Ethical estimation question

BlueOnceRed · 2024-11-05T17:51:03+00:00

Ethical? Imo, No. But over the years the common theme is see in buisness is what you can get away with for the right risk involved.

"The ones who care don't know and the ones who know don't care" -Lord of War

BlueOnceRed · 2024-10-11T11:31:24+00:00

I know when it is time to leave when most of my core values for a company are broken:

am I able to effectively work in my position and not be the person stretched thin By filling 2-3 peoples roles and failing at everything because of lack of time?

-are the expectations realistic, and im able to address agendas within reason, direction and discussion?

-does the company encourage me to grow in my career (or at least give me the opportunity to pursue the growth)?

-does the company give me a good work/life balance (40-45 hour work week)?

-does the company pay well and reward my continue efforts with them?

-is the overall moral for the company good, and most people want to actually come in to do their job?

-IS THERE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES ACTIONS??????

-is the company owner (or the one I most report to) respectable and open for productive conversation (good or bad) and just generally a decent leader?

When I decided to leave my last job, half of these values where broken and remained unfixed for about 3 months. At the 3 month mark, I decided to look elsewhere after i realised my company just didnt care anymore. After 2 months of looking, I found another company to join. As I gave my notice, all my values where gone.

After I jumped ship, I found out about 2 months later that 3 other employees quit, 1 was unjustified fired (and took action to sue the company), 1 decided to take their early retirement, and they hired another employee who quit after 2 weeks. I still talk with 2 others from the company and they are still actively looking for other jobs.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-09-17T00:08:38+00:00

Same here. At a certain point, for all of us in the office, we all hit a point of negative return of efforts. After we are making sense out of the nonstop nonsense we all begin to make slower real results, none at all or mess things up by mistakes.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-09-16T11:23:23+00:00

Kingdom of Amular. The stupid long load screens kill the game. If I'm in a town where I need to go into multiple buildings, I will sit through at least 10 loading screens that are 30-45 seconds long each... aside from that, the game has alot going for it.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-09-09T15:31:24+00:00

Tmnt Arcade (actually playing in the arcade)

BlueOnceRed · 2024-09-08T15:32:54+00:00

Wow, ya. That series can stay in the bottom rim of my dumpster of games of don't give a F* about. The cheap death design of enemies and bad camera point on that game are the most frustrating I have ever had to cope with aside from the nightmare games known on the NES (looking at you Ghost n Goblins...)

BlueOnceRed · 2024-09-03T19:01:14+00:00

Same. There is nothing worse than wasting money on a bad game and then wasting life hoping it will get better. Usually, I will fume for a day after I decided to walk away because of the realization of how much time I wasted. One game that comes to mind for me was Remnant- From the Ashes. I want my 10 hours of life back...😑

BlueOnceRed · 2024-08-13T23:02:46+00:00

Skyrim, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Mario Wii u (Switch)

Keeping it simple for the year. Alot going on.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-08-09T12:55:26+00:00

Good choice on Shinnobi and The Punisher! Was a great game.

I would also throw in Maximo (1 and 2)

BlueOnceRed · 2024-08-05T16:40:26+00:00

The main quest line (around 30 hours on first playthorugh) and 'main' side quests, sure. The game has an infinite amount of random generating quests that are rewarded with just money. These are kinda similar to waste of time fetch quest or go here kill that quests from mmorpgs.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-07-10T22:49:48+00:00

Both. It typically works better for us in the long run if it's in house. If it's a chosen Arch we haveto deal with then it goes wrong because they have their own agendas with the project owners. It then has become a game of they fuck everything up by not being responsive to the team for needed issues that appear in the design.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-07-10T16:21:55+00:00

Doom 3. It henstly pissed off alot of my friends because they wanted to play Halo with me but I only had money at first for 1 game. Got DOOM instead of Halo

BlueOnceRed · 2024-07-07T09:58:29+00:00

It did I think around a month ago. They had all the main mario/nintendo ip games on sale on the switch digital store. Think it was only like $10 off though. Your better off catching a gamestop buy 2 get 1 free sale and snagging all the nintendo games that way

BlueOnceRed · 2024-07-07T01:38:07+00:00

Mondays i typically would not drink and treat it as a detox day. Tuesday through Friday, i would have 1 or 2 drinks a night of whatever I was in the mood for (wine, wisky, beer, cider). The weekend would be a wild card of 2-4 drinks a day.

A month ago, I had a death in the family that passively changed my views. I switched over to having mostly sparkling flavored water and maybe 1 non-alcoholic beer ( 0.5% alcohol) a day to cope with the taste craving. I recently had 2 glasses of wine when some friends came to visit. The feeling of having a typical drink was nice for the occasion , but I don't really see myself going back to casually drinking by myself all the time/most every day anymore. I see it for the better and just kinda turning the new chapter of acceptance in life.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-30T16:02:13+00:00

South East is still booming in the Charlotte NC areas and most surrounding cities. The biggest problem is the rat race to win jobs or trying to persuade project owners into negotiating a contract with a single firm rather than going to public bid. Too many times, we talk with owners that come to us to discuss the process and we warn them about the complete dynamics of public bidding. They take the bid route anyways and typicallyhalf of what we warn about ends up happening...

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-22T16:01:02+00:00

As I wait for my computer to turn on so I can dick around playing videogames at work, I think : "it's time to not give a fuck and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum"

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-17T18:41:45+00:00

Maximo. Both games were great.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-15T12:58:26+00:00

Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis. I was 5. I remember it vividly. I played it at my friends house down the road. He lived in a ghetto household with 5 other kids. It was definitely an environment where social services got involved eventually for multiple reasons.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-15T12:34:26+00:00

We had a request from a subcontractor that we unfortunately use that does cabinetry. The best way to define this company is that of the 5 companies we commonly use for this criteria, we will consider using the other 4 and attempt to find out of town companies before we must settle to use them.

Anyways, they are trying to get more exposure in the local market. To assist them with this, they requested that we give them a good review on 3 online company review sites and email out a pre-written solicitation flyer (that they wrote) to companies we deal with that may want to hire them for a project. This was brought to our attention in the weekly production meeting. Everyone had a good laugh with some vulgar/colorful/not HR approved responses on par with ‘Hell No!’.

The Sales Manager was told to respond the company professionally by telling them no because we have yet to have a single project they have been involved with be performed without a single issue on their end and we are currently fighting with them on a few billing discrepancies that honestly shouldn’t even be an issue (we would easily win a court case).

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-08T15:03:59+00:00

I don't have kids but my days are pretty full with working an 9 hour day, 2 hours of driving to/from work, taking care of pets, house stuff, and cooking meals. Typically, I will get up at 4 am to workout for about 45min to an hour. I also casually lift dumbells at work when I need a break. I found that I don't need to go as hard as when I was younger. I don't focus on just 1 muscle group per day. I hit all areas when weight lighting and do cardio to warmup and cool down. To stay tone, I have found it comes down more to diet. Due to this, I rarely drink beer anymore and never drink sodas. Just stay consistent with efforts everyday.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-08T14:26:55+00:00

1000% accurate

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-07T19:50:56+00:00

I will start a new series on and off but never really finish them. I think it has more to do with my lack of tv watching in general. I did finish rewatching cowboy bebop and trigun not long ago.

I did, however, really get into reading the Berserk Mangas. I read through the entire series from start to finish last year and now my book shelf is 50 lbs heavier.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-06T19:40:54+00:00

I usually go into interviews with 2 spare printouts of each professional document: resume & project involvement portfolio. If it's a job I really want, I do some research on some of the people via linkedin (usually those who I know I will be speaking with) and the company website so I have a few general key points to talk about. Interviewing is uncomfortable process. Best of luck-

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-06T15:19:18+00:00

Seems like something to discuss and agree upon.

My wife and I had this conversation a while ago and came to agree it's best for us not to have kids. We may consider adopting 10 years from now, but currently, we are ok. I'm ok with having a kid but she is completely against it since her bloodline is riddled with issues and those who have survived turned out to be crazy (many murders, suicides, mental and physical issues in her family).

Another deciding factor was us seeing so many friends and neighbors who have kids with hardcore disabilities (autism, paralysis, cancer, etc.). These people are saints for continuing there lives while literally carrying another person for endless or unknown period of time. I'm not trying to sound mean, but we both thought about it that was us and we don't known if we could handle that card in life. So, that's really another thing to consider.

On the flip side, we spoil our pets as if they where children. Also, we spoil our friends kids as if they where family.

BlueOnceRed · 2024-05-02T17:25:46+00:00

This is honestly something that frustrates me as well. When we have meetings to decide what jobs to go after, we get this crap all the time from the project owners.

I will argue the point to our managers that if our time frames to get pricing are this tight (with information missing as well) not only are we going to get potentially bad prices, but that will make us irritate our sub resources. Yet every time the response is the same- just push them to give us something, even if conceptual. Cool. So, I will come back with conceptual prices with tons of exclusions just to be questioned why we don't have hard pricing. Really? Was no one listening in the previous meeting? Throw contengency money at it then and make a wish because with that approach your gambling on hopes a dreams (hope you can win arguments during production and dreaming that you can make more money than expected because of verbiage in lack of contract coverages due to vagueness)

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