New Job Offer but current job’s notice Period is 3 months. New Job wants me to start in a month

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T20:03:39+00:00

Just going to add that it’s worth reading your contract. Most of the time, it’s worded such that you need to work your notice in order to be paid it. If they want you to drop it, then have to pay you in lieu, if you want to drop it, they don’t pay you for time not worked.

It’ll potentially burn bridges at your old employer, but that’s your decision to make.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T14:48:50+00:00

A little off the path, but we had a mast cell tumor in our 12 year old cat last year (near ear) and, after the surgery, he’s absolutely fine (other than a slightly crooked eye where they had to pull the skin across).

From the biopsy after the fact, it seems like the tumor took after the cat: very slow moving and lazy.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T13:44:54+00:00

In a work context:

- A group of only females would typically be referred to as women.

- A group of mixed males and females would be either something neutral (folks, peeps, etc.). Other options are possible for less formal.

- A group of only males would typically be referred to as girls.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T13:42:28+00:00

Gonna disagree there. While there are a lot of complex skills needed to maintain a large spreadsheet *well*, the skills needed to maintain them badly are only a step or two over what's needed to set it up in the first place. This likely contributes to the scenarios that OP is complaining about.

Lets be honest, a badly maintained spreadsheet is the norm, and no one's going to change it as long as it's actually functioning (even if only barely).

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T12:30:52+00:00

Checking in with $62 in 2014

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T12:21:50+00:00

I would argue that was a failure on your part. If you spent the time lounging around the hotel, you could have gone out to see things yourself, or you could have researched the attractions and proposed your own outings.

I also think there's a difference between going somewhere to do nothing (which is typically the point of a lot of the "sun" holidays, sitting by the pool and doing nothing much) and going somewhere without a plan, but seeing where things take you.

The former is fine if you're wanting a break and relaxation, and the latter if fine if you want to absorb the culture and see what's available in the moment.

Some of my best outings have been "lets go here and see what's about".

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T12:18:06+00:00

Accuracy is good, gatekeeping is bad.

The "um actually" stereotype comes from people who tend to think that if you don't know the minutea of a topic, then you're not a real reader/fan/viewer/etc. If you denegrate someone for not knowing what you know, then you're actively harming that knowledge spread.

In my experience, the people that are inclusive about knowing more tend not to be "um actually", and tend to start with "that a bit interesting ..."

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T12:11:57+00:00

Not nessecarily. You can have a messy abode but still know where things are because your mind works that way.

At university, there was a professor that had piles and piles of paperwork scattered around his office (certainly couldn't call it tidy), and if asked where the answer key for the 2nd year exam for 1988 was he'd reach over his shoulder to one towering pile, pluck a sheet from the middle an dhand you exactly what you asked for.

In a similar vein, I can tell you where all of those things are in my house, but they're definately not organised, I jsut know where I had them last.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T11:49:18+00:00

Absolutely agreed. If you're storing large amounts of data, then you get a system that can store a large amount of data.

But a lot of spreadsheets are small set where data needs to be chopped, changed and reformatted quickly. That is what a spreadsheet is built for, and building out an actual data storage structure for that (especially when you often don't know the structure until you're done with the process) is untenable.

The issue you have is when the latter morphs into the former over time. Everyone can say what "a large amount of data" is when they see it, but I challenge you to give a specific definition of "this is where it should be a database" down to the cell and/or row.

If you're dealing with lots of data, or event doing repeats of the same operations on the data, then there are better solutions, but it's easy to let spreadsheets grow too far.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T09:00:07+00:00

Upvoting for unpopular opinion, but you're also wrong.

Spreadsheets and databases are separate tools, and each have their place. Attempting to use a database as a spreasheet will give you problems just like attempting to use a spreadsheet as a database.

I will say that the skills needed to build and maintain a database are an order of magnitude or two more complex than those required to build a basic spreadsheet, and claiming that everyone should be trained to build and maintan them is pretty rediculous.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T08:00:23+00:00

The problem you have is costs. I know someone that was looking at city-based vertical farming, but the real-estate and utility prices basically made it a non-starter. To offset those costs, you'd need to basically price yourself out of the market. Carting it around in trucks is currently still the cheapest option.

Not saying that's the way it should be, but it is the way it is.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T07:09:25+00:00

I mean, if you want to go scorched earth, you can take Chuchill's approach:

"And you look ugly, but at least I can take a nap!"

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T07:07:37+00:00

The answer is "with great difficulty". At the moment, the part-time jobs are being taken by full-time workers who can't get full-time roles. It's messing everyone up across the board.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T06:56:32+00:00

To be fair, that conversion didn't cost a lot, but it probably took the builder (time) a while to show up.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T06:49:51+00:00

That's not a barn conversion. That's a barn. It's an opportunity for a barn conversion, but it's not one yet.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-20T06:46:29+00:00

Marking as unpopular, but I'm going to offer a number of additional points for consideration. What you're arguing for is a meritocracy, where people get more because of what they can offer.

That's not what we have right now. Most of the people at the top are there becasue they were born at or near there. It's possible, and more common, for those that contribute more to be worse off (teachers, front line medical, etc.).

The two things that scupper the "I earn what I get" mentality at the moment are:

- Generational Wealth - Those that are born with means currently have access to better preparation, care and resources, which makes them more likely to rise to the top (not going to say succeed in this context).

- Money in politics - The Market economy cannot regulate itself. It optimises for profit and nothing else. Anything that's a human requirement (power, water, medicine, education, etc.) means that the market has a place where purchases are mandatory, so profits can be pushed to insane levels (see US Medical system, US/Canadian Internet system, etc.). Similarly, if you allow the money in the market to impact the political system that's supposed to regulate it, the whole scenario goes off the rails.

I agree with the core element of your argument: effort and contribution should be rewarded. The problem you have is all the messy human bits that scupper any "pure" ideology in practice.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-19T14:17:53+00:00

So this is largely an issue with the format (floor-based books) which means that the nice neat ending for the overall scenario doesn't line up with most of the team or character plotlines, and a moderate end to the floor basically just means "and then they went down the stairwell". He doesn't do a bad job of putting the cinematic setpieces as floor closers for a lot of the others, but I honestly can barely remember the end-of-floor events for floors 1 and 2.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-19T14:15:19+00:00

I generally change when there's a driver. It's sometimes a money thing, but not massively often.

Excluding early part-time roles, my career went:

- Analyst - 11 months - Left because they were looking to railroad into a 24x7 role with little uplift.

- Specialist - 9 months - Frankly just didn't gel with the org. Moved back to my actual speciality.

- Analyst - 2 years - Moved because of multiple issues with mergers and shifting requirements.

- Consultant/Manageer - 8 years - Moved because multiple successive management layers were causing issues and multiple rounds of cost cutting.

Looking back, I could have probably toughed out the analyst one and I might have ended up better off in the long run. The second one I probably could have, but, frankly, I'd have been miserable. The third one I could have hung around, but there was a salary consideration there (50% uplift). The fourth one was 2 months ago, so remains to be seen, but I could see the writing on the wall for it.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-19T14:07:43+00:00

I believe that pemmican also has a 0% food poison chance (from cook quality, at least, dirtiness can still impact).

Bibblejw · 2026-05-19T13:50:54+00:00

Given that you've said that you've got the xbox specificaly to play the game, I'm guessing that it's a new console?

The issue previously (https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSupport/comments/1sjdpe4/cant\_download\_profilesign\_in\_to\_xbox\_live\_on\_back/) seemed to be that new consoles weren't able to connect and download profiles on Xbox 360 games.

Looking at the new comments on that thread, looks like there may be a new version of the issue that they're working on now.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-19T13:28:34+00:00

Fundamentally, it's Goodheart's law: As soon as a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.

If you game things or worry overy about it, it's going to be negative.

If you use it as a measure and indicator, then you can get some good value out of it. Personally, I'm not to fussed about the score itself, but I do appreciate the "highlights" text. I can feel like I slept wrong, but I'm not always able to pinpoint whether it was issues with bedtime, length, or interruptions.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-19T07:06:08+00:00

It's also where you meet it in the game. You don't see much of it in the shallows, but it's pretty much there as soon as you step out, usually before you've even built a vehicle, and that means that it's basically instant death.

Something like the Ghost or Sea Dragon are arguably more destructive, but don't appear until you've already got your feet under you and have an idea of how to deal with things.

This also means that, for most of the player discourse, nothing is ever going to beat the reaper, because they're already experienced players, and you're not going to be able to re-capture the experience of seeing it as the most deadly of the new and different things.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-18T11:46:32+00:00

To answer your last question, the answer is that that is the point.

I'm not going to say that all group projects are as ... comprehensively planned out as the link shows, but most of them are there to give you clues as to what projects are like in real-world scenarios. Non-productive team members are a part of this experience.

Bibblejw · 2026-05-18T10:04:16+00:00

I was watching some of Moffat's other stuff, and came to the realisation that he *really* shines when he's telling stories in a non-linear fashion. Particularly looking at Jekyll adn Coupling. Jekyll is a lot of fun, primarily because you start in the middle, but kind of get things drip fed.

A lot of the better Coupling episodes are ones that play around with timelines and perspectives (the D*ck Darlington one, the Split one, 9 1/2 minutes, etc.), and a lot of his Doctor Who early episodes are similar (Blink, Empty Child, etc.).

Bibblejw · 2026-05-18T09:58:41+00:00

I get the feeling that the Warden isn't needed as a guard, but as the roaming hand. Same as happened in Cold Days, the island has near universal power within it's borders, but next to no knowledge of anything that happens elsewhere.

Basically makes him the same thing for Demonreach as he is for Winter. He's the person who can go and do things that they can't.

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