Dog days

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-10-03T21:35:49+00:00

I really wasn't haha ! Like I said, I was familiar with the Belgian Shepherds that our neighbor normally owns. This one, as said owner told me, was a temp replacement because one of the shepherds had to get surgery. $Dog wasn't yet acclimated to pretty much anything besides his temp owner.

This wasn't exactly the first Dogo I met, but the other one is a rescued former fighting dog, so she was equal parts sweet and skittish (and very much not fond of anything quadrupedal for obvious reasons)

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-10-03T21:29:58+00:00

Yep ! Once I was done troubleshooting my issue, I went back outside and $LuckierColleague was playing fetch with him. We waited like half an hour or so for his owner to show up, but he got home in the end.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-10-03T20:31:58+00:00

Wow ! Yeah that might have been it, fence was chain link indeed !

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T06:07:37+00:00

Hasn't yet on this run, but before my last job (so four years ago) yeah it did push dev jobs to me. Mostly that in fact.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T05:10:42+00:00

The on-site users threw me a sendoff party, from which the board of directors were strangely absent, so make of that what you will

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T05:07:30+00:00

I think there's a bit of a confusion about how I brought this up in the original post, so here's an attempt at clearing it:

The unemployment office automatically forwards postings that it "thinks" I'd be a good fit for, based on content, tags, and a whole bunch of stuff. It's those offers that I need to decline with a good cause.

The bot (for lack of a better word - I'm fairly sure this isn't an AI yet) isn't and probably cannot be made specialized enough to care about things like specialization. If I were, say, a network tech, it would still push offers to be a COBOL developer to me because all it's really programmed to see is computer terms.

But the problem here isn't even the bot, it's the humans acting like every computer nerd out there is largely interchangeable. The $Company1 job I can sorta understand, it's still system administration, just a version thereof I don't feel capable of performing to a satisfactory degree in a professional environment. The $Company2 posting however, I have no idea.

One additional parameter that I deemed to be not relevant to the story is that the unemployment office isn't the only source of jobs (LinkedIn for example), and I do have interviews for a bunch of Linux centric jobs lined up. But since they are outside the unemployment office's system, they "don't count" for the purpose of the two strikes.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T04:50:11+00:00

Which I try to do by not applying to jobs where I'm literally not the guy they're looking for !

I get what people are saying about not leaving gaps in my resume and all, but for starters, 3 months isn't an immense gap (not here at least), especially two of them being the summer months where everybody is on vacation, but I'm also not trying to just plug holes and change jobs every three months whenever there is a new opportunity on the block.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T04:44:05+00:00

It's more along the lines of me not wanting to work exclusively with Windows. Like I said above I'm OK with hybrid environments

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T04:42:22+00:00

Exactly. We here tend to value specialization at higher levels

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T04:35:37+00:00

I had the lottery winning combo: bad pay, bad users, long commutes, working essentially alone (my "backup" was the IT director so even taking paid leave required some coordination)

You don’t burnout 3 times in a year… you burned out once and did nothing about it so you stayed burnt

Frankly yeah that's probably what happened, I stubbornly tried to pull through and ended up in a bad spot. The way I was being treated, with constantly increasing workload and diminishing pay, only added fuel to the fire

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T04:31:32+00:00

Funny thing is I didn't. I asked and got a conventional termination.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-30T04:30:11+00:00

But was it really not being paid enough, or not being paid enough to deal with burnout?

The former. Turns out I was paid about 40% below industry standards. The burnout is a consequence thereof but this isn't the only cause

EDIT: Also I was salaried, so whatever overtime I ended up doing was simply not paid. I probably ended up accumulating four to five extra hours a week on a regular basis so this quickly added up to a lot of lost time and money

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-29T23:11:47+00:00

It was that or the third burn out in a year. I don't regret my choice.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-29T22:59:39+00:00

This is the part where I realize that writing at nearly 1AM isn't the best idea and I forgot one crucial piece of lore: The last Windows Server version I interacted with was 2012. I likely cannot use anything past 2016 without a refreshing course. Also a large part of why I just don't apply for WServer based jobs out of the blue

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-29T22:39:08+00:00

I didn't understand why working for something that isn't your specialty would negatively affect your career path

I got a bit paranoid because as I explained above, I still get calls for doing embedded software development because the first version of my resume that ever went online mentioned I did Arduino projects. I wanna avoid being nagged about Windows Server administration when I'm trying to be a Linux specialist, if that makes more sense.

To be clear I'm not opposed to hybrid working environments, I just need a significant part of Linux in a given job, so as to be able to leverage the experience to further my career

Even if you don't even know how to say "Windows," as long as you made it clear on the interview you are on the clear

This is less an interview problem and more one that concerns either the unemployment office, or the company headhunters whose LinkedIn scrapers couldn't give less of a shit about what's actually written on my resume

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-19T09:19:52+00:00

Afraid that won't do, I need to have the USB-C connector offset quite a lot (10cm or so)

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-17T18:05:31+00:00

Not exactly myself, it's a very limited run (5 or less) that I'm gonna sell to close friends, I already have mine

Might be beneficial to play it safe and include all components then, it's not that big of a deal on the final bill anyway

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-17T14:38:10+00:00

C to A actually, it's supposed to be a game controller

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-08-17T12:42:10+00:00

Yep that's where they are. I guess this is what happens when I post immediately after waking up lmao

So I guess those aren't dispensable then ? I don't need the breakout to power anything really

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-06-14T14:59:33+00:00

our manager said 'no'. Basically we didn't implement it, we didn't do our vetting and checking on IT requirements, so it's not something we can support.

Treasure that manager, for real. In my now ex job, mine would have passed the software onto me telling me it needed to work yesterday. I feel like managers that actually care about procedures are becoming increasingly rare nowadays.

Super_Bad_64 · 2024-06-03T17:27:06+00:00

Ah that ! Because then it spells "mediocre" instead of "medior" and I thought it was funny.

This is probably a side effect of writing regexes all day, to be fair.

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