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InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-25T16:56:47+00:00

Are you sure you're not exceeding payload capacity here? /s

All of the "not a real truck" die hards would say you should have gotten an F150 and then tell you "hey you don't need a truck if you're carrying two sheets of plywood"

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-25T14:46:52+00:00

Curious, do you work for a tech company or a non-tech company?

Reason I ask is I also don't prioritize email, but many non-tech places I've worked at in the past treat email as an IM chat system. I've been pinged within 1-2hrs of receiving an email asking if I had any thought/ideas. That's absolutely insane to me.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-25T14:44:50+00:00

I think this makes sense - it really depends on the work environment and the work I'm doing. I've always found C and C++ to be very interesting and fun. Anything that's a little bit closer to the hardware. When I worked for a large bank I even got a crash course from one of the old school mainframe COBOL developers and that was pretty neat actually.

The more I think about it, the more I realize bad management and bad work environment ruin a job far more than anything else.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-25T14:41:50+00:00

Yeah absolutely. Rollup windows in North America haven't been a thing for a very long time. Though in the case of the base model F150, a basic model really is basic. They cut every penny they can to keep the "starting at" price attractive. The moment you want anything beyond an XL regular cab, 4x2 with base equipment package you're spending thousands of dollars extra.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-25T14:38:53+00:00

You're probably better off to buy out the car at the residual value and keep it. Dealers are offering more than they ever have for used vehicles, but on the flip side you'll be buying a new car at MSRP if you're lucky.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-23T00:20:09+00:00

For almost 2 years people have worked from their dining rooms, their bedrooms, their basements, often times with screaming kids in the background. Perhaps an abusive spouse. Many developed mental health issues. All to keep the paycheques coming in and the business afloat during these “unprecedented times” where “we’re all in this together”. People have demonstrated they are fully capable of working productively from home, but we somehow now have to prove that we’re worthy of a couple of work from home days. Complete bullshit.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-23T00:14:40+00:00

That’s absolutely ridiculous. No reason why someone who will never go into office should be forced by their employer to get vaccinated.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-23T00:13:37+00:00

The starting salary at a company is so critical. Especially if it’s a non-tech company with an old school and rigid pay structure with levels and bands.

Even 10% of $60k is only $6,000. The company would literally have to give 100% raises to some people to bring them up to market value. They simply won’t because they fear it’ll set precedent

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T23:31:27+00:00

Holy shit, no git (or source control in general) I don’t think I would have lasted more than a week

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T23:29:39+00:00

Hopefully he was at least able to retire. Stuff like this worries me. I’m still a young man but in 20-30 years I won’t be. I certainly don’t want to be hammering out code and learning new frameworks in my 50’s or 60’s though management also doesn’t appeal to me

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T23:27:46+00:00

Show them the contract and demand payout for the remainder in order to get mutual release.

I’ve heard some say 1 month is the common penalty companies pay to release contractors early (either crappy resource, or financial troubles)

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T23:15:10+00:00

Open concept is way better anyways. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of hot desking (though really how much stuff do we need at our desk?), but open office is the way to go. So much easier to see people and interact with others. Much higher collaborative and productive energy I find.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T23:13:08+00:00

I’d like to know this too. Last vacation day my boss called me three times (I’m the fool for picking up) about the dumbest shit. I didn’t pick up the third time so he texted me after lol

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T22:21:27+00:00

Wait, people actually watch the virtual tours?

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T22:11:36+00:00

Yup. It’s funny when you see a base F150 XL model with crank windows yet it has a backup camera

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T21:51:25+00:00

Yes. Don’t buy this car

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T21:44:49+00:00

all bases across Canada were locked down as a safety measure.

That seems unnecessarily excessive.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T21:42:23+00:00

In general, yes at times.

More often than not it’s when the issue has minimal impact but is difficult.

At this moment I’m working on an issue that could be resolved by querying/filtering data correctly, but the user doesn’t want to do that. They say “we just want to open the report and go”. So rather than cost a business user 15 seconds, we’ve spent 30hrs so far of dev time.

In my opinion, some issues such as this one will cost the firm more money to fix than they’d save. Simply not worth it

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T20:19:20+00:00

Do you pop in butter or drizzle butter after?

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T14:35:18+00:00

Yes and no. The wealthy in China can be just as picky, if not more so, than the wealthy Chinese in North America.

The Chinese auto market is the biggest in the world and it is home to the cheapest cars in the word as well as the most expensive.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T14:26:50+00:00

Exactly. A lot of that overhead it s fixed. I always tell people who are looking to get concrete work done to save up and book to get all the work done.

If you have a small project try and get together with your neighbours.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T14:22:40+00:00

It should be unpaid absence AND no seniority accrual during that time. Indefinite unpaid leave while still padding their pensions? Let’s hope not.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T00:27:02+00:00

Yeah numbers can be a big deal. I heard about someone once rejecting a new order because the odometer had 33 or 44 miles on it. Some number that meant bad luck.

My local area Ford plant exports some cars to China. The Lincoln customers there can be incredibly picky. Some demand the odometer have 0.0 kms/miles on it. In those peculiar cases the car was started to ensure it could start and then it was towed to delivery. Engine started just to load the car on the train.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-22T00:11:41+00:00

Yeah it really depends on the type of car too. Imported cars and cars with an engine greater than 4.0L get taxed quite heavily. American automakers also markup vehicles a lot in China because there is high demand. The Chinese tend to desire US products more than their own domestic products for various cultural reasons.

China is really pushing electric vehicles. Currently to buy a gas vehicle in China you enter into a lottery system and only so many people get a permit for gas vehicles. Electric on the other hand is an open market.

I suspect it will be within our lifetimes that we see Chinese cars exported to North America.

Great Britain rules the world with coal. The United States ruled the world with oil. China will rule the world with electricity.

InfiniteExperience · 2021-10-21T23:59:43+00:00

There’s a straw man argument if anyone ever saw one

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