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I lived in the montrose/heights area in houston like 10 years ago and it was reasonably bikeable then, at least. It was also my second favorite place that I have lived in Texas, after San Antonio. Dallas is just strip malls and Austin is Austin. Also, Oklahoma is a dumb, pointless state, just like every state it touches except Texas, which is just dumb.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Who on earth is using annual average temperature as any kind of measurement of anything? Why would the temperature in January ever need to be averaged with the temperature in July? This is why we aren't facebook friends.
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Weaponized Autism posted:Back around in 2006 student ID numbers at my university were the social security numbers of the students. They changed it by the time I graduated at least. My bank still uses your SSN as the login for online banking. 
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madmatt112 posted:lol I have met you irl you know better than this son I've been dragging out the process with this adtech company, getting them to bring up their salary, to the point that they invented a new engineering manager position for me that didn't exist before so they could hit my salary floor. I really like the people working there and all the problems of scale that they're facing. The problem is, well, after all the poo poo they went through, and all the CTO/VPE time I've been taking up, they're still offering less than this other gig, which has way less interesting technical problems but way more interesting people management and organizational scaling ones. On the side a fintech company wants to offer me like $350k a year in total comp, and there's a big part of me wondering exactly how much of my quality of life is for sale
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Sickening posted:This is why we aren't facebook friends. You think YOU know cold, I am literally posting this from the cold empty void of space, beat that!!!
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Tab8715 posted:Where is this bike-able oasis in Houston? The Galleria and the Heights actually have bike lanes. 45 N and the Beltway is for sure not bikeable, and I live off 249 these day and it's not bikeable. Edit: If you work for an MSP, you can probably get a better paying job from the hundreds of MSP's operating out of the Galleria area. But that a hell of a commute unless you live there already.
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Man what is it about the end of the fiscal year that makes people go batshit nuts? I have like 20 tickets about our ERP system and all of them are dumb requests. People demanding to be able to enter requisitions for Orgs that don't exist. People SWEARING that they've ALWAYS been able to enter requisitions for budgets that don't even exist, and demanding it be changed back immediately. Tickets demanding that money be moved from one budget that has $0 funds available to another budget that has negative funds available (this isn't even a remotely IT related thing lol what the gently caress) Meanwhile the Finance Director is CC'd on all of these and is just replying to everyone's ticket "Give them all what they want." Also, the person in Finance who actually knows ANYTHING about any of this is out on medical leave. Anywho, I went to our COOP site today to install a new piece of our phone system and caught someone from another department standing on one of our UPS piled on some packing unplugging a bunch of our fiber from the terminal and trying to shoot an LED over 25km of fiber to find the other end. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jun 20, 2019 |
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Jun 20, 2019 00:11
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GreenNight posted:Just live where pot and abortions are legal. 
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Jun 20, 2019 00:47
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Thanatosian posted:You should definitely move to Texas or Oklahoma. They're super nice. Not emptyquoting
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Jun 20, 2019 03:07
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The only reason to move to red states is to vote all the jackasses out.
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The best part about corporate IT isn't the pay or what we do it's all the offshore teams in India, Europe, South America that take nearly every single Friday off in the summer or just have all these random holidays.
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I like how I started a 5 page detail on the merits of okc and clam down is still the most hated poster.
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Vulture Culture posted:On the side a fintech company wants to offer me like $350k a year in total comp, and there's a big part of me wondering exactly how much of my quality of life is for sale That is crazy money for sure. On the other hand, I'm guessing the other offers are Very Good even by NYC standards if you're still entertaining them. Depends somewhat on how thoroughly they would own your soul. We both have kids, and I know for me at least, there's almost no amount of money where I'd take a job that wouldn't let me spend any time with my family (and be tired and mad and thinking about work on the rare occasions I do see them). At that point you're probably hiring nannies and housekeeping staff and poo poo and how much of that marginal increase are you actually putting in the bank at the end of it all? Everyone I know in NYC tech has stories of a guy who worked 120 hours a week in fintech and made unimaginable money. But those people were also usually like 25 and single and eventually landed in the hospital.
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I worked in soho. I know exactly who you’re talking about because they were at the bar by 11 and the hookers were there at midnight. Every night.
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jaegerx posted:I worked in soho. I know exactly who you’re talking about because they were at the bar by 11 and the hookers were there at midnight. Every night. Why were you at the bar between 11 and midnight. Every night?
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Jun 20, 2019 05:32
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Methanar posted:Why were you at the bar between 11 and midnight. Every night? Plot twist: he was one of them.
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Jun 20, 2019 05:46
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Methanar posted:Why were you at the bar between 11 and midnight. Every night? I worked late. Bars don’t close till 4. Nyc is awesome.
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Methanar posted:Why were you at the bar between 11 and midnight. Every night? Also I work in IT.
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Jun 20, 2019 05:48
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jaegerx posted:I worked late. Bars don’t close till 4. Nyc is awesome. Bars don't close till 4 everywhere in the state - it's when the law says they have to close. You could go to Syracuse or whatever and find the same thing. Edit: But where you want to be at 4AM and drunk is in Buffalo on Allen St. because the Jim's Steakout doesn't close until 5 and you know you want a hoagie.
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Jun 20, 2019 05:56
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Jim Steakout is my porn name
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Just yesterday, we started the morning with some heavy rain. I was biking to work and got drenched. It then was super sunny all day until 6PM. I normally leave around that time. But I went to grab some drinks with a Colleague visiting from the US It started storming at 6PM. Just dutch weather
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I'm kind of on the fence about something. I know for sure in November I'm going to want to switch to a work from home role so I can be more involved when my daughter is born. I have a few options but I do enjoy the work I am doing for the large investment bank I work for. I know they value the work I do, but I dont know of anyone that works remotely 4/5 days like I intend to. Is it even worth it to approach my boss and tell him I'm gonna leave to be a work from home father and see what the company is willing to do, or just pick a new role and leave? I dont think theres a feasible timeline where I accept another offer and give this company a chance to offer me the schedule I want. And even though I provide a niche skill I dont believe they will work with me in such a way
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Jun 20, 2019 15:58
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You don't get what you don't ask for.
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tortilla_chip posted:You don't get what you don't ask for.
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Sepist posted:I'm kind of on the fence about something. I know for sure in November I'm going to want to switch to a work from home role so I can be more involved when my daughter is born. I have a few options but I do enjoy the work I am doing for the large investment bank I work for. I know they value the work I do, but I dont know of anyone that works remotely 4/5 days like I intend to. This post is weird to me if another goon is actually on your hiring board.
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Sickening posted:This post is weird to me if another goon is actually on your hiring board. He was joking
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Vulture Culture posted:Compensation being similar, do I work for the company selling ads or the company curing cancer Funny coincidence, I had a recruiter reach out with a similar pitch re: cancer. Chicago?
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Sepist posted:I'm kind of on the fence about something. I know for sure in November I'm going to want to switch to a work from home role so I can be more involved when my daughter is born. I have a few options but I do enjoy the work I am doing for the large investment bank I work for. I know they value the work I do, but I dont know of anyone that works remotely 4/5 days like I intend to. Is starting off with 4/5 WFH days a must on your part? If you really want to stay, try starting with 2 or 3 days and once it's going well and they see everything is fine, then ask to increase it. Generally folks don't want to lose good IT staff. Our main messaging guy moved to Bumfuck, PA and told us I can work remote or I can quit. We let him work remote. I've worked remote for several years after they closed the local office. Banks are typically hard headed and stuck in their ways though, so it might not fly. Are you a FTE? Maybe the rules are more flexible with consultants... I've seen that happen before. Someone leaves for whatever reason, and we bring them back as a 1099 guy for whatever reason. WFH is great for ditching the commute, but I hope you don't expect to be involved with the kid during working hours? It doesn't usually go well. Even if the kids are home with me one day sick I get a lot less done with them around, and mine are almost old enough to take care of themselves now.
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PBS posted:Funny coincidence, I had a recruiter reach out with a similar pitch re: cancer. Chicago? Y'all talkin bout a company with a name that sounds like a Shakespeare play that opens with a ship caught in a storm?
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I find it hilarious all these companies don’t allow WFH while I’m consulting for them from my kitchen table while I’m making myself breakfast.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Is this common practice? Because if not, we live in the same area and my previous employer did this. I live in Phoenix, but my work doesn't even have an office here. We do however have offices in 10 states and 6 countries, so maybe?
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Jun 20, 2019 17:40
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Sepist posted:He was joking
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skipdogg posted:Is starting off with 4/5 WFH days a must on your part? If you really want to stay, try starting with 2 or 3 days and once it's going well and they see everything is fine, then ask to increase it. I could start slow, I just need more home time. Right now I have about 2 hours a day where anything can really be done. I'm not a FTE. I've inquired about it but there is still a freeze on FTEs after the December market tumble. And based on what other people have said it doesnt seem like I'll be able to WFH and raise a kid so I'll end up hiring a nanny
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Sepist posted:I'm kind of on the fence about something. I know for sure in November I'm going to want to switch to a work from home role so I can be more involved when my daughter is born. I have a few options but I do enjoy the work I am doing for the large investment bank I work for. I know they value the work I do, but I dont know of anyone that works remotely 4/5 days like I intend to.
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My union is just, like this year's collective agreement that started a month ago, opening up to WFH for some IT roles like our devops department. It's pretty unexpected and awesome.
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Vulture Culture posted:Are you good at cloud stuff or are you mostly focused on physical installations? I know a great company that's hiring remote consultants, but they're focused on cloud-native practice. Most of my experience is on-prem. I have one client I do a lot of work with AWS/GCP stuff on so I am familiar with how they work w/r/t networking & security, but i havent done anything with products like terraform.
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Vulture Culture posted:Are you good at cloud stuff or are you mostly focused on physical installations? I know a great company that's hiring remote consultants, but they're focused on cloud-native practice. If it's the place that pays 350k, you better hook us all up. To the goon I work with - I'm kidding. ...mostly.
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That manager that got fired? He started sending out those same “inspirational” emails to everybody from his personal email account. 
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22 Eargesplitten posted:That manager that got fired? He started sending out those same “inspirational” emails to everybody from his personal email account. Add his personal email account to the corporate spam block list.
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GreenNight posted:Add his personal email account to the corporate spam block list. Just like my grandpa 
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