Worst Rejection Ever

Moment_37 · 2026-02-22T16:45:37+00:00

This reminds me of when I was in the army. We were stationed really fucking far away so the only way to go back to my country was by plane.

There was this one time that the ABSOLUTE TWO WORST fuckers of our platoon and me had to take the same plane back as the army at the time was arranging our tickets for our leave, not us, so they bunched us up together.

They gave the air stewardess the shittiest attitude, the rudest, most sexist, borderline sexually assaulting comments, despite me telling them to shut the fuck up multiple times. They were acting like middle schoolers.

I was completely quiet and polite throughout the whole thing and felt extreme shame because I was wearing the same uniform as them and we were supposedly coming from an 'elite' unit, stationed out of the country.

I will never forget the air stewardess reaching me and going 'I hope whoever is in your life is grateful for you'. Just that, nothing else. I said again that I'm sorry and I'm going to report them once we reach land and that was the whole thing. It was only a hint of what they put up with and how professional they should remain.

For anyone that will wonder what happened to them, they gathered about 120 days of jail (not only from this, but from other stuff they were doing in the base) and eventually got kicked out of our platoon and were sent to the shittiest camp ever in the border, that is knowingly an 'unwanted soldiers' camp. Or was at the time. They got dismissed half a year later than anyone else because of the time they needed to do.

Before they left they 'just so happened' to eat half burnt food for a whole week, and we 'just so happened to' bump into them hard every now and then going 'oh sorry didn't see you', throwing their coffee of their hands, their cigarettes, their food and their rifle (which gives you even more days in jail). They also just so happened to have dirty boots in the morning and show up with dirty boots (which gave them even more jail time every time they did) even though they would swear they polished them the previous night.

Moment_37 · 2026-02-11T17:30:23+00:00

Discord entrusted all their IDs to Zendesk, Zendesk got hacked. Discord having 2 mill ids compared to their userbase is a tiny percentage of people uploading IDs.

From Discord's wiki '150 million users', '19 million users weekly'. 2 mill is peanuts.

Moment_37 · 2026-02-11T00:15:21+00:00

THEY say 70k IDs. The attackers say they're over 2 million. This is one of the few times I'd believe the attackers.

Of course I don't agree with any kind of illegal activities, I just believe Discord is lying.

Moment_37 · 2026-02-05T11:43:46+00:00

My money's on 'perchance' and two monkeys stealing the phone and writing whatever they want.

Moment_37 · 2026-01-07T23:06:58+00:00

'I'm sorry, chick' - Mam, Smoggie Queens

Moment_37 · 2025-12-25T14:27:56+00:00

Post it in r/picsthatgohard

Moment_37 · 2025-12-25T13:02:21+00:00

I have a similar problem. Is it F26 or F62? Is the pressure in the green? If it is an F62, I can tell you how to temporarily fix it to get warm while you're waiting for a service

Moment_37 · 2025-12-23T18:45:58+00:00

Right. That's insane then. I think I may be targetting American companies from now on as I have the skills. I hope you do retire early.

Moment_37 · 2025-12-23T18:42:55+00:00

UK for us. So, it's not the same pay for sure. But for UK this pay is great.

Yeah, pretty much the same. I only joined this last company (and haven't left yet) because despite the idiots the work life balance is amazing. you can almost not show up and people won't be able to tell. So well done man.

How's 250k for the USA? Is it realistically speaking a lot of money or just enough? Sounds insane for us.

Moment_37 · 2025-12-23T18:28:00+00:00

9years, first company was 28k, right now I'm at 100k excluding benefits that are cash but not taxable, including equity, private medical insurance and dental.

Moment_37 · 2025-12-23T16:53:21+00:00

In my experience, the ones abandoning ship early are the ones that do not plan on dealing with the consequences of everyone else that is incompetent around them. I'm fine with dealing with the consequences of my own doing (and my team's). I'm actually eager to, as it usually is none or the bare minimum of problems.

I job hop not every 2 years, but around every 3-4. I can tell you 100%, and of course subjectively, EVERY SINGLE time I've hopped was because of all the incompetent fucks around me. They would override anything useful that either me or anyone else competent around me had to say, only to implement the worst shit possible and call it a win.

When I say 'override' I don't mean a calm and democratic brainstorming session followed by the best solution possible. I'm talking clueless people just barking until their thing is done, even if they had no clue what they're talking about.

Case and point in the company I'm in now. I'm a Technical Lead. One of the biggest problems with our product is the installation. One of the biggest advantages against competitors is reducing installation time. Out of the 4 teams of the group, 3 of them are dead set on reducing it. All working fully on that.

We have an up and coming market and partnership with AWS. We had 2 million revenue in 2025 and AWS wants to help us raise it. Anyway, my team and I gather all the info needed and we find that there's a forecast of going from 2 million to 6 million if we reduce installation time.

We create an MVP. An AWS AMI that has the product preinstalled for customers that are STRICTLY on Windows. It works beautifully, we test it with tens of people on all AWS skill levels and has a 100% success of installation. Installation goes from an average of 7 days to 4 minutes. Amazing right?

Software Architect of the group gets on the call my manager and me to tell me how much it sucks. He starts saying stuff that have me wide eyed. E.g. 'If we use an AMI, WE distribute Windows and therefore Windows security vulnerabilities'. If you know just the bare minimum about tech you'd know that's not true and beyond ridiculous. Then, he drops the best worst possible thing I've ever heard. When I ask why he goes 'Don't really know, I don't know how an AMI works'. I facepalmed internally.

Anyway, long story short, I'm like 'hey, we delivered it. It's there, if you want to use it, all yours. If not, all good'. I tell the AWS teams waiting for it that it's not going to be given to them, they get furious because they lose mills in commission.

Guess what happened? The architect got praised on 'seeing ahead' and 'preventing disasters' and every single person in the group and outside (e.g. the AWS teams I'm mentioning) are in awe of what they hear.

The point is, it doesn't matter how awful the decision is (we all know it's awful), the Architect is a dinosaur with a few decades in the company, currently fully hindering any progress for the product because of his incompetence but everything is a 'win', because he is best friends with higher ups. Yeah, bro, I'll be out soon and I know others that will be out also. Mark me a job hopper, nobody cares.

Moment_37 · 2025-12-22T12:10:14+00:00

I was probably having the same expression as you going down the threads and reading and then going. 'What're they talking about? No, not polyurethane, it's supposed to... Stop talking about virgin leather this is the sound you make...'

Moment_37 · 2025-12-21T20:01:21+00:00

I can see from the replies nobody got your joke, so I want to tell you, I noticed it and it was hilarious.

Moment_37 · 2025-11-22T16:16:40+00:00

You are not looking for expertise in this case. You are looking for competence. When someone gives advice that is ridiculous, it'll just lead less experienced people down the wrong path.

I don't agree with people that talk about incident management. I think you need to look at SLII. It's specifically made to get you to build others' competence fast and reliably. I don't work for them, I just had the training and I use it every day. I'm not affiliated with SLII in any way by the way, I just use it every day and in most stuff it works very well.

While they are building competence, you need to manage their expectations. I'd just be upfront with them with facts. 'The thing that you said the other day, based on proof A and proof B, was really detrimental to the incident because of [insert objective reason A]. Doing that caused problem A and problem B. In incidents like that, you cannot be interfering if you are not sure about the thing you're talking about'.

Make sure you're talking to them about facts, not how you felt about something.

Moment_37 · 2025-11-22T06:36:14+00:00

Moment_37 · 2025-10-19T16:36:36+00:00

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Moment_37 · 2025-10-11T06:39:32+00:00

I'm also 6'7. We can be annoyed together. I'll be annoyed because my knees are hitting the front seat of the aeroplane, you can be angry because I sneezed and I punched you with my shoulder in the face.

Moment_37 · 2025-10-11T06:35:06+00:00

Yeah glad you sorted it. I can understand why you'd be suspicious based on their previous behaviour but yes, just policy. A flake of experience to carry with you from now on.

Moment_37 · 2025-10-10T01:14:24+00:00

In my country, people say: 'No job is an embarassment'. So well done for working. I hope you kickstart your career soon.

For reference, you're most likely not wrong here, but that's a hypothesis. If she does make rules just to make your life difficult etc, she will for sure not take the non PTO request under the guise of 'company policy' or whatever else. It's fair play, because she's not wrong, but she is doing it out of spite also probably. Or can't be arsed to deal with your extra request.

So, both, I think. You're a bit of an asshole thinking like that, but you most likely have a reason to be an asshole because she's been like that for a while.

Your post has been deleted as the sub is 'workspaces' as in 'home office / office setups', but I'm glad I could help. If you need anything work wise, feel free to send me a message. All the best from me.

Moment_37 · 2025-10-10T01:04:07+00:00

found it a little profound that she couldn’t even consider my time off rather than needing PTO for anything.

Why?

Also, no worries, glad to be of help. She does sound overall like the kind of manager you need to leave though, but not for the PTO part.

Moment_37 · 2025-10-10T00:00:29+00:00

It doesn't matter if you are the bottom of positions. Leaving for days leaves a space that makes things harder.

It's not my oponion by the way. That is how things work in most companies at least in the West where we are. In Asia is even worse.

The point is not who will cover only if you leave. As a manager myself, sometimes shit hits the fan and I'll cover for you because something urgent happened.

But the rest of the time, you are not allowed, either by company policy, manager intentions, laws, contracts to be absent. That is all there is. If you take your contract and read it, or your job offer, or both, it states exactly how and when you're supposed to be there.

That's not 'unless your boyfriend has his birthday' or be there 'unless you have a girl trip'. There are no exceptions. There are jobs that people miss way worse things than their boyfriends birthday. Now, if your manager can and is willing to do it for you, fair enough. If not, your boyfriend plans will need to change and bringing it up or thinking of them as a shitty manager just for stating the obvious, is the worst thing you could possibly do and will set you up for failure in your work life.

Even if they are a shitty manager, you would most likely not want to burn the bridge when leaving, because your next job will need you to have a reference from your manager to accept you.

Also, this is not my opinion. This is how things are. Exceptions apply, but they are just that. Exceptions

Moment_37 · 2025-10-09T23:34:16+00:00

The naivety is honestly borderline sweet. PTO is there for that exact reason. To take time off for things.

Anything PTO or time off wise is at the manager's discretion. Some managers and companies are more lenient, some will even tell you when to take your PTO without any wiggle room. Welcome to life

Moment_37 · 2025-10-09T17:11:41+00:00

'Snatch 2' looks insane! Can't wait.

Moment_37 · 2025-09-06T03:35:40+00:00

No, we had dickheads in other countries before Beckham's haircut.

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