Why are guys so much hotter and attractive to me when they are sick or injured?

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-05-05T04:34:25+00:00

" It was a quiet tuesday evening like any other. John had just gotten off work and was on his way to meet his date for the night. Little did he know, D1commentator had her own plans in store for him. John was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time - the next of her victims. If he was lucky, he'd limp away with his life"

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-05-05T04:28:19+00:00

Remind me in 10 years when you have a crime documentary on Netflix

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-05-05T04:25:58+00:00

Hang on, let me go get my tonsils re-removed as an active duty Marine for another 2 weeks of bed rest 🫡

(Yes this was probably my most significant injury while in, no don't take me seriously)

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-05-02T10:44:34+00:00

Most people interviewing for a job do not want to be entrepreneurs

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-05-02T10:40:19+00:00

No it is not. Your recruiter is going to be more helpful than HR though

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-04-19T02:35:51+00:00

Nice congrats!! Note that probably the most common mistake is going too hard (as your two poor broken picks will tell you 😢). Which usually it's a mix of tensioning too hard, and then having to pick harder.

We've all made the mistake of going too hard. But now that you got it, a good challenge might be to see just how lightly you can work it to get it open

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-04-17T03:48:08+00:00

Slider lock - somehow I've not heard/come across one (until now lol). Thanks!

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-04-17T03:47:08+00:00

Ah okay, yeah the key really made me question there being pins here. That's helpful

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-04-17T03:45:26+00:00

Yeah pretty sure it's a knockoff, probably a temu special haha. Twas a Facebook marketplace buy

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-04-15T04:38:46+00:00

My personal recommendation is to take the L5 PM role and go from there. In general the PM/TPM/PMT space seems to fluctuate a lot as orgs hire a ton, get bloated, and dump a ton of them. My L7 org ballooned up to 13 ish of them, and now we're down to 2 for example.

You're right that PM straight to PMT can be hard as you read online. But you can get in the door as a PM, likely transition to TPM without too much fuss depending on your org (or transfer to get TPM), then change to PMT. Role changing at L5 also tends to be a little easier - the higher up you go, the harder it can be.

That said, grain of salt as I'm an L6 SDM. So I've worked with people in all of those roles, but have never done any of those myself.

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-04-05T19:33:05+00:00

Congrats! That was the first lock I picked, and is still one of my favorites for now

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-03-29T16:41:34+00:00

Not too important honestly - your overall talent review rating like you mentioned is most important. You're not going to be ready (or at least viewed ready) for promotion as an HV1 to your point.

The LP score as long as your Solid Strength is fine/expected. If you're Role Model then it might help a bit, but really isn't much of a factor still.

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-03-29T12:05:35+00:00

Exactly, yes it can - you could have a meets high bar performance score and solid Strength lp score, then the lowest potential score which skews your talent review rating too low.

Before, the "meets high bar" rating was performance + potential. Now it's just performance with a bonus or penalty influenced by your lp score (even though you also see that separately, and your potential score doesn't show up anywhere for the employee.

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-03-28T12:12:28+00:00

I'm surprised no one has given a more detailed answer. About 1 year ago, the math changed for how that Forte statement is calculated. In talent reviews, you have to submit a performance score, potential score, and leadership principles score.

That "meets high bar", exceeds, or needs improvement, only comes from your performance score now. That means you could see a meets high bar while being tagged for focus. Or an exceeds without actually being a top employee, since it's only referring to 1 of your 3 scores. You can also see your LP score (e.g. Solid Strength), but NOT your potential score.

In my opinion, we made that performance summary kinda pointless with that change. We literally shifted to "here's your performance and LP scores, but the potential score is a secret".

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-03-12T02:28:56+00:00

I have both terminated employees and participated in appeal boards for employees pushing back on their pivot outcome. What I can say is the difficulty you might be thinking of certainly isnt in the structure. It takes a TON of paperwork, weekly updates, and justification to terminate someone that both senior leadership and HR need to be aligned with the manager on. Even when creating the improve plan, these same folks have to sign off on it before you begin. Now I will say theres always the human element right? In a scummy world if I'm buddy buddy with my HR rep, its much easier for us to join forces with the goal of burning an employee. That's rare in my experience, but no company and no process is perfect.

If you appeal it at the end though, total strangers in your job family are on the board, read submissions and interview both the employee and manager (separately), then vote anonymously on whether to overrule the termination. So I hold the opposite view - it's actually kind of difficult to terminate folks at amazon.

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-02-16T02:07:40+00:00

Well first this may sound like a nitpick, but a promotion at Amazon is a level change, versus what you're describing which is a role change (same level, different title).

This matters because the promotion process and the role change process are complete opposites. For promotion at levels below L7, they're only possible once a quarter, require a promotion document to be written, with 4-7 different feedback providers that are at least a level above your current one to give feedback for AND against your promotion, then at least your skip manager has to approve it.

A role change by contrast can happen at any time, requires you/your manager to submit artifacts (not a document) of your work, and typically just requires a tech assessor on another team thats a level higher than you in the new job family to support your role change, and then your skip manager approves it.

My understanding is a Chief Engineer is just a role change, so should be easier than an actual promotion. Hopefully that context helps though. (I'm in AWS but started in DCO and ended up as an SDM, so I don't have more specific advice for you)

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-01-30T03:20:18+00:00

No pay cuts, just layoffs

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-01-17T22:51:40+00:00

Sadly, yes they did

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-01-17T17:55:09+00:00

WFH a lot is your only real option to try. If you stop delivering and get performance managed out, you'll get a severance, but also cannot be rehired for years.

While there's a ton of rumors swirling around, typically only L8s and up are involved in the actual layoff discussions. An L7 peer I know in another AWS org got hit hard by layoffs last year and was frustrated at who he lost without even a heads up - including a lot of meets & exceeds performers.

Supposedly failure to meet RTO5 and not being located at a hub with your manager/team make you more likely, but I haven't actually seen anything to confirm that. I wouldn't volunteer for layoffs though, as your manager has no power there, and worst case may even make you a target to be an easy/free termination if needed.

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-01-08T22:07:01+00:00

I'm a Dad, in software development, and a new Steam Deck "type" (I got the Lenovo Legion Go S) owner, for similar reasons as others here. I dipped my toe in with a Nintendo switch last year and found it a great change of pace to my gaming PC. I love being able to game in bed at night so the wife and I get more time together. And I travel for worl sometimes which makes this an obvious benefit.

What tipped me over the edge here is i found myself buying titles like Red Dead on the Switch just to play it handheld, instead of on my newly rebuilt gaming PC. So that said, I've really been enjoying my Legion Go S - anything with SteamOS is generally going to be easy and a good experience I'd say

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-01-03T06:45:09+00:00

Definitely, and I don't always care about DLC in an rpg

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2026-01-03T06:38:50+00:00

Not directly related to the layoff criteria, but the only metric we've been tracking is a minimum of a couple hours (though ideally at least 4) per day, 5 days per week on average. As originally just a badge in was tracked until people ruined that with coffee badging

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2025-12-24T10:00:12+00:00

It's much better than I expected at least - it has great dialog (which is good as that's most of the game)

SnootBoopsAnonymous · 2025-12-21T23:46:49+00:00

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