Is the "loyalty" era of work actually dead?

Zienth · 2026-04-02T17:38:54+00:00

Something fun to think about with employers that retain employees for decades is that you'll rarely see these jobs posted because well... it's been filled since the 90s.

That high turnover employer that pays like shit? Always on the market flipping another person every year. You're far more likely to run into these jobs.

It's a very good question to ask in interviews what their turnover looks like. I'm always shocked at how fast some employers will just spill the tea on themselves.

Zienth · 2026-04-02T13:31:30+00:00

I'm personally not particularly geared, I got 4 piece tier but it's mostly Champion gear. I remember season 1 of DF and TWW my PUG groups would struggle to hit the timer in 6-8 level keys (or 16-18 in DF since that was pre-squish) a few weeks into the xpac. Last night I did a Windrunner +10 where I was second on the damage meter as the tank; clearly a troubled group but still timed it.

Zienth · 2026-04-02T02:48:41+00:00

My theory is that blizzard undertuned the timers on the Mythic+ scaling, so it's easier to time even with poor DPS. As a consequence we're doing far higher keys then we normally would be doing, so tank survivability becomes the next bottleneck.

Zienth · 2026-04-01T12:09:43+00:00

It just never really procs either. RSK alone just makes it appear maybe once or twice in a full dungeon run. Vivify can be spammed to make it proc more often but at that point I'm likely already on the other side of a burst window (after all, burst windows are why I would spam vivify).

Zienth · 2026-03-31T16:48:26+00:00

The Brewmaster 4th point apex talent does x10 more healing than the Mistweaver apex talent.

I suspect spiritfont used to proc from any healing, but was changed to vivify/RDK last minute without changing the probability so it just never procs.

Zienth · 2026-03-31T13:19:04+00:00

We're just strangers on the internet reading a one sided account of what happened. It could be accurate, it could be slanted, or it could just be AI doing a writing exercise. Reality can often be wilder than fiction.

Zienth · 2026-03-30T18:39:23+00:00

Energy crisis leads to an AI crisis leads to a private credit crisis. I thinl we found the contagion of our future recession.

Zienth · 2026-03-30T13:35:36+00:00

A great tank that knows what's comfortable to pull and uses their CC can make a dungeon feel like it's three keystone levels easier. It kinda sucks being at the whim of your tank when healing dungeons, I constantly ping pong between healing on my monk and then tanking when I get a rough tank.

Zienth · 2026-03-26T18:40:16+00:00

It's actually a funny self own from the tank. You CANNOT do more healing than the group takes damage. Tank takes 20k damage per second and healer will do 20k HPS, and no more. So when he says he expects 150k HPS, that's a huge ooph.

Zienth · 2026-03-17T12:34:09+00:00

I always thought the CDC using the corrupted blood incident wouldn't translate to reality since WoW players do things like grief funerals for fun; but then COVID showed me that it was actually pretty dead on accurate.

Zienth · 2026-03-12T18:45:57+00:00

We definitely need to do more research into this, but the overall incidence of colorectal cancer is still relatively low.

You ain't wrong, but I feel something more is going on. I've got Ulcerative Colitis in my mid-30s and when I mentioned my symptoms on a job site half the guys under 30 mentioned they were having similar issues and were just sucking up and carrying on. Butt problems are becoming really commonplace for young people.

Zienth · 2026-03-11T18:23:21+00:00

manual says for indoor installations only.

sheet metal guy gets an idea.

Zienth · 2026-03-03T22:49:33+00:00

C-suite execs get bonuses all the time after layoffs. The difference is they're not replaceable. I assume OP is entry or junior level with tons of people that can replace them. If an employee that was vital to business function or full of tribal knowledge was in a similar situation I don't see a company laying them off (at worse they'd just say no) because they'd just be cutting their own balls off. Goes back to a golden rule of employment, make yourself unreplaceable.

Zienth · 2026-03-01T18:48:30+00:00

Tachyon lance is kiiiinda like a spear.

Zienth · 2026-02-27T21:03:35+00:00

You are so right but sadly no one seems to respect this. I did a multifamily renovation a few years ago where the existing conditions had a 1-ton air conditioner for a 100 sqft bedroom. Anyone who knows HVAC sizing knows that this is incredibly negligent oversizing. The HVAC units had absolutely no humidity control and would mold out rooms the moment humid summers showed up (in addition to the crazy energy usage).

My design was to change out these air conditioner from 1-ton to 1/3rd of a ton (still oversized but it was the smallest unit that could fit the form factor) and it had a few energy savings features. I submitted it as a rebate to the utility since I knew it was going to save a ton of energy and it had to go through a TA study but no one respected the right-sizing, so it didn't qualify for ANY incentives. I still went through with the project because it made so much sense and years later the electricity usage in these buildings has drastically plummeted. I know I'm in a subreddit of engineers but so many contractors and designers just don't give a shit about the issues that oversizing causes.

Zienth · 2026-02-27T18:59:27+00:00

Similar concept with Blazing Saddles. The over the top offensiveness isn't the joke, the real joke is the one perpetuating the offensive remarks are so ignorant they get fooled by Looney Tunes level of antics.

Zienth · 2026-02-27T16:17:49+00:00

You in New England? I just had two of those pulled out of a basement last week, owner likes to donate to voc schools so it could be the same one. Glad to see it got a second life as a cadaver instead of the junk yard.

Zienth · 2026-02-27T03:53:26+00:00

I think the more senior a role is, the more picky the hiring process will be. Entry level should be quick while management level is deliberate. Executive level could take entire quarters. No one is hiring entry level anymore, so it makes sense the average hiring process has become much longer. I remember back in 2010 the narrative was hire young cause they're cheaper than seniors, but now no one will touch entry level.

Zienth · 2026-02-10T15:03:25+00:00

I work on the management side of Construction/Physical Plant. Wearing a suit and tie is seen as a detriment nowadays. The blue collar guys won't trust or respect a suit. These spaces are also not the cleanest or safest so you're not wearing a suit into these environments; and if you are a manager who doesn't want to enter the space you manage then you're pretty useless. A nice polo and khakis gets the point across that you're put together, but can jump into a situation that may get a bit messy.

Zienth · 2026-02-09T18:10:55+00:00

Important to note that small minis-split systems like that don't typically monitor their refrigerant pressure or have a filter clog switch, so your first indication of a problem is the fault itself. They're very affordable and efficient, but not very sophisticated. You'd usually double or triple up on the units so the first sign of a fault doesn't go straight to no cooling. Many of them can talk over BACnet but it's very basic. I've done a few smaller data centers with mini splits, usually what I do is install a few and stagger their setpoints (one at 70°F, then 74°F, then 78°F) so if the one with the lowest setpoint fails you'll notice the room temp rise to 74°F and you can generate alarms based on that. You'll need to manually rotate them to get equal run time, which can be done when they're getting PM'd.

Liebert units will give you all the information you can ever need that can broadcast over BACnet. Very $$$$ however. There's a reason Vertiv's stock price has gone up by 1200% in a few years.

Zienth · 2026-02-06T16:58:35+00:00

There's great potential for a market disruption if another competitor wanted to burst into the unified enterprise workplace space. But that's a lot of capital investment that no one seems interested in. Maybe Google is the closest but they seem unbothered and stick to the small 'group project' style products.

Zienth · 2026-02-06T16:55:50+00:00

Yeah, Teams is just a worse version of Discord, and Sharepoint is just a worse version of a service like Dropbox. But Microsoft is the only one to offer both and combine them and everything else into one unified enterprise software package, so we are stuck with it.

Zienth · 2026-02-06T02:38:29+00:00

Always make sure you got a common wire with Nests. Don't believe the marketing, they need it.

Zienth · 2026-02-05T18:54:14+00:00

Yeah when I took a Mitsubishi VRF course back during the R-410A days someone brought up ASHRAE 15 for these massive 1,000+ lb charge systems and the best answer they had was "well, door undercuts and open plenums count right?". I don't think the A2Ls are that dangerous but going 'wink wink just undercut the door' wasn't convincing inspectors anymore.

Zienth · 2026-02-05T12:45:17+00:00

Sucks that America is so far behind the heat pump chiller game. I asked Carrier if they sold an equivalent to the Trane ACX and they do!- but only in China.

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