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The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

interviewing sucks and i think my wallowing in my current job has more to do with my lovely interview experiences so far and not wanting to deal with that than any kind of job satisfaction.

also that i havent gotten a bite from a single resume that i sent to a goon

# ¿ Dec 6, 2016 04:48

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:48

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Bloody posted:

the only downside is the people spamming u on LinkedIn are absolute imbeciles

im thinking about deleting my linkedin because its from before my transition and while theyll let you change your name they wont let you delete old reviews and poo poo, and ive never got a meaningful hit from linkedin. just lots of recruiters asking if i want to do tech support

# ¿ Dec 8, 2016 16:31

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rsjr posted:

the world is full of injustice. next they'll make you hand over dna so they can test you for drugs.

i have never in my adult life worked somewhere that drug tests. have some dignity.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 14:49

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

openvms

6.66.53.x

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 04:12

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Sniep posted:

i always use 172.16.24.0/24 for home networks because 172.16 is super underused and chances of VPN collision are low and the third quad just makes it basically unique ip space

i mean lots of VPN's use 172.16/12 but they avoid 172.16 for purposes of home network collision, generally, so picking a /24 further up seemed good :seemsgood:

irl answer, i usually just leave things at whatever the router came configured as cuz idgaf.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 16:37

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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:

I have this one friend (who is a renter lmao), who literally paid to run 240? (whatever i'm not a nerd idk) power to his garage, so he could install a rack with a blade server and all this other poo poo. i guess he has like a personal cloud thing and shares movies on his LAN

like what the gently caress is wrong with you where you want to gently caress with that poo poo not even for free, but AT COST TO YOU? your pagerduty on call schedule wasnt enough??

right? i have a couple nucs hooked up around my house as "media centers", but i just leave my main pc turned on with the folders that have the medias in them shared so you can open them from the nucs. anything more than that is loving overkill for home use.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 19:39

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Smythe posted:

Fail. Insanely fail. What the gently caress?

sorry i mean i have a 10-disk san in my crawlspace and i ran cat6 throughout my house so everything is physically attached to the network and i programmed my own custom credentialing system so only my authorized devices can connect to the san to consume pornography and public domain music

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 19:47

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mekkanare posted:

I thought I would have a job lined up after finishing school, but now I don't.
EPIC's coding test is outsourced to some test prep thing in India.
The proctor kept telling me to be quiet, because I often talk out loud as I work through problems.

If anyone ever applies for Menards, their IS test taking website is timed. But you can pause the timer by simply clicking the submit early button.
It makes a confirmation popup that freezes the background window.

I applied to this place in Austin whose name I've since forgotten. The guy wanted to do a skype interview, which I agreed to.
He started the interview with the cam on and me on mute on his end and proceeded to call me a loving idiot for not knowing how to use skype.
I didn't want that position after that.

I have no idea what I want to do in computers, just a source of income would be nice.

no its not. if you can't fly in to take the test in person there's licensed proctoring facilities around the country you go to. unless you were applying at the game company.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2016 02:17

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Shaman Linavi posted:

the Epic test was fun because it was like "here is a totally made up language lets see if you can figure it out" and it was actually a bunch of MUMPS questions

i am not legally able to comment in the contents of tests, but it was p fun to take as a writer not even applying to a programming job.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2016 03:16

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echinopsis posted:

yeah thanks. word between the sheets is that i enter satisfactorily so I intend to capitalise on female desperation

lol no one is desperate enough to gently caress your thirsty rear end

# ¿ Dec 18, 2016 00:14

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Smythe posted:

Wrong.

i feel like i need to start an ngo to donate dignity to echopenises conquests.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2016 04:35

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mekkanare posted:

Late reply, but yes for the Summer Internship it involved using a Web Camera and remote desktop software.
It was several parts, including the pseudo-language which was actually MUMPs questions as mentioned earlier.

I can see being loud as a problem, but I figured that I could ask the guy watching me questions. Guess not.

that explains a lot. i dont think of ever heard of them getting an intern that wasn't from UW madison. if you're not already in town there's almost 0 chance youre getting an internship, so im unsurprised they didnt spend money to send you somewhere. sorry to hear it messed up your job plans though.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 19:40

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ahmeni posted:

"THE CULTURE is so good that if they felt they really had to get something done they would stay late just to get it done!"
like a point of pride instead of an immediate huge red flag

i would like to work in The Culture please

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 23:29

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

i got an email from an apple recruiter like 3 weeks ago and gmail decided it was a social media email and didnt give me a notification. loving thanks google. hopefully he's still willing to talk to me.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 03:31

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The Management posted:

just say you were on vacation

i already told him the real thing that happened so too late for that whelp.

sucks too because it sounds like the perfect job for me. it's a hybrid dev/educator role where i would be developing playground environments and documentation that other devs use to learn apple products. its like a perfect synthesis of everything ive done since i got into tech. i really, really hope hes still willing to talk to me.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 04:05

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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

I really wouldn't sweat this one very much, it's not a big deal.

sweet. im realizing my current job has really done a number on me mentally because this is totally the type of thing they try to program you to sweat about.

bonus: at staff meeting on monday they responded to the question "do we have paid parental leave" with "if you had the baby, you can use short-term disability with fmla". yes, the insurance i pay money for is exactly the same as paid parental leave.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 05:17

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Agile Vector posted:

having a child is a disability, lonely hr computer man says

even better, our billionnaire ceo is a women with 3 kids. working through her childrens childhoods was good enough for her so its good enough for us i guess? she bragged about working through a tornado warning too.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 05:30

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Gazpacho posted:

lol if you as a hired employee give a poo poo about your company's "mission" or "values"

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 22:30

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bone app the teeth posted:

do you just curl those 3lb dumbbells or something?

seriously lol@not sweating while lifting. lmbo if your gym isnt just a bunch of rusty olympic weights in a non-air-conditioned warehouse in a mostly-empty industrial area.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2016 05:46

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lancemantis posted:

Uh the bump plates aren't rusty because they're covered in rubber

are u aware that there are non rubberized oly plates? oly dictates the bar size and plate diameter, it doesn't require a specific plate material.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2016 14:38

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Captain Foo posted:

Bump plates are basically always rubber by definition tho

oly plates dont have to be bumper plates is what im saying. but ya your muscle garage should have oly plates too because otherwise some roided up dickhead will dent your iron plates slamming the bar down in triumph after deadlifting some trivial amount.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2016 16:22

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carry on then posted:

*extremely yospos voice* is labor a push day or pull day exercise

lol if you lift weights and youre not doing 2 hour single muscle group wankercise.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 01:20

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Dislike button posted:

if you can do a single muscle group with any intensity for 2 hours you're probably way stronger than someone who does Olympic lifting

ask me about trying to lose 24" gunz lol. kids, dont lift weights to cope with suppressing your gender identity.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 01:45

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carry on then posted:

lmao i've been lifting amateurly for 2 years and i barely feel different and people are complaining about too much gains

me

lift more, eat twice as much as you think you need if you're a skinny nerd who "can't gain weight"

always be increasing something every workout. if you can't go heavier add sets and reps. get a spotter so that your dumb animal brain doesn't chicken out on giving 100% effort. if you don't feel safe you absolutely won't be able to push your limits. my bench stalled for years until i suppressed my anxiety of men enough to tolerate a spotter and then it rapidly gained like 200 pounds in a year. before that i was the stereotypical goon lifter deadlifting 500 and benching 135 lol.

learn from the knowledge i amassed doing an activity i came to regret due to injuries and intensified dysphoria :suicide:

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 02:22

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carry on then posted:

im actually the lardlord type of nerd and need to eat a deficit just to not feel like im blowing up like a greasy ugly balloon

ugh so this is an issue too? it's still going to be a long time before i outgrow mine and am good enough for a real gym

onward...

well in that case stop worrying about gains so much. losing weight is your gains. as long as youre not getting actively weaker that is good enough while trying to lose weight. trying to do both at once is just going to end in frustration unless you are on good gear or you are tremendously disciplined with building your diet around getting precise nutrition within your allotted calories. if youre just trying to be healthier focus on getting to a healthy weight and maintaining it a while before worrying about getting super strong.

good luck!

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 02:40

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Captain Foo posted:

I hosed up my shoulders benching and I don't recommend that course of action! Lift a weight correctly tho

same. my left shoulder is super hosed. ive been doing a lot of yoga of late and its really revealing to me how much of a number i did on my hip and shoulders over the years. i think weightlifting was honest-to-god worse on my shoulders than all the jiu-jitsu and mma poo poo i did.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 02:42

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carry on then posted:

and this is where it gets iffy because i just don't know when i need to make the transition. people say im skinny but all i see when i look in the mirror is miles and miles of fat

maybe talk to like a dietician and personal trainer and get their input on where you're at and where you need to go. both types of people will probably offer free initial consults even if your insurance doesn't cover ancillary services like that.

but i hear you. it is really hard, after years of having a terrible self-image, to see an objective evaluation of yourself. like, believe me, i have lived that experience in more ways than one. you said youre working out solo so you probably have nobody giving you good feedback and you need to work on getting feedback from a source you trust to be accurate and objective. if you don't trust your friends, then a fitness/health professional who can give you an objective view on where you're at could help you a lot.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 03:09

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

i hadn't heard back from this recruiter over the last 2 weeks (probably holiday outage) so i sent him another email just to say "hey, can't wait to talk about this and here's an updated resume." that doesn't come off desperate, does it?

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 04:22

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

i got an email from apple guy and i should have a phone interview with them in the next couple of weeks!

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 23:36

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

congrats

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 04:03

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JewKiller 3000 posted:

i lived in the dc metro area for 10 years. don't do a dc. it is not cool or good.

i specifically declined a goon offer for a job reference there because dc ppl just can't stop murdering queers. wtf dc.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 05:07

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mishaq posted:

huh? dc is like the gayest city in the us

that can simultaneously be true with what i said:

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/19/majority-of-d-c-hate-crimes-target-gay-trans-residents/
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/01/04/d-c-murders-down-anti-lgbt-hate-crimes-up/

i have a trans friend in dc who had four different people she knows get stabbed in her neighborhood last year. no job is worth that risk.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 05:59

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echinopsis posted:

this locum work is good money but i am alone in a motel unit right now drinking a beer by myself and welp tinder isn't being much help either :[

i bought a tube of pringles to cheer myself up but they're not doing it

arent you a pharmicist? in the us pharmacists can make six figgies just riding the counter at any walgreens and there's not nearly enough pharmacists to cover demand. how are you job hopping this much? is zealand novo really that different?

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 06:15

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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:

i really just want to work on mediocre business poo poo!

mediocre business poo poo pays good, has actual longterm sustainability, and won't pay you entirely in fake stock. it's not glamourous but it'll let you live nice when you retire.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 18:47

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Progressive JPEG posted:

Lmao at anyone thinking of anywhere in Texas over NZ

you can make 200k+ as a clinical pharmacist in california or new york or 145k just riding the counter at walgreens in either place. gently caress texas and the mexico it crawled out of.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 05:15

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ahmeni posted:

is there some sort of conversion rate for the unpaid mental gymastics you have to perform to move to a country actively trying to harm its most vulnerable people

based on what i know (and was able to google) new zealand is equally terrible to its minorities and natives, and its lgbt rights are about on par with the US's (just added gay marraige this decade, civil unions before that, has left trans rights undefined and in legal limbo with differing opinions in various courts).

it seems like the primary advantage of new zealand is actually that it treats its lower-class white people better than the us and that's not a consideration if you are making the big bux.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 05:42