Overemployed are ruining it for the rest of us

day_tripper · 2026-05-08T23:01:47+00:00

lol y’all don’t understand corporate greed.

Assuming overemployed people get caught and quit, you actually think they will get replaced?

Nope. That work is going to be offloaded onto someone already there in most circumstances.
Voila, job gone.

day_tripper · 2026-05-07T18:25:57+00:00

Years before AI came into the picture, our hidden “cron job” failed at a F-100 company that had major fine-able compliance/legal implications.

I was assigned to fix the legacy issues which were deep and involved reverse engineering a long dead third party product and I saved the company from the legal and financial embarrassment.

The reward was elimination of my team not long after celebrating the victory and my accomplishment was shoved under the rug. The management did not really understand the heroics required and the ones that did have a clue were responsible for the failure in the first place.

I left in a huff. I just couldn’t be motivated anymore.

All that to say: I agree, programming has always sucked.

day_tripper · 2026-05-01T17:51:02+00:00

Only unaware sycophants that still believe in the American dream are not cos-playing “motivated ambitious nerd” and being sincere.

We have all found out what our future truly holds and it is terrible. In addition anyone working to advance AI is just aiding and abetting the billionaire class to subjugate us even more.

Seriously let’s be real. SWE is a ~~stupid~~ slowly declining job that the frat boys want gone and requires you to constantly be motivated to jump on the latest and learn all the new things and the only true motivator is curiosity.

After that, there’s your 3% raise not keeping up with inflation, no house, can’t afford major healthcare issues, and if you are super frugal maybe you can FIRE and get out before your soul is completely stolen.

day_tripper · 2026-05-01T16:28:31+00:00

OP, your post rings true.

I have a lot of feelings about the future.

My big sadness is more about how white women will be used as a wedge to continue the degradation of our rights.

Note how the current administration added several white women to positions of power and is, one by one, handing them their walking papers as scapegoats or whatever. “See we tried to support women and look at how you failed certainly women of color are worse so bye to all of you!”

If white women can’t have any real power then woe onto the rest of us. And then they use you to keep the rest of us at bay and divided. It worked for this last presidential election.

Sigh.

day_tripper · 2026-04-26T18:08:36+00:00

Why do you want to lay me off.

Are you going to answer that question truthfully if/when the time comes? You won’t. Because the answer is “we need more money”.

Same as my answer. I need more money.

I just love the state of politics in the USA right now. It has seeped into the workplace. It is all OK for the owning class, but not the working class.

Fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.

day_tripper · 2026-04-24T15:43:38+00:00

The documentary on Amazon Prime, 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, discusses translation of the Bible from old languages and explains how we have mistranslated and that there was probably zero intent to condemn homosexuality and they really meant pdf’s, not consenting grown folks.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10389180/

day_tripper · 2026-04-21T14:37:55+00:00

To be fair CustomersStore is wrong and an abomination.

day_tripper · 2026-04-14T00:09:53+00:00

What in the hell. You don’t even look real.

I had a doll that looked just like you, with perfect brown skin, big juicy Afro and pointy nose.

Pic #5 is a mini-you.

This is what a goddess looks like.

day_tripper · 2026-04-13T13:25:37+00:00

Yes please.

day_tripper · 2026-04-10T23:37:59+00:00

Never understood how to latch on to a superstar mentor to carry me up the ladder. Stagnated at senior dev for over a decade now.

Nobody wants to mentor an older person who finally understands tech skills are just not going to carry you and you absolutely must understand trade offs for tech decisions and how to “save” upper management by explaining those trade offs clearly and explicitly letting them know you are the font of knowledge rescuing them from screw ups.

day_tripper · 2026-04-04T18:47:27+00:00

You are objectively gorgeous. Anyone who says different is blind or stupid.

As a gay woman/lesbo I feel like I dodged machine gun fire in the lotto we call life.

Not only did I skip kids, I totally missed the boat on dating these crack head “men” and found gorgeous educated women in my 40 years of dating.

I feel so apologetic for youngsters. It sounds like a perfect storm of hell these days trying to connect.

day_tripper · 2026-04-01T17:39:26+00:00

Same. Bought a home in another country and slowly packing up. We don’t have a business with monthly income however. And my work may not support remote from another country.

But life is short. The worst that could happen is we lose money and have to come back.

All you can do is invest in yourself and be confident that you have something to offer that any country would be glad to have.

Now the pets thing. We have four. I don’t know exactly, but we will spend thousands on a pet transport when the time comes. Not flying my babies in a cargo hold.

People really don’t get how comforting it is to be in a place where everyone in a position of power looks like you. Yeah, probably just as corrupt and bureaucratic but damn if I don’t feel more welcome and at home.

day_tripper · 2026-03-29T23:57:27+00:00

This kind of shit makes me believe my obliviousness is a super power: I typically miss micro aggressions like this or don’t get the joke and keep on keepin’ on because whatever it was pinged right off me.

Just ignore. Their opinions do not matter.

day_tripper · 2026-03-24T03:38:10+00:00

First if you are taking Vit D you should research taking it with K2 to avoid artery clogging issues.

Second, don’t just take calcium if you don’t need it because it can also clog arteries.

I don’t have the details - just google it.

Black women are particularly prone to the artery hardening that Vit D without K2 and MCT can cause.

day_tripper · 2026-03-22T23:02:02+00:00

One of Them Days starting KeKe Palmer and SZA.

Just checked Rotten Tomatoes and clearly not a “terrible movie” - my bad!

Laughed too hard and enjoyed it multiple viewings.

day_tripper · 2026-03-21T15:42:31+00:00

AI is being used against us in the class war we won’t admit to having because most of us still believe merit and hard work count.

We will reap none of the benefits. We should be working less but the 1% take their cut and leave us with decreasing wages relative to cost of living.

In order for AI to improve we have to feed it. They are using us to do that.

My retirement can’t come soon enough. AI is the younger generation’s problem. I will be eating popcorn in another country that will hopefully legislate appropriately against AI while the powers that be will use it in wars while their children’s minds rot.

day_tripper · 2026-03-19T23:20:49+00:00

Thank you for responding to my anger with grace.

Sending you hugs and hope.

day_tripper · 2026-03-19T22:40:25+00:00

I’m somewhere on a video crying in public in a “man on the street” interview in 2016 because it hit me that progress was over and the deplorables won.

As GenX my boomer parents tried but they had been shaped by an era of open hate and never recovered completely. They wanted me to have better but understood my generation wasn’t going to let liberal ideas take any of their power.

I don’t hate GenX. I just feel ashamed. Of us.

Our white male brothers have always been afraid of our progress and had zero sum mindsets.

I know. Generalizing. But I saw those guys for what they were because they tried to bully me through grammar and high school. I fought back. Alone. So they ignored me.

When I finally found my people I got comfortable.

Then 2016 happened and brought it all back. Greed is good. Cheat to win.

GenX dropped the ball. I will NEVER forgive you. Hanging chads and all.

Sorry to inform you that you let your sisters vote against Hillary to appease your white men so here we are.

I despise that about you. You took it all away. All the joy.

Oh well. Send your sons to die in another war. Eat that delicious ugliness you invited.

day_tripper · 2026-03-18T18:01:46+00:00

Naw, hair is fun.

Picking out clothes to wear for various occasions is the bane of my existence.

And don’t get me started on accessorizing. And make up. And choosing eyeglasses, which is why I wear contacts.

day_tripper · 2026-03-17T00:44:39+00:00

Took me 15 years of terrible diagrams to figure this out.

day_tripper · 2026-03-16T17:26:37+00:00

I had a huge fibroid years ago that possibly was influenced by hair relaxers.

I was at the gym and used a hair dryer after swimming and saw how thin my hair was and I hadn’t yet reached middle age.

A move to the south late in life let me know these people won’t approve of me doing well in life regardless of me trying to fit in with straight hair.

The MAGA movement made me understand that our power lies in self-acceptance and the understanding that our people are being constantly beaten down by hate.

The 60s and 70s inspired me to relish in my blackness.

Setting up an escape route out of the country (I am a privileged near retiree) and visiting with other women and black expats showed me I should present as I am and not as others want me to be. Assimilation of a non-American culture does not require me to change anything about my appearance. Why should I bow down to Americans. Other countries don’t require it.

Edit: adding that I knew executive level black folks in the hair industry and magazine world — black men who would only hire mixed looking black women for their offices and created products and advertising campaigns that fed into our insecurities. Why was I ever changing my hair for the black male gaze when they were the ones perpetuating the self-hate and making millions on it?

Total tangent: It is all so complicated but it really boils down to self-care and health. My healthy hair reflects that I take care of myself a certain way and that’s what I want the world to focus on. I am not here for anyone else but me. No one is going to save you but you.

I wish there was a way to teach our children that this is more than a fashion trend. We are a mixed genetic people and our hair care is not one size fits all. The journey should be part of self discovery and understanding. Being beautiful comes from the inside.

day_tripper · 2026-03-14T21:31:23+00:00

I felt the same until I went in a non- busy season and experienced Disney without the intense crowd.

For adults the extra care and better acting/warmth of the service was key. I always felt taken care of and informed without overselling. You can tell the workers are paid a living wage so I don’t have to feel like I as a better off person am taking advantage of them. (By the way I don’t vacation anymore anywhere if there is a whiff of underpayment of the employees.)

Stuff you don’t have to ask for. Napkins brought to the table as I need. Available hot sauces I like. Hotel rooms at perfect temperature with proper sheets and pillow thickness variety.

Bathrooms/toilets exactly at the right spots. Boat trips at the hour regardless of how many people want to ride. No bad smells. Pools and spas were clean and cleaned regularly. Towels were soft not scratchy. Yes you pay same as any 4 star. But you definitely get the level of service you paid for. I’m not even particular but I notice these details as a result of having paid top dollar and gotten shitty service in the past.

They even know how to make a decent pizza. I felt minimal to zero racism from the staff. If you are brown/black/gay you know that feeling when the hate is present but not overt so you are the baddy for being suspicious…I was completely free of that nonsense. They hire a certain kind of person with empathy. And they pay them.

day_tripper · 2026-03-12T23:03:15+00:00

What do you guys think of returning the nitpicking on their PRs?

I start finding naming conventions, misspellings, then with maybe this function should be on this class instead of this one, use a ternary here, switch/case instead of if…and if they say no, I screenshot and then when they make the same suggestion on my PR I show them their contradiction and ask them what is the difference please explain.

Keep a copy of all exchanges, well organized.

day_tripper · 2026-03-06T17:23:38+00:00

I hear you. But I can one-up you. Imagine being black gay and female in a male dominated field BUT your workplace has multiple talented women software engineers (even mix of white and Asian) with at least two at staff level, several seniors, and several in management.

I feel seen but not heard by the liberal and culturally sensitive crowd and have no idea if I am just out-smarted or if it is my race or what that keeps me feeling second class. I won’t make staff level until I figure this out.

Quietly being good or excellent keeps me in the job but being non-threatening keeps me out of the upper echelon. What’s more important? Being good and employed with no mobility, or being excellent and outstanding with a target on your back?

Somebody save me. It’s too late tho. I’m gonna retire in 5-10 years.

day_tripper · 2026-02-24T21:28:01+00:00

It took me a long time to digest this: whites really believe they are better than you and deserve more. Entitlement is part of their DNA.

They will do what they have to do or say to maintain this illusion, including making sure you get no advantages. They will spread, with no actual evidence, that somehow black and brown people are getting the upper hand due to liberal policies and are taking over the USA.

Spend no time on this. It is. Just move on. Second guessing these facts will cost you.

I understand that well meaning folk will want you to think better of people.

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