My work intersects with hardware often, and so there are meetings were either I or someone else has to talk about some of the surface mount parts that have ball-grid array connectors.
I’m way past the age where I shouldn’t giggle/snicker when someone says “ball-to-ball short”, and yet...
For a bit of amusement, consider that the technical terms for basically every plug is "male" and "female", and the obvious way to remember which is which.
I was thinking the other day “what if some millennial thought male and female were derived from plugs/sockets and generalized to humans and animals based on their superficial similarity sometime after the development of the power grid” and I just had a private little laugh at the very idea.
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Generation Z is the current placeholder, although there's no strong frontrunner for an actual name yet. I tend to think that Digital Natives is the most useful one so far, since they're the first generation to be born after the relatively widespread civilian adoption of the internet.
It's probably going to be something dumb like fucking iGen, though, because of course it will.
I like Gen Z because it works with my pet theory that 'Millenials' is actually a pan-generational term. All Gen Y are millenials, but not all millenials are Gen Y.
I'm a Gen X'er, but I fit in far better with the Millenials, as do a lot of the folks at the head of Gen Z.
So there's Millenials, but there's X, Y, and Z millenials.
Except it's the Permanent Intermittent position that I very much do NOT want because there's way too many downsides. No more than 1500 hours a year, good luck getting that when I'd only work when I get called, the majority of the months I'd be working are November to April, and expect to not be working for months at a time during which I will not be getting paid. Yeah, no thank you.
Kinda sucks to get that feeling of hope as you answer an unexpected then the person introduces themselves and that feeling craters into the floor instantly. Hoping that's not the only call I get, if not for a job offer then more interviews.
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Close the clinic two hours early due to snowmaggedon!
But so many people show up before close that we end up leaving at our usual time anyway. The roads suuuuucked getting home.
Customer at the bank invited me to a Mardi Gras party she's hosting at her house. We were just chatting for a while, taking care of what she needed to get done, and she brought up all the food she's going to be making for her friends and relatives coming from out of town to celebrate the holiday.
Me: "Alright ma'am it looks like we're about done. I just have one question."
Her: "What's that sweetheart?"
Me(jokingly): "You got room for one more guest?"
Her: "Oh absolutely! My door's always open for my friends. Come on by and grab yourself a plate!"
People are alright sometimes.
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Customer at the bank invited me to a Mardi Gras party she's hosting at her house. We were just chatting for a while, taking care of what she needed to get done, and she brought up all the food she's going to be making for her friends and relatives coming from out of town to celebrate the holiday.
Me: "Alright ma'am it looks like we're about done. I just have one question."
Her: "What's that sweetheart?"
Me(jokingly): "You got room for one more guest?"
Her: "Oh absolutely! My door's always open for my friends. Come on by and grab yourself a plate!"
I need to take another WorkKeys test which suuuuucks.
Well, I don't need to but it would help. Its basically a work assessment test to show your competency in math, work documents and general readery I guess and some employers here require one with a certain score when submitting a resume.
I actually took one three years ago when I applied for my current job but lost the results like a chump. Theres no database for these things so I have to take it again and pay a $56 fee. I'm not looking forward to it because I'm vvvvvv bad at math. Like, I have math anxiety or something and don't ever use anything more complex than basic multiplication in my day to day so I don't remember shit from school. I somehow lucked into an almost perfect score the first time and I have no idea if I can do it again. Luckily they have practice exams I can take. Plus, even if it's not required I can still slap it on a CV for extra points.
I'm definitely looking for new jobs. My current work place feels like its falling apart at the moment. Spoilers for long ish rant.
I've been in this new department for about 5 months now. After coming down "off the Hill" as they call it it's been kind of a culture shock. For being the same company, on the same campus it's basically a completely separate entity in they way things operate. We're a lot smaller and so we're a little more autonomous in how we go about making our product.
Anyway, over Christmas they implemented several new, much larger machines that they had been planning to put in for I don't know how many years now, expecting to be able to drop down to two man crews and still make or exceed production numbers despite the many protestations of the actual employees who told them it would not work.
Spoiler
It's not working.
And management is freaking the fuck out. Its not inspiring confidence and making for a very tumultuous work environment. Plus there was recently drama with a lot of people getting passed up for a newly created position who really should have gotten it over the person they gave it to. So now a solid 45% of our small team are pissed off and most likely looking to jump ship and management is... not handling it well. If what I've heard from some of my other coworkers is accurate there have been shouting matches. So if people start deucing out that would leave me, the new guy, right in the shit.
This plant is the biggest one in the state I believe. We employ close to 1,500 people and more or less make up the backbone of the local economy. No hyperbole. The rumblings seem to indicate that things aren't going great for anybody at the moment. A new medical equipment production facility is being built right down the road with supposedly much better benefits and there's already been a meeting between my company and the new one basically saying "look, if you hire too many of our employees we could go under and the economy here would shit a brick. Please only take x number of our workers." We lost the head of our personnel department to them already and they aren't even up and running. Ill omens.
Hey that sucks man, I hope that work stabilises for you and you ace that test
Have you considered moving to the new plant yourself?
Yeah I have. Problem is this town is major butts and there is nothing here. It's a black hole of small town bullshit. I really want to relocate but the problem I'm running into is the only thing I have any real qualifications for is manufacturing but very few of the other manufacturers in the areas I want to move to pay what I'm making now. I would need to be married or something to afford the cost of living raises while taking a pay cut.
So I dunno. Not a lot of great employment options for me.
Jump ship to that new place if the opportunity presents itself. Loyalty to a company is a terrible idea.
I like Gen Z because it works with my pet theory that 'Millenials' is actually a pan-generational term. All Gen Y are millenials, but not all millenials are Gen Y.
I'm a Gen X'er, but I fit in far better with the Millenials, as do a lot of the folks at the head of Gen Z.
So there's Millenials, but there's X, Y, and Z millenials.
Yeah, demography isn't an exact science since so that's likely fair. I personally would like to see a split set around "you can remember a time before the Internet was ubiquitous", but most of the current definitions I see usually put the end of the Millennial cohort around 2000 or so. I have coworkers now that were born in the late 90's and I have had to remind them that there was a time before the Internet.
My definition is: You're not a millennial if you think 1970 was 30 years ago, or 1940 was 60 years ago. Basically, you're a 20th century thinker. Even though I've spent most of my existence in the 21st century, I still do the head maths by subtracting the last two from a 100. "Oh, I don't need to count the years after 2000, there's not many of them". I'm still a 20th century thinker.
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Generation Z is the current placeholder, although there's no strong frontrunner for an actual name yet. I tend to think that Digital Natives is the most useful one so far, since they're the first generation to be born after the relatively widespread civilian adoption of the internet.
It's probably going to be something dumb like fucking iGen, though, because of course it will.
Had a Skype interview last week for an out of state position that went pretty well. Now they want me to come in for an in-person interview and I'm in the middle of moving out of my place and oh god why is good news making me feel a ton more stress.
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General observation. There is a book challenge going around educator twitter right now to post favorite books.
No one ever challenges us librarians.
Also not sure how posting 7 covers of books you love is a challenge?
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Well that meeting could have gone better
I opened with "our pipeline is pretty empty" and basically just caused a panic that I never managed to gain control of. People fled the meeting room twenty minutes later like they'd been set on fire.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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I opened with "our pipeline is pretty empty" and basically just caused a panic that I never managed to gain control of. People fled the meeting room twenty minutes later like they'd been set on fire.
Obviously I'm speaking with no knowledge of what you or your organization do, but yeah... Variations of "I don't have enough work to do" in a professional setting are... fraught.
Home from work again today. The office isn't closed (they decided to do a later start rather than close altogether) but I'm feeling pretty crappy today so I just decided to stay home. Should be better by tomorrow, I think, plus it sounds like the roads are doing alright.
I made it to work today! The main roads are actually fine, just wet now.
Our customer parking lot is also clear. There’s a 7 foot mound of ploughed snow in one corner.
The staff parking lot... well, my assistant and I made it in, albeit with much skating, and my car is propped up at an angle. We may find ourselves a bit stuck.
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I am feeling like more of an idiot than usual today. Had a hell of a time parsing what the lesson plan for a research project was asking for. Imposter syndrome is strong.
Also I need to submit an official title for my conference presentation on VR in libraries I'll be giving in June.
General observation. There is a book challenge going around educator twitter right now to post favorite books.
No one ever challenges us librarians.
Also not sure how posting 7 covers of books you love is a challenge?
I tend to infer that school librarians are included in those things? Hm. I don't usually pass them around, but I'll make a note to clarify that if/when I do.
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picking a favorite book is definitely a challenge, that question is utterly paralyzing
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For a bit of amusement, consider that the technical terms for basically every plug is "male" and "female", and the obvious way to remember which is which.
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It takes a bit after the generation hits adulthood that people coin a term for it.
It's probably going to be something dumb like fucking iGen, though, because of course it will.
I'm a Gen X'er, but I fit in far better with the Millenials, as do a lot of the folks at the head of Gen Z.
So there's Millenials, but there's X, Y, and Z millenials.
Except it's the Permanent Intermittent position that I very much do NOT want because there's way too many downsides. No more than 1500 hours a year, good luck getting that when I'd only work when I get called, the majority of the months I'd be working are November to April, and expect to not be working for months at a time during which I will not be getting paid. Yeah, no thank you.
Kinda sucks to get that feeling of hope as you answer an unexpected then the person introduces themselves and that feeling craters into the floor instantly. Hoping that's not the only call I get, if not for a job offer then more interviews.
But so many people show up before close that we end up leaving at our usual time anyway. The roads suuuuucked getting home.
Me: "Alright ma'am it looks like we're about done. I just have one question."
Her: "What's that sweetheart?"
Me(jokingly): "You got room for one more guest?"
Her: "Oh absolutely! My door's always open for my friends. Come on by and grab yourself a plate!"
People are alright sometimes.
"can I grab seventeen instead"
Jump ship to that new place if the opportunity presents itself. Loyalty to a company is a terrible idea.
Yeah, demography isn't an exact science since so that's likely fair. I personally would like to see a split set around "you can remember a time before the Internet was ubiquitous", but most of the current definitions I see usually put the end of the Millennial cohort around 2000 or so. I have coworkers now that were born in the late 90's and I have had to remind them that there was a time before the Internet.
The Water War generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ
Also I think its obvious, the new generation is "Gen Stream, slap that bell and hit subscribe, brought to you by Fortnite"
No one ever challenges us librarians.
Also not sure how posting 7 covers of books you love is a challenge?
How do you choose which 7 make the cut?
I assume they don't challenge your kind because they don't want to be demolished.
It's the same reason nobody asks the crazy dude on the subway his opinion on reptilian aliens. They already know, because we won't shut up about it.
Well...what is it Timespork!
Today, we learned something about Jedoc.
Jedoc speaks for all of us in his position on the Watcher council..
Er. I mean, uh, as a member of the American Library Association. Yes. The ALA. Yes.
I opened with "our pipeline is pretty empty" and basically just caused a panic that I never managed to gain control of. People fled the meeting room twenty minutes later like they'd been set on fire.
Obviously I'm speaking with no knowledge of what you or your organization do, but yeah... Variations of "I don't have enough work to do" in a professional setting are... fraught.
Our customer parking lot is also clear. There’s a 7 foot mound of ploughed snow in one corner.
The staff parking lot... well, my assistant and I made it in, albeit with much skating, and my car is propped up at an angle. We may find ourselves a bit stuck.
Also I need to submit an official title for my conference presentation on VR in libraries I'll be giving in June.
I tend to infer that school librarians are included in those things? Hm. I don't usually pass them around, but I'll make a note to clarify that if/when I do.
The challenge is that you can only post 7, obvs.
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