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I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
Job #2 is far more exciting: Taking a management position at a game company you've heard of on a game you've heard of. A 50% raise, lots of cachet, and HUGE opportunities for upward mobility. Except with lots of overtime and few chances for time off.
I'm a homebody. I'd take Job #1 in a heartbeat. But GothBard is horrifically torn by the cachet (and paycheck) of Job #2.
We'll see what happens when she gets any concrete offers from either of them...
EDIT: Speaking of the advantages of working from home...
I had that happen once or twice. Once was due to printed calendar issue that had me thinking Monday was Sunday.
...except I TOLD him last night that it was a school night and he should get to bed early...
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I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
I sure do love...uh...computer programming!
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At the moment, I am envying Goth Bard that codeine works for her as efficient pain-killer. It didn't seem to do much for my tooth ache.
I know that feeling. I pop awake on operating tables and start chatting with the anesthesiologist. I have a friend that can get loopier on chocolate and caffeine than I can off anything they have in the pharmacy.
I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
I sure do love...uh...computer programming!
Well, I think the fantastic thing is that job #1 is her former manager poaching her, so it's literally, "I'm opening a job req so I can hire you." Thus, I'd put the chances of her getting an offer at 90%+. Job #2 is a former co-worker saying, "We're opening this job req and I think you'd be perfect for it, so please apply." But given that GothBard has no formal management experience (she ran a team of temps at her former job and everyone marveled at her managerial skills, but she never had the title "manager"), she's going to be up against some really stiff competition. I'd say the chances of an offer are closer to 25%.
So she can reach for the stars and even if she doesn't get there she should end up higher than where she is now. Win-win.
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At the moment, I am envying Goth Bard that codeine works for her as efficient pain-killer. It didn't seem to do much for my tooth ache.I know that feeling. I pop awake on operating tables and start chatting with the anesthesiologist. I have a friend that can get loopier on chocolate and caffeine than I can off anything they have in the pharmacy.
I'm highly resistant to novocaine, but otherwise any painkiller does fine by me. But it DOES make visits to the dentist suck.
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Aaaand... I'm feeling much more kindly-inclined towards my tenants.
Their SUV is an electric plug-in, so it needs to be in the driveway close to the garage. Their classic Porsche already got hit once on the street (memories of the Celica resonate) so they really want it off the street.
They're willing to put in some tiling stuff to widen the driveway, and I immediately OK'ed that.
They just did everything in the wrong order.
(1) Decide that you want to park both your cars off-street.
(2) Ask the owner if it's OK to widen the driveway.
(3) Widen the driveway.
(4) Then start parking there.
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I'm highly resistant to novocaine, but otherwise any painkiller does fine by me. But it DOES make visits to the dentist suck.At the moment, I am envying Goth Bard that codeine works for her as efficient pain-killer. It didn't seem to do much for my tooth ache.I know that feeling. I pop awake on operating tables and start chatting with the anesthesiologist. I have a friend that can get loopier on chocolate and caffeine than I can off anything they have in the pharmacy.
Lidocaine work at all? Novicaine had so little impact I just didn't bother with it but lidocaine was life changing.
"Mr. Wolfe do you know where you are?
"I'm having a sesimoid bone removed from the interphalangeal joint of my great right halux"..
"....Okay we need some more anesthetic over here I'm just going to take the dial OFF....."
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...and the apocalypse draws one step closer...
At this moment, on the DVC campus, the Impii are in a Ju Jitsu class together. I already feel like I should be penning a letter of apology...
So I've been playing Elden Ring for 2 years now, I completed it after exactly one year (to the day).
In the last two days I've found 3 bosses I knew nothing about and one of them is the main dragon in the game (I know this because it has 2 heads, some hard-core f*~~ you actions, and it's own cutscene).
This is why it's my all time favorite game!
For the record I'm not a fan of FromSoftware games usually.
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So long as it isn't Neptunian Jiu Jitsu, or whatever else Dr Who is studying these days, everything should be more or less OK.
More or less.
I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
I sure do love...uh...computer programming!
Computer programming?!... I'm going to need a different saw...
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I'm highly resistant to novocaine, but otherwise any painkiller does fine by me. But it DOES make visits to the dentist suck.At the moment, I am envying Goth Bard that codeine works for her as efficient pain-killer. It didn't seem to do much for my tooth ache.I know that feeling. I pop awake on operating tables and start chatting with the anesthesiologist. I have a friend that can get loopier on chocolate and caffeine than I can off anything they have in the pharmacy.
The prescription-only painkiller that I got today that the dentist prescribed me today during the diagnosis process so I could get some sleep until the opening (the ache is far from being actually intense—I can function during the day more or less but prevents me from sleeping) seems to be working. I will be getting second 12-hour dose in minutes before going to bed.
It's the first prescription-grade drug I ever got aside of few rounds of antibiotics in the past.
The great cough syrup I was getting as a kid isn't prescription-free at it was then... Damned amphetamine-peddlers! *shake fist at chemistry and pharmacy students*
...and the apocalypse draws one step closer...
At this moment, on the DVC campus, the Impii are in a Ju Jitsu class together. I already feel like I should be penning a letter of apology...
Are their names or your on the bill? Yes, yes, I know it's likely that it is yours and GothBard's actual money paying for that, but if the Imps are the ones whose name is on the bill, it's their problem to brag about apologize for whatever they do on the mat.
I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
I sure do love...uh...computer programming!
Computer programming?!... I'm going to need a different saw...
I think it is more of a sledgehammer thing.
I think it is more of a sledgehammer thing.I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
I sure do love...uh...computer programming!
Computer programming?!... I'm going to need a different saw...
I'm more of a precision person. I have a sledgehammer but that's more for fun or letting off steam.
I'm more of a precision person. I have a sledgehammer but that's more for fun or letting off steam.
I'm renowned for my precision with a sledgehammer. But, then again, I always have steam to let off...
Computer programming?!... I'm going to need a different saw...
You use AXES to hack computers....
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I do not envy GothBard her choices, though it's the agony of too many good things rather than too few.
Job #1 is exactly like surrendering to Global Megacorporation. It's a 33 1/3% raise and she'd be under her favorite manager ever. The issue? It's a lateral move to the same position she has now, but at a rock-steady megacorporation. So it would be boring work with little chance for upward mobility, but in exchange she'd get low stress and infinite time off, plus an unheard-of 25 paid holidays per year. It's the kind of job you dream of retiring into so you can be on cruise control until you actually retire.
I sure do love...uh...computer programming!
Computer programming?!... I'm going to need a different saw...
Hey, you can't be GothBard! I'm GothBard!
Meh. Overslept and missed a support visit to dentist office for removal of excess dental plaque required before the actual visit.
At least I did sleep well after the painkiller mitigated the annoying ache.
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So, the "ultimate middle finger" in tech is to accept a higher-paying, higher-status job at another company and then get laid off from your current company the day before you start at the new company. You get a sweet layoff package of several months' salary and yet don't miss a day of work.
It's very hard to pull off.
At this point it's beginning to look like GothBard might be able to come close. Just as she's starting interviews at two new companies (both upgrades), rumors of layoffs are starting at her current company. There are far too many unknowns to be excited about it right now: She doesn't have an offer from either company, and one of the two hasn't even managed to open a formal requisition yet. And rumors of layoffs that never come to fruition are quite common in the industry.
But just like playing the lottery, even though intellectually you know that it is a near-absolute certainty that you won't win, it's fun to occasionally buy a ticket and daydream anyway, as a cheap form of entertainment rather than an actual hope to get money.
So it's a big, "What if she can pull this off?"
It would be awesome.
Wow... speaking of how not to get a job...
We've received a couple of messages from a recruiter saying that she'd like to bring us in for an interview. I tried to call her back after the second call and got no answer. So today I answered and talked to her.
Some poor insert preferred term here put the wrong phone number on their resume. The recruiter had the resume right in front of her and read off the number to me.
It's kind of hard to get a job if you give your potential employer the wrong contact info...
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Maybe it was supposed to be a late Christmas present for your to spread your wings and get a better job?
So, the "ultimate middle finger" in tech is to accept a higher-paying, higher-status job at another company and then get laid off from your current company the day before you start at the new company. You get a sweet layoff package of several months' salary and yet don't miss a day of work.
It's very hard to pull off.
At this point it's beginning to look like GothBard might be able to come close. Just as she's starting interviews at two new companies (both upgrades), rumors of layoffs are starting at her current company. There are far too many unknowns to be excited about it right now: She doesn't have an offer from either company, and one of the two hasn't even managed to open a formal requisition yet. And rumors of layoffs that never come to fruition are quite common in the industry.
But just like playing the lottery, even though intellectually you know that it is a near-absolute certainty that you won't win, it's fun to occasionally buy a ticket and daydream anyway, as a cheap form of entertainment rather than an actual hope to get money.
So it's a big, "What if she can pull this off?"
It would be awesome.
Here's hoping she can.
Wow... speaking of how not to get a job...
We've received a couple of messages from a recruiter saying that she'd like to bring us in for an interview. I tried to call her back after the second call and got no answer. So today I answered and talked to her.
Some poor insert preferred term here put the wrong phone number on their resume. The recruiter had the resume right in front of her and read off the number to me.
It's kind of hard to get a job if you give your potential employer the wrong contact info...
It happens. Especially in a world where we get new phones and numbers regularly.
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Some poor insert preferred term here put the wrong phone number on their resume.It happens. Especially in a world where we get new phones and numbers regularly.
I can accept putting an old number on your resume by accident, but we've had this number for over 20 years now, and the job is entry-level, so I suspect a careless youngster.
And, speaking as someone who's been on hiring committees for 24 years now, errors in your resume are the #1 way to get your application tossed.
"Your resume is supposed to represent you at your best. If your best has errors in it, then how are you going to perform on a normal day?"
EDIT: Yes, there are exceptions, such as when the boss already knows you. I suspect CY could submit a resume in crayon on that brown grade-school paper and anyone who knows him would still hire him. But I doubt a stranger would take such a resume seriously.
EDIT 2: And I don't know whether this would change your opinion, but on the recruiter's first call she said, "Hi, I'm calling about the data entry position you applied for..."
Sigh. As soon as WW and Val leave for a month, my daughter and mother-in-law both get sick and I have to go to work anyway because we have no subs. Fun.
Some poor insert preferred term here put the wrong phone number on their resume.It happens. Especially in a world where we get new phones and numbers regularly.I can accept putting an old number on your resume by accident, but we've had this number for over 20 years now, and the job is entry-level, so I suspect a careless youngster.
And, speaking as someone who's been on hiring committees for 24 years now, errors in your resume are the #1 way to get your application tossed.
"Your resume is supposed to represent you at your best. If your best has errors in it, then how are you going to perform on a normal day?"
EDIT: Yes, there are exceptions, such as when the boss already knows you. I suspect CY could submit a resume in crayon on that brown grade-school paper and anyone who knows him would still hire him. But I doubt a stranger would take such a resume seriously.
EDIT 2: And I don't know whether this would change your opinion, but on the recruiter's first call she said, "Hi, I'm calling about the data entry position you applied for..."
Actually, I'm that good and well known that it doesn't matter where I apply or what I write it on, if I apply for a job in this field I'll get it.
I'm waiting for my paperwork so I can go on a snow run.
I don’t know if it ever represented your best, but these days resumes are just SEO marketing.
OMG. I can't tell you how many of those we've seen. They're awful!
And yes, "Best," is quite a relative term. When we were reviewing resumes that HR sent us (and don't get me started on the HR filtering process), it was pretty much, "Do they have any relevant experience? Can I tell what they've done easily from this resume? Have they padded it with all kinds of irrelevant nonsense?"
Someone could have honestly used the Word template and just done a list of jobs and education and we'd've been much happier with the results. But we're a technical team hiring for a technical position that requires communication skills and technical accuracy. So if your resume lacks either of those two things, you're not getting far.
Nope. If you can't get your own phone number correct on a resume or application I'm simply not hiring you. Multiple reasons.
I was going to post earlier this morning about stupid scams (I got 8 emails at once from 8 different senders that my order was approved, and Impus Major got a message to a 12-person group chat that "your card is expiring". (Er, which of the 12 of us?))
But that's all pretty boring, pretty standard stuff.
Today I had to return the garbage disposal I'd bought from Amazon (it turns out a screwdriver and a small blood sacrifice is enough to repair a disposal), and at the UPS Store the guy wouldn't take it until I could prove it was the item I'd received.
In other words, the latest Amazon scam is to just ship back any old thing and Amazon cares so little about returns that it never bothers to check.
That is far too depressing.
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Life with High Schoolers
"WAIT! This is an odd question! Ok. I got that one right. Now I have to show how I did it."
"Draw a stick figure looking in the back of the book."
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Life with High Schoolers
"WAIT! This is an odd question! Ok. I got that one right. Now I have to show how I did it."
"Draw a stick figure looking in the back of the book."
Stick figure of person at a computer talking to chat gtp
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Prepare to be more depressed.
Thanks. I saw that one, so we avidly try not to return anything. But this was an unopened, still-in-its-shipping-package item. You can always hope that that's "new enough" to make it back to the shelves. I even put in the return comments that it was unopened.
Unfortunately, thanks to real estate prices around here, our hardware store options are few and far between, and trying to convince me that Home Depot is better than Amazon after one of their managers literally threatened my family after I was dissatisfied with their floor installers won't get far.
We basically had our two great local stores both taken over by Ace. "Oh, we don't carry brand names here. You can either buy Ace brand garbage or you can special order." Orchard Hardware Supply went bankrupt. Lowe's is a 40-minute drive. Home Depot is a "never again".
Our last two bastions are Ashby Lumber and Hardware and Truitt and White, but they run contractor hours and so do I, so it's hard to get to them on weekdays.
And if you think a sink without a garbage disposal is hard to work with, try one with a non-working garbage disposal: Even a pea won't get past the disposal and will start gumming things up. So time was an issue.
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Oh, speaking of why public transportation in the Bay Area is dead:
Drive: 51.2 miles round trip, 72 minutes total. At a "reasonable" car rate of $0.30/mile (far more than our cars actually cost), that's $15.36.
Public Transportation: The best trip I could find was $18.80 round trip, 152 minutes total.
So taking public transportation is more expensive than driving AND takes twice as long.
As they always say, it's expensive to be poor.
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Oh, speaking of why public transportation in the Bay Area is dead:
Drive: 51.2 miles round trip, 72 minutes total. At a "reasonable" car rate of $0.30/mile (far more than our cars actually cost), that's $15.36.
Public Transportation: The best trip I could find was $18.80 round trip, 152 minutes total.
So taking public transportation is more expensive than driving AND takes twice as long.
As they always say, it's expensive to be poor.
Yes. And, the Bay Area has seven counties and each one has their own bus system, so when (for example, as I did before WW and I married) you live in Oakland but work in the big corporate business park on the other side of the hills, you need to buy three different monthly transit passes (Alameda County bus pass, BART pass, and Contra Costa County bus pass) and that 30-45 min car ride is 2.5 hours between bus, subway, and another bus. I read a lot.
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Yes. And, the Bay Area has seven counties and each one has their own bus system, so when (for example, as I did before WW and I married) you live in Oakland but work in the big corporate business park on the other side of the hills, you need to buy three different monthly transit passes (Alameda County bus pass, BART pass, and Contra Costa County bus pass) and that 30-45 min car ride is 2.5 hours between bus, subway, and another bus. I read a lot.Oh, speaking of why public transportation in the Bay Area is dead:
Drive: 51.2 miles round trip, 72 minutes total. At a "reasonable" car rate of $0.30/mile (far more than our cars actually cost), that's $15.36.
Public Transportation: The best trip I could find was $18.80 round trip, 152 minutes total.
So taking public transportation is more expensive than driving AND takes twice as long.
As they always say, it's expensive to be poor.
The San Francisco Bay Area has 27 different transit agencies to serve 7.75 million people. By my experience and limited Google Fu, London has ONE transit agency serving 9 million people.
Public subsidies aside, every aspect of every bit of public transportation I've taken in London is superior to the Bay Area simply because getting from point A to point B you're always on the same system. A great example: They're just now trying to come up with a commuter card to do just that (get you from A to B with a single payment), but negotiations are mired down because none of the transit agencies can agree on how to divvy up the fares.
Man, getting around London was a breeze when we were there. I'd love to see some similar setups in the big cities here.
They get HUGE subsidies, but they also know how to manage things. Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area bought identical systems (from France?) in the 1970s to set up BART and whatever it is D.C. calls it. When I went to D.C. in the 1980s and had to use their system, I was appalled at how much better it was than BART... with the exact same hardware.
Management means a lot. Especially in public transportation.
I'm likely to get hammered for this, but I'm going to go ahead and say it, 'cause it's me:
I've finished Sarah Jane Smith as a companion for the Fourth Doctor. I was not impressed.
Zoe (Second Doctor) was smarter, more independent, and less shrill. Jo Grant (Third Doctor) had a warmer, more genuine relationship with her Doctor.
As usual, I think the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith get all the love because they were the ones who were in the show when it hit it big in the U.S.
Several seasons in, I'm still rating the Doctors 2-4-3-1, and Zoe remains my favorite Golden Age companion. (Chipper mathematical genius in a spangly jumpsuit. What's not to love?)
EDIT: And so far I'm loving Leela, though I'm only into the second series with her. "What's wrong with killing all of our enemies as quickly and efficiently as possible? That's what they're trying to do to us!"
She is definitely not a typical "scream helplessly" Doctor's companion.
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Prepare to be more depressed.
Yet another reason to keep boycotting them. Not that it's actually doing anything, but it makes me feel better. 7 years and counting...
And if you think a sink without a garbage disposal is hard to work with, try one with a non-working garbage disposal: Even a pea won't get past the disposal and will start gumming things up. So time was an issue.
I have to ask-- what do you actually use a garbage disposal for? I've only had a garbage disposal once in my life, in my first off-campus apartment when I was in college. My roommate managed to destroy it within a few months of my moving in, so I ended up just ripping it out and replacing it with a PVC elbow & U-bend. Even before it broke, I don't think I ever used it.
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And if you think a sink without a garbage disposal is hard to work with, try one with a non-working garbage disposal: Even a pea won't get past the disposal and will start gumming things up. So time was an issue.I have to ask-- what do you actually use a garbage disposal for? I've only had a garbage disposal once in my life, in my first off-campus apartment when I was in college. My roommate managed to destroy it within a few months of my moving in, so I ended up just ripping it out and replacing it with a PVC elbow & U-bend. Even before it broke, I don't think I ever used it.
It's an excellent question. If you're not the type to dump coffee grounds or half-full bowls of food into the sink, you don't need one. Get housemates who dump leftover food in the sink and let it wash down the pipe and it can save you a lot of snaking/removing of U-bends.
Personally, I use mine as a power pump. Whenever the sink starts running a little slow, I fill it with soapy hot water, open the drain full, turn on the garbage disposal, and voila! Instant power wash of the pipe.
I don't think they're a necessity, but a broken one is worse than not having one at all.
I rode the train from Baltimore to D.C. Also from the time-share in Virginia back to D.C. to do more touristing. Much better than driving.
On the same trip I drove over to the Gauley River in West Virginia for white water rafting. That was an altogether grueling experience. I’m used to western interstates where you can make some time.
Username checks out.
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Impus Major's first statement on emerging from WhimseyShire this morning: Grave robbing is a victimless crime.
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Impus Major's first statement on emerging from WhimseyShire this morning: Grave robbing is a victimless crime.
Incorrect. I had plans for that cemetery.