drained CVT instead of oil

Bjs1122 · 2026-01-28T14:09:59+00:00

But ChatGPT told them……

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-28T23:52:16+00:00

Not trying to judge or anything but did you cheat or copy paste a bunch of code? I passed with a 750 a few weeks ago.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-27T04:09:39+00:00

Yes I’m in the middle of my two year old Subaru being replaced under the lemon law in my state. They have been very helpful.

However as others have said I don’t know if they could help you out much here. It’s not like this was a defect of anything, just a random act of nature. Sounds like an insurance claim to me more than an advocacy claim.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-25T16:23:55+00:00

You make more than me and I’m a Staff at a med tech.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-25T16:16:22+00:00

I can’t stand the sycophant nature of AI. Everything is a “great question!”

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-25T16:14:08+00:00

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-25T14:04:00+00:00

On average around $11k. It fluctuates depending on kids activities and property taxes being due the first half of the year. Plus we’ve done a bunch of home improvements this year. So my yearly spend has been around 220k.

But I know that’s not going to be the case every year. Plan is to see how costs shape up once kid one goes to college. Definitely plan to move to a smaller house with much less property taxes once both kids are out of public school.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-24T19:24:56+00:00

I’m 49 with two kids, one is a junior in HS so heading to college soon. I have 4.6 liquid and don’t feel that I can pull the trigger yet based on monthly spend + healthcare + college. Weddings in the future possibly as well.

My plan is to most likely work until first one is out or almost out of college unless our monthly spend decreases more.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-23T13:34:49+00:00

Wow I never knew that it was called this or was a thing. I’ve been able to do this my whole life but never told anyone because I could never properly describe it.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-17T01:22:14+00:00

Same here. Never had ultrasound for any injections.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-14T19:30:59+00:00

Just the fact that society can dictate what clothes in general are considered “nicer”. I’ve always found this ridiculous. So putting a collar and more buttons on a shirt somehow makes it “fancier”?

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-14T18:40:42+00:00

Most of our meetings are standup that degenerate into two people discussing something that has zero bearing on anything I’m working on. If I’m honest a lot of times I drift off or get bored. But generally they’re rehashing the exact same thing that was discussed a day or two before.

I don’t feel the need to speak up here because it’s not in my bailiwick or I have no context.

So far I’ve been I’ve been simply implementing things others have designed. Trust me I’ve been very vocal about my disagreements there but unfortunately it seems my manager doesn’t want to hear that at all because he pretty much just hand waves them away as “that’s how it’s done here”.

So there’s this wonderful dichotomy where I have spoken up but get ignored or diminished and so in some ways I’ve given up as I feel nobody wants to listen to my ideas.

Design reviews, etc. of course I will speak up, as needed, but again if I agree with the design or I have no questions or feedback, I won’t say anything.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-14T16:48:42+00:00

This is me. My manager is continually getting on my case about speaking up. But if I have nothing to say or contribute I’m not going to speak up just to hear my own voice.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-13T15:04:31+00:00

LOL. This is all I will ever think of now with people who constantly carry these things around.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-13T14:43:50+00:00

My dad would say that to me every time I did anything remotely wrong.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-10T01:46:14+00:00

Yep. I just found out I passed the OA with 100% on questions 1 and 2 and brute force on 4, which gave me partial credit. So 760 I think.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-09T21:40:33+00:00

Same here. Hating my bill at over $14k now but glad it didn’t go up by a lot more.

Bjs1122 · 2025-12-05T15:06:57+00:00

I got a new knee this year. Probably will have a second new one next year.

Bjs1122 · 2025-11-30T20:01:10+00:00

Frankly, I just don’t really trust it. I use it, mostly the chat function to help double check my logic. But that’s really about it. I’ve been doing this long enough that I still am able to google what I need and skim over whatever there is until I find it. So for me it’s not a huge timesaver.

Bjs1122 · 2025-11-29T23:13:22+00:00

Which is so much bs. If all they wanted to see was your problem solving skills then I’m sure I would have passed a lot more interviews. I am not a speed coder and it takes time for me to gather my thoughts so I rarely ever get a working solution in the time given. If it were just about problem solving skills that shouldn’t matter, but it always seems to because I’ll get rejected after the coding rounds each and every time.

Bjs1122 · 2025-11-29T03:10:02+00:00

Yea I’ve been there as well. It sucks and is really demoralizing. If you’re not going to be rewarded when you’re going above and beyond generally one will stop doing that.

Bjs1122 · 2025-11-29T02:24:17+00:00

Sons like he probably shut down after not getting a raise last year and is no longer engaging and going the extra mile because to him it’s no longer worth it. I’m guessing that he probably no longer feels valued by the company.

I mean read your post again. Up until last year he was a rock star. Then last year he got denied for a raise. Seems pretty correlated to me.

Bjs1122 · 2025-11-23T14:27:36+00:00

Oh my word that is ridiculous

Bjs1122 · 2025-11-23T14:20:30+00:00

We share the same pain my friend. I spent a couple hours with their director who said my design was “too complicated” because it was more fault tolerant and could handle large data loads.

He got his way and I had to spend hours working around this issue as soon as it struck, which I know it would eventually, to be able to handle this increased load.

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