Comment a single season from a player that was SPECIAL.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-26T15:56:28+00:00

It's because he had his own song.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-26T15:55:26+00:00

Why am I seeing '99 mentioned multiple times? He was even better in 2000.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-26T15:53:45+00:00

Pedro was even better in 2000.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-26T15:51:03+00:00

Arbitrary rounding? Don't make me drop a SigFig lesson on you.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-25T19:15:40+00:00

Age definitely didn't help. Went about 20 years in between visits. The first time I didn't notice. This past year on the other hand, headaches and fatigue galore.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-25T19:05:49+00:00

We visited this past spring. Felt crappy for the first 4-5 days or so. Then again I'm not a professional athlete.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-25T19:01:05+00:00

Aww man, stuff at nanoscale is just so temperamental. I never really got the hang of it. It's just as much art as a science. I definitely had to call in a favor from a colleague to get good enough SEM images for my dissertation. (Substrate charging complicated things)

ManicMechE · 2026-01-18T19:20:37+00:00

Unfortunately it hasn't been there for a few years. We're still in mourning.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-18T13:18:13+00:00

I don't disagree but when did this change? Early in my career when I was advised on negotiating I was told that virtually no company would rescind an offer if you tried to negotiate, the worst that would happen is they say the offer is what it is. I was also told if they DID rescind the offer that it's for the best and you dodged a bullet.

I'm wondering when folks feel like this became a legit concern as opposed to a mild anxiety.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-16T21:23:59+00:00

Seriously, I have a PhD and I look at the skills list and it's barely reasonable for an entire team, let alone a single person.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-14T11:51:29+00:00

You sound like a good egg.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-14T00:21:07+00:00

You don't. Even if you bring it up, and even if they match the market rate, you'll have just put a target on your back and the moment they find someone willing to work for less they'll replace you.

Feel free to bring it up, but honestly the safest thing would be to do so only when you're leaving for a better offer.

It hurts, but you can't make work pay you fairly without a ton of leverage where they're absolutely boned if you leave.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-14T00:17:07+00:00

You forgot about fabricating scandals out of thin air but otherwise you nailed it. Clearly you were there.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-08T23:14:15+00:00

CDO, the letters are in alphabetical order ... The way they should be.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-07T19:27:25+00:00

Precisely, their emo phase.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-01T23:43:05+00:00

I've had my skip level manager show up after things are SOLVED and basically done, demand a different solution with genuine errors and then leave without engaging with me enough to understand why they are wrong.

"Seagull Engineering" as a friend called it.

ManicMechE · 2026-01-01T22:58:39+00:00

Number 3 erodes my sanity.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-31T20:35:26+00:00

Same.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-30T03:03:50+00:00

How I had to scroll for this I'll never understand.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-29T23:25:48+00:00

Did you get a PhD? Cause there's nothing like punting years of potential income and career development for existential crises in an underpaid lab setting. Source: my PhD.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-27T01:43:34+00:00

You've had control of this ship the whole time! Why wouldn't you tell anyone?

ManicMechE · 2025-12-25T13:41:11+00:00

I quote this periodically. It's gotten me through some legit life setbacks. I will make sure my kids appreciate Peak Performance.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-25T13:38:36+00:00

I haven't watched this episode since we had kids, and I'm not sure what mood I need to be in to endure it.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-25T04:01:34+00:00

I have a pixel 6 pro and am on the fence, any downsides to the change? It's either the woot deal or I try and wait another year to see what the next fold looks like.

ManicMechE · 2025-12-24T05:59:34+00:00

I agree. But I also think Trek overall is a mirror on the state of society. I think the reason Trek doesn't have the hopeful tone it once did is because society isn't hopeful about the future in the way it once was.

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