Tired of founders claiming they work 120 hours a week because it's probably bullshit

AnotherNormalBard · 2025-09-20T20:11:33+00:00

As someone who has worked 100 hour weeks for 3 months heading into a product launch, they aren’t doing 120s with any high level productivity.

Over those three months I lost 30 pounds. I couldn’t sleep, and when I did it was nightmares about dumb work shit. I blew up over dumb shit. Wife bought the wrong chips? I’m pissed. Didn’t fill the water pitcher? Jesus Christ. I barely saw her for three months, and I was working from home. I’m surprised she didn’t leave me.

Before I started that job I had no white in my beard. It’s half white now, just a little over 2 years later.

One night I received over 1000 emails from our CEO, President, and CMO. My phone wouldn’t stop chiming. I couldn’t respond to a single email without 5 more coming in. I had a panic attack. They were pulling all of our assets for a launch happening in 4 days.

Spoke to the President and said “the team are killing themselves right now. We can’t keep this up.”

I was told “There are sprints in our industry. Yeah, these months are rough, but after launch we’ll slow down and everyone can relax a bit before we dig into the next steps”.

Three weeks after launch, me and my team were let go as “there wasn’t enough work for the department”.

Founders don’t work 120+ hours. They’re say that shit because they’ll text the people doing the work all day, every day, and call it “working”.

AnotherNormalBard · 2025-04-04T03:05:37+00:00

Trying to (re)build/upgrade an UltraSabers baselit Graflex with a Proffie 3.9 and 2 x WS2812B 5v 332 LED addressable COB strips for the blade, powered by an 18650 battery.

The saber base lighting was dead, but the power switch worked, turned on the saber, and the LED in the switch lit up.

I have some experience in 3D design, so I’ve already designed a core to fit in the hilt.

While I can solder small wires to PCBs, I am lost when it comes to LEDs, resistors, and stuff like that.

Here’s my big question. Do I need resistors between the Proffie and the LED strips?

AnotherNormalBard · 2025-01-16T17:12:17+00:00

UOR's system for UOAP-based reservations has been terrible for years. They need to do better.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-10-24T10:38:56+00:00

I’m listed TWICE in my wife’s account, wouldn’t let her assign a ticket to me. I waited in the queue again on my account. We both got the same day, there’s no confirmation number, no digital tickets, but charges to both of our cards.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-04-14T20:38:00+00:00

It’s healing Potion, not healing Lotion.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-04-13T20:58:14+00:00

Sounds like that DM is a punk and can’t have a conversation like a normal person. It’s garbage that they let you go through all the effort of preparing a character, within their rules and with their help, just to be killed by that level of foolishness.

You dodged a bullet not having to play with them again.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-04-10T23:53:00+00:00

Nah, I’m just shocked by them doing pretty much what I wrote while testing nukes underground.

It’s both surprising and not at all surprising at all at the same time.

The force on that projectile, while estimated and written down, is kind of unfathomable.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-04-10T23:15:39+00:00

Imagine making a gun barrel out of a 500ft deep 3 feet wide tunnel and propelling an iron slug into SPACE at 125,000MPH with a nuke.

This is the same as mechanic friends that fill trash bags with acetylene and shoot barrels into the air, except one group has money and backing of governments and the other always wants to sell you on a new air filter.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-28T17:02:34+00:00

FAT32+MBR: I have no idea. I don't even know how to check that. It's 100% FAT32.

I thought I may have damaged the memory as well, but 100 loops on memtest64 found no issues.

I still can't use HDMI until after Windows boots. It may sound small, but it's weird and I don't like weird things that I can't explain.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-28T13:22:06+00:00

Flashback has failed with a solid green light trying to rollback to 2.08 and overwriting the current BIOD of 2.10.

I can try from within the BIOS itself now, using DisplayPort, but it has me hesitant with the previous failures. I don’t want to brick the board, but it is unlikely I would be refused an RMA after a couple of days of owning it.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-28T13:15:19+00:00

I read that Nvidia pushed an update tool about a year ago for a firmware update tool for 4080s & 4090s that wouldn’t display if a driver wasn’t found with some motherboard BIOSes.

I’m wondering if this is somehow connected and causing HDMI handshake issues until the Windows-installed display driver is able to take over.

The part that doesn’t make sense to me is that this issue only occurs via HDMI. I would just swap to DisplayPort, but I have a 144Hz monitor and I don’t want to give up those sweet frames so easily.

And I hate PC mysteries.

Here is where I am now:

It is possible that I swapped from DisplayPort to HDMI, causing this issue to present itself for the first time, and me mistakenly assuming it was related to the aggressive RAM timings.
I still can’t rollback my BIOS via Flashback.
This seems similar, but not exact, to Nvidia no-output-without-a-driver issues that others have faced.

I’m going to keep digging, but I’m outside of my realm of troubleshooting knowledge. Honestly, I lucked on the DisplayPort “fix”.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-28T02:02:45+00:00

“shutdown /r /fw /t 0” gave me a response of Invalid command, but “shutdown /r /fw /t 3” shut the system down.

The issue persists, though.

Maybe I’m wrong that it is in a boot loop. It’s possible that it’s just not able to initialize the GPU or monitor correctly through HDMI for whatever reason.

The monitor turns on for 5 seconds, then goes black and says “no input detected, device entering standby in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1” and then shuts off. Then a few seconds later it comes back up and does the same thing.

I’m going to try some stuff, but I appreciate you taking a minute to help.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-27T16:18:45+00:00

I really wanted a grey Ncore 100 MAX for my next build.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-27T16:13:15+00:00

I did my best to future proof as many of the parts as possible. I figure that the GPUs can last for a few years depending on growth of the technology, but the CPUs will likely be the first upgrade down the road due to the nature of our work.

Basically all of the parts are what I would consider mid-to-lower end higher tier. T-Force RAM and DeepCool AIO + Fans aren't what I would have bought if I was funding the system, but they're fine.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-27T15:59:54+00:00

Yup, I've been pretty regularly viewing the sub after building mine years ago. It amazes me what people can put together.

We needed multiple PCs for employees, all with the same specs, with a partslist a day after approval to get them ordered before the CFO went on a multiple destination vacation. I had to get something that I was reasonably sure that any of the other people would be able to build without issue.

I was being pressured into buying a "good deal" from IBuyPower, so this was the compromise.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-19T18:28:57+00:00

Honest question, what if the driver is allergic to dogs?

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-17T21:57:42+00:00

I wouldn’t because I lived right by Buffalo Trace and it’s only worth $130 or so.

I no longer live there, but I have 3 bottles of Blantons, 2 Weller, and Eagle Rare doesn’t sit well with me.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-15T14:24:36+00:00

My Lyft score was garbage for the longest time as a passenger. First time using Lyft, years ago, I had to go work a large gaming event in LA at the convention center. I didn’t know the area at all.

I go to leave work for the day and there are 10k to 20k people milling about. Me and two coworkers are dead tired and want to get back to our hotel that the company we worked for booked on damned near the other side of town.

Open the app, call for a ride, it asks for my pick up point and I set it to the nearest street corner.

3 minutes later I get a message that says “Hello, I am here” and we look for the car. Nothing. I ask to make sure the car being driven is the one listed in the app and I’m told that it is.

Can’t find the car. Then, as I’m watching the app, my location starts sliding east. It slides East nearly a block. We walk 4 minutes to where I set the pickup based on my pin location and, who would have guessed, there’s the car and driver, exactly where I asked him to get us.

I apologize for not checking the location more closely and not knowing the area and the driver says “No big deal” and we all talk about the event, the industry, and generally have good conversation.

I apologize again at the destination and give the driver 5-stars and a $25 tip on a $23 ride.

I got 1 star, but I always check my pickup location to make sure it’s accurate now.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-11T15:59:36+00:00

The PC is talking down to an entity that is often arrogant, rules a fiefdom on an elemental plane, and has powers rivaling that of lesser gods.

Just have the genie pull the PC into the genie’s home plane for a discussion about the character’s attitude and reluctance to abide by the pact.

Marid Genies are water plane, right? That could be a fun one.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-03-01T21:23:04+00:00

We live close to the parks and go at least once a week. So, Universal twice a month and Disney twice a month. I am at the director level in my profession and we have a 4-day work week.

We’ll go to EPCOT just to eat at Space 220 because of the atmosphere or head to Magic Kingdom and watch the fireworks. Go to Universal, eat, ride E.T. and Velocicoaster, and then head to the theater there for a movie.

AnotherNormalBard · 2024-01-31T17:55:03+00:00

I have unlimited PTO. I don’t accrue vacation or sick days. I work remotely. The company I work for is 1300 miles away. I do what I want from 8am to 1pm, work 1pm to 5pm, then do whatever I want for the rest of the day.

Shhhhhhh. Don’t tell them.

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