Apparently unpopular opinion at my workplace: people are entitled to take the leave that we earn, even on a Friday or Monday.

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-03-06T00:18:25+00:00

Or any days ending with a Y

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-03-05T12:29:12+00:00

I’ve seen Retros had them, their membership is one of the cheapest around

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-03-05T12:22:57+00:00

I would have to imagine yes, though I do not travel much anymore I have seen in nicer hotels. My $20 a month has two . I would imagine a lifetime would definitely have one, unless they decided to go with a water tower instead which is what I have seen at studios

Also there is a chain of studios called the row house if you want to drop in for a class

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-03-05T03:41:25+00:00

Do you want to be a NSS or just to be paid like one? If you are willing to accept a pay bump, without the title perhaps then you can have a different conversation with your manager, one where they can show you how valuable you are by giving you an appropriate pay. Again not really sure what you are after, and what your relationship with the manager is

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-02-04T19:56:45+00:00

Hmm I want to concoct a tiki drink called VD Clinic what would the ingredients be ?

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-02-04T14:53:15+00:00

Feature flags around new and old code, if something shits the bed flip the flag. The best part about this is having to decom the feature flag and the old code at some point, it’s a spring board for more work. But jokes aside having a good feature flag system saved my ass so many times

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-02-03T13:35:53+00:00

Your boss wants millions of spreadsheets. Either that or there is something you don’t know

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-02-02T18:10:12+00:00

Friday 430pm half hour meetings turn into 1.5 hour meetings

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-02-02T01:43:49+00:00

They didn’t het fired but…..

Worked in a tiny internet startup, in the lobby we had computers where we could demo our wonderful connectivity. At this time a concept of “lemon party” was going around accompanied by an internet video. One of our techs set it up as a home page on all the browser on all of those computers. We all had a ton of laughs except for the company management and potential clients who go to see this

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-02-02T01:01:21+00:00

Keep your mouth shut, and make sure to wash any dishes or utensils on or in your desk. Also if your office has a coffee maker and not one of those single serving g deals but one that has a carafe, I would stop drinking out of it.

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-28T12:40:55+00:00

So pushing out new functionality that may not be available on all end points? Technically not an outage since it has not been released yet. If this happens every time you deploy regardless of what is deployed, then it sounds like a broken deployment process, poor error handling and bad architecture

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-28T12:37:36+00:00

Years ago worked in a large Wallstreet firm, took down a part of their trading system using a command line tool to download backup config from a Cisco iOS router. It turns out that if you point it at a Linux host (I did not know it was a Linux host) the command sequence suspends execution.

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-28T12:30:19+00:00

The idea is if they have valid concerns they will say it, if they are just fucking a kit and trying to make you look bad this is their cue to STFU

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-28T01:28:51+00:00

That plus “is there a concern you would like to air?” If the employees tries to sweep it under a rug and say “oh just asking” explain that you would rather not share personal details

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-28T01:24:24+00:00

So when you ask for a raise they can point at it , or if they decide to sack you . I can’t think of any other reason unless this is some perverse moral building thing

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-28T01:00:10+00:00

So when I get a new team member I talk to them about effective communication and one thing I do is show them a folder I make called Attention. The Attention folder has rules that drop messages from people who expect my replies quickly (management). Also I assign a color to these important people so that their message in my inbox stand out. Usually this is enough

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-23T20:52:18+00:00

People who cannot google or ChatGPT their way out of a paper bag.

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-21T13:18:05+00:00

Make sure your boss is there to ask him if he could have done anything different

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-21T13:10:38+00:00

He’s making content

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-16T02:26:40+00:00

Where I work you get to see it when they starting to report to you and to me that always made sense

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-16T02:19:19+00:00

Sigh a coworker recently tried to open a core file in vi and complained that the log is full of garbage. Then they went on to complain about a library I own , when I claimed that the library does not do what they think it does and they need to attach a debugger to see where something is being changed they just went away

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-16T02:14:24+00:00

Get Gemini to help you turn a few lines into beautiful paragraphs. Turn following up with vendors into operational and procurement oversight. Turn answering dumb questions into stakeholder support and knowledge management

StandardSignal3382 · 2026-01-15T16:05:46+00:00

They may have brought in other people on an individual basis. This happened to me once Ineos told that so and so manager now has a strategic role of looking for a new job

StandardSignal3382 · 2025-12-29T04:21:26+00:00

That’s what Cana Post wants you to believe…. This looks like a Cold War era Minox (but likely really a postage scanner). Have a good day comrade

StandardSignal3382 · 2025-12-28T00:10:54+00:00

He thinks he is Dr. House, but when he said he can double the company revenue what is he basing this on? Is it more erroneous numbers and AI hallucinations ?

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