It dumped 6-8 inches of wet, heavy snow last night. It's still coming down. I dawdled a bit getting out of bed certain that school would be delayed or cancelled or remote.
Haha, nope. One absolute shitshow of a drive in later and I'm at work. One hour after school has started there's 40 students in the building out of an expected 200-250 for this cohort.
Reminder to not be like me and rage troubleshoot an issue for 5 hours off the clock.
Issue started out with a service I am trained with but then became about a service I haven’t learned yet as a new hire. I suggested to the on call that the we may want to transfer the case to someone trained in the service in order to get the customer a timely resolution. On call told me I was wrong and the issue was with the service I was trained in.
Well 5 hours later I can safely say the issue was with the service I am not trained it. Though I am rapidly becoming trained in it out of sheer spite.
Oh look it me. Only usually it ends up in a case where due to our management "encouraging" people to "own" the case until resolution, even if it's a case where we don't even have anything to do with the product but we're expected to "liase" with the product experts. Yeah it sounds as annoying as it is.
I have some kind of mental block where I think I don't need "extra" days off, and I also recently hit some milestone where I earn more PTO than I have for years, so I'm earning almost two days a month now
I have to force myself to stay IN work.
I started March with 26.5 days leave, and had 12 left at the start of April.
Y'all acting like being a Hufflepuff is an insult is telling.
I consider being called any Harry Potter term to be insulting if I know the person is aware of Rowling's TERF status. I'd like to dump that series into a hole somewhere after what she's done to it.
I have almost 16 hours of PTO but they are play fast and loose with saying No and certain days are blocked off so I may ask for a weekend off making it a 3 or 4 day weekend
And I checked my hours worked this week not counting last night I was at 43.26 hours
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Y'all acting like being a Hufflepuff is an insult is telling.
I consider being called any Harry Potter term to be insulting if I know the person is aware of Rowling's TERF status. I'd like to dump that series into a hole somewhere after what she's done to it.
Y'all acting like being a Hufflepuff is an insult is telling.
I consider being called any Harry Potter term to be insulting if I know the person is aware of Rowling's TERF status. I'd like to dump that series into a hole somewhere after what she's done to it.
i did feel weird doing it knowing what she is but i also know everyone here knows what she is so this is literally the only place i know i could do it
Y'all acting like being a Hufflepuff is an insult is telling.
I consider being called any Harry Potter term to be insulting if I know the person is aware of Rowling's TERF status. I'd like to dump that series into a hole somewhere after what she's done to it.
A valid point and one I didn't at all consider. I apologize for my insensitivity.
Y'all acting like being a Hufflepuff is an insult is telling.
I consider being called any Harry Potter term to be insulting if I know the person is aware of Rowling's TERF status. I'd like to dump that series into a hole somewhere after what she's done to it.
Ugh... speaking of TERFs I found out a few months ago that an old friend of mine from lawschool is a TERF. She's lesbian, totally a feminist, believes that Black Lives Matter... and yet she was complaining that Men were invading her activist groups and taking away "REAL" women's voices. Holy shit. A mutual friend of ours tried arguing with her (phrasing their argument as that they were "dismayed") but just ended up getting unfriended. Really depressing, and was the straw that finally made me quit FB.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
That sucks!
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Edit: Sorry, I do know Rowling is a Terf and I have no plays to finance anything further that she makes, but reading those books was a part of my youth (early 20s) and it's one of those things I uncouple from the author at this point. She's not the author of my personal life experiences, and there were many, many artists involved in the production of those films. The actors at least have come out firmly as trans allies. Rowling herself can go jump in a lake.
Also Sailor J was a great Youtuber and I miss her content.
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"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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FFOnce Upon a TimeIn OaklandRegistered Userregular
Management: Hey, we want to let everyone focus on what's important, so please make sure meeting invites have a good agenda so people know if they need to be on that meeting or not.
I have been, suddenly, made a discipline lead on the largest project our company has ever done over 2 years into the job and I am struggling.
I have no way of knowing why decisions were made over a year ago and people keep fucking bugging me about them.
It’d be one thing if I was in any sort of leadership capacity at the time but I am feeling like I’ve been set up to fail in a whole lot of ways that I won’t get into here.
I have been, suddenly, made a discipline lead on the largest project our company has ever done over 2 years into the job and I am struggling.
I have no way of knowing why decisions were made over a year ago and people keep fucking bugging me about them.
It’d be one thing if I was in any sort of leadership capacity at the time but I am feeling like I’ve been set up to fail in a whole lot of ways that I won’t get into here.
Start making bold if disastrous decisions and see how much power you've truly been given.
I have been, suddenly, made a discipline lead on the largest project our company has ever done over 2 years into the job and I am struggling.
I have no way of knowing why decisions were made over a year ago and people keep fucking bugging me about them.
It’d be one thing if I was in any sort of leadership capacity at the time but I am feeling like I’ve been set up to fail in a whole lot of ways that I won’t get into here.
Start making bold if disastrous decisions and see how much power you've truly been given.
And then parachute out before those decisions cause their inevitable collapse
I'm doing a bunch of internal design consulting and with one subteam it's been basically this:
We have this unsolvable looking problem eher e we have to do one thing after the general design freeze that would break several DIN norms and technical rules. Can you help?
- ugh, that really does look unsolvable. Why are trying this?
The client wanted these specs modifications after a regular version was presented to him and was told okay, that would work. That was two design phases ago.
- and did anyone actually did at least a rough check-up of the design before promising that or sometime after but before the design freeze over a year later?
Management: Hey, we want to let everyone focus on what's important, so please make sure meeting invites have a good agenda so people know if they need to be on that meeting or not.
Also management:
You get agenda's?
After my entire team collectively started declining meetings without one:
Yes. For certain definitions of "agenda".
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FFOnce Upon a TimeIn OaklandRegistered Userregular
I'd still take that as opposed to the "Surprise! You get to know the subject of the meeting maybe, I have a list of questions." meetings from my boss.
The Intern is giving a talk on his work
and because he doesn't actually understand his work he's giving credit for a bunch of very painful coding I did last year to the software engine we built it on, thanks dude.
Couldn't help myself, I swung into the zoom chat and provided a correction saying "actually the engine didn't have that innately but the lab developed this module he could leverage", hopefully in a way that sounded useful and not dickish.
I mean if nothing else he's misleading people about the software capabilities
I hate to think the worst of Intern but one wonders if he would also elide over who did the coding if it had been done by someone identifying as male.
oh in this case I think he genuinely just doesn't know. We gave him a package that basically worked and he doesn't have either the coding background or innate curiosity to dig into exactly what part of the information was coming from where, so under direct questioning he took a wild swing.
I hate to think the worst of Intern but one wonders if he would also elide over who did the coding if it had been done by someone identifying as male.
oh in this case I think he genuinely just doesn't know. We gave him a package that basically worked and he doesn't have either the coding background or innate curiosity to dig into exactly what part of the information was coming from where, so under direct questioning he took a wild swing.
I am always surprised at folks unwillingness to just say “I don’t know the answer to that in the moment, but I will find out and follow up with you as soon as I am able.”
Stated earnestly and honestly always worked for me just fine.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I hate to think the worst of Intern but one wonders if he would also elide over who did the coding if it had been done by someone identifying as male.
oh in this case I think he genuinely just doesn't know. We gave him a package that basically worked and he doesn't have either the coding background or innate curiosity to dig into exactly what part of the information was coming from where, so under direct questioning he took a wild swing.
I am always surprised at folks unwillingness to just say “I don’t know the answer to that in the moment, but I will find out and follow up with you as soon as I am able.”
Stated earnestly and honestly always worked for me just fine.
We do kind of beat that out of children in school. Loads of teachers excoriate children for not knowing answers - even through college we do this. It sucks!
I think fear of appearing ignorant is something a lot of people have to unlearn. And if you're a fast and smart kid in your early 20s you've probably gotten by for a lot of your life by making uninformed but educated guesses. The latter is definitely something we've already had to work on with this guy - whenever he was writing up his results if he didn't understand something he would just make assumptions and present them as fact and it's like, no, you can't science like that. You actually have to know.
I hate to think the worst of Intern but one wonders if he would also elide over who did the coding if it had been done by someone identifying as male.
oh in this case I think he genuinely just doesn't know. We gave him a package that basically worked and he doesn't have either the coding background or innate curiosity to dig into exactly what part of the information was coming from where, so under direct questioning he took a wild swing.
I am always surprised at folks unwillingness to just say “I don’t know the answer to that in the moment, but I will find out and follow up with you as soon as I am able.”
Stated earnestly and honestly always worked for me just fine.
We do kind of beat that out of children in school. Loads of teachers excoriate children for not knowing answers - even through college we do this. It sucks!
It’s the worst. One of my favorite things was when a student asked me a question and I didn’t know the answer. I’d tell them I didn’t know either but I’d tell them where to research and ask them to explain what they find to me later.
Watching them go from flabbergasted that an adult didn’t know a thing, to lighting up that they get to teach the teacher was always fun to watch.
I don’t miss most of being a teacher but, I do miss somethings.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
Can’t do good science without understanding your known unknowns, and having the right frame of mind to discover and resolve unknown unknowns.
I hate to think the worst of Intern but one wonders if he would also elide over who did the coding if it had been done by someone identifying as male.
oh in this case I think he genuinely just doesn't know. We gave him a package that basically worked and he doesn't have either the coding background or innate curiosity to dig into exactly what part of the information was coming from where, so under direct questioning he took a wild swing.
I am always surprised at folks unwillingness to just say “I don’t know the answer to that in the moment, but I will find out and follow up with you as soon as I am able.”
Stated earnestly and honestly always worked for me just fine.
That's how I've been told to answer such questions at my last couple of jobs.
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Haha, nope. One absolute shitshow of a drive in later and I'm at work. One hour after school has started there's 40 students in the building out of an expected 200-250 for this cohort.
:rotate:
Oh look it me. Only usually it ends up in a case where due to our management "encouraging" people to "own" the case until resolution, even if it's a case where we don't even have anything to do with the product but we're expected to "liase" with the product experts. Yeah it sounds as annoying as it is.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
i bet you're hufflepuff
You can't just say that to someone.
Wow, rude.
I have to force myself to stay IN work.
I started March with 26.5 days leave, and had 12 left at the start of April.
It's going to be a long 11 months.
i bet you're funatparties
I consider being called any Harry Potter term to be insulting if I know the person is aware of Rowling's TERF status. I'd like to dump that series into a hole somewhere after what she's done to it.
And I checked my hours worked this week not counting last night I was at 43.26 hours
https://www.tiktok.com/@mayalepa/video/6837510886941265157
Madican, maybe
i did feel weird doing it knowing what she is but i also know everyone here knows what she is so this is literally the only place i know i could do it
thus it done
A valid point and one I didn't at all consider. I apologize for my insensitivity.
Wait, I am on this person's side. Does that make me a zoomer now?
Except tired maybe.
Everything makes me tired, that’s for damn sure.
I am definitely 40, God dammit.
I am a proud hufflepuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1bUWPKpZg
Edit: Sorry, I do know Rowling is a Terf and I have no plays to finance anything further that she makes, but reading those books was a part of my youth (early 20s) and it's one of those things I uncouple from the author at this point. She's not the author of my personal life experiences, and there were many, many artists involved in the production of those films. The actors at least have come out firmly as trans allies. Rowling herself can go jump in a lake.
Also Sailor J was a great Youtuber and I miss her content.
You get agenda's?
I have been, suddenly, made a discipline lead on the largest project our company has ever done over 2 years into the job and I am struggling.
I have no way of knowing why decisions were made over a year ago and people keep fucking bugging me about them.
It’d be one thing if I was in any sort of leadership capacity at the time but I am feeling like I’ve been set up to fail in a whole lot of ways that I won’t get into here.
Start making bold if disastrous decisions and see how much power you've truly been given.
And then parachute out before those decisions cause their inevitable collapse
*glares at a predecessor's design choices*
We have this unsolvable looking problem eher e we have to do one thing after the general design freeze that would break several DIN norms and technical rules. Can you help?
- ugh, that really does look unsolvable. Why are trying this?
The client wanted these specs modifications after a regular version was presented to him and was told okay, that would work. That was two design phases ago.
- and did anyone actually did at least a rough check-up of the design before promising that or sometime after but before the design freeze over a year later?
Guess the answer.
After my entire team collectively started declining meetings without one:
Yes. For certain definitions of "agenda".
and because he doesn't actually understand his work he's giving credit for a bunch of very painful coding I did last year to the software engine we built it on, thanks dude.
I mean if nothing else he's misleading people about the software capabilities
oh in this case I think he genuinely just doesn't know. We gave him a package that basically worked and he doesn't have either the coding background or innate curiosity to dig into exactly what part of the information was coming from where, so under direct questioning he took a wild swing.
Interns make mistakes, after all
I am always surprised at folks unwillingness to just say “I don’t know the answer to that in the moment, but I will find out and follow up with you as soon as I am able.”
Stated earnestly and honestly always worked for me just fine.
We do kind of beat that out of children in school. Loads of teachers excoriate children for not knowing answers - even through college we do this. It sucks!
It’s the worst. One of my favorite things was when a student asked me a question and I didn’t know the answer. I’d tell them I didn’t know either but I’d tell them where to research and ask them to explain what they find to me later.
Watching them go from flabbergasted that an adult didn’t know a thing, to lighting up that they get to teach the teacher was always fun to watch.
I don’t miss most of being a teacher but, I do miss somethings.
That's how I've been told to answer such questions at my last couple of jobs.