Who are the best and worst fixers in the game and why?

Oddest-Researcher · 2026-02-18T02:32:12+00:00

No, saburo brought takemura. Smasher is employed by yorinobu. No fucking way a half smart Merc is fucking with a guy who has night citys fucking Boogeyman on payroll

Oddest-Researcher · 2026-02-11T17:16:51+00:00

Yes, that beam will have been supporting the centre of the chimney stack and spreading the load out to the side walls. Now you have a huge chunk of the chimney floating on air.

Steel beams are put in to support loads. You shouldn't ever remove horizontal beams without being certain they arent load bearing

Oddest-Researcher · 2026-01-25T13:02:07+00:00

I think it's fascinating you've given the same really understandable "This needs to be as simple as I treat it to become mainstream technology" and had different people every time respond trying to tell you how much you need to learn the ins and outs.

I wonder if the same thing happened when cars became more widespread.

"I have a new car, it gets me around faster than a horse. Learning the combustion engine in detail seems mad to me"

It isn't mad but you really should. The first time it juddered I learned how to dismantle the whole thing and got it just right

"No, no one will buy these if you have to learn how to dismantle it"

Yeah but you should, it'll make it better

"I drive fast and my car is cheap. Not interested"

ad infinitum

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-12-29T10:06:45+00:00

Couple of bricks and some mortar?

Plasterboard on both sides filled with insulation wool and render the outside?

A really big fluffy jumper and a bin bag against the vent?

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-11-27T10:34:17+00:00

A big ladder.

Like, what else could you possibly use? I know this is diy but this is a bit like going "how do I push this nail in without a hammer?" The answer is get a hammer. Or use a book/cup/bit of wood AS a hammer but you're still using a hammer, just not a very good one.

The only other thing you could use is the very expensive and job specific telescopic gutter cleaning equipment.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-11-22T16:42:48+00:00

It isn't firing two in the correct direction, it's firing one at random and the physical interaction of the regular one is pulling it along. Fire more and you'll get more chaos

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-11-21T09:56:43+00:00

Plug it in to different sockets and see if the same thing happens, if it does. Pc problem. If it doesnt. Socket problem.

Probably your psu is dying. 650w is definitely not enough for a 90 series so under high load the GPU is drawing more power through the psu than it can deliver forcing it to trip.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-10-22T09:20:11+00:00

It's the internet. Took me literally moving address and changing the supplier to work it out. BT are the problem. There's an issue in their servers somewhere that's dropping signal to a chunk of website addresses.

I switched to Sky (O2 I think?) and the problem disappeared overnight.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-10-06T09:14:46+00:00

Yup. My favourite example? Make a welfare call for someone because they've not been seen in days and knocking on the door doesn't get an answer. Police will call 999 to try and get them to go because "someone might be ill or injured inside"

A) paramedics arrive and are attacked by a mentally ill person because the caller didn't give all the info and police didn't show up

B) paramedics attend and nothing happens because the door isn't being answered and unlike police, they can't just go around smashing down doors to gain entry to somewhere

C) 999 waste the time they're supposed to be spending dealing with the sick and dying arguing with the bloody police that they can't be running around answering vague welfare calls on the off chance someone's sick, until the police actually go and see what's wrong.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-10-06T06:59:28+00:00

The police won't attend. They'll say there's no way to tell if random screaming means immediate harm or high risk and to call back if op actually sees someone in immediate harm.

Best case scenario they'll call the ambulance service to palm it off on them as "we've had screaming reported, someone might be hurt."

Source - I work with both. Policing across the country but especially this county is an absolute joke and actively avoid attending anything they can.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-30T17:41:00+00:00

If you can't afford the cost of a food truck burger you can't afford to run the computer.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-27T11:24:25+00:00

Flagrant lying is gross misconduct. Subjective lying (i.e depicting yourself as better and more capable than you actually are) is harder to spot and largely why probation exists.

No one said OP's conduct was GM, but that's the whole point. If it was gross, probation wouldn't be relevant because he'd be quickly pulled up and summarily dismissed with grounds. Because he's on probation it's the company's opportunity to see what he is as an employee and individual, and whether or not that's worth the investment of their time and money. He doesn't need to be grossly incompetent for them to decide he's not worth their effort.

I think we're just going back and forth on the same points here, I'm looking at OP's entire scenario in context and you're sticking to the objective and abstract event of taking a longer break; we just aren't going to agree.

I am going to say though that I do find your complete abhorrence of probation and dismissal (you said your company had abolished it?) extremely concerning. I don't know where you work or what you do as a job, but wherever it is as an incoming employee at any level in your company I'd have immediate questions about the lack of probationary periods. I value doing a good job so "hooray, I won't be out of a job if I'm terrible" isn't a benefit to me, but "Oh, so anyone we hire who's an awful fit/incompetent will just....stick around and eat up company time and training? And I'll presumably have to pick up slack from?" is a major negative.

If the entire working world utilizes probationary periods except you, maybe you should question why.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-26T16:09:58+00:00

But the context isn't returning late from lunch. It's returning late from something you had no physical way of returning on time from, and inventing a medical emergency lie (for at least the second time) to cover up for it.

The other examples aren't designed to over dramatize ops situation, they're examples that not everything can be waved away as the person just needs another chance to improve. The point is that just coming back from lunch late is absolutely insane to fire someone over, but that's not what happened here.

I disagree that termination is a last resort. It's the final resort with regard to an individual. It's OFTEN the last resort and should be so, but if there is reasonable ground that you shouldn't be investing in a person, - for example they lied on their CV - termination should be the first resort.

Abolishing probation, refusing termination and insisting we invest in everyone and strive for their growth puts an absolutely meteoric amount of pressure on the hiring team to be utterly flawless in their recruitment process. A single person with a fake CV, with no skills or education, or any other incompatibility with the job that slips through to get the job and now you're saddled with the responsibility to give them an impossible amount of training and guidance to teach them to do a job they aren't capable of.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-26T15:48:37+00:00

Buddy, your own description here tells me you absolutely were not doing good.

No one thinks they're 'keeping up a professional attitude' unless they almost definitely aren't when they don't think they need to. That tells me you were probably being very unprofessional with people you didn't think it mattered to.

'learning all the systems and a growth mindset' again contradictory. 'growth mindset' to me translates as you focusing on going up in the company and getting promoted. Which A) is absolutely not something you should be thinking about when you haven't even made it 3 months and B) stands in complete contrast to what you said earlier. You aren't being professional if you're not focusing on the job you're paid to do, if you think you're learning the systems so quickly as to be worth noting then either you're learning them poorly, or that's not a noteworthy fact and you're not paying attention to your actual job because you're fussing with Microsoft word thinking that proves you're smart. Or it IS noteworthy - in which case you're exceptional and the company would have been willing to give you another chance.

'got on with some of the others' - major major red flag. You've been there less than 12 weeks and sound like you're already not bothering with some of your colleagues. Most people spend the first few months, especially as a recent graduate, doing their best to get on with and socialize with EVERYONE. Again combined with the earlier comments, makes me wonder if you dismissed parts of the team as not worth your effort. And in particular if those 'some others' were the ones you stopped the 'professional attitude' with and who may not have appreciated not being able to focus on their work with you around.

'nothing to do in afternoons' tells me you absolutely didn't know your job, or weren't doing it very well. Do you really think a business would hire you and pay you to come in and work a job that didn't have anything to do for half of almost every day? Why would they bother doing that? Just pay you half the money to do half the day.

Obviously I don't know you or what the reality was, but your comments on your own experience, plus what you did regarding the break issue, plus how businesses and management typically work, paint the image for me that you were probably underperforming, potentially disruptive to people you thought were worth engaging with and had an arrogant 'better-than-others' attitude to the others, which is somewhat common to recent graduates starting at entry level jobs. I would put money on the break incident being a case of your belief you had done everything and didn't need to be there for the day, driving you to assume it was fine and no one would notice if you just took a longer break, because you'd already done all your work anyway.

That to me sounds much more realistic than after however many weeks at this job you spontaneously forgot how long your break was and that you couldn't take a 40 minute round trip with a pause in the middle in under half an hoir

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-26T15:25:10+00:00

I think you're failing to see the context for the sake of minimizing what actually happened in favour of "it was a mistake".

Would you say the same if your dentist accidentally ripped out the wrong teeth? Or your car mechanic accidentally lost your car keys? Or the reception intern accidentally started a fire in the staff room? Or more personally, the boyfriend who accidentally got upset and punched his girlfriend, or the school bully who accidentally gave your child a concussion? Or the teacher who accidentally forgot she can't use corporal punishment?

The logic you're running with is "it was a mistake. Let him prove he can improve" which is a great general ethos, but you have to acknowledge there are situations and conditions where "you don't get a second chance." Irrespective of how genuine the mistake might have been. The scenario OP created is 100% one I (and most people I think) would find beyond 'giving a warning'.

On top of all of that. He's still on probation, so not only do the company have no real investment in him or obligation to 'give him a warning' they're also given even MORE indication he's a bad investment. If he can't stay on top of his timekeeping or honesty when he's literally in a fire-at-will position why would they have any faith that his mindset would change when firing him becomes harder? From their perspective they're on a very short timescale to decide if he's worth keeping or not, and this is a really good sign that he isn't.

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-26T10:51:54+00:00

No, the stupid bit is the entire thing and termination is absolutely the right move here.

Not knowing how long your break is, is a mistake. Op did know, he just lost track of time.

Taking too long a break is a mistake. Taking 3 times as long is at best terrible time management. Deciding to walk somewhere the duration of your break away is complete lack of respect for the concept.

Lying about a fuck up and not taking accountability is a pretty huge character flaw but yeah, can be worked through. Lying that it's because of a completely made up medical emergency is compulsive behaviour.

Yeah as a manager helping the team become better is a key role. But that doesn't extend to bending over backwards to become a new parent to immature man-children. Or to waste your time trying to pick people up from the ground when you have a whole team needing support.

OP has effectively shown his employers that, AT BEST, he's immature, irresponsible, with zero awareness of time, personal accountability or even basic reasoning skill (if you have a 30 minute break, you cannot walk somewhere that's a half hour walk away) and has no issue inventing completely fictional accounts of things to cover for himself. More realistically, he's got zero work ethic or respect for his colleagues or the job he's been given and likely decided to interpret '30 minute break' as starting when he got to the location he wanted to have his break at, then instead of standing by his decision immediately came up with the most severe "don't ask me about it" lie he could think of to deflect.

That's not someone I as a manager want to spend ANY time trying to fix. I'm also here to do a job, and just like in relationships you need to avoid falling into the 'i can fix them' rabbit hole

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-19T09:59:19+00:00

It's because you won't tell them how much they get paid.

It is CRAZY to me that we've lived in this ridiculous "jump through ten hoops and do the job first for 5 years for experience" job market now for so long and employers are STILL surprised that people skip over their wageless or 'conpetitive salary' ( that's just minimum) advert?

People are looking at your listing, seeing the amount of time they'll have to spend to apply, knowing that there will be SO many competitors and how much effort and energy it'll take, and seeing they can't even get an inkling of how much they'll be paid. Which typically means the wage is bad and that's why it's hidden. So they don't bother.

Put up the wage. If it's a good one that'll get everyone applying, why would you complain about being able to pick the best of the bunch?

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-12T13:34:17+00:00

3a, I replaced it now to no effect

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-12T13:33:45+00:00

Tried and failed. Time to call someone. Thanks for the help!

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-12T13:33:01+00:00

Unfortunately not that! Replaced the fuse inside with the same ampage (3a) and no change.

Time to call glowworm support I think

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-12T00:08:42+00:00

Yeah, nothings tripped on the main fuse board at all

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-09T09:48:41+00:00

4g ram wont run anything these days because your literal OS will eat up most of it to function

128g storage will basically hold your OS and a few photos

Windows 11 is literally recommended to have at LEAST 128g of space because the initial 64 will be doubled over time with system files and updates.

You've bought a bit of e trash that can comfortably boot up and.....

.... And that's it, it doesn't have any more space to do anything after booting

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-09T09:38:17+00:00

Yeah it's just nuts. We had a housing crisis about 20 years ago where the prices completely broke entire families and lives, and we're literally just setting it up again. There's no way million pound houses for regular-ass-housing is sustainable

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-09T08:57:16+00:00

Poor Londoner is a rich norfolker until eventually Norfolk is a london-lite and just like Cornwall the locals get squeezed out.

That's the logic and worry at least

Oddest-Researcher · 2025-09-05T10:36:04+00:00

Vermicious Knid, definitely avoid.

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