Escape From Noise posted:

Fully Sexual Space Ghost???

Batterypowered7 posted:

Mormon Nailer posted:

Hard same.

Today is 89 pallets of soap day. I am not looking forward to running the office by myself while everyone else is shipping stuff.

They won't let me go in the warehouse because one time, when the boss stacked stuff too high, it fell over on me and dislocated my shoulder. The fear of getting sued is stronger than efficient and safe work practices.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

The Mississippi River is a pretty small job market have you considered broadening your search to include land

Dr. Faustus posted:

My Company terminated me for not coming to work when everyone else in my department (six of ten people) was coming down with COVID. Also, they fired me while I was in an FMLA agreement.

Based on the people who made this determination over the protests of my actual manager, this termination is also likely retaliation for a work dispute that I "won" in September that resulted in the termination of my antagonist, who was friendly with one or both of them.

My Company does dumb things.

I am contacting the State Bar in the morning and am fighting with DES to demand my Un-employment Benefits because they also terminated me for absenteeism, during a COVID spike, while I was on FMLA, without ever telling me my employment was in jeopardy but instead praising me for following proper procedures during an illness.

kntfkr posted:

You are the specific guy I wanted to ask because you were the first person I ever heard bring up KVM. I got the two remote job set up finally.

Can you please recommend a simple KVM switch for a local set up (1 desk)?

SubponticatePoster posted:

All you really need to know is that there isn't a manual or guide to using Agile, but a loving manifesto. Anyone who writes a document in this day and age and calls it a manifesto is either the Unabomber or so far up their own rear end that even if they have a good idea it's going to be buried in insufferable prose and buzz words. Which lovely managers will then shout at their employees, regardless of applicability to whatever they're trying to accomplish.

hth

Takes No Damage posted:

One of my engineering professors in college told us that back when he worked in manufacturing and he got a timeline from his team about how long it would take to fabricate something, he would always double it before giving it to customers. Claims he was always closer to the truth and what his guys originally gave him, and with 20 years of hindsight I have no reason to doubt him.

Escape From Noise posted:

I probably should have. I think it's just a thought. If it goes any further I'll tell him he'll need to hire a vitner.

zedprime posted:

The impossible loss prevention riddle of taking monitors home. We couldn't possibly barcode or serial number them in an asset management system or account them off as opex. Nothing we can do but adorn the office with their turned off visage.

goatface posted:

It probably means he argued back too much.

Faustian Bargain posted:

i’m also an unlimited pto haver. previous job was use it or lose it and i’d always end up taking like all of december off, but now i’m at a place that actually wants and encourages me to take time off and avoid burn out.

i’ve heard this actually is better for the employer since people generally end up taking less time off overall but not for me. i wish more employers weren’t so rigid.

Tarkus posted:

Nah, if you're willing to google it then you're just as well off putting it through GPT. Would I trust it to give me novel solutions to things unknown? No, but as a search device for technical information that's buried under crap, it's pretty cool.

TheBlackVegetable posted:

LLMs, and ChatGPT 4 particularly, are proving very useful for programming assistance - you just have to know exactly what you want, how to ask the right questions, and how to validate what is produced.

They are great tools for boosting the productivity of good developers, but they are just a tool.

EvilHawk posted:

Another day, another interview with someone who's lied so egregiously on their CV that they can't even bullshit their way through softball questions. What's more frustrating is that these applications are supposedly being screened by a recruiter. Our requirements are simple - C#, API, database testing experience. All you need, I'll take someone experienced in another language if they have the other two because the skills are largely translatable.

Today's guy listed he had C# experience but couldn't tell me what a class was. API testing but had never used Postman nor could tell me what a GET request did (and that's the emergency break glass "gently caress this person might not have ever seen an API before" question). He did know how SQL works, at least.

We're now into month 2 of this recruitment process and no signs of actually getting a candidate. Either people applying are perfectly qualified but live 3+ hours away (and we have to be in the office 2 days a week), or don't have the experience they say they do on their CV. We offered one person I used to work with but unfortunately the salary offer was barely over what she's currently making. I am well over 300 CVs now. gently caress.