My latest attempt at making work from home palatable is trying to turn my living room into a de facto coffee shop. I've set up a hipster easy-listening playlist, rotated my seating arrangements 90° to give myself a new outlook, and am drinking an overpriced kombucha.
Probably need to spill something suspicious and sticky just next to my chair to really complete the experience but otherwise it's going ok so far.
Put a sign up declaring your area to be named Big Face Coffee and see if anything amusing happens!
ani_game_bumOptimistic, Rule-Breaking Nice GuyThe Final World/DestinationRegistered Userregular
:bro:
Had kidney stones a couple of summers ago and it sucked big time. Luckily they were small enough after getting a scan and decided to just ride it out and pass it. A heating pad can help with the discomfort if you can get comfortable enough to rest. I tried the diluted apple cider vinegar home remedy (couple of tablespoons mixed in with a cup of water and drink) and possibly helped some, but only try if you have the stomach for it. Nausea was one of my symptoms and I really had to focus to get the solution down.
My latest attempt at making work from home palatable is trying to turn my living room into a de facto coffee shop. I've set up a hipster easy-listening playlist, rotated my seating arrangements 90° to give myself a new outlook, and am drinking an overpriced kombucha.
Probably need to spill something suspicious and sticky just next to my chair to really complete the experience but otherwise it's going ok so far.
I drink a grady's new orleans style cold brew with oatly oat milk in the morning (it's SUCH a good combo), then transition into green tea in the afternoon
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
My latest attempt at making work from home palatable is trying to turn my living room into a de facto coffee shop. I've set up a hipster easy-listening playlist, rotated my seating arrangements 90° to give myself a new outlook, and am drinking an overpriced kombucha.
Probably need to spill something suspicious and sticky just next to my chair to really complete the experience but otherwise it's going ok so far.
Gonna need to hear about the pastry situation to fully buy into this.
The good news: an exceptional French patisserie exists about fifteen minutes walk away
The bad news: it’s only open on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
But today I had a bagel pre-organized, so the minimum carb loading was satisfied.
If they're not too far away, you should check out Sixth Course when possible. They've been closed for a while, but it looks like they're re-opening soon for contactless pick-up orders on Fridays.
The pastry chef who owns it is extremely talented and also very cool.
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mosssnackYeah right, man, Bishop should go!Good idea!Registered Userregular
Talk about an anxiety spike. Just got a call from work that I need to go isolate in a hotel room for a period of time.
Just need to uh, figure out child care while my wife is on the opposite coast for a family emergency.
Everything is fine
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Because I'm going to be doing a major server op this evening, I spent most of the afternoon showing a friend and distant coworker how to use Microsoft's findtime tool.
Man. That really needs to be baked into default Office/Outlook/Exchange. It's so nice....
Sure, I was introduced to it by a Microsoft employee. But that doesn't matter! If it makes your life easier and is easy to use, go for it!
(I promise I'm not shilling, it was fun watching her realize what the software could do.)
My latest attempt at making work from home palatable is trying to turn my living room into a de facto coffee shop. I've set up a hipster easy-listening playlist, rotated my seating arrangements 90° to give myself a new outlook, and am drinking an overpriced kombucha.
Probably need to spill something suspicious and sticky just next to my chair to really complete the experience but otherwise it's going ok so far.
Gonna need to hear about the pastry situation to fully buy into this.
The good news: an exceptional French patisserie exists about fifteen minutes walk away
The bad news: it’s only open on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
But today I had a bagel pre-organized, so the minimum carb loading was satisfied.
If they're not too far away, you should check out Sixth Course when possible. They've been closed for a while, but it looks like they're re-opening soon for contactless pick-up orders on Fridays.
The pastry chef who owns it is extremely talented and also very cool.
Well it’s far in the sense that I’ve been across to SF like... three times in the last three months, at most. Purely as the crow flies, it’s reasonably close.
But I’ll put a pin in it in case we ever get to go back to the workplace!
Damn, korodullin, that really sucks. I hope you feel better soon!
Fridays here are always fun. It’s my one WFH day and the kids are at home doing school. Today it was:
- Get up, get kids up and dressed
- Log on and do some work while kids have breakfast
- Get kids set up on their first lessons
- Log Niko into Zoom for Acadiance testing
- Answer emails
- Run back and forth between making sure Niko is staying on track and answering Anya’s questions
- Go downstairs to prep leaves for Niko’s science and realize I need modpodge
- Go to Target to get modpodge and poster sheets and get everyone flu shots while we’re at it
- Check emails/answer a few questions
- Prepare lunch
- Modpodge leaves
- Prep afternoon lessons
- Take a bunch (like 7-8 videos) of Niko performing various tasks for state testing
- Finish up my work
- Bribe the kids to finish their school work
Contractor sends an email titled XXX6 ADDRESS: "Can you get me the documents for this address? It's scheduled for today."
I reply with the requested address.
Contractor "Can you double check this I noticed you sent me the documents for XXX6???"
I check schedule, XXX7 is the address scheduled. Reply with email "Soorry I didn't read your mind, here are the correct documents"
I had a customer recently who said "my boss says I'm not getting their emails."
Me "oka-"
Them (cutting me off) "so I deleted my inbox rule for their email address but it still never showed up"
"When did you make the change to your rules?"
"Yesterday."
"Oh and they've sent an email since and it-"
Them (cutting me off. Again.) "No they emailed me last week"
Me "..."
Them "but it still hasn't showed up"
Me *trying to figure out how to politely explain linear time to this higher dimensional being* "I see."
It's a craft glue, an all-in-one glue/sealer/finish. You can lather it on and it dries relatively quickly. It's great for decoupage and collage and for kids' activities, since they can be messy with it.
I wonder how many middle schoolers could tell you what a 3x5 floppy disk was if you handed one to them and asked.
2000 was the last year I stopped using floppy discs as a senior in highschool. It was easier just to email myself a report and print it out at school.
My dissertation for my molecular biology BSc. was in large part written over summer break in 2006 when I was at home from university. We didn't have internet at home. The library did. Luckily only a mile walk each way. You could only use the computers there for an hour at a time if I recall. And they were locked so as not to respond to USB sticks.
Research papers and images and everything else were ferried back and forth on a handful of floppy disks, sometimes requiring multipart zip files to split larger sources across more than one disk.
Ah for the days when transferable media was the preferred method of data transportation for school assignments. Any time I needed an extra day, or honestly just wanted to see if I could, I'd purposely corrupt my file before handing over the medium. After all, can't blame me for it going a bit wonky aye? Just bring it in the next day and no harm done.
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thatassemblyguyJanitor of Technical Debt.Registered Userregular
I wonder how many middle schoolers could tell you what a 3x5 floppy disk was if you handed one to them and asked.
2000 was the last year I stopped using floppy discs as a senior in highschool. It was easier just to email myself a report and print it out at school.
My dissertation for my molecular biology BSc. was in large part written over summer break in 2006 when I was at home from university. We didn't have internet at home. The library did. Luckily only a mile walk each way. You could only use the computers there for an hour at a time if I recall. And they were locked so as not to respond to USB sticks.
Research papers and images and everything else were ferried back and forth on a handful of floppy disks, sometimes requiring multipart zip files to split larger sources across more than one disk.
It was super fun times.
The bolded is our generation's punch card war stories. Still doesn't have the same dread-inspiring threat as having to re-order 99.9% similar card stock, that was shuffled on the ground by gravity, and if you got the order incorrect you had to wait multiple days/weeks until you could try again.
Ah for the days when transferable media was the preferred method of data transportation for school assignments. Any time I needed an extra day, or honestly just wanted to see if I could, I'd purposely corrupt my file before handing over the medium. After all, can't blame me for it going a bit wonky aye? Just bring it in the next day and no harm done.
I didn't dare trying it, but here is the ultimate technique back in the days when you just had to mail everything to your teacher before end of the week.
Dear mr. Renes,
I have attached my report on blabla. Have a nice weekend!
Kind regards,
A Devious Pygmy Hippo
And then not attach the file on purpose.
The teacher would mail back, but if you sent it in late enough you could claim only seeing it on Monday on account of your healthy school/life balance or a family trip over the weekend. Bam! Extra weekend!
I once used up all the black ink in our home printer halfway through the first page of a 5 page report, so I had half a legible page and 4 and a half pages of basically invisible text. So I reprinted it on the darkest green we could get off Wordperfect (I think this was 1994 or '95) and when I brought it in to class, my teacher had the audacity to say she was docking 5% for it not being printed in black. When my dad picked me up from school that afternoon, I told him what happened, and we walked to that teacher's room. He opened the door and said, "If you want black ink so goddamn much, I'll make sure a squid ends up in your mailbox every day."
Three days later, she rescinded the penalty, and I wholeheartedly believe my dad had someone put dead squids in her mailbox every one of those days.
Ah for the days when transferable media was the preferred method of data transportation for school assignments. Any time I needed an extra day, or honestly just wanted to see if I could, I'd purposely corrupt my file before handing over the medium. After all, can't blame me for it going a bit wonky aye? Just bring it in the next day and no harm done.
I didn't dare trying it, but here is the ultimate technique back in the days when you just had to mail everything to your teacher before end of the week.
Dear mr. Renes,
I have attached my report on blabla. Have a nice weekend!
Kind regards,
A Devious Pygmy Hippo
And then not attach the file on purpose.
The teacher would mail back, but if you sent it in late enough you could claim only seeing it on Monday on account of your healthy school/life balance or a family trip over the weekend. Bam! Extra weekend!
This was way riskier to attempt was my thought back then, since not attaching a file could be construed as my fault somehow. But a corrupted one, now that was just bad luck. After all, it's not like the teacher's going to ever figure out they were attempting to open an MP3 file renamed to have .doc as the suffix.
You should have used an encoded .pigg or .bin or something. The chances of accidentally opening an encoded mp3 with a program that would run it is way too high for the risk imo!
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mosssnackYeah right, man, Bishop should go!Good idea!Registered Userregular
Having typed work when I was in HS was mostly an optional thing. Had a couple teachers that would offer extra credit if you brought in typed homework.
Never had to email anything though! Since I worked through the second half of high school and my sister was in the same grade as me, I would just pay her to do the work I didn’t want to do. During my last year I paid her $100 to do a scrap book project for me.
CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
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Dear employers:
If you're writing up a job brief and you include words like "Rock Star" and how you expect the person in the role to wear multiple hats and take jobs from start to finish while ALSO being client facing, then don't offer 50 -30k below market. You fucking idiots.
Edit: Although I do give them credit for stating up front how much they are underpaying for this role, that's the only possible move here. Recently I read a letter to Ask a Manager where the person writing in was complaining about how their workplace refused to let people know upfront how much they were underpaying, causing candidates to go through the entire hiring process and then rejecting the offer. That's dumb as a bag of rocks. If you're going to pay slave wages the least you can do is let people know upfront.
Second edit: Here's the role if you're wondering what I'm venting about. Sysadmin AND project manager AND it sounds like pre-sales engineer and probably some other things they haven't mentioned. All for 50 - 70k. Either one of those roles starts at 75k and can go over 5 figures in my area. For 5 years experience I'd expect to see a role like this START at 100k.
Cambiata on
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
If you're writing up a job brief and you include words like "Rock Star" and how you expect the person in the role to wear multiple hats and take jobs from start to finish while ALSO being client facing, then don't offer 50 -30k below market. You fucking idiots.
Edit: Although I do give them credit for stating up front how much they are underpaying for this role, that's the only possible move here. Recently I read a letter to Ask a Manager where the person writing in was complaining about how their workplace refused to let people know upfront how much they were underpaying, causing candidates to go through the entire hiring process and then rejecting the offer. That's dumb as a bag of rocks. If you're going to pay slave wages the least you can do is let people know upfront.
Second edit: Here's the role if you're wondering what I'm venting about. Sysadmin AND project manager AND it sounds like pre-sales engineer and probably some other things they haven't mentioned. All for 50 - 70k. Either one of those roles starts at 75k and can go over 5 figures in my area. For 5 years experience I'd expect to see a role like this START at 100k.
*Cries about how much he makes doing all that with 7 years of experience*
If you're writing up a job brief and you include words like "Rock Star" and how you expect the person in the role to wear multiple hats and take jobs from start to finish while ALSO being client facing, then don't offer 50 -30k below market. You fucking idiots.
Edit: Although I do give them credit for stating up front how much they are underpaying for this role, that's the only possible move here. Recently I read a letter to Ask a Manager where the person writing in was complaining about how their workplace refused to let people know upfront how much they were underpaying, causing candidates to go through the entire hiring process and then rejecting the offer. That's dumb as a bag of rocks. If you're going to pay slave wages the least you can do is let people know upfront.
Second edit: Here's the role if you're wondering what I'm venting about. Sysadmin AND project manager AND it sounds like pre-sales engineer and probably some other things they haven't mentioned. All for 50 - 70k. Either one of those roles starts at 75k and can go over 5 figures in my area. For 5 years experience I'd expect to see a role like this START at 100k.
*Cries about how much he makes doing all that with 7 years of experience*
Well, I'm guessing it depends on region. Dallas is a bustling metropolis, so that's what I expect for that job here or in Austin, but if I looked for it in Lubbock I'd expect barely above minimum wage, because Lubbock sucks ass and always has.
Edit: Just for comparison, a call center technical support agent with 5 years of experience would get about 50k in my area, more if they got a job at the right place.
Cambiata on
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Weeks earlier: “Here’s everything needed to get on campus.”
Online orientation: “You definitely provided everything you need to get on campus.”
Front gate: “Your ID isn’t in our system we can’t let you on campus.”
I tried to get on campus for my one in person class today. Still not in the system. And because I was eager to get on the campus and apparently suspiciously familiar with the security process, I was told to leave the premises immediately.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Oh I know it varies by area. It's just a meme around here - working for the university means great benefits (if the state pays) and horrible overall pay for the level of stuff we do. I'm actually more pissed that there's about a 15k pay gap between our junior team and our more senior employees, when they pull just as much, if not more, load.
mightyjongyoSour CrrmEast Bay, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
yeah, that reminds me of a recruiter who contacted me recently, they wanted someone with close to 10 years of experience but were offering 30k below my current salary... was a bit of a non-starter.
the caveat there is that it was a full remote position for a startup based in NYC whereas i'm located in the Bay Area... though I thought that NYC had an equally bad hand in terms of housing/living costs.
In direct defiance of the thread title, I have actually accepted a job offer. It's not much, but any port in a storm, yeah?
There's just one hitch. I need to fill out the I-9 and a) I cannot find my social security card and b) we're not sure about the birth certificate's record number
do we have anyone here born in Maryland? I'd be grateful if we could compare notes.
Currently chewing on a papertowel instead of food because I ate an old granola bar out of the work stash and a nut piece jammed in my gums and flossing that bad boy out released the red tides
Currently chewing on a papertowel instead of food because I ate an old granola bar out of the work stash and a nut piece jammed in my gums and flossing that bad boy out released the red tides
Since last week I have been doing the work of 3 people doing 2+ depts a night
It is a good thing the nurgle cult is losing members through people quiting {lol at them looking for jobs right right now but that's a whole different tale of woe} But still I am quite tired and the week is not over I dread going into tonight as it's my idiot of a manager
In direct defiance of the thread title, I have actually accepted a job offer. It's not much, but any port in a storm, yeah?
There's just one hitch. I need to fill out the I-9 and a) I cannot find my social security card and b) we're not sure about the birth certificate's record number
do we have anyone here born in Maryland? I'd be grateful if we could compare notes.
In direct defiance of the thread title, I have actually accepted a job offer. It's not much, but any port in a storm, yeah?
There's just one hitch. I need to fill out the I-9 and a) I cannot find my social security card and b) we're not sure about the birth certificate's record number
do we have anyone here born in Maryland? I'd be grateful if we could compare notes.
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Put a sign up declaring your area to be named Big Face Coffee and see if anything amusing happens!
Had kidney stones a couple of summers ago and it sucked big time. Luckily they were small enough after getting a scan and decided to just ride it out and pass it. A heating pad can help with the discomfort if you can get comfortable enough to rest. I tried the diluted apple cider vinegar home remedy (couple of tablespoons mixed in with a cup of water and drink) and possibly helped some, but only try if you have the stomach for it. Nausea was one of my symptoms and I really had to focus to get the solution down.
I drink a grady's new orleans style cold brew with oatly oat milk in the morning (it's SUCH a good combo), then transition into green tea in the afternoon
If they're not too far away, you should check out Sixth Course when possible. They've been closed for a while, but it looks like they're re-opening soon for contactless pick-up orders on Fridays.
https://www.sixthcourse.com/
The pastry chef who owns it is extremely talented and also very cool.
Just need to uh, figure out child care while my wife is on the opposite coast for a family emergency.
Everything is fine
bnet: moss*1454
Man. That really needs to be baked into default Office/Outlook/Exchange. It's so nice....
Sure, I was introduced to it by a Microsoft employee. But that doesn't matter! If it makes your life easier and is easy to use, go for it!
(I promise I'm not shilling, it was fun watching her realize what the software could do.)
Well it’s far in the sense that I’ve been across to SF like... three times in the last three months, at most. Purely as the crow flies, it’s reasonably close.
But I’ll put a pin in it in case we ever get to go back to the workplace!
I gotta get off swings man. They suck so super hard.
Fridays here are always fun. It’s my one WFH day and the kids are at home doing school. Today it was:
- Get up, get kids up and dressed
- Log on and do some work while kids have breakfast
- Get kids set up on their first lessons
- Log Niko into Zoom for Acadiance testing
- Answer emails
- Run back and forth between making sure Niko is staying on track and answering Anya’s questions
- Go downstairs to prep leaves for Niko’s science and realize I need modpodge
- Go to Target to get modpodge and poster sheets and get everyone flu shots while we’re at it
- Check emails/answer a few questions
- Prepare lunch
- Modpodge leaves
- Prep afternoon lessons
- Take a bunch (like 7-8 videos) of Niko performing various tasks for state testing
- Finish up my work
- Bribe the kids to finish their school work
her teacher's union has been completely silent all year.
I had a customer recently who said "my boss says I'm not getting their emails."
Me "oka-"
Them (cutting me off) "so I deleted my inbox rule for their email address but it still never showed up"
"When did you make the change to your rules?"
"Yesterday."
"Oh and they've sent an email since and it-"
Them (cutting me off. Again.) "No they emailed me last week"
Me "..."
Them "but it still hasn't showed up"
Me *trying to figure out how to politely explain linear time to this higher dimensional being* "I see."
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
It's a craft glue, an all-in-one glue/sealer/finish. You can lather it on and it dries relatively quickly. It's great for decoupage and collage and for kids' activities, since they can be messy with it.
My dissertation for my molecular biology BSc. was in large part written over summer break in 2006 when I was at home from university. We didn't have internet at home. The library did. Luckily only a mile walk each way. You could only use the computers there for an hour at a time if I recall. And they were locked so as not to respond to USB sticks.
Research papers and images and everything else were ferried back and forth on a handful of floppy disks, sometimes requiring multipart zip files to split larger sources across more than one disk.
It was super fun times.
The bolded is our generation's punch card war stories. Still doesn't have the same dread-inspiring threat as having to re-order 99.9% similar card stock, that was shuffled on the ground by gravity, and if you got the order incorrect you had to wait multiple days/weeks until you could try again.
At this point I mostly do it to annoy whoever has to sort these things.
I didn't dare trying it, but here is the ultimate technique back in the days when you just had to mail everything to your teacher before end of the week.
Dear mr. Renes,
I have attached my report on blabla. Have a nice weekend!
Kind regards,
A Devious Pygmy Hippo
And then not attach the file on purpose.
The teacher would mail back, but if you sent it in late enough you could claim only seeing it on Monday on account of your healthy school/life balance or a family trip over the weekend. Bam! Extra weekend!
Three days later, she rescinded the penalty, and I wholeheartedly believe my dad had someone put dead squids in her mailbox every one of those days.
This was way riskier to attempt was my thought back then, since not attaching a file could be construed as my fault somehow. But a corrupted one, now that was just bad luck. After all, it's not like the teacher's going to ever figure out they were attempting to open an MP3 file renamed to have .doc as the suffix.
Never had to email anything though! Since I worked through the second half of high school and my sister was in the same grade as me, I would just pay her to do the work I didn’t want to do. During my last year I paid her $100 to do a scrap book project for me.
bnet: moss*1454
If you're writing up a job brief and you include words like "Rock Star" and how you expect the person in the role to wear multiple hats and take jobs from start to finish while ALSO being client facing, then don't offer 50 -30k below market. You fucking idiots.
Edit: Although I do give them credit for stating up front how much they are underpaying for this role, that's the only possible move here. Recently I read a letter to Ask a Manager where the person writing in was complaining about how their workplace refused to let people know upfront how much they were underpaying, causing candidates to go through the entire hiring process and then rejecting the offer. That's dumb as a bag of rocks. If you're going to pay slave wages the least you can do is let people know upfront.
Second edit: Here's the role if you're wondering what I'm venting about. Sysadmin AND project manager AND it sounds like pre-sales engineer and probably some other things they haven't mentioned. All for 50 - 70k. Either one of those roles starts at 75k and can go over 5 figures in my area. For 5 years experience I'd expect to see a role like this START at 100k.
*Cries about how much he makes doing all that with 7 years of experience*
Well, I'm guessing it depends on region. Dallas is a bustling metropolis, so that's what I expect for that job here or in Austin, but if I looked for it in Lubbock I'd expect barely above minimum wage, because Lubbock sucks ass and always has.
Edit: Just for comparison, a call center technical support agent with 5 years of experience would get about 50k in my area, more if they got a job at the right place.
I tried to get on campus for my one in person class today. Still not in the system. And because I was eager to get on the campus and apparently suspiciously familiar with the security process, I was told to leave the premises immediately.
the caveat there is that it was a full remote position for a startup based in NYC whereas i'm located in the Bay Area... though I thought that NYC had an equally bad hand in terms of housing/living costs.
There's just one hitch. I need to fill out the I-9 and a) I cannot find my social security card and b) we're not sure about the birth certificate's record number
do we have anyone here born in Maryland? I'd be grateful if we could compare notes.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Blood for the blood god?
It is a good thing the nurgle cult is losing members through people quiting {lol at them looking for jobs right right now but that's a whole different tale of woe} But still I am quite tired and the week is not over I dread going into tonight as it's my idiot of a manager
*Breathe*
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project
Reminder to self: Never, ever take a job in New Hampshire. Added it to the nogo zone, along with most of the deep south.
Libertarian philosophy ends some a mix between Jackson's Whole and Crayak
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I'm not sure, but maybe @Xaquin was born here?
yep!
@Tamin what did you need to see?
If you need a copy of your birth certificate, any county health dept. should be able to help you!