job that I am overqualifed for that wanted hybrid and I told them in my cover letter "Look, I've been remote for 4+ years and everything has been great and really this position could be done remotely and if you really need me to be in the office on occasion I'm happy to fly across the country every now and then to do so and you should take me up on this offer because look at my fucking resume I'd be a badass."
No response back yet.
Are you me? This sounds like me.
My kryptonite is open ended tasks that someone asked me to do but have no timeframe or actual delivery date. Those always, always get pushed for tasks that do because I always have a bunch of those and they never stop coming.
I guess I'll work on cleaning up a mess that shouldn't exist in the first place, if motherfuckers would follow the very simple very explicit directions they were given.
Said parking lot taking up 48% of the block
“Stop answering people’s question in the chat like you know what you’re doing because you give the wrong answer half the time but you give it with enough conviction that people believe you.”
I'd message the offender separately and attempt to engage in a meaningful respectful discussion
That doesn't always work for me though
I’ve thought about that but I know the person well and they’ll be VERY passive aggressive then try to laugh the whole thing off.
It’s a Minnesota thing!
I'd still do it, maybe by email, so you have a record of it, and if it's a big problem, follow up with them again, third time include your supervisor
Who probably won't do anything either, in my experience
I dealt with this exact problem- someone was very confident and very wrong very often-- for years
They eventually left
(They're now in charge of people)
So that's not great