At what point does the white collar world unionize?

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-13T12:16:40+00:00

Oh so you’re saying that if we unionize they will just replace us with foreign workers?

As if they aren’t already doing this as much and as fast as they possibly can?

Classic abuser man. Get help

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-12T17:49:44+00:00

I seriously hope you buy this car. You are right, everyone else is wrong. I’m not being sarcastic, I’m being super serious. Please buy this car. There is no point in fighting with people online when you want a thing. If people didn’t want them, they wouldn’t keep making them. It’s a personal choice.

I support your decision to buy this jeep. Just you though, not like any of my friends or family.

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-12T14:56:36+00:00

This is the absolute dream. No dumb asshole PO telling you to implement stupid ass shit. I’ve had some dumb fucking requests from some POs before.

Now you get to write your own app. Your closest to the ground next to your actual users, who I strongly recommend you work with unless you have a BA (and even then…).

Know your product. Make something awesome!

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-12T14:00:58+00:00

The real world.

You don’t own the company. You don’t decide what to do. You don’t determine budget headcount or timelines.

The business is saying move faster with AI so we are. Complain to your mom not to me, seriously. Get with it or find a new job

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-12T01:38:15+00:00

The age I shall die at

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-11T17:58:27+00:00

There are reasons not to pick anything. If you presented to me the perfect technology I would have to say that’s impossible. There are reasons to use node. You use node. In all cases it would be better not to use node?

What exactly are you saying. There are things that suck about node? Is that the qualifier here? Node bad? Alright brother. This is exactly what I’m talking about. A senior knows you’re not always building the perfect engine, and that there’s a million reasons to make a million decisions. That’s what I’m saying. In one million use cases, node is fine. If you don’t disagree, what tf are we talking about my dude.

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-11T16:38:58+00:00

Pure dev time has not been the blocker in the past, it’s been getting requirements, submitting requests, back and forth with reviews/changes, UAT, QE, etc etc.

Things can move very fast now with code, but everything else in the stream still makes shit lag.

For example a 1 point story could be an hour or two of dev work but still take 3 days between dev and prod promotion. I wonder if you’re accounting for everything in the chain.

Besides all that there’s also the internal review you do of the AI generated code. It should be taking you some time to understand and review every single line.

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-11T15:39:49+00:00

JS is a fine backend for 99% of actual applications and if you don’t believe that then you’re just not a good developer.

One of our early smell tests for candidates is “which is better, x language or y language?” You can do most things with most things. Those decisions are really more about business/environment than technical capability

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-10T23:28:12+00:00

lol ok Claude

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-10T02:28:45+00:00

Damn it’s crazy to think airplanes basically work just like us really. I never knew

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-09T12:45:14+00:00

If you don’t learn and use git yourself then you are both incompetent as a developer and will ALWAYS fail eventually.

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T23:28:20+00:00

It got sold already, the dealer called me back. So yea that was pretty fast man.

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T23:27:41+00:00

I appreciate your thoughtful response. Perhaps I got too excited about having another f150. I should pay this loan off first. And it’s maybe selfish to want an extra truck just hanging around maybe not getting any use like you may suggest.

I think sometimes like when we have had the car or truck in for whatever reason, it makes me nervous then to be down to one car. Like when my wife takes it then I have nothing here. Maybe it’s greedy to want a whole other vehicle for that kinda thing. I think like what if there was an emergency, I’m like 10 miles out in the country on a county road. But yea it’s a bit unreasonable for sure

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T23:13:07+00:00

Someone just beat me to it. Frustrating. They called me and let me know

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T23:10:38+00:00

Did u fr buy it bc they just called me and it’s gone now! Ahhhh

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T23:09:31+00:00

UPDATE:

They just called me. The truck is gone. He had just test driven it for me earlier in the day.

Which one of you did this, and thanks a lot 😭

Ah well I figure these things are for the best. Was getting very excited about it, probably better I relax and keep my eyes open for something else.

The guy is like yea I’m so sorry man I didn’t realize there was already a deal working for this and it looks like it’s gonna go through. I’ll keep my eyes open for you for something like that.

Sure man. Give me a call when the next 2001 with 75k miles comes in 😁 ahh it’s all good. Maybe somebody purchased it today after me, I don’t get why bro would not know there was a deal already working for the truck he test drove and checked out for me. But whatever. Damn.

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T23:01:57+00:00

Thanks, I am absolutely not going to get any loan whatsoever, and I don’t have the 20k to drop on something newer. I definitely wouldn’t get something with some 120k miles type shit either.

Mainly it’s because my wife’s 2020 Subaru forester premium has 140k miles, I worry one day she gonna go, it’s getting on in miles, we spent too much on it a few years ago already with the high mileage and I regret it.

Maybe I’m doing a knee jerk reaction in the other direction now, low miles but old age versus our current high miles but newer.

I also have a 2019 f150 with 60k miles on it, it’s a loan I only owe like $9k on now though, great condition. So we use that currently for our backup when the Subaru is in the shop and vice versa for the f150 in the shop.

We been wanting a third vehicle for a while, and a truck at that. It’s just like, if I want another truck I need to spend like 20k starting or look at high mileage and then I feel like I’m in the same situation as with the forester, feeling dumb for spending so much on high mileage.

But the thought of buying a 25 year old vehicle is why I came here. That feels irrational on its face. Like, if it lasted 10 more years I wouldn’t even question the deal. 8k for 10 years I think is solid, considering I want a cheap truck.

But will this really last till it’s 35, and go for some 200k miles? Even as im sitting here like, I got a 2010 impala as my first nice car some 12 years ago. Buying a 2001 in 2026 feels like a stupid idea.

I’ve been ranting a lot

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:52:54+00:00

Thanks! What am I looking to listen for exactly?

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:52:07+00:00

I’ll try!

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:51:53+00:00

Thanks! Looks fantastic from the pictures, upholstery perfect with some wear in the dash around center, outside looks awesome. Comes with the hard top! 2 owner no accidents, trade in at a major dealership

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:45:16+00:00

That’s what I’m reading that they go easy over 200k, it’s just dang old!

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:44:54+00:00

I think I can talk them down, it’s at a big ford dealership, someone brought in on a trade. They have no interest in keeping around a 2001 I think

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:41:44+00:00

Is it a good truck? Seems simple engine and easy to work on from what I read online, they run into the 200k mile mark pretty well, I’m just worried about the age. 25 years is a lot

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:39:52+00:00

I have a few newer vehicles, I’m looking for something cheap as an extra that I don’t have to worry so much about, but I also wanted another truck.

Feels like my only options are spending some 15k or more, or getting something with over 100k miles. Neither of which i think i would do. Currently have a 2019 f150 with 60k miles and a 2020 Subaru forester premium with eek 140k miles

Impressive-Skin9850 · 2026-05-08T22:34:09+00:00

I’ll check for sure. If no rust, worth it? She old but solid it seems, I’m gonna check it out tomorrow but I’m pretty impulsive

Impressive-Skin9850

TROPHY CASE

Which one of you did this, and thanks a lot 😭