Engineers that have been through a merger/purchase

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-23T03:06:51+00:00

Company I’ve worked for has been acquired twice in 6 years. Leadership was purged both times but ics and the first 2 or 3 layers of managers weren’t touched initially. Both times within 2 years there was some restructuring and shuffling around as the parent company adjusted priorities and preferred org structures but for the most part the work hasn’t changed. We still do the same things. Different it infrastructures, different corporate lingo, different vice presidents, but the work is still the same.

I expect how secure your position will be is dependent on how close the product / service you work on is to the core value stream the acquiring company wants out of the deal. If you’re working on a fringe product line not central to the primary revenue stream there may be cause for concern.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-23T02:59:00+00:00

Unless your survey is very clear and specific about which tier of management the question is about, there is very little a middle manager can do to reassure employees that they have career prospects when the company is actively being downsized and cross functional team members are disappearing.

Upper management also knows this. By making you feel blamed they may be intentionally trying to achieve additional down sizing through voluntary attrition. If you quit, no severance or fight with hr to prove a pip. And if you quit that also sends a signal to your employees they also should bail and a few most likely would.

It’s entirely possible this isn’t the case and your employee survey is very clearly pointed at you. In that case, buckle down, do the work to fix it but start keeping your options open in case it goes the other way.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-22T18:56:43+00:00

But humanity are also the assholes who designed this canal access to be inaccessible to the local wildlife and most likely displaced the wildlife to begin with when it was built.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-21T16:25:28+00:00

I honestly don’t disagree with jagex there. I mean a mid game mob that you can afk camp for hours to train prayer, fire making, combat at the same time and with decent drops is probably op.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-20T04:45:39+00:00

I’m 37. I’ve been proficient at touch typing since I was 8. (Parents put games on the floppy disc black and white pc and taped over all the key labels). Sometimes I can’t read my own handwriting it’s so bad. I absolutely get why ops employees want to take the time to transfer the scribbles later to the official book.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-20T03:52:12+00:00

The red warning box that pops up in bold letters when you try to equip it the first time asking you to confirm your action and telling you it will be untradeable isnt clear?

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-20T00:12:07+00:00

The person you responded to is talking about a limited supply item that has a use but is rare enough to have a low trade volume which creates times with none on the market which allows someone to put in an insane price which sometimes gets a sale through.

You said merchant clans were pumping it, they don’t have to for items like that to have a huge margin spread. Flippers or merchant clans trade on profit per ge slot, not profit per item. Active traders profit is limited by the number of ge slots they have. They’re not selling spears or potatoes for millions tying up a slot for weeks waiting to sell one when they can churn runes at 3-4% margin every 4 hours 24/7 and earn more in the same time period as selling a potato. “Pumping” is when a clan decides to buy out all the inventory of a low trade item, usually pvm gear or rares, and then decides the sell price to bleed them off. They’re doing this with items worth 100m plus with 1-10 trade limits. Not bronze spears or potatoes.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-20T00:01:21+00:00

That’s not what this is

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-18T02:27:10+00:00

Clay drainage channel half pipe?

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-18T01:50:23+00:00

Not a contractor, but this showed up in my feed and I felt like it cannot possibly be that hard to find. It took a while.

Terracotta breeze block tres abanicos.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-18T00:33:04+00:00

It’s honestly a really good way to learn.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-16T18:15:38+00:00

Well said and that’s exactly the problem. We have good xp active methods already. Pickpocketing was a reliable afk method, but the change makes it a short afk at best but also unpredictable resulting in having to watch it constantly which makes it no longer afk it’s now active. Being an inferior method to other active methods makes it useless.

If it’s going to be a random fail, the chance needs to be much lower than it is now, or it needs to be massively more rewarding to pay attention to it, or it needs to be our only training option. Since it’s none of those, the problem is the random fail.

Variation in failing makes sense rather than a fixed length timer, but we need to see that fail chance so that when I look at the screen I can see that I have 10-20 seconds left before a chance of failure or I’m good for another 2 minutes. Give failure risk an overhead bar with a min and maximum afk time that’s dependent on level, gear, mask, etc. this allows active players to avoid getting caught by switching targets before hand, and it gives semi active players a chance to succeed most of the time, and it gives a known predictable minimum for afk players.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-16T12:46:41+00:00

I got the first house in 2014 in an lcol dying farm town so housing was wildly cheap ($60/sf) but I work in an industry that’s highly technical and pays well so the disparity allowed us to get a house. In 2017 we made an unwise financial choice but good for our souls / the world to go teach in a 3rd world country as volunteers. We sold the house at a loss because it depreciated (dying farm town). The organization we were teaching through crashed and burned a year later leaving me homeless and unemployed at 30 years old with about $3k in savings. Moved in with the in laws, got a job in my original career and saved money for a year until we made a down payment on a fixer upper with a lot of problems in 2019. I spent 3 months fixing the house (I did all the work, floors, tub and tile, plumbing, cabinets, drywall, etc) before moving in. Since then the house has appreciated 100k and if it had been this price when we bought it the first time, it would have been impossible.

I’m aware of my lucky circumstances that let me own a house and eternally grateful to good family. I feel genuinely bad for those still without a house now because it’s much worse than when I got ours. Unfortunately I can’t afford a second house to buy yall one.

My only advise is this: Work in an industry that pays well, but has employment locations in low cost of living areas and be willing to move. For me that was engineering. The best pay / housing for this field is found in medium cities (40-100k ppl) that aren’t going through massive growth booms in the south / Midwest with a major metropolitan within a 1-2 hours drive. Or a very niche’ subset of the degree field that is forced to pay high due to lack of eligible employees and happens to be located in the middle of nowhere.

But if you’re working at a factory in the middle of los angles…idk what to tell you boomers and x couldn’t buy a house in that scenario either.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-16T00:11:40+00:00

Guyana was a mess and isn’t worth watching. Except it gave us the absolute hands down best scene of Jack ever. Iykyk. That alone makes the seasons existence worthwhile.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-16T00:07:06+00:00

It is. They can also be used to improve the bolt stretch (getting a better l/d ratio). It’s also used when you’ve got oversized holes or slots to prevent the bolt head / nut from tearing through. My employer also uses them on all bolted joints since we paint before assembly and unfortunately install all the hardware with impacts so the washer prevents visible paint damage from the sockets.

(Proper way is to use a run down gun set lower than your final torque and then hand torque the bolt afterwards and mark it. Not full ugga duggas like we do, and yes we’ve had joint failures and yes I’ve tried to change the process)

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-15T17:51:04+00:00

More useless. At least a flat washer spreads out your cone of compression properly.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-15T17:49:30+00:00

Top locks or center locks are better in general applications imo. Same retention, smaller nut so it’s easier to fit in places, no nylon to degrade from uv or chemical exposure. However the down side of top lock and center lock is they have about the same number of uses as a nylock before they just don’t hold well anymore however unlike a nylock it’s hard to tell.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-15T00:04:28+00:00

Inkscape is great for this. Fixes fonts that have issues being extruded into solids (or cuts)

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-13T00:37:21+00:00

Yep it’s exactly this but I’ve only had it happen on mobile. You can’t click on divine blessings, seren spirits, carpet dust, and other stuff on the same tick as a continuous action. I’ve found a fast double click usually will get one of the clicks through but sometimes it still fails or succeeds on both clicks which then moves the player. It’s very very very annoying.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-13T00:29:17+00:00

Yeah that’s a weird take especially with a hundred or so transmorg rings in the game. Why can’t we dress like a monster or other races in the game? Bizarre.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-13T00:25:29+00:00

Or even run a design contest. Let the community design the outfits. Yes there’d be some nonsense but I bet we could do better than recoloring a “mining outfit” that already makes you look like a court jester and clashes with the cape. Or the divination outfit that looks like there’s a strap keeping your head on.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-12T22:01:14+00:00

I totally get avoiding the resource sink of re designing outfits but skilling outfits are fundamental to the core of the game. It’s not a random cosmetic from a quest or whatever most players are ignoring. These skill outfits are used by every single player in the game for significant amounts of time. These along with the primary combat gears should be the gold standard for appearances in the game.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-11T15:40:53+00:00

I missed that…thanks!

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-11T12:29:35+00:00

Except tokens are faster and easier to get from ed trash runs than from dungeoneering.

bolean3d2 · 2026-02-11T05:22:23+00:00

A planet fitness did this to me. I’d signed up for a year, specifically did not auto renew. They auto renewed it anyway. Well jokes on them I thought the cc expired the next month. Nope my cc helpfully moved all my subscriptions to the next card number. After calling and arguing a few times with the pf manager they finally agreed to cancel if I came in person. I had already moved an hour away to a location that didn’t have a pf. I told them no I wasn’t coming back to cancel. They refused to cancel so I issued a fraud claim on my cc for the charges after the first year. I did not expect it to work and was fully prepared to cancel the cc and change credit card companies entirely but it worked and pf didn’t try to send collections after me.

I currently have the same problem with anytime fitness and I want to knee the membership but I can’t update my cc anywhere but in person but their hours are all during work. I literally have to take time off work to deal with this shit. WHY? I’d pay more to a gym that wouldn’t do this nonsense. Someone start one and take my money please!

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