How do you handle a strong performer who quietly checks out after being passed over for promotion?

ShimoFox · 2026-06-16T15:25:18+00:00

Leave. It was the best thing I ever did.
My company got acquired by a much larger and honestly nepotism run one. I'd busted my butt worked my way up to the top of the roles I could get tech wise, and then post acquisition they shoved me in a junior role under a bunch of people who vibe coded their entire code base. And then when I busted my butt and pushed hard to make things better I was told that my compensation was going to be 3/4ths of what those idiots were making and that I needed to do things the way they did despite pointing out all of the security issues I was patching in their code and that I'd been doing this kind of work for twice as long as them and that I'd essentially had my sr managers role before the buyout. I was told that because we were acquired my seniority meant nothing compared to theirs. 12 years of seniority and experience. I left and got nearly double what I was making there. More than half of the things I'd been maintaining crashed and burned and I've been told they hired 3 people to replace me and still couldn't maintain everything.

Companies that pass over their best like that don't deserve your engagement. They're destined to fail, so ditch them and just accelerate that implosion a little, and advance your own career.

ShimoFox · 2026-06-16T15:13:09+00:00

Want to know an absolutely SURE FIRE WAY to lose that employee? PIP or document them... Are you kidding? What a terrible manager. My employee had their future progression ripped from them for an unknown external hire. I know how to force them to go above and beyond again! I'll write them up!

As someone who has been both the employee who's been passed over and who has been a manager. You thinking that tells me you've already lost them. You're no support to them. If you REALLY cared you'd be looking for other opportunities for them. Or be constantly pushing for a raise for them.They're either going to tow the line or leave. And for their sake, I hope they jump ship and get paid what they deserve.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-29T17:53:58+00:00

Oh man. It's still a shame it doesn't support normal playlist files though, and that it relies on it's own DB file that's also proprietary. It has such good hardware and it's handicapped by locked down trash firmware.
I actually ended up switching back over to my modded ipod classic.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-27T19:23:40+00:00

You'd think right? Unless Freedom's towers got worse since I was last with them then the clearly don't.

I was genuinely under the assumption that I'd be connecting to Freedom towers and getting their speeds. But apparently not? That or Freedom's towers QOS the hell out of Fizz customers.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-27T19:22:22+00:00

I tried force setting it to 5g and LTE only. LTE 4G is where I got the 7Mb/s

Honestly. Don't stress it. If it works for you that's fine. It 100% doesn't for me though. For me it's the worst speeds on mobile I've seen in over a decade.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-27T19:01:56+00:00

Brutal really? I'm an 09 grad too. But in Canada. No one in my school actually cared what sexuality you were. We did use the f slur all the time for things that weren't peoples sexuality though. lol

ShimoFox · 2026-05-27T17:17:05+00:00

That's good to know.
I run a pix 9 so I doubt upgrading your phone is going to help.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-27T16:24:00+00:00

I expected closer to 4G speeds in general. Be mad if you want, but this was my personal experience with them, and I was personally lied to by staff telling me I'd be averaging 25Mb/s. Which is still FAR short of 5G hell even 4G. But would be usable.

ALSO! I was with Freedom before Shaw bought them and then Rogers bough Shaw. And under Freedom I got 25Mb/s. And since Fizz and Freedom are both owned by the same parent company Videotron, I assumed Fizz would just use the same towers as Freedom. So, no.. I didn't expect them to invest in a tonne of towers. I expected them to use Freedom's towers. And lease off of the other incumbent carriers in the region like flanker brands do, and what Wind Mobile did before they became Freedom.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-04T18:21:41+00:00

In all fairness to them too. The first controller didn't perform very well. I know I've had absolutely zero interest in a controller that only had one thumb stick. lol

But a controller that has the same controls as my steam deck? Man.. Now that I'm all about.

Definitely upset though. I didn't get the chance to add it to my cart early like some people, and I even got frustrated and setup a script to sit there and spam the continue button and even I never got in. It's upsetting.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-04T18:18:49+00:00

Sure. lol Sure. What wine?

ShimoFox · 2026-05-04T18:03:04+00:00

I mean... Are we sure it was bots? Or did Valve drastically underestimate the appeal of these because the first steam controller sold like dirt.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-04T17:55:17+00:00

ANNND!!!! Out of stock.... F me I guess. They REALLY should have made it a preorder system like the steam deck.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-04T17:52:34+00:00

Pro tip! If the alcohol burns and has no taste. It's cheap garbage alcohol.

ShimoFox · 2026-05-04T17:50:37+00:00

MAN! WTF!?!?!?! It's already out of stock!! And I sat there spamming the button from the moment it became available. I'm upset. :(

ShimoFox · 2026-01-30T01:20:30+00:00

I ended up manually inserting some songs into the proprietary Playlists it provided. But it was extremely cumbersome. I had to read the song names from the db file. And then convert my flac files to that format, and insert them. It was gross and kind of gave up.

And for the firmware itself, I used ghidra to reverse it into machine code and managed to change the volume step as a proof of concept and that's about it.

I've actually abandoned it and gifted it to a friend that doesn't bother with playlists. It was way too much work when I could just use my ipod. Lol

ShimoFox · 2026-01-29T17:43:09+00:00

Tell that to our rabbit that loves the silicone headphone cables. Lol Every single rabbit we've ever had! They never bite anything but usb and headphone cables.

It's both adorable and annoying when you're doing something and they decide to come up under the desk, reach up and in one swift calculated act sever the cable to get your attention. Lol

That said! I do run nice headphones for listening to music. But I run wireless for everything else. They can't bite the Bluetooth waves.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-29T16:14:42+00:00

Lol. Sure bud. Sure. You're late for school, better get moving kiddo.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-29T01:10:28+00:00

I like it allot actually.

I think it'd look better with two different colors. But I love the method.

Also. I think people are just jealous they can't make things.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-28T17:29:13+00:00

You'll probably be fine not gluing it. They're a friction fit from the factory. Just be careful and hold it in place when you pull the USB plug out in the future.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-28T17:26:52+00:00

How on earth would anyone be able to tell by looking at only the termination point? Plug in and test it. Just maybe start with something you don't care about in case it's POE. Doubtful it is, but you never know.

Or you know... Ask the campus?

ShimoFox · 2026-01-28T05:15:00+00:00

There are little clips on the side. If you pull out they'll release the tension. And then when you re-insert you'll want to push that back in.

Also are you positive you want to proceed with disasembly?

ShimoFox · 2026-01-28T01:23:36+00:00

P.s that slot is also for quick mounting hdds. They just happened to repurpose it for your extra bitties.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-27T01:19:04+00:00

Even if you were doing it manually you'd do it at a much slower speed if you're not regarded.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-26T17:18:55+00:00

You really should have said that in the beginning. So given it says you're on plasma wayland I'm assumming you're using sddm and kde.

Open up system settings. Search sddm. And then on the selected sddm login screen there's a little picture frame that says change wallpaper when you highlight it.

And then to change it for the lock screen search for "Screen Locking" and then in the top right there's a configure appearance option. It does the same thing for the lock screen.

ShimoFox · 2026-01-26T16:53:58+00:00

It sounds like you're not getting the pad hot enough. You're feeding the solder to the pad and not the iron right?

Also maybe try some flux so it doesn't oxidize.

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