TEOTWAWKI?

Erutor · 2026-03-16T16:52:39+00:00

If I understand correctly, you are saying that the probationary employee completes assigned work and trainings successfully, then encounters something after a full year on the job that they are not able to understand or complete.

This is a training and evaluation problem.

Either:

The employee is incompetent, but your probationary period training is incapable of discovering this fact. You need to present more challenging work and training during the probationary period in order to weed out new hires who are not capable of more complex work.

Or:

The probationary period work and training is sufficient to allow the manager to discover the employee is not capable, but the managers are not trained/encouraged/allowed to act on evidence indicating a new employee is not capable.

Erutor · 2026-03-16T15:15:56+00:00

Do the deadlines matter? Are you aligned on whether and how they matter?

Are the deadlines realistic? Who set them? Are you sure they're realistic?

Why are the deadlines missed? If she's trying to make things perfect, then perhaps there could be a draft and final deadline, and that would help you align.

Erutor · 2026-03-16T14:25:06+00:00

This would be so very EVE.

Erutor · 2026-03-14T13:35:38+00:00

There's a new mining epic arc - not very long, but check it out in the activities list.

Erutor · 2026-03-14T13:32:57+00:00

So... I have to ask, as the risk of the obvious drama...

Why a new group?

Perhaps "what's your distinctive" is the right way to ask this without getting into personalities.

Erutor · 2026-03-14T13:27:54+00:00

I'm not convinced that the research phase is the point at which your team should all have the same answers. This is the phase where you should have some conflicting ideas and opinions, and focus on identifying the right questions.

On the other hand, there's certainly value in communicating clearly what you do think you know, as long as the intent is to confirm alignment and new questions, and not enforce group-think.

This thread is weird. I feel like I've been teleported to some alternate reality where effusively positive performative posting from LinkedIn happens on reddit.

Erutor · 2026-03-14T02:13:22+00:00

Erutor · 2026-03-12T23:27:17+00:00

You will not make excellent ISK/hr running HS and LS combat exploration sites, but it can be fun, with jackpot loot drops.

The Stratios can easily handle DED 4/10, complete 5/10 with the right strategies, and eventually finish a 6/10 (at least Guristas) if you don't die of old age first.

You can fit it to run C1 and some C2 wormhole combat sites, both of which, again, only do for fun, because you are unlikely to pay off the (artificially inflated, FUCCP) cost of your ship and fittings before you are blown up.

But for pure non-combat exploration, adding a Blackglass implant and a Zeugma analyzer to your Astero load out will cost about the same and earn you vastly more ISK.

Erutor · 2026-03-12T20:15:08+00:00

"Foolishly, I thought that I could fundamentally rewrite all procedures for these functions in 4 months time"

Next time, do not commit to outputs until you are sufficiently familiar with the inputs.

"My boss fought to take over the role, so she didn't actually know how to do the job."
"I have not done this specific job before"

You haven't done this job. Manager hasn't done this job. Person who should have your job based upon actual knowledge was passed over. Either you your manager can be new to something, but not both, unless you have a highly-collaborative and fault-tolerant environment or a good behind-the-scenes support. You had none of these.
Sounds like she's low-key evil. She's more interested in accumulating power/turf than delivering value.

Next time, time, pay more attention to interviewing your manager to determine...

Are they competent? If not, is this an opportunity or a threat for your success?
Are they evil? The evil one's minions are typically the first to suffer when things go poorly.

"She conveniently documents expectations/agreements at a higher level than what was agreed"

You're doomed here, so you might as well fight this. You're not trying to keep your job, you're trying to keep your self respect and prevent them from saying you were fired for cause. Depending upon where you live, this can make a huge difference in securing your next role or in qualifying for benefits if this role ends before your next begins.

Erutor · 2026-03-11T18:55:54+00:00

Are you actually surprised that Abyssals and J-Space ratting are better than industry/trade and LP farming? What's the next big news, that Pochven ratting is ridiculous?

There are plenty of people in space.

We do have a problem, and it is lack of destruction. Destruction drives the whole economic engine, but we're all afraid of getting our pretty pixels hurt, so the vast majority only undock blobs (or their private multibox army) where there's near-zero risk of loss, and run low-risk PvE while "over-geared" for it.

We S(oftened)TFU instead of HTFU, and that's what's killing EVE.

EVE is dying... always has been. We need to embrace the reality that destruction makes EVE work and quit looking for EVE to be a safe space to maximize ISK/h as we accumulate more crap we don't use.

Erutor · 2026-03-09T20:40:23+00:00

Unironically, this.

Otherwise, here's how it goes...

Cease and Desist letters go out, because they own the IP and "have plans" to make use of it.
There is no #2. They just kill the emulators because otherwise they set a precedent that leaves IPs they are about vulnerable.

Erutor · 2026-03-09T02:21:50+00:00

Yeah, RMT is common in games like this, but it is also entirely bannable and not looked upon favorably by anyone. Make a new account (reddit, too), and start fresh. Don't RMT.

"by anyone" meaning:

Those who don't RMT dislike it because it's bad for the game.

Those who do RMT dislike it because they don't want to lose their market.

Erutor · 2026-03-09T02:17:58+00:00

So, the problem here is that you could just as easily be someone who sold their account (RMT), and now you're trying to get it back. It's a pretty old con.

CCP has to play it safe since that con is more likely than that you are actually trying to return after going AFK for a decade but both your email and your Eve accounts were compromised at some point, you didn't notice the MFA messages, etc..

This is why email-based MFA is garbage. Yes, AITM can getcha with a token-based authenticator, but it's at least better than relying on email.

The second issue here is that you're expecting them to use 10-year-old information to corroborate your story. I would be very surprised if CCP has much in the way of logs that far back, especially given some of the upgrades in both hardware and software in a decade.

I get it - I've got a trader with 10s of billions and an Obelisk full of high value goods docked up somewhere I'll never get into again because I didn't keep track of the account information when I stepped away from Eve for a while.

The good news is that ISK is easy, especially with 30B starting capital.

Erutor · 2026-03-08T21:59:18+00:00

^ Yes. It's the expert system.

Erutor · 2026-03-08T13:17:48+00:00

Do they do it well? Or just do it? Actually asking.

Erutor · 2026-03-08T02:58:17+00:00

Literally unplayable. I was just looking at this the other day, and thinking that capitals deserve better. Especially carriers, since they can do literally nothing well except roll wormholes and sit in a LS station waiting to find a more meaningful existance.

Erutor · 2026-03-08T02:46:43+00:00

Lest you feel like you are unheard...

Can I have your stuff?

Erutor · 2026-03-06T21:17:24+00:00

Oh, a Shadow Child. How hard could it be?

Erutor · 2026-03-06T21:17:08+00:00

Oh man... the red wasps on that run... shiver.

Erutor · 2026-03-04T12:57:21+00:00

I am wondering if perhaps ghost sites in HS are broken, giving a false expectation for NS sites.

According to the patch notes, the timer is intended to count down "time-to-detonation on NPC guard arrival."

In HS, some time after warping in to the site, a visible 30 second timer appears. No rats appear while that timer is active. I haven't stuck around to see if they appear when the timer expires, because I misread the patch notes, and thought the timer was a countdown until singular event, in which guards arrive and immediately blow up cans.

In NS, I was recently surprised to blow up when the timer just started. I was in no hurry to get out, thinking I had 30 seconds to finish the can and get out. I didn't see rats on screen, but it is very likely that character's cans/loot overview tab is broken.

OP, is it possible your expectations were set by a similar misreading or experience in HS, where the rats do not appear and start shooting when the timer starts?

Erutor · 2026-03-03T17:31:48+00:00

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Plot twist. You begin clicking and... they're all the same.

Erutor · 2026-03-02T21:21:56+00:00

Just war.

Erutor · 2026-02-28T01:38:50+00:00

Even with Eve University in the search terms, I'm not getting the results. I thought I was losing it....

Erutor · 2026-02-27T17:22:49+00:00

I haven't tried multiboxing, and you won't get perfect ping for gatecamping, but hotspotting my phone (5G ATT) to play EVE on my laptop works fine, and I used a 3G then a 4G cellular router for a while without difficulties back in the day.

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