>>106554663
damn her mom is even hotter

never help your family, never tell them your wages.
t. >>106559919

>>106560003
nice GET. >>106560000 is even better

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chatgpt on "American" Express.
lmfao

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Buy now pay later - financing tech companies are going to fail. What's the next grift?

>>106560003
Move to Japan.

I'm second guessing whether or not I can be a successful team lead on this project. I find myself pretty stressed out at the end of most weekdays. Most of my workday is spent answering questions and attending meetings, and that doesn't feel great when I also have actual work that should be done.

>>106560192
You need to organize your thoughts either on paper or a note taking app. This will help you out with figuring out what is required for the job, what needs to be done now, what can be done later, what would improve the workflow, ect.

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Getting scheduled for my full loop interview with FAGMAN. Second time going through this bs. Maybe they're desperate enough to fill the role this time around?

>>106560207
If its Amazon then yes.

>5000 new job posting a day on linkedin
>apply every day till I drop
>1 or 2 interviews, nothing past the first one, for a year now

I'm a lead SRE with 8 years of experience

>>106560192
should've kept just programming instead

>>106560207
>didn't get hired the first time
ngmi

almost friday lads
hold the line

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>>106560266
idk if i'm gonna make it

>>106560232
I was reaching a ceiling and my company decided that the way to progress was to try and take ownership.
And I'm not necessarily doing poorly at that, but it is extremely new and quite challenging compared to ticket grinding.

>>106560266
its been friday for almost 2 hours now, amerimutt

>>106560275
are you the anon who's always crying?
why? aren't you enjoying life?

anyone got an SCI? job is getting boring and i wanna leave but my agency is willing to give me TS/SCI if i want it. TS is a given but i've heard SCI can take a really long time. is it worth it to wait and get the SCI or should i just leave with a TS?

>>106560325
>are you the anon who's always crying?
yes
>why? aren't you enjoying life?
no, life is not good, for a variety of reasons

>>106560345
>anyone got an SCI?
Used to
>i've heard SCI can take a really long time
The full investigation + polygraph + adjudication used to take over a year. Idk if that's come down
>is it worth it to wait and get the SCI or should i just leave with a TS?
An SCI will open you up to a lot more jobs, but that depends on where you live. If you're in the DMV area, you're basically nothing without an SCI. If you're somewhere doing non-intel stuff, then an SCI is actually going to be overkill probably.

Is everyone stocked up for the possible WW3 supply shocks?

>>106560456
Na I never bought into prepping so I'm probably fucked if ww3 is real.

>>106560485
i saw this

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>>106560511
You really don't need to do more than 2 years worth of supplies. Not to mention even dry goods have a shelf life in spite of good storage.

Jobless furfags GET OUT

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>>106560033
im not reading that
sometimes chatgpt will go on an on and say "this one liner is the solution that will fix all your issues now let me explain in 3 paragrapghs why Im right about it" and of course its going to be completely wrong

And there are people who talk to it every day like its a friend or their God and have developed psychosis

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Based Pranav

>>106560277
If it's a really recent thing give it a bit of time before you make any big decisions or lock in an identity of "this isn't me" about it.
Some of the best managers I've had have told me they found starting out very difficult, overwhelming, sounding a lot like you sound now.

>>106560829
pranav can use some extra pixels

>>106560456
>WW3
do you think there will be a world war soon? if so, why?

>>106561089
2027 everything goes wrong because orange man wins trust the plan

>>106560345
Yes. I joined the USSF (United States Space Force) and got it in under two weeks. Then I quit on the spot and got a cushy 580k TC job at a startup with only 8 members and a valuation of over 60bn. We make AI powered Kill Chain Solutions. And there are no jeets anywhere in our supply chain. We write our own Local LLLM Models.

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>told the team I'd be on a medical appointment by 5
>actually going to see a musician live
I'm fucking cooked

>>106561138
Based. It's what everyone else does btw.

As a developer, how do you work smarter and not harder?

Oftentimes it feels like I don't have enough time to accomplish building the systems I want. I'm considering, perhaps I'm inefficient with my work?

>Think of pagination - sounds easy but then you need a search system with more than one database. One search form may need filtering fields across databases, and it becomes messy. Combining the two databases isn't feasible, as all DBs are large. So you start considering some possibilities.
>scoping out new solutions - seems as simple as getting on GitHub explore, and using an established solution. But it's not always that simple. Image search took a a few months of my time looking at CLIP, image hashes, color profiles, hash algos, tagging, etc. No one seems to have done this work.

There's just so much to do for a single intermediate sized system, and maybe I'm working too slow and carefully?

Somehow folks pump out hacker forums with escrow payment systems, fancy JS webapp storefronts, nocodb level of difficulty and scope projects?? I don't get it. How do they have the time?

>>106561203
stick a TODO in it and jump ship before it goes sideways

>>106560456
Nothing ever happens

>>106561193
Liar

>>106560040
payday loans. it's already happening. they call them "wage access apps" and are literally just payday loans.

BNPL isn't going anywhere, it's basically just "credit cards, but bad". the US hates having reasonable payment processors so they wont go anywhere just like Square and Venmo are no longer giant memes but still print money quietly

reminder that if you aren't creditmaxxing and using rewards points to pay for everything instead of jewish fiat money you're a poorfag and you're NGMI

>>106560829
>>106561078
>Pranav screenshots his own posts and posts on 4chan calling himself based

One of my ex-coworkers stole the code from one my (failed) projects and published it on github.
lol.
lmao.

>>106560003
Coworkers were talking about the, um, recent events in the news between meetings.
I really should just say "I'm really not comfortable talking about politics at work"
Surreal feeling the world turn but I'm just making pixels flip on a screen for a living.

>>106561388
These same people want to remove guns away from the people but call ICE/Border Patrol, SS guards at the death camps. Truly retarded thinking from these wannabe communists. I am lucky to work nights for a change so i can avoid this. I got certs to study so i can tell them to fuck off.

learn a trade

>>106559527
>And jobless to boot.
Oh I have a job, fully remote, zero monitoring, doing almost nothing, yet fully paid, I just fucking hate it due to unfortunately having a work ethic.

>>106561522
Kill yourself.

>places your gf hangs out
bros.... I am not sure how much longer I can keep going to work with nothing to come back to

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Looks like there's a good chance I might be moving to Seattle soonish. How are the women there?

>>106560229
I know this feel. It's like all of the requirements raised to the moon over night.

>>106561790
cold

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goodnight /twg/

I SAW YOU BROWSING HERE IN THE WIFI LOGS GET THE FUCK BACK TO WORK

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>>106561930
Goodnight dude, see you at lunch tomorrow, we're going for AnW. It gon b good

>>106562030
Eating in your car is disgusting.

I have been vindicated. I said it before, developers who write documentation and unit tests are TRY HARD BOOTLICKING FILTH.

And now look... The AI does all that boring work. I've never written a unit test or any documentation in my life and I'll never need to thanks to AI. What will you do now try hard bootlicks?

t. Senior developer

>>106562415
okey senor
may i havee the spicy chilli soucee?

>>106562415
gm sir

>>106562434
You may not. Have a copilot licence with a side of beastmode instead.

>>106562523
Starve jeet.

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I've been working a dotnet/C# job that I got hired for with only Unity C# experience (the company is in an area with a shortage of talent so they are okay with training if they think you have potential). At first I assumed, based on my experiences with Windows, that it was going to be slopware and complete suffering. It's been a few months now and I have to say that dotnet/C# is ACTUALLY good. Its like Java if Java wasn't designed by mouthbreathers.

How can a company create such a great tool and such a terrible operating system? Do they have their best minds working on everything BUT Windows? Or did it only get good recently?

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happy friday fellas. take a donut.

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>>106563206
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
thank you anon, grab one yourself and let's hang out-
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

>>106563206
I don't remember if anyone ever brought donuts to the office.

We had this older American woman working support that often brought baked goods though.

>>106561342
Ok Muhammad Rafiq

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>>106563206
>take a donut
I was at walmart yesterday and saw a 2-pack of chocoloate covered donuts (my favorite kind) on the discount bakery rack. I decided not to take it because i have chickens and need to eat eggs and also my high-caloric consumable of choice is alcohol and lets just say... i consume a lot of it and dont need more calories (im not fat though, im lanky)

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>>106563410
well done mister, youve made the logical choice
donuts for another time
id like to rape the character in your pic though

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>>106563430
>id like to rape the character in your pic though

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I didn't know how good I had it working with boomers using nothing but raw php and js. I mean web dev is already disgusting but after the first meeting to discuss a new version of the app using next.js and seeing the code I genuinely want to quit and never do any king of web related programming anymore.

tgif am i right fellas

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>>106562063
MORNING!! No it's not

>>106563206

i just found pythontutor.com so it's time to celebrate

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IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!

>>106561203
work hardly not harder

>>106562415
I always found talking about 'testing' and especially unit testing to be missing the point entirely. For me, it is program correctness and essential/accidental complexity. Testing is only one facet and the least interesting one.
Cover the requirements and nothing more. If someone starts adding complicated cute shit and useless abstractions no amount of unit tests will put out the dumpsterfire.
KISS and YAGNI never failed anyone

>almost monday
DONT DO THIS TO ME I BEG YOU

A friend of mine has been let go from microshaft because he's white. Formal reason is performance but all of his colleagues are jeets. It made me think, what is the bestest FAANG company for whites?

fellas what chairs do you use
im seriously considering falling for the herman miller meme

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>>106564055
Your average in-car eater's car. Full of grease stains and dust.

>>106564191
>new season next month
nothing like watching an anime that shows the beauty of forming a family

How much money do I need to move to Thailand and live fucking lady boys for the rest of my life (or at least until I get AIDS)?

God loves you

>>106564699
Come to indonesia
Are you scared it's a muslim country and you might get beheaded?

Could use some advice on this, my team supports a couple of teams for their operations but one of the team has gotten quite snippy recently. Their emails constantly has misinformation, they're often sending stuff that makes it sound like they're the big boss, weird ass requests like before you respond back to me please compile all the information and respond back in one email please to several members in the team. My direct report is handling it but I've noticed that he's getting insanely burnt out where it's affecting his other operations. I don't have anyone else to turn this over to and I will admit, they are starting to get on my nerves too. I've brought it up to my boss but his hands is tied because that team's boss is higher than he is and they both report to the same guy. Is there anything else I can do to help my employee before he leaves us for another job? He's crucial in other projects but I can see his soul just leave his eyes during our 1:1 lol.

I don't know how normal people do it. I just don't care about anyone I work with. I do not want to talk to them. I don't care what they do after work. I don't want to do any small talk. I don't want to go to any events with them.
Please just leave me alone. I'm here exclusively for the money and nothing else.

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>>106564830
I've been in both places. I'll be honest, I just think it's corporate weigh your souls down. How can you be friends with anyone when giving anyone an inch can provide them with an opportunity to shaft you in the ass? What's the point of friendships when at any time, anyone of you can leave. It's tough. It's classic hedgehog dilemma.

>>106564798
No money there. Also rather go to Singapore. NTA btw.

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>>106564830
This is why tech is such a miserable place to work with. Everyone thinks like this thanks to antisocial faggots like you. Get out of tech bozo you aint special. Go sell courses or something.

>>106564454
Czy to freddy fazbear
https://voca.ro/1hrmQ0oxHt5s

>>106564844
That's great and all but I don't want any friends.

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>>106564844
Being kind is punk rock. It's free. Find friends somewhere else but you dont have to be unapproachable at work. Take the joypill. Dilemma isn't there to make you stop. Dilemma teaches you about duality of man.

>>106564867
Singapore living cost is mad stupid and work hours are brutal compared to indonesia. Come to bandung or jogja at least for two weeks, you wont regret it.

>>106564876
You only think that but truthfully it's just your coping mechanism. I've been through it too.
>>106564872
I think anon is just depressed. Who isn't now a days? Everyone is inauthentic and mean. That's why you have to be inauthentic and mean.

>>106564935
>Being kind is punk rock.
not only is it not but why are zoomies so obsessed with being "punk" when they dont even listen to punk rock?

>>106564948
SAILING THE HIGH SEAS
YEAH NEVER SAY DIE
GOTTA GO GO GO

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Esports players are techworkers and they're valid.

>>106564944
>Who isn't now a days?
The shift is here. You can feel it. It's never been a more perfect time to be kind and ecstatic, but the decision to be permanently positive it's yours. Nowadays you can talk about anime and games with your coworkers and even your boomer seniors with no problem, that's a blessing in itself. You are given so much abundance and ability to create good in this world, at least to yourself and your family, don't take it for granted.

FUCK YEAH DRAGON QUEST VII REMAKE LETS GO

>>106564994
man what a disgusting butterball of a fat fuck on the right
doesnt help hes so semitic looking either

>>106564830
>>106564844
For me it's nothing personal. I don't like to work, that's it. Coworkers are just an extension of work for me, so I have no desire to meet them or even know they exist after my shift is done.

>>106564551
I watch it because I know I probably won't be able to form/have one myself.

Tech has been normie central for at least past 10 years.
I don't recall the last time I saw someone truly autistic or socially retarded.

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>>106565034
You can actually
Imagine cosplaying as Loid, your wife as Yor, your kid as Anya in a group outing to a national park or something

https://youtu.be/kLv2ntXJFnA?si=uOAnbu4xTmFSkY33

>>106565022
That guy's name is Fallen and he's actually Brazilian :'(

>>106565066
It's always loud minority faggotroids who complains all the time and wonder why they get shitcanned

>>106565095
buy an ad

anime bro how do you feel that danganronpa got a enhanced remake?

>>106565066
I had a tech interview with someone slightly overweight and with a very long ponytail and a neckbeard.

>>106565034
mood

What's the IOT industry like these days?

>>106565366
dying because it turns out no one needed a wifi equipped lightbulb and having 9001 devices on your network overwhelms the normies so they all just communicate with their own 3g hookup paid for as part of a subscription model for the device

>IT's virus scanner deleted vs code again
Humiliation ritual

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>just start a business of your own bro

>>106565427
Industrial IOT?
Commercial IOT is meme, that I agree.

>>106565492
>industrial IOT
not a thing named as such because the people actually working in factories are all fudds and yet have had everything networked since before the internet and are doing psycho shit like passing raw RS-485 data over TCP/IP and creating incredibly complicated yet somehow elegant packet standards for RS-232 buses

>>106564415
I'd like to know too.

>>106564994
honestly having been part of several gaming communities i have to say that esports people are some of the dumbest fuckers on the planet when it comes to any "tech" that isnt dash-cancelling. it's a wonder they can even turn on their PS4s to play Soive

>>106564821
>boss is higher than he is
bend over already
a classic move is to add as much friction to the process as possible e.g. no emails, please open a ticket with a gorillion mandatory fields and special formatting. If you are bold, you can set a fixed amount of time for supporting other teams and let them fight for your limited resources e.g. fill in some support request sheet. If someone does not make the cutoff no cigar, come back in a couple of sprints/quarters lol
>but we need this to better track how much time we spend on responding to request and better plan our capacity and prioritize our work for maximum efficiency
that, or just throw AI at the problem to generate sloppu

>>106565539
5-6 years ago I worked with someone who had contacts at one of the big oil companies in US.
They were interested in oil storage/tank sensors. Apparently they had tons of these allover the place and had guys checking them every day manually.
I don't know what happened to the idea and what their current situation is.

>>106565427
>their own 3g hookup paid for as part of a subscription model for the device
Cellular companies found out about this and started charging out the ass for their services

>>106565626
when i worked on ships, whenever we'd refuel we'd have a guy in the machinery control room looking at sensor readings but also there'd be a guy literally walking around dipping the tanks. they probably installed some bottom-shelf pressure sensors and still had guys doing dips anyway because
>what if sensor fails
>what if sensor is wrong
>what if sensor is correct but missing context (pressure is fine at a comfy 1atm because there is a fucking hole in the tank)
>what if sensor is correct and nothing is wrong but something else is wrong the roundsman catches (pressure is fine at a comfy 1.000001atm but Jim is smoking crack back there again)
>gives juniors something to do

>be consultant fag
>killing it at work and enjoying it too
>client notices my efforts
>their senior dev heavily hints there might be some new hires soon
>could be a 40-50% salary bump with better conditions

Dare I hope, for once?

>>106565811
No.

can any in-office chads tell me how i (wfh beta) can get an in-office job where milfs wearing khakis walk around with their panty lines showing all day? working from home is driving me crazy. i need to see panty lines.

there's jap fetish videos that take the edge off but i need the real thing. i need hr ladies making their choice of comfortable, unfashionable underwear made known to the world via the medium of visible panty lines. fucking help me bros

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Bros... Yesterday I saw a wide hipped fat indian girl in the office. Didnt think much of it, thought she was some external working here for a day. Apparently she is a full time hiree.
Wtf, the indian shittification reached my company, soon it will be crawling with other pajeets and pajeetas.

>>106565912
get a gym membership if you need to see those pantylines, brother
women wear leggings and yoga pants there
in office it's those stupid gen-z meme baggy jeans even for the ladies pushing 40+
you very rarely get a slut wearing skinny jeans or tight dress pants to work but those types always thong it up so if you aren't into that you're outta luck

>>106565811
>Also worked at a consultancy
>Also killing it at work with my client
>Coworker working on a different project with the same client
>Gets hired by the client
>Owners get butthurt
>They get really butthurt
>They drop my client after my ex-coworker leaves for them
>Start new project
>Interacted directly with the client at the start
>PM removes me and others away from direct client communication
From what I've heard, my ex-coworker loves his current job and got promoted. Do it and expect the consulting house to try to dictate what you can and can't do as you switch teams.

>>106565940
which field?

>>106566030
>expect the consulting house to try to dictate what you can and can't do
Oh yeah, fully aware of that, couldn't give less of a shit about their opinions.

>>106565811
what exactly do you do as a "consultant"?

>>106564935
>Singapore living cost is mad stupid and work hours are brutal compared to indonesia. Come to bandung or jogja at least for two weeks, you wont regret it.
I'm in jakarta right now.
$30 pay to pay threesomes are nuts lol

>>106566063
You shouldn't give a single shit what they say. Consultancies brazenly rob from their employees with low wages and promising bonuses unless it cuts into theirs. Leave and never look back.

anyone else a contingent worker?

>>106566311
What, you wet yourself?

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>>106566376
you're thinking of "continent"
and that would mean you DON'T wet yourself.

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>>106565571
this always surprised me watching "esports" growing up. you would expect these genius megabrains doing impossibly clever and creative things in game. instead, what they are is just barely average mouth breathers. you can see when watching interviews with them speaking or reading stuff they write, theyre not very clever. they just spent an inhuman amount of time grinding out something most people get bored with.

it would be interesting to get IQ testing results from top players in a few different games and genres. i dont think top pro gamers would even have above 110 on average.

pic related, the wc3 goat who literally plays with his mouth wide open. you can tell theres just so much going on this guy's head.

the new fresher is very good. I had a doubt at first but no more

>>106560345
As frame of reference, I believe SCI is taking 1.5 years or longer to get through. Even getting a resume clean is 8+ months.

I'd stay and get SCI unless you really hate the job. More doors open is always good. In my region rarely see jobs not asking for SCI and its usually for places that are a shit show, pay 20k+ less, and in shitty locations.

Another option is line up a job and see if they'd put you in for one.

I'm really sick of this self-styled team lead changing his mind about key environmental stuff this late in the game.

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>>106561522
If the pay is good and its remote, shoot your work ethic.

Anon take the old man pill, you don't need your god damn job to fill purpose in your life. What you need is a side hustles/gigs/hobbies that occupy your off time and put value in it. The job puts food on the table and the special tingle that is life comes from outside those 8 hours.

You think any of the sad fucks in /unemployed would rather have humiliation rituals or well paid boredom?

To me, it seems like t>>106565811
hey all grind so hard until one discovers a strategy. Then everyone learns, adopts and refines that strategy. It's a collaborative effort, but to be good you need to be in the loop. It's dedication
>>106565811
Lol another non-fte hopeful wagie.

>>106566833
It doesn't necessarily make up for, if you fell for the meme, living somewhere that dating sucks or limits your ability to help your kids from being downwardly mobile.

>>106566833
nta but i've been really struggling with this lately
i've stopped learning quite a few months ago, and since i'm so bored, i've started to notice how incompetent the rest of the organization is, specially my boss and coworkers, which is frustrating
but at the same time, the pay is good and i also work like 3 hours each day

>>106566540
i feel like they'd score "high" (but not super high, just 99-110) because they probably have very good spatial sense and literally half of the standard iq test is spatial questions

but when it comes to tech they are dumb as hell. it's not surprising though; expecting them to be grognards is the same sort of lunacy as out-of-touch parents going "well he's on the computer all the time, why doesn't he just invent Facebook!?". it doesnt take very much acumen with a computer to play a video game and never really has, not even in the DOS days (you'd pop in the floppy and type one(1) command, your floppy drive is even the first drive to pick from)

>it would be interesting to get IQ testing results from top players in a few different games and genres.
some small scale ones have been done for twitter updoots and iirc Fifa players are literally statistically likely to be retarded, fighting game and fps players are midwits, and moba players were "smartest" (probably good spatial sense and lots wordplay to properly inflict racial abuse so would more easily ace shitty online iq tests). actual rts players are extinct and could not be tested and other sports games than Fifa dont really have big communities worth testing

with "top pro gamers" its a crapshoot because they have such wildly different life experience. there's that one smash player who's a PhD biochemist but then there complete niglets like Yipes and Umisho who have done nothing of note outside of the FGC and it's questionable whether they even got past high school

>>106566540
Of course they're retarded. The "pro" versions of CS:Go maps famously disabled all physics and removed the chickens because so-called "pro gaymers" weren't capable of navigating those obstacles without breaking down.

>>106566878
I'm under assumption anon is
>Getting well paid
>Has easy enough work that it isn't requiring overtime or after hour study

That means to answer those two specific problems you listed.

1. Vacation, travel, or do an event. You're a fucking idiot if you want to roll the dice at a love life at work. We got people in here afraid to make friends, let alone open their ass to HR rape.

2. Sucks to suck for the kids but small town/corn life isn't horrible. They can endure 18 years of the sticks and then get mailed off to school while never looking back. US education is pretty much fucked anyways so may as well pay up extra to ensure they come out alright.

>>106566880
More to that free time than just learning. It really sounds like you just need to rethink what you do and maybe do something out of that comfort zone. Could be biking, could be setting up retirement scam. Even being your own boss would be cool or getting involved with tech orgs like IEEE.

But if you are just thinking running off to FAGMAN to make someone else money is it. Rethink it. Idiots are everywhere.

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I feel kinda bad that I'm going to use a startup to help me negotiate for a better TC package with FAGMAN. Too bad I like money more.

>stand up meeting
>take turns to update da sprint board
>mr. muhammad keeps talking because he wants to flex his ten years of nocoder experience
>5 minutes passed
>10 minutes passed
>white TPM parking lots muhammad
>lets the rest of us go
>stays back with muhammad and 1 other engineer
Techbros we need more TPMs like this at work

>>106567048
what's a tpm
technical product manager?

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>>106560345
>>106566787
>>106561100

i will make an actual realpost at you based on my lived experience and what little access to actual documentation on this stuff that I've read because i am sick of the job market demanding clearances for everything and job seekers thinking it's just another cert to collect

it can take months to get a clearance and depends more on the workload of the department(s) doing it and the priority of your company's request than how unsavoury you are. more than a year without an update though and you should start poking your security guy or even re-submit because your paperwork fell into the outlook black hole (below default view on Lt. Karen's 11.5" laptop)

if you get a clearance from the military, it does not transfer over to the civilian sector.

if you get a clearance for industry/commerce, it is revoked when you stop working for the company that sponsored you. this is not a bad thing and does not prevent you getting another one.

if you had a clearance, military or civilian, it *might* help you get another one in the future, but you still have to re-do all the paperwork anyway and it will still take a while.

"SCI" isn't some super speshul ABOVE TOP SECRET thing, it's a caveat that denotes the type of content and extra requirements. there is confidential/restricted/etc SCI stuff. Most countries have an equivalent with similar requirements, because all this stuff is NATO-standardized.

if a company that doesn't have obvious connections to defence or provides stuff for the military demands you need a clearance, it's probably either a scam or an HR karen thinking it's a substitute for a background check (that's probably unnecessary anyway)

amerimutts *may* have to do a polygraph (sources are unclear on whether it's a real requirement or just something individual companies/agencies like to do) and everyone who didnt do one will laugh at you for it because that shit is phrenology-tier

>>106560229
>10 years experience
>Active GitHub account with popular repos
>Nearly full calendar this year
>Applying 5-10 jobs every day
Exactly the same experience, 1-2 interviews then they went with another candidate or nothing at all.

This industry is so fucking fucked. If you are even thinking about getting into software dev right now, you are out of your mind.

On Upwork it literally costs you money to apply for freelance gigs. Sunk countless hours and wasted $100+ on connects and got absolutely nothing.

I'm so tired of struggling to pay the bills bros.

Have any of you told your manager "no" when they told you to do a faggy little useless task?

My manager wants me to make a faggy little spreadsheet "to get buy in" from other fags who don't care what we're doing.

I hate this guys' bureaucracy. My head hits and ADHD wall for this type of unrewarding SHIT

AHHHHHHG

>>106567181
>10yoe
>struggling to pay bills
Can you please elaborate on your life situation?

I have 7 years of expenses saved and I only started working 7 years ago, so I'm wondering how you got into this situation.

>>106567133
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/occupation/296471/ca

>>106567308
Europe doesn't pay as much as merica

>>106566899
>some small scale ones have been done for twitter updoots
can you link me to it? if its a real study and they conducted real iq tests its interesting even if its small scale. if its an online test i dont think the results mean anything. even mensa tests arent 'real' iq tests. they violate standards for administering them.
it would be bold to break it down by game though, because some of the usual difficult topics come up when doing iq tests. gee whiz, i wonder why all the NBA 25 pro gamers score so much lower..?

>but when it comes to tech they are dumb as hell
one rare exception was that one indian dota pro (ix-ir?) who went on to redeem at oracle as a developer.

>with "top pro gamers" its a crapshoot because they have such wildly different life experience. there's that one smash player who's a PhD biochemist but then there complete niglets like Yipes and Umisho who have done nothing of note outside of the FGC and it's questionable whether they even got past high school

still though, hypothetically speaking you would expect top performers in something like gaming to be high performers in general. competitive gaming is still some vague form of cognitive ability. im not studied on iq but i think it would be called a 'g-loaded task'.

>>106566928
csgo players are definitely dumb, and valve is one of the worst companies ever, but im betting some of those removals were for performance. csgo had really bad performance issues.

Good morning saars! How is the job going?

>>106567339
I'm in Canada, but I feel that won't change your response, because perhaps you have no idea why you're broke?

>>106567181
That sounds grim.
What is your field?

>canadian guy acting snippy
i thought they're all nice why are they all dicks online

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>>106567351
......... AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>106567384
They always been passive aggresive faggots who are too scared to speak up their minds. LOL

that was a lame ass excuse for being broke! I won't alter my thoughts to make my autistically rude response better because because I just WONT OK?!?!

>>106566976
>Sucks to suck for the kids but small town/corn life isn't horrible. They can endure 18 years of the sticks and then get mailed off to school while never looking back. US education is pretty much fucked anyways so may as well pay up extra to ensure they come out alright.
I mean, you're much better able to help them if you live somewhere with an actual jobs market for your profession, and their profession.

Letting your kid crash after college doesn't do much to help them if you live in a small town, especially given the decline of remote work for entry level employees. I'm not saying "Bay Area, Boston, NYC, or die" - but you owe it to your kids to live in Atlanta or Austin with F500s, college-to-industry pipelines, and so on instead of bumfuck nowhere.

>>106567339
I'm European and have no issues paying my shit.

>>106560003
I solved the issue with my exchange project.
Now everybody warns me of not working in the weekends, but my boss seems to play a different tune. He wants to see me being done with it by Wednesday, despite me AND my colleagues who are more experienced spent time to even try to fix a fundamental pre requisite before I can start.

I am gonna spend 5-6h tomorrow and Sunday each to progress.
If my colleagues catch me in the act, they can kiss my ass.
It's just annoying that I have even less time than officially expected.
I kinda hate it, I never have the opportunity to actually reinforce and learn what I do. Only take notes, again and again.
I kinda hate it.
The official expectations are 40h, yet under the table its tolerated that it can take more due to inexperience and troubleshooting, then my boss comes around and expects me to do complete the project in less than 40h.

It's annoying. Understandable, but so fucking annoying.
I am getting jaded before I even officially start becoming a full time employee.

>>106567157
also, a fun fact i learned whilst looking some stuff up specifically for that post and wikigroaning on just because it's interesting

https://web.archive.org/web/20100720183755/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/
>as of 2010 an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances
This was considered really fucking high even during the height of the War on Terror, apparently.

How many working-age people were in the US at the time? About 194,296,087
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf
an estimated 0.4% of working-age people had a TS clearance, then. Yet every job listing these days, "tech" or not, seems to need one. Hmmmm

so as much as every teamblind bot posts about how easy it is to get one and how you're NGMI IT BRO if you aren't super dooper top titty Q astral cleared, most people in the US don't have one, are never going to get one, and don't need one. And most of the people who do have it might not need it and are probably making 75k/yr in a gubberment job ignoring reports about how much millet was sold in Pakistan today. Or more likely a lot of them were (and still are) working at contractors developing Tinder But For RADAR(forma de matriz en fase). Furthermore, sex with jiji whilst keke watches.

>>106567344
>can you link me to it?
no it was in a random Sajam video and conducted either via twitter or reddit so it's probably not even good data

>Hello devs working on product I have zero understanding of, it has been 30 minutes, why have you not provided an RCA yet? The customer is very important, please expedite or I will cc the CVP

>>106567552
>Hello Mr. shitdeep saar, we are busy and will update you when we get to it.

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>>106567459
Think the best we can do for our kids is tell them avoid the tech trap.

Why are these canadian BUMS speaking on this general, bros?

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How did anything get done in windows shitter shops before vibe coding? I couldn't imagine having to write this stuff myself.

important projects never needed beautiful presentation slides, LET ALONE presentations in order to convince people it's important work.

I hate this company's PowerPoint culture, it's fucking ridiculous. Either the project is needed or not. End of story. Stop creating these humiliation rituals. The CTO / founder rolls his eyes at us EVERY time we do this and you STILL think this is a good idea????

>>106567834
>/g/ can't solve this

>>106566976
>But if you are just thinking running off to FAGMAN to make someone else money is it. Rethink it. Idiots are everywhere.
expand on why you are against pursuing FAGMAN. All the most well off dudes I know went FAGMAN, aside from: surgeon, VC backed tech founder, maybe a big law lawyer, and family rich "principal investor" at some finance firm you've never heard of in NYC

I'm interested to hear though.

>>106567048
>Techbros we need more TPMs like this at work
I'm white and willing to do it.

>>106567506
>Yet every job listing these days, "tech" or not, seems to need one. Hmmmm
I rarely see this.

>>106567834
by reading the docs and sometimes some source code or disasm. I know, brutal.

>>106567916
If I have no job or it sucks, I'd do fagman for the money and benefits no problem. fagman will keep you busy, open up new doors, etc.

But if I'm already doing well, feeling empty inside, and not a trail blazer, but will just become another cog for numbers go up. What am I really gaining?

>>106567911
to be fair, powershell is kind of fucky.

>>106567344
>performance
>csgo had performance issues
This is so false I question if you have the slightest iota what you're talking about. Just on a basic level, the versions of the maps with the physics and chickens were still in the game and played in the casual scene. It was only in "pro" "competition" that they were disabled.

What's the term called when someone emails you "receipts"? I fucking hate it.
>Someone asks me a question
>I reply back
>They reply back and CC a bunch of people "Okay, It is understand that "Thing I just directly said but worded differently and sometimes worded in a way that can be interpreted differently". Thanks.
Like what the fuck is this lol

I've been dealing with a shitty coworker for months who's been making fun of me. It's on my mind even during my time off and makes my blood boil. How do I stop giving a fuck? I know I shouldn't give them the time of day, but I can't help but think about it that the next work day I will have to deal with the piece of shit again. I'm sure that If I ever try to reply back, they'll just go at it even harder or play the victim instead.

>>106568364
examples?

>>106568244
the game had such issues with performance they even ported it to source2. csgo had issues with fps stutters on some maps that pros complained about. one i can remember off hand was the nuke remake. when csgo released i could play it on a 760 with 300 fps constant. by 2018 i had noticeable fps drops with a 1070. getting 300 in it was not possible at all then. did you really not notice how laggy the game got after years? do you think they undertook porting it to source2 for any reason other than lag? lol

whether chicken models or tire physics made caused stutters is speculation from me. what isn't speculation though is that you are an aspie who sucks really bad at cs.

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>>106568008
>>106567960
>>106567834
>>whats 9+10
>$write-verbose apt-get nuget --install??
u stupid

>>106568349
They’re translating to their team, as long as you don’t get fired what’s the problem? I don’t even read half my CC’d emails anymore

>>106568410
>chicken and tire models that were always in the game made it slow down over time
>refers to frame drop/high processing times for graphics as "lag"
>U-UR JUST HARDSTUCK SILVER LOL
case in point, esports tard is indeed developmentally disabled

>>106568429
bashsisters our response?

>>106568447
more like they're trying to catch me on a GOTCHA

>>106568385
Constantly mocking me for things I do or not do, remarks and digs for every little thing.

As an example my manager told me that I'm not allowed to take more than 2 weeks off because otherwise "it becomes a problem" as I'm the sole person responsible for quite a few things, and then this asshole coworker somehow is allowed to take 3 weeks off straight in a row and rubs it in my face like "haha I'm taking 3 weeks off, enjoy your one week off!". Or pretending not to be able to figure out something, then when I help out they say "aaah so that was the problem, I see, thankfully you were able to figure it out!" and realize I've just been taken advantage of. Another thing they do is parrot exactly the things I say or the way I write documentation. You can tell they say and do things in a scornful way, but you can't call them out on their bullshit because technically they didn't say anything wrong.

The things that is getting to me are the constant unnecessary remarks that they do on purpose just to mock me. I can't comprehend going out of your way to be such an asshole when we're there just to work.

>>106568453
>chicken and tire models that were always in the game made it reread what i wrote

>spazing over colloquial usage of lag
literally autism

>U-UR JUST HARDSTUCK SILVER LOL
how did i know the aspie who doesnt notice huge fps stutters and +-100 fps variance sucks ass at video games? i channeled divine spirits to figure that one out

>>106568546
.... AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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>>106568657
>>106568546
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6348902/how-can-i-add-numbers-in-a-bash-script

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>jeet randomly messages me at 5:00PM before I log off, cc's my leadership
>hi x, we have an emergency incident regarding y
>I do not even support y in the fucking slightest, this is like nowhere near my area and department
the fuck where did they even get my contact?

>>106568722
>hey, sorry, didn't see your message yesterday. must have been on the way. did you fix it?

>>106568546
$(( 9 + 10 ))

>accept job after a interview that was implied the work would be c#
>day 1
>hehe anon we were just tricking you, are language is VBScript
> not even vb.net
at least its well paid and everyone is a boomer and does not understand how long a feature takes to program

>>106568364
>>106568592
It's clear you work at a place that doesn't value results. When a problem comes up again, just drag it out. If you keep doing your job, they'll just keep disrespecting and piling work onto you.

finally, friday afternoon
are you ready anons?

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>>106569063
ready for what?

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>>106560325
>Enjoying life
Huh?

>>106567157
are you that leaf pajeet who thinks he knows about US security clearances?

>>106568869
No command 19 found.

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>>106569063
I work nights so im getting ready for work.

>>106569270
>not enjoying life
cmon anon, aren't you living the life you always wanted?
when you were small, didn't you always dream of sitting in front of a computer everyday and being paid for it?

>>106560003
I seriously suck at my job, just sloppy and mess up PCB layouts and shit doesn't work.

What do?

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>>106568546
>>106568657
>>106568716

> echo $((9+10))
> 19

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>migrating to a new inventory system that supports github repositories with custom automation jobs
>my modules dont import
>write a custom job where there are form field input in the job run
>have a form textarea for executing raw python code as the inventory systems interpreter
>have another textarea for executing bash
>investigate using this new thing (cant ssh in and run it since its in a docker container and kubernetes cluster and some other stuff)
>when it imports repositories it saves them in a directory but the name is lowercase
>destroys my camel notation
You've got to be shitting me

>job cancels WFH mostly
>only 1 day allowed per week WFH
>recently I just started working from home constantly anyways
>so far no one has said anything or confronted me
Man it feels so good being laid in bed and getting paid at the same time. I do go into the office sometimes, but definitely not 4 days a week lmao. Usually I'll do 2 days in office, 3 from home. Wonder if I'll get fired.

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>>106567834
Huff paint, use ASDI & call .NET and all the GPT wizards will run for the hills.

Then keeping getting them to type amsiutils into the shell

>>106560345
>>106567157
>(sources are unclear on whether it's a real requirement or just something individual companies/agencies like to do)
it's not a requirement but can happen
>and everyone who didnt do one will laugh at you for it because that shit is phrenology-tier
this however is true

Since 2021 I have only invested in startups and companies with Indian CEOs or leadership. I am up 5.5x on my initial investment. Feelsgoodman.

>>106567157
Shut the fuck up you retarded nigger.

Any Rust developers here?

>Expensive ramen is $1.50
ITS OVER ANONS

>>106567157
You've never even been to the US let alone understand how it works. Literally everything you said is wrong. You've never had a job in your life.

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>>106570298
My last job had contracts for 'remote only' and 'hybrid' which was 3 days in the office per week. I was 'remote only' and my pajeet manager kept pestering me to come into my local office 3 days a week where not only was he not based at, but i didnt have a single teammate based at. I went in once out of curiosity and it was over a hundred cubicals and maybe 15 people i didnt know except for 1 was present.

The employer had an email retention policy and i was originally hired in-person due to getting the position before covid but was re-hired to a new internal position during covid and thankfully kept a copy of the 'remote only' contract they had me sign.

I showed it to him and he still had the audactiy to say the equivalent of "but saar coming in is doing the needful" and i just ignored him.

I got laid off with hundreds of others blindly, probably by an algorithm. I'm much happier where i am now, I'm still remote and i enjoy the work more; like actually working, I like the challenges and solving them more.

I'll occasionally do the 'dick around for a bit' but i have ADHD and autism so when i get into a work project I give it my all and will be staring at code for work, much longer than I should be

>>106567157
unbelievable levels of cope

>>106570704
>but i have ADHD and autism
Join the military

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>>106570834
>Join the military
I already did and served for 6 years. My contract ended 6 years ago and sometimes I think about re-enlisting because I actually enjoyed it (Army National Guard, mos 25U but acting 25B)

>>106570851
Why don't you just use your TS clearance from then to print money?

>>106570851
Better off re-joining and retiring.

>>106570862
We only make 600million dollars a year its not really that great with DC housing prices.

I'm really hoping some of my more... politically retarded colleagues weren't saying anything on social media.

>>106570911
Literally just invest in crypto RETARD

what hobbies do you fucks have?
I already hit the gym and do mma, I'm just wondering what would be a nice creative one. No I don't have a gf or have friends.

another friday night alone...
yay...

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>>106571114
I'll be here with you in spirit, anon.

>>106571265
arre you BLACK

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Do you guys have Linked? I have never met anyone IRL, but online people say its good for job market?

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I think my former professor is going through a psychotic break

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>2 of our best team members quit
>boss suddenly being nice to me

>>106571400
no, he finally opened his eyes

>>106571383
as far as I can tell, it's more useful for recruiters to find you, rather than you find a job. I get constant search notifications but I'm not really specialized enough for someone to reach out to me directly.

the job search filters suck ass. not everyone lives in a FAGMAN city. the social media part is just fucking bizarre, only psychopaths engage in that.

>>106567834
AI is obsessed with writing overly-verbose shit since it scraped largely training materials that are meant to teach basic concepts, and bullshit GitHub projects where people write 17 fucking pages of functions just to do 1 simple fucking task

>>106571544
Lately I've been getting into ai hentai generation now that I've noticed it's getting quite good and one of the main things I need to do to create a good image is use other images as reference for style, structure, or otherwise. Without constant direction it outputs very generic stuff. I wonder if coding may require the same.

>>106571383
I wasn't aware people were trying to work in tech without LinkedIn.

>>106561974
... wifi logs?

Your direct manager appears at your front door on the weekend
(assume it's normal for them to know your address)
They ask to be invited in
What do you do?

who the fuck doesn't have a linkedin in 2025

>>106563131
One is mass market slop for consoomers, the other is a specialty tool for professionals. That's why the one sucks and the other doesn't

>>106566833
Thats only true for you thinkpad wielding consultants and Web devs. People with actual jobs do find meaning and value in their 8 hours.

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I'm sure some of you work with kafka at a (big) tech company. Tell us about what you use it for, some of its quirks, what you like or dislike about it

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>People with actual jobs do find meaning and value in their 8 hours.

>>106572209
>I'm sure some of you work with kafka
>what you like or dislike about it
When my code is compiling it tells me it'll simultaneously take either hours or seconds. When debugging it'll refer me to code that doesn't exist. Sometimes it works perfectly and other times I look away from the screen and when I look back my computer isn't even turned on

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>they hired a brown woman AGAIN
I don't get it, why are they doing it? Our company is already 70% nonwhite, and women we have are incompetent. Why hire more dead weight???

>>106572240
brother wait until you find out the global population is only about 15% white

>>106572219
I am talking about nurses, teachers, plumbers, electricians, actual cooks, machine maintainers, Hardware programmers and many more.
Not working for salesforce does Not automatically mean work in a Fastfood chain, consultant. I know its hard for you to grasp, you will eventually get there. Here are some color Post its for your whiteboard, they will help you understand.

I write most of my tech in Go these days, but damn do I miss JavaScript. I still use JavaScript to handle messy data. I don't have to worry about types, all the array methods I need are there, it just werks.

>>106572237
I meant Apache Kafka, not Franz Kafka.

>>106572268
this is a very idealistic view of the workforce
most people, at best, find solace in shared struggle
have you been to a construction site or been on hospital shifts? Construction in particular is fucking shit: brutal long-term health costs, mediocre pay for the effort, unstable work, safety corners getting cut. They're not thinking "what a beautiful building I'm helping construct", that's an office worker fantasy.
The odd person even in these areas might find it profoundly rewarding, but for most it's gruelling drudgery

>>106568592
Sounds a bit like that guy is passive aggressive. Im terrible at dealing with that kind of thing. I tend to resort to active aggression with these thankfully rare kinds of people.

Best of luck anon.

>>106568592
>Another thing they do is parrot exactly the things I say or the way I write documentation.
what's wrong with that

>>106568592
I feel you, bro.

>>106572237
>other times I look away from the screen and when I look back my computer isn't even turned on
actually chucked @ this

>>106572327
Construction work is shit, but industry can be meaningful and low stress.

>>106572342
Parott the things you say is making fun of the way you say things.

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>>106568592
>As an example my manager told me that I'm not allowed to take more than 2 weeks off because otherwise "it becomes a problem"
God it's nice to be European.

>>106572446
To parrot is to repeat exactly, it doesn't imply mocking

>>106572698
Autismo, he obviously meant the humiliating aspects of aping someone.

>>106572749
parroting the way someone writes documentation sounds like an unlikely way to be humiliated

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if corpos are genuinely huffing their own LLM shit and think developers are not needed anymore because code can be magically conjured out of thin air, how does it not follow their IP worth exactly 0? Maybe even less than 0 because all the legacy baggage they need to carry around lol.

Also, it should also mean a major boost to FOSS on the competition side as they are generally human resource constrained. Corpos should be scare af

>>106572835
>how does it not follow their IP worth exactly 0
this makes no sense

>>106572835
Designing the shit still is worth something, even if the coding part was truly free.

I worked for a healthcare SaaS company, and I expect around zero nurses to start vibe-coding their patient management systems.

>>106572327
Of course ive been to construction sites but i dont know the Details. I hope work place conditions get better for construction site workers though. I know that hospital shifts are hard as fuck but if more people decided to be employed in a hospital the share from the amount of work for each worker would be smaller. I know, now we also enter the Field of hospital Budgeting, the money has to be there to employ people.
More tax Dollars for hospitals, less tax Dollars for other shit

>>106570862
>clearance
it expired

>>106571081
>I already hit the gym and do mma, I'm just wondering what would be a nice creative one. No I don't have a gf or have friends.
TTRPGs, although you'd have to make some friends or get into solo RPGs.

motorcycle riding. could look into specific mountain pass tour, off roading, or just cruising around. track days an option as well for sport riders.

FRIENDLY ADVICE: if you're not English native, never ever accept an offer if your manager is also a foreigner and you understand his English just partially. NEVER. Trust me, it'll be painful, you'll get into so many stupid and unpleasant situations you wouldn't believe.

>>106571081
The most real hobby I have is playing the guitar for 15 minutes a day. Otherwise it's just TV, vidya, Internet.

>>106572268
this general is for tech workers.

>>106561522
>le work ethic
Commendable if it's your own work, cucked if you're working for someone else.

>>106562415
Jesus Christ I have been away from this thread since the sharty hack. You're still posting this stale pasta?

>>106573716
I haven't posted in months because of the timeout/captcha bullshit.

Keep being a smelly fucking nerd though. Keep staying middle of the IQ bellcurve meme.

>>106573059
You write like a low IQ nigger and frankly you sound underage.

>>106573793
>he actually fills out captchas
yeah I paid for a pass while you're working as a mechanical turk

>>106573793
I don't write docs, but I don't repost gay pastas either

>>106563131
glad you like it anon, dotnet/c# is indeed amazing
really, the only sad part is that most companies that use it usually use the full microsoft stack (windows, azure, teams, etc.)
t. c# dev

>>106573843
>having all this posts linked to identity in the database
Good luck getting a job after another 4chan hack.

>>106573832
stack up on Post Its, consultant drone. Next week is the sprint review for your useless web app nobody needs and nobody asked for.

Fall and soon winter will be coming up. I want to gtfo of the house and comfy up at my local library. I need a laptop. Any recommendations off hand for something that can run vms without melting? Not trying crazy homelab shit but just work thru some udemy courses and close some skill/knowledge gaps.

>>106571081
If you want to meet random fucks fast, biking around the community on bike paths. I've met and talked with more people doing that in a month than 10 years of hitting the gym 4-5 days a week.

>>106573843
Payfag

>>106573844
Fag

>>106573885
get a lowe end asus gaming laptop TUF and upgrade the ram/M2 on it. you can put in 2 4tb sticks and up to 64 gbs of ram on most of their models. External SSD is pretty gucci too.

>>106572189
I'm glad working 8 hours for numbers go up is leading to meaningful and impactful work that gives you a challenge. It is great to be able to skip home after 40 hours and do even more fun stuff.

For rest of us, we don't need CEO overlords to make us fill good because they painted our slave mill red instead of blue. We take the closest we'll get to winning that mega million and not become that millionaire fuck who defines themselves by work.

>>106571081
You need a creative one and a social one.
>creative: buy a random instrument, craft (wood metal),
>social: join a board game club (depending on your patience/attention span), join a meetup group for ufc events (main card like 3 hrs max every saturday).
And another one: teaching/volunteering. It definitely scratches an itch that other hobbies don't.

>>106573932
That's a great idea man. Looking like I'll have to snipe an open box item but seems like my best option. Thanks man.

>>106569054
Trying to do the bare minimum and looking for another place, it will likely take a while though.

>>106572338
Thanks. Normally irl I'd avoid the person and distance myself but since it's at work I can't do that and have to bear them every day.

>>106572342
>>106572823
It's like a subtle way of telling me "you don't like the way I do things? ok I will copy exactly the way you do them just to spite you". Of course it's not an insult on its own, but to me it's a clear intentional sign they dislike me.

>>106572385
Thanks anon.

>>106572625
Oh anon, I am a europoor. It's just the place that is chaotic and when one person is missing it's a problem. Not if you don't ever do anything though, in that case you're free to fuck off on holiday for weeks on end or do whatever the fuck you want apparently since your presence does not make any difference.

>>106573482
>>106573901
>>106573974
So an instrument, some social one which can I double up as volunteering...maybe I'll go back to fixing bikes for the community and pick the guitar back up again.

>>106573974
>creative: 4chan (writing)
>social: 4chan
how'd i do?

>manager doesn't meet with me for 10 weeks over the summer
>that's cool I have this big ass project, I'm making progress and will be done soon, nobody wants to hand hold I need to be independent
>manager schedules a 1:1 in august and says I'm underperforming and not showing enough impact on the project, if things don't improve by eoq3 he's gonna pip me
>I say ok, what did I do wrong? I'm making progress and communicating at stand-ups and through bugs, what did I not do?
>he says he doesn't know specifics but will meet with the project lead
>comes back a week later for another 1:1
>well I talked to the project lead and he talked me off the edge, he says you're a few weeks behind schedule but doing well, pip is off the table

Am I being pranked? What am I supposed to do with this? This shatters any trust I have in being fairly judged. I'm actively interviewing now.

>>106574424
1:1s are a total charade and it was probably a top-down order concerning budget that got reversed. the only reason theyre done is to generate evidence so that people cant sue for wrongful termination.

>>106574450
yeah that's what I figured, when he said that first thing that was me getting fired

>>106574424
It's always a good idea to keep the manager in the loop even if it's just a couple of minutes of babble every day.
>but I don't want to do this political bullshit
the teaspoon of bullshit will let you focus on your work in the long term

>>106574453
it might not be over, but it means they had a reason to generate evidence to fire you. backing off pip might be a good sign. keeping active with looking is probably a good idea.

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Ever since I started at my tech job I've been having horrifying nightmares every night

>>106574470
I figure I can coast and get paid to interview until at least the end of the year. I don't think it's worth trying to recover at this job. I'm probably gonna get tanked in performance rating at the end of the year either way, now I'm on the managers bad side.

>>106573916
Dumb nigger.

Any sysadmins here getting requests from managers asking them to give you their employees workload?
I don't know your operation, how would I even know everything YOUR employee has been working on. One manager has been doing this a lot recently and it's starting to annoy the shit outta me.

>>106574420
Considering how shitty your writing is, not well.

>>106574424
Update your CV.

All this bullshit you have to (allegedly) put up with from managers... are you that replaceable that you roll over like a good boy and let them walk all over you?

I can't tell if that remark is made at me because you're passively replying like a fucking midlife crisis karen.

>>106574641
The weird follow up was that this week there was a team summit, and the day after the summit my manager's equivalent from our sister site met with me and said he knew what was up, and to definitely not worry and I'm not at risk. I don't know what the fuck is going on. I'm applying to jobs on a saturday. I don't have patience for this gay drama.

>>106574583
Poo in loo

>>106568592
>I'm not allowed to take more than 2 weeks off because otherwise "it becomes a problem" as I'm the sole person responsible for quite a few things
>when I help out they say "aaah so that was the problem, I see, thankfully you were able to figure it out!" and realize I've just been taken advantage of
anon, do you really not realize how much power you have over them? why don't you take advantage of that? maybe be more direct and ask for credit when you solve a problem and tell your boss to find someone else to rely on during vacations. also talk to your boss's boss or something and tell them your issues with your boss.
also, consider that you might be overreacting.

its the weekend
why are you here

>>106575232
have a blackeye so I don't want to go out in public

>>106574424
Gotta keep management in the loop. Even if that means sending emails in fucking bold letters.

If something would need their approval, stop work and do something else until they stamp it. Its on them if they don't have someone to act in place when they are missing.

It may suck but your job is to make them on the hook for a fuck up.

>>106575232
I don't close the thread based on days of the week.

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>>106575308
Yeah I fucked up by assuming that the different managers on my team (managers, tech leads, uber tech leads, project managers, etc) we're all communicating with each other for me and that if one knew something they all knew something. They're giving me clear feedback now to increase visibility which is fair. It's just frustrating the person I have the stand up with every day and tell exactly what I'm doing, can't turn to the person he sits next to and share that. But it's my problem.

>>106574424
that situation happens to me as well and its fucking retarded
>oh what do you mean you do the work we give you, finish on time and deliver good results? well, i am never part of any of the meetings so i cant know that :D
managers are so fucking retarded

>>106575232
tell us things to do.

>>106575453
thats what i would like to know
i kinda wanna do stuff on weekends but i dont wanna go outside and i am just glad i have some time where i dont have to deal with the retards at work

>>106571782
>JUST GIVE ME THE PASSWORDS I CAN FIX ALL OF THE SISSYADMIN SHIT INSTEANTLY!!!
>...what's a wireshark? is that some kind of animal?

>>106575482
NTA but you are a unique individual with a unique perspective on certain things. Perhaps find a hobby that lets you express yourself like idk messing around with chiptune stuff or other artistic hobbies

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>public sector job
>get paid really well to be just desktop support, and essentially an on-site monkey for remote engineers
>projects that would take me 1 week as a contractor end up taking 6 months with multiple revisions
>for example, getting internet installed in a shared-tenant building has taken nearly 7 fucking months and has gone through 5 major revisions
>it's still ongoing
>getting the actual internet installed was the fastest part, the ISP scheduled a tech in just a few days
>but now the live internet connection will sit unused for god knows how long
>no anon, you can't just get an off-the-shelf router from walmart in the meantime
>despite the fact that this is literally what happens when someone is WFH anyways
>we have to send you an entire firewall, L3 switch, and access point for 4 staff
>i have zero access to configure or troubleshot anything. I'm just a fucking monkey


I dont know how much more of this I can take. It's killing my fucking soul. I fucking hate bureaucracy

>>106575482
>i kinda wanna do stuff on weekends but i dont wanna go outside
then play games, read books, find groups and chat with random people, learn stuff, build stuff (software or physical) or something?
there are many boards in this website, and while I wouldn't recommend learning anything from this shithole, you can always ask for pointers on things that interest you.

someone pls bake

>>106575664
>>projects that would take me 1 week as a contractor end up taking 6 months with multiple revisions
>>bureaucracy
anon, someone is getting paid for that. they are getting kickbacks.
you are also getting paid to waste time. use it on something else (certs, courses, ...)

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>>106575705
>anon, someone is getting paid for that. they are getting kickbacks.
surprisingly not in this specific case, but there absolutely is some fuckery involved elsewhere. my agency is surprisingly flat so I can see most of the process from start to finish. it really is just that much incompetence. I could go into details but it's not that interesting.

>you are also getting paid to waste time. use it on something else (certs, courses, ...)
this is true, I just felt like venting. It's been an usually busy summer but otherwise there's a ton of downtime. I used that downtime last year to learn Microsoft 365 cloud. That part feels good. But I don't have anyone to talk about it with because my coworkers are retarded.

>>106575664
I knew someone who went to the public sector, was there for like two months and then went private sector again. Public sector employees do nothing. They just have meetings and order consultants. He was pulling hairs off his head when his coworkers were going to contract consultants to do some simple shit that they should've been able to do in-house.

Also, public sector pay is such crap.

>>106575705
I'll never bake.

>>106575779
>Public sector employees do nothing. They just have meetings and order consultants.
it does depend on the agency or district, but this is usually true 90% of the time. it's also because admin are fucking retarded and won't pay competent people what they're worth to have all of that responsibility.

>Also, public sector pay is such crap.
I got extremely lucky, my agency actually gives a shit. We get annual COLA adjustments and my pay is 30% above average. but the work is also extremely crucial, but I don't want to dox myself.

>>106575764
>le heckin holesome altrighttrad muh vhs suburbia
kys yourself

>>106575705
>pls bake
IT won't give me the admin password.......

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>>106575923
wtf are you on about you schizo? it's just a photo in my comfy folder

Bake it. Bake it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP employed at Github.

>>106576009
In my experience, HR is very straightfaced and extremely careful in what they say when you get shitcanned.

>>106576088
No, IT won't give me the password, make the jobless sissyadmin fucks at utwg do it!!

@Everyone we need a new thread asap

>>106576088
>>106576172
Maybe it's time for this to end

>>106576172
uh oh, cheerio

>>106576172
you're the tech expert, why cant you do it?

@everyone we need to write a java factory class to make new threads.

>/g/ "tech workers" are too inept to make a thread

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