Giganotosaurus
Dreaming of Electric Sheep
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the absolute bullshit that is the review process is why I did not go back into management. I had children instead. It's a constant 360 review process.View attachment 40083
Had a nice New Year's Eve, playing Nemesis with my wife at my friend's, and all three of us dying eventually. My wife almost made it, though.
Also found out a while ago that most if not all my colleagues have been either consistently throwing away the reminder emails we've been receiving twice a month about our new performance review program Dialog without even taking a look at them, or got so annoyed they marked them as spam after a while. Performance reviews are probably going to be a bit of a disappointment for HR this year...
HR:
I've been considering lately starting a game that'd contain significant dungeoncrawling...
The only questions were 1) should I and 2) do I use Spellcraft&Swordplay, DCC, Maelstrom: Classic Fantasy, reworked Ironclaw, or ORE?
Honestly, having a pretty shitty time. Hoping 2022 will be at least marginally better.
E E-Rocker I hope things improve. My 2021 has been rough. I take care of my mom and she's a lot worse this year than previous years, plus my own mental health, money troubles (which partly had to do with my mom and rising grocery prices, but thankfully I hope that's turned around)
Never mind, I've had physical health issues (stupid long-term drainage issues down the back of my throat that make my already poor sleep patterns a nightmare.
I am surviving but that's about it. I'm going to try and focus on drawing this upcoming year since I haven't in a long while or at least not gotten anything remotely worth keeping.
Plus my novel has some fixes I need to do, then pass back to the editor (a second time!) Though I'm also removing some characters so the spotlight is mostly on the core ones of the main protagonist group. (Though some characters just won't get much the book isn't as much about them.)
I do talk to my doctor next week and a health counselor my insurance provides has suggested I talk to my newest doctor and explain something I hadn't felt a need to as the counselor thinks that there might be better solutions to my sleep problems. (It also may be time for another sleep test.) Joy.
Sorry you guys are going through this. Here’s hoping the new year brings the change you need.Welp, I just blew up at my boss in anger over the heavy workload. It might cost me my job but I had to do it. My previous attempts at bringing up the workload have been blown off and I have been seething with anger for weeks. These guys have the gall to lay me off then rehire me two months later with a heavily increased workload expecting me to happily accept it. I have money saved up, there are tons of jobs out there, and I don't need to take this crap.
Thanks man but I will be fine. I have options. Worst case scenario they find a replacement for me (good luck!) then fire me and I go work for a competitor while I retrain for something else.Sorry you guys are going through this. Here’s hoping the new year brings the change you need.
Same here but there is no way 2022 will be boring for me.Frankly at this point I'd rather 2022 be mind numbingly boring. Like sitting through a 8 hour reading of the historic Albanian tax code boring.
2021 flew by for me, but boy howdy was it unpleasant, not as bad as 2020 but still pretty awful.
Well I hope it's not both in that order.Same here but there is no way 2022 will be boring for me.
Things have been set in motion in my personal and professional lives that demand a resolution.
I’ll either climb to new heights or crash spectacularly.
Ah well.
Good luck!Same here but there is no way 2022 will be boring for me.
Things have been set in motion in my personal and professional lives that demand a resolution.
I’ll either climb to new heights or crash spectacularly.
Ah well.
Some people I swear.I’m just going to say that my new new boss has informed me that both she and another of my peers don’t know how to copy and paste. A work item had to wait for me to come in today to add a document for them.
“WTF” fails to summarize my confusion on this.
Three people in two weeks who claim not to know how to do it. I’m curious if the claims increase exponentially until I’m confirmed to be the only one with this mythic knowledge.Some people I swear.
So I decided to be good and got on. Then found out that the AWS secrets manager they specifically told us they didn't care if we used in dev (because they won't let us manage the secrets in prod, and we have to rotate them manually, so that's guaranteed to be a cluster) they disabled on the dev timetable after they'd already excluded us from the rotation policy in dev.And I'm thinking about calling out tomorrow...
Ever since we got rid of our sole boomer data entry guy everyone who works here is proficient. Unfortunately I frequently deal with ignorant notaries. Just five minutes ago I had to explain what a hyperlink was.I’m just going to say that my new new boss has informed me that both she and another of my peers don’t know how to copy and paste.
The trick of course will be to monopolize your knowledge.Three people in two weeks who claim not to know how to do it. I’m curious if the claims increase exponentially until I’m confirmed to be the only one with this mythic knowledge.
well, that's exciting. I hope positive action is taken!Last week I blew up in anger at my boss over the heavy workload and general poor management. Tomorrow the president and vice president are holding private informal interviews with everyone in my department. I am meeting with my junior colleague after work to help gather evidence and present a unified front.
this boils my blood, and it's incredibly short term thinking and bad for business. Ultimately, it's very costly, especially right now.If you wanna feel bad for someone I have a junior colleague who is a young mother living paycheck to paycheck, new to the industry, and doesn't have options. The company denied her paid maternity leave because her pregnancy was "a pre-existing condition" and the heavy workload is crushing her. It's a shame because had she been born under different circumstances, I could easily see her running her own small business or on the path to senior management in a big one.
I cannot comment in the depth I’d like at the risk of breaking our cardinal rule (and I’m not even that much of a pinko), but… good luck!Last week I blew up in anger at my boss over the heavy workload and general poor management. Tomorrow the president and vice president are holding private informal interviews with everyone in my department. I am meeting with my junior colleague after work to help gather evidence and present a unified front.
Hi Butcher, please PM me what you wanted to say.I cannot comment in the depth I’d like at the risk of breaking our cardinal rule (and I’m not even that much of a pinko), but… good luck!
Steep set of stairs?I would die if I tried to run a half-marathon…even a quarter marathon…even a…
Thanks man but I will be fine. I have options. Worst case scenario they find a replacement for me (good luck!) then fire me and I go work for a competitor while I retrain for something else.
If you wanna feel bad for someone I have a junior colleague who is a young mother living paycheck to paycheck, new to the industry, and doesn't have options. The company denied her paid maternity leave because her pregnancy was "a pre-existing condition" and the heavy workload is crushing her. It's a shame because had she been born under different circumstances, I could easily see her running her own small business or on the path to senior management in a big one.
I would die if I tried to run a half-marathon…even a quarter marathon…even a…
I'm a strong believer in running being done only when being chased.
That's always been my motivation to run... that when the time comes I need to be able to do it. Every time I run, since I was a kid, the first image my mind conjures is being chased by armed apes on horseback.I'm a strong believer in running being done only when being chased. If I run a 1/2 marathon keep an eye out for Cthulhu as he is probably nearby.