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Tube · February 8

Bucketman wrote: »

My wife came by for lunch today, I got to show her around and she got to meet my co-workers and we ate in the cafe. Both my boss and the head of HR gave her a hug and told her how great it is to have me at the company and she was really dumbfounded. "Is this what its like working in an office with normal people....no one even looks depressed to be here."

that's not normal

bowen · February 8

webguy20 wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

Gnome-Interruptus wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

I'm sure there's a medic nearby.

Honestly I don't really think cops in particular should be allowed to use things like CS Gas or Tazers without a fair appreciation of what that feels like.

That's one of the reasons why they do it.

Every cop gets pepper sprayed. Most especially because if you ever need to use CS there's a good chance you're gonna get a bit of blowback, and be nearly as maced as whoever you were tagging.

Unfortunately due to toxic masculinity and other factors, eventually they convince themselves it wasn't so bad and start feeling more free to use the taser for situations where it wasn't necessary.

That's why they should also be tazed at the beginning and end of each shift.

Here's your paycheck and your taze. Want to use the bathroom? Pepper spray air freshener.

This feels like an express method to creating super cops who are immune to pepper spray and tazers.

webguy20 · February 8

bowen wrote: »

webguy20 wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

Gnome-Interruptus wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

I'm sure there's a medic nearby.

Honestly I don't really think cops in particular should be allowed to use things like CS Gas or Tazers without a fair appreciation of what that feels like.

That's one of the reasons why they do it.

Every cop gets pepper sprayed. Most especially because if you ever need to use CS there's a good chance you're gonna get a bit of blowback, and be nearly as maced as whoever you were tagging.

Unfortunately due to toxic masculinity and other factors, eventually they convince themselves it wasn't so bad and start feeling more free to use the taser for situations where it wasn't necessary.

That's why they should also be tazed at the beginning and end of each shift.

Here's your paycheck and your taze. Want to use the bathroom? Pepper spray air freshener.

This feels like an express method to creating super cops who are immune to pepper spray and tazers.

I'd like to see the evolutionary reactions to a high voltage high spice environment after a few generations. I wonder what the adaptations would be like.

bowen · February 8

So the cleaning crew, who y'all know I got into a war of passive aggressiveness over my grease covered pizza box in the trash being recycling (it's not recycling and I finally won that battle), left a note for our lab to "brake down your boxes".

I am struggling with my conscience in this for either being the bigger person and ignoring it or taking a red sharpie, crossing it out, writing break, and giving them a C-.

On the one hand it's kind of a dick thing to do and really fucking condescending. On the other hand it'll feel real good for at least the rest of the day.

Tube · February 8

you should definitely be super condescending towards the staff who skivvy after you because they spelled a word wrong

doubtless they had numerous advantages in life

edit: I have removed the words "minimum wage" from this post to be fair to Bowen

Anon the Felon · February 8

Someone get the marshmallows so we can roast them over the hot fire Tube is throwing down.

bowen · February 8

Tube wrote: »

you should definitely be super condescending towards the minimum wage staff who skivvy after you because they spelled a word wrong

doubtless they had numerous advantages in life

Holy hell that's a lot of assumptions just because I said "cleaning crew". Why do you assume they're minimum wage and disadvantaged?

It's a relatively affluent husband wife team that definitely aren't being paid minimum wage. They are also kind of passive aggressive douches to everyone here. For instance, taking (edit: a single) pistacho that fell onto the floor and placing it next to someone's keyboard because they didn't pick it up and throw it away. Also the pizza box thing.

Also several other things.

Not sure why you think "they're low skill and low paid workers."

3clipse · February 8

Anon the Felon wrote: »

Someone get the marshmallows so we can roast them over the hot fire Tube is throwing down.

I'd say this is about a medium temperature Tube Hot Take, with the high end of the scale being his opinion on most Netflix shows.

Bit too low temp for marshmallows but good for slow-cooking a nice sausage or smoking a turkey.

bowen · February 8

they're medical cleaning people so like, it's not some janitor at a bus stop making $12/hr my fair dude

3clipse · February 8

Tube wrote: »

you should definitely be super condescending towards the minimum wage staff who skivvy after you because they spelled a word wrong

doubtless they had numerous advantages in life

Tube not a couple months ago you expressed serious concerns about people in the community being gleefully critical of each other at the slightest provocation and it starting to become a genuine problem.

Bucketman · February 8

Tube wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

My wife came by for lunch today, I got to show her around and she got to meet my co-workers and we ate in the cafe. Both my boss and the head of HR gave her a hug and told her how great it is to have me at the company and she was really dumbfounded. "Is this what its like working in an office with normal people....no one even looks depressed to be here."

that's not normal

In a good or bad way? Like I am feeling the love here and its wonderful.

Tube · February 8

bowen wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

you should definitely be super condescending towards the minimum wage staff who skivvy after you because they spelled a word wrong

doubtless they had numerous advantages in life

Not sure why you think "they're low skill and low paid workers."

I didn't say low skill.

The answer to your question is "no, don't".

kfcdoubledown · February 8

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

Tube · February 8

kfcdoubledown wrote: »

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

aah damn this is a good idea for an alt.

3clipse · February 8

kfcdoubledown wrote: »

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

wh

what

Moriveth · February 8

Ugh, getting a sinus headache. This blows!

Tynnan · February 8

3clipse wrote: »

kfcdoubledown wrote: »

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

wh

what

Looks like the pod has discovered forum account creation

bowen · February 8

Tube wrote: »

bowen wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

you should definitely be super condescending towards the minimum wage staff who skivvy after you because they spelled a word wrong

doubtless they had numerous advantages in life

Not sure why you think "they're low skill and low paid workers."

I didn't say low skill.

The answer to your question is "no, don't".

Yes I must've read too much into what you meant by disadvantaged then.

Tube · February 8

Bucketman wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

My wife came by for lunch today, I got to show her around and she got to meet my co-workers and we ate in the cafe. Both my boss and the head of HR gave her a hug and told her how great it is to have me at the company and she was really dumbfounded. "Is this what its like working in an office with normal people....no one even looks depressed to be here."

that's not normal

In a good or bad way? Like I am feeling the love here and its wonderful.

In a good way! I was just doing a joke about most offices not being full of happy people.

bowen · February 8

Hugging coworkers feels... off..? (or them hugging your family/friends)

3clipse · February 8

Tynnan wrote: »

3clipse wrote: »

kfcdoubledown wrote: »

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

wh

what

Looks like the pod has discovered forum account creation

we're doomed.

Tynnan · February 8

3clipse wrote: »

Tynnan wrote: »

3clipse wrote: »

kfcdoubledown wrote: »

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

wh

what

Looks like the pod has discovered forum account creation

we're doomed.

What exactly do you mean by "we"?

3clipse · February 8

Tynnan wrote: »

3clipse wrote: »

Tynnan wrote: »

3clipse wrote: »

kfcdoubledown wrote: »

watch tube is gonna be like kfc an ddouble down

wh

what

Looks like the pod has discovered forum account creation

we're doomed.

What exactly do you mean by "we"?

humanity.

bowen · February 8

I won't be a jerk to the cleaning crew, but when we eat the rich I make no promises they're safe (they are hella rich because charging doctors for services is $$$$$$$$$$$).

Weaver · February 8

Good lord it's busy kill me

Lasbrook · February 8

AngelHedgie wrote: »

Lasbrook wrote: »

So after a scare of my updating my phone’s firmware and suddenly losing 3 years of changes to my notes app i’ve been putting my stuff into my password manager like I probably should have been on the first place, and was wondering who wins the game of having the highest amount of unique logins they need for their job?

I have 16.

This is why federated identity exists, damnit.

If I understand the concept right from skimming the Wikipedia article, sure. I have like three logins that I use for the majority of stuff but I can’t imagine how that works with things outside your organization, aka most of my logins.

Bucketman · February 8

bowen wrote: »

Hugging coworkers feels... off..? (or them hugging your family/friends)

Both asked first. Its a very friendly environment

LoisLane · February 8

Pinfeldorf wrote: »

LoisLane wrote: »

Zonugal wrote: »

Today at lunch I educated some of the teachers on the unfortunate side effects of selective cannibalism in tribal societies in relation to ancient misogyny.

And their response was something akin to, "WHY DO YOU KNOW THESE THINGS!?!?!"

A fair inquiry.

What are the unfortunate side effects?

Fuckin' prions. Prions are horrifying and more people should know about them.

EDIT: NVM. Answered above.
But what does that have to do with ancient misogyny?

bowen · February 8

Bucketman wrote: »

bowen wrote: »

Hugging coworkers feels... off..? (or them hugging your family/friends)

Both asked first. Its a very friendly environment

Okay that feels better!

Gvzbgul · February 8

I guess Zonugal might be talking about the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea. Kuru was mostly confined to women because it was the women's job to cook and eat the deceased. Most of the people who got kuru were women and their children who were passed tidbits of the deceased. This lead to a 3:1 male:female ratio in the worst affected areas.

tynic · February 8

After disassembling five pens and doing some very rough rate calculations, I'm finally confident enough to place a second spring order. Pray that it will be my last.

gonna reward myself with a bubble tea.

also my supervisor asked me a bunch of practise questions for faculty interviews and they made everything seem way too grown up and adult, I'm gonna go live in a hole for a while.

KetBra · February 8

The faculty interview process seems kind of like a nightmare.

I sat in on one of the demo undergrad lectures the candidates have to give here, and some of the profs were just mean with some of the questions they asked.

tynic · February 8

KetBra wrote: »

The faculty interview process seems kind of like a nightmare.

I sat in on one of the demo undergrad lectures the candidates have to give here, and some of the profs were just mean with some of the questions they asked.

I'm legit blanking that whole part of the process out of my mind, because I'm pretty sure giving an undergrad lecture to a bunch of professors is a guaranteed way to give the worst lecture of my life.

Polaritie · February 8

KetBra wrote: »

The faculty interview process seems kind of like a nightmare.

I sat in on one of the demo undergrad lectures the candidates have to give here, and some of the profs were just mean with some of the questions they asked.

Mean how?

Asking for detailed explanations of minutiae, or...?

bowtiedseal · February 8

Does anyone have advice for being interviewed by groups of people? I have a three hour interview next week with 12 people interviewing me (three groups of four). I’ve never been interviewed by more than two people at a time and am feeling rather intimidated.

Moriveth · February 8

Waiting at the train station

Super glad I left when I did, it’s gonna be packed

bowen · February 8

bowtiedseal wrote: »

Does anyone have advice for being interviewed by groups of people? I have a three hour interview next week with 12 people interviewing me (three groups of four). I’ve never been interviewed by more than two people at a time and am feeling rather intimidated.

Yeah I think the point of those style of group interviews is to intimidate and see how you handle the pressure and how you interact with multiple people.

Ginger Mijango · February 8

I didn't think I'd be reliving my Group Assessment experiences from Uni in a Professional environment, especially from someone with 15+ years experience on me.

KetBra · February 8

Polaritie wrote: »

KetBra wrote: »

The faculty interview process seems kind of like a nightmare.

I sat in on one of the demo undergrad lectures the candidates have to give here, and some of the profs were just mean with some of the questions they asked.

Mean how?

Asking for detailed explanations of minutiae, or...?

Imagine a roomful of professors playing dumb about 1st year physics in the most obnoxious ways possible in the middle of what is essentially a semi-public multi-day interview process.

Shit is nerve-wracking. It was bad enough that the prof in charge was like 'ok guys she knows physics, stop trying to trip her up with tricky questions and let her lecture.'

AngelHedgie · February 8

Lasbrook wrote: »

AngelHedgie wrote: »

Lasbrook wrote: »

So after a scare of my updating my phone’s firmware and suddenly losing 3 years of changes to my notes app i’ve been putting my stuff into my password manager like I probably should have been on the first place, and was wondering who wins the game of having the highest amount of unique logins they need for their job?

I have 16.

This is why federated identity exists, damnit.

If I understand the concept right from skimming the Wikipedia article, sure. I have like three logins that I use for the majority of stuff but I can’t imagine how that works with things outside your organization, aka most of my logins.

Single sign-on authentication protocols. We've done this with a number of external vendors.

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