Outrail posted:

smokescreen for as long as you can and ghost outta there.

Moridin920 posted:

Modus Pwnens posted:

I got the wrong item shipped from some place and so I called to get it fixed. A prerecorded voice told me they had an extremely high call volume but they could call me back when it was my turn. An hour later, I get called back to listen to an advertisement, then I hear a ringback tone, and then about twenty seconds of silence. Then a prerecorded voice asks me on a scale of one to five if I would hire that representative for my own business.

The Bloop posted:

Well, would you?

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/2forme2foryou/status/1088817347102760960

Away all Goats posted:

What was this? It's been deleted

Admiral Bosch posted:

I love that picture and I desperately need context

Local Weather posted:

I was hired at a foreign subsidiary of a major American corporation to build a specialized software system. During my project one of the other projects going on, one with substantially more attention from the top falls behind, like way behind. To try and fix this the company takes my entire development team and assigns them to the failing project. They then tell me that I have to present my project to corporate review as complete, we pass the review and are now in maintenance mode. The dev team I have been working with for two years proceed to all leave the company so not only does my project come to a screeching halt, the other project gets nothing from it.

I am told to get my team back I have to go out and get customers to agree to a beta test project with the system. It is not finished, it is marginally functional, but I have to do this to continue on. I manage to get a beta site, I am told that I still won't have a dev team for several months, as to how I am supposed to deal with this I have to figure that out for myself.

In a week or two I will be in an office with people expecting to be able to do stuff in the system and frankly I will be pretty loving surprised if they don't throw me out of their offices.

The tech industry is so full of complete bullshit it's incredible that anything gets done.

Salvor_Hardin posted:

At my engineering job something happened a few months ago and now everything has to be scheduled down to the finest detail even when there are tons of unknowns and the leads times are total mysteries. Initially this lead to missing artificial deadlines which lead to wrist-slapping from upper management. So the next round we baked in a bunch of slack to account for unknowns the best we could. So we get accused of sandbagging and not working hard enough.

Now we are being asked to document our hours worked on every individual thing down to the 15-minute block. There was a big team meeting today to inform us that "everything is critical and needs to move faster" and we are now expected to work from home, on weekends, and after hours.

Oh, and none of these projects have actual customers identified yet. All this whip-cracking is totally self imposed and arbitrary.

Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/mattyhoyeCNN/status/1088467960543539204


"Go into debt to work the job you're not getting paid for" -Economic advice from billionaire Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

Accretionist posted:

Technologists Guild or bust.

Jealously guard all secrets. Have membership rings.

Let the machines which disemploy the world be owned by the Guild.

Outrail posted:

Yeah I find time really slows right down when I'm dehydrating to death. The gently caress

It's a generally accepted rule of survival in a harsh environment you can survive three weeks without food, three hours without shelter and three days without water. What a tool. If he had a physical job he'd probably be on the point of collapse.

Tastykake posted:

genius. call an industrial tech union a guild and you'll have all the horrid nerds who recoil from the idea of unions jumping at the chance to join.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1089261299073048581

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1089261299073048581

Emergency Squid posted:

The days feel even longer when you have to live like this and you're unemployed. Ask me how I know.

quote:

The children's charity said it was now feeding 20 percent of the students at the 742 schools it supported.

On average 30,000 children each week are getting food from the charity.

Truga posted:

love to starve so much my day feels a week long

Bushiz posted:

lmao the ceo of a company on a three day water fast.

Like can you loving imagine how moody and irate he was at like hour 50 of that poo poo? How many people do you think got fired because the Dumbest Man In Silicon Valley was throwing a temper tantrum because he wanted a "spiritual experience"

Fried Watermelon posted:

When's he going to start replacing parts of his body to "simplify" his life

"I no longer need to waste time brushing my teeth because I simply got rid of them"

"I can move much faster with no legs using a motorized wheelchair"

"I replaced my vocal cords with a custom speech synthesizer"

Fried Watermelon posted:

"I no longer need to waste time brushing my teeth because I simply got rid of them"

bike tory posted:

xposting from NZpol thread:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/381030/charity-feeds-thousands-of-school-children-each-week


That's about 5% of the school aged population relying on a charity for breakfast. And yet on all the measures economists care about (GDP growth, unemployment etc) NZ is doing really well.

Powershift posted:

water fast means he only had water for 3 days like a poor person waiting for a paycheck.

He's larping a poor person

Fried Watermelon posted:

When's he going to start replacing parts of his body to "simplify" his life

"I no longer need to waste time brushing my teeth because I simply got rid of them"

"I can move much faster with no legs using a motorized wheelchair"

"I replaced my vocal cords with a custom speech synthesizer"

Evilreaver posted:

no joke one of the things I would do if I won the lottery/got infinite money would be to have my teeth torn out and replaced with some sort of stainless ceramic, gently caress teeth

Darth Walrus posted:

Video game companies tried the guild model. It went poorly.

quote:

Under the heading ‘Our Philosophy’ is this quote: “A guild works best when you have trust in those around you to carry out tasks and when you show loyalty by performing your best at all times. A guild can only be successful if every member works together and performs as a team to accomplish the goals of the guild.”