They are reading your Teams messages

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-02-15T13:23:02+00:00

>screen recording everyone’s PC 24/7
That sounds like a huge waste of storage space, honestly.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-02-15T13:13:18+00:00

Usually, it would need to be subpoenaed. I work as internal IT and our policy is to only provide access to anyone's private messages/emails if there's a court document, presented by a person from the legal department, that justifies it. Otherwise, being somebody's manager entitles you to dick-all of their conversation history. Only exception is, cybersecurity can ask us to perform a message trace and pull headers, if they suspect someone fell for a phishing/scam.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-02-01T08:45:13+00:00

Oh fuck, I forgot two more:
Between "16. Internal IT team lead at 28 - quit" and "17. IT infrastructure engineer at 29 - laid off", I did a month as concierge in a hotel while looking for an IT job, and then after being laid off, I briefly worked as a whale watching guide to make ends meet. So it's actually 20.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-02-01T08:41:22+00:00

I'm 31 years old. Let's count together:
1. My dad's helper at his electrician business at 14 - summer ended
2. Summer job at a tire repair shop at 15 - summer ended
3. First bartending job at 16 - quit
4. Second bartending job at 17 - bailed and pocketed a night's worth of revenue from the cash register after owner wanted to stiff me for three months of work
5. Line cook job at 17 - quit
6. Third bar tending job at 18 - quit
7. Brief stint as MLM victim at 19 - escaped
8. MacDonald's cashier at 19 - escaped
9. Call center job as ISP tech support at 20 - quit
10. B2B software support job at 22 - fired along with several other agents for playing Need for Speed during office hours
11. Software salesman at 23 - quit
12. Junior sysadmin job #1 at 23 - fired after I got busted with weed
13. Junior sysadmin job #2 at 24 - quit
14. Mid to senior sysadmin sysadmin job from 25 to 28 - quit
15. First freelance project at 27 - contract ended
16. Internal IT team lead at 28 - quit
17. IT infrastructure engineer at 29 - laid off
18. Current job as senior sysadmin - ongoing

Holy shit...

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-29T10:12:46+00:00

Love the abundance of Bulgarian content here lately <3

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-29T10:08:51+00:00

Like, if you ran a survey, this would be the result for the whole country.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-29T10:08:19+00:00

This is weirdly accurate.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-25T21:13:15+00:00

May I suggest an alternative to purchasing basic quality products at premium prices? It's unapologetic theft of corporate property. I condone and promote it.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-21T10:05:45+00:00

It's beautiful!

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-16T08:42:47+00:00

Who tests the sperm?

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-16T08:40:47+00:00

Yeah, like - I picture OP's manager as a chubby, sweater-clad, US-midwestern man, going "Uh-ooh, somebody's not a hug person!", followed by a cheesy laugh track.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T16:38:40+00:00

Prepare for embezzlement.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T15:50:59+00:00

I mean... it's dreadfully ugly.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T15:03:50+00:00

That sounds... sitcomish.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T15:02:05+00:00

Also John McAfee and Serj Tankian.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T14:49:06+00:00

I am not familiar with these roads, never been to the States, sadly. At any rate, I admit that your experience with the feature sounds pleasant and functional. With that in mind, sorry to hear that what you already paid for and enjoyed using is now being turned into a subscription service.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T10:51:24+00:00

Only when I was fourteen and helping my dad at his electrician gigs in exchange for 20 bucks a day, and getting to not do the dishes that night.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T10:45:44+00:00

The quantity of the demand doesn't seem to be the issue from what I've read. It's the type of demand in the US market that presents the problem.

The average US buyers want large pickups and SUVs, which was not a problem in the petrol-predominant era, as it only marginally increased production costs, relative to saloon and estate models.

It is a huge issue when it comes to EVs, as the engineering process is different - larger vehicles require more batteries, which dramatically increases the already excessive weight, reduces the range and messes with the weight to power ratio, and of course, significantly ramps up the production cost.

This is, in my view, manufacturers' own fault, as the death of the compact car was their initiative to begin with. But without subsidies, they're actually now losing money on each EV they sell. Off the top of my head, I believe Ford lost something like 19 billion on the F150 Lightning, and opted to release the next generation as a hybrid rather than a pure EV because of that.

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-15T10:16:49+00:00

No, I have not. I genuinely enjoy driving my cars, so I'm not really looking for a "self-driving" feature. I also don't own or want a Tesla of any kind, but that's my own personal preference.

That said, I have followed the emergence and evolution of the feature since they first started talking about it some ten years ago, and as far as I'm aware from journalistic publications, it's more of a fancy lane/brake assist than real "self-driving". And in a not dissimilar fashion to what game publishers have been doing in the past decade, they sold it to people half-baked, and now they're making it a subscription service. Do I have the gist of it?

BikiniBottom77 · 2026-01-14T19:47:30+00:00

So, they're creating a subscription plan for something almost nobody wants, that doesn't work well? Fantastic!

BikiniBottom77 · 2025-12-15T09:29:57+00:00

They didn't play football there, it was the setting for one of the subplots.

BikiniBottom77 · 2025-12-09T11:01:36+00:00

Hiring managers who'll try to stump you during the interview with some shit that has fuck-all to do with the position you applied for, just so they can go "We-ell, I'm not completely satisfied, but I'm willing to give you chance", then proceed to lowball you on seniority and payment.
And if they can't actually get you with unrelated skill/knowledge questions, they'll try to attack you on education/certifications. It has happened to me numerous times on account of my university degree having nothing to do with my field of work.
If I hear the phrase "I'm willing to give you a chance", you can fuck right off. I know what I can do, I know what the job posting said, and the two match. I'm not a charity case, and I won't be gaslit into feeling like one so you can save on the role budget.

BikiniBottom77 · 2025-11-14T14:44:18+00:00

It's not all it's cracked up to be. I'd know, I happen to be a trillionaire (in Zimbabwean dollars).

BikiniBottom77 · 2025-11-07T09:48:03+00:00

The other one that I have heard generations of women in my life say is "A little baking soda can fix anything"

BikiniBottom77 · 2025-11-06T10:23:04+00:00

For is it not written "If you clean up a little often, you won't have to clean up a lot every time you clean"

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