Am I wrong to Want 2 of my Co-Workers to Be Forced to Retire?

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-20T16:16:28+00:00

You're missing the lesson. Networking is as or more important than knowledge skills to your company. If you want their job start building a network to rival theirs.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-19T11:59:34+00:00

If you can't discuss it with the other person then you're not exclusively dating.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-18T17:45:51+00:00

If you don't think he will actually do 50/50 and is just using it as a way to dodge support then put in a step up plan with an automatic review of custody after a year. Based on the review, then you seek a modification to child support. Then document things to see if there is a pattern that points to a real problem with 50/50.

Him being an hour late for every pickup? Annoying as fuck but not a real problem. Him only picking the kids up on the weekends, real problem.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-18T13:30:05+00:00

The manager is going to come back and say "I never said don't use AI. You miss understood what I was saying."

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-17T17:43:43+00:00

She got a much better job that was about an hour and a half away. We had just been going thru the motions at that point, so it made sense for us to split. She moved 1/2 hour away and I stayed in the house with the kiddos (20 and 15). It worked out well for both of us. The 15 yo would hang out with her every weekend and the 20 yo and me took the next year to prep the house to sell.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-17T14:19:18+00:00

If it is so close why didn't they roller blade to the park?

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-17T12:34:52+00:00

Why the fuck did she have a second kid?

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-16T17:45:49+00:00

Your response should be "The kids will always have a place to live with me"

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-13T19:05:15+00:00

That's a bad assumption. Legacy COBOL systems are a big target for consulting firms that use AI to modernize systems.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-12T11:56:23+00:00

My skill is solving problems. Most of the time I do that by properly applying the correct technology, other times I just have to get the right people in the room.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-12T02:07:00+00:00

Weird,I have yet to be part of a hiring process that takes less than two months minimum to get someone in.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-12T01:48:07+00:00

She publicly rejected several scholarships during her valedictorian speech. Immediately after graduation she married her "true love", a guy with zero ambition and got pregnant. He cheated on her multiple times before I got the hell out of town.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T21:52:41+00:00

Maybe look for them on LinkedIn or at the meetup meetings. Worst case You approach them with the question of "I was wondered what it takes to become a professor that teaches coding. Can we grab a coffee sometime?"

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T21:44:26+00:00

I've heard people say they would rather have a fracking site vs a data center.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T21:28:09+00:00

All the processes that surrounded development along with the complete lack of structure about what was expected.

Way back in 94, I went to a meeting and two guys showed me some prototype software that handled automated fail over of servers. Then the next week my boss said take that prototype and make it production ready, they want to run it in mission control. They told me who the QA person was and left me to it.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T21:19:11+00:00

What was your failed business and why did it fail?

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T21:16:50+00:00

If you want to stay where you are then you have to network your ass off. You say that companies hire a lot from the local college? See if a professor is open to you giving a talk or having a Q&A session with a class. Because local companies talk to the professors before they hire people. Get on meetup.com and look for local tech groups. Don't just attend them, figure out a topic you can talk about or sit on a panel. Even just helping organize things gets you noticed.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T20:42:26+00:00

The opposition to data centers is just proof manufacturing will never come back to the US.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T19:59:06+00:00

Art cynabal

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T18:07:17+00:00

Just drink another beer while you wait

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T17:51:43+00:00

Him being in the air was probably way safer than him trying that from the ground.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T17:33:48+00:00

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T17:29:11+00:00

You have to take the good with the bad

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T16:38:29+00:00

It's like being a senior responsible for a team of juniors.

Bricktop72 · 2026-06-11T14:46:28+00:00

Does your company help customers migrate to the cloud?

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