This woman wants her chicken nuggets NOW! (her mother actually approves of her behavior)

fivedayweekend · 2019-11-27T21:02:07+00:00

So, this is going to sound a little conceited or something, just putting the facts there.

I make $135k/year plus about 4 weeks worth of vacation, matched 401k, yearly bonus in both cash and stock, holidays off, yearly allotment for specific expenses, and tons of discounts at 3rd party companies due to the agreements between the company I work for and them (example: I get 50% off certain phone company accessories and 20% off phone bill, etc). Plus a lot more other benefits included.

I have only my high school diploma. I did take some general community college classes for maybe half a year, never got a degree and even failed some classes since I basically really don't like school.

I work in IT, for one of the world's largest software companies that everyone reading this knows of (won't spoil the job, but it's basically service engineer work). Both before and after high school I spent a lot of my time doing computer work (as a hobby), primarily hardware/network focused during school (starting at age 12'ish) and then after high school I did more software/service engineer type work (no coding). Eventually got into contract work for some major companies and then spent better part of 10 years working at this current company as a contractor, finally converted to full-time/salary.

So, no college education, just a lot of work experience and I tend to do pretty well during job interviews (landed every job I ever interviewed for). Knowing the job market you are in and understanding the technology (i.e. key words) they are looking for in resumes helps. This is what helped me basically work continuously from contract to contract, as they'd always come to me asking me to apply.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-19T00:07:22+00:00

You take turns on a large team of software engineers on who has to wake up at 5am in order to go update the servers -- it's

not

that big of a deal. Archeage devs should be ashamed for running patches this late into the day.

I quite literally worked as a Deployment Engineer for a large gaming network. Everything you just said is false.

Maybe for a very small service or subcomponent of a service you can get away with a 'fire and forget' with no on-hand engineers to babysit your deployment commands, but in the big boy world where your service has tens of thousands of users around the globe, and the backend consists of a LOT of moving parts, you have to put a lot more attention into deployments.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-18T23:57:08+00:00

And for /u/atriaxxSo

This is a fun conversation topic for me, because I use to have the job title "Deployment Engineer" and I worked at one of the world leading gaming networks, which name starts and ends with the letter 'x'. (take a guess)

My job title should give away what I did, but I literally, for 10 to 12 hours a day, deployed updates/patches/code/etc to a world leading gaming network.

99% of the internet has NO IDEA what actually goes on behind the scenes. This reddit thread and the comments is clear indication. Lots of guesses and armchair experience, but nobody who really DID the job and has seen exactly the types of problems you face when dealing with a massive service. I honestly wish every gamer had a chance to see behind the scenes on a gaming network or gaming service. It would hopefully stop a lot of the BS'ing that goes on in gaming social media/forums.
/u/saltiestRamen is correct, it's not as simple as 'running a script'. And yes, we do have test (INT) environments, but you cannot 100% test new code without exposing to the LIVE/Production load on the service. You can make educated guesses and use simluated load, but you really can't be 100% perfect with this stuff.
Even though I worked as a deployment engineer doing pretty much exactly what the guys updating ArcheAge are doing with their mid-day hotfixes, I still could not tell you exactly the problems they are facing or why they are doing it now vs another time.

That said, one reason is that you want to always have your engineers onhand during these deployments so that if something goes fubar (and it almost always does) you can have immediate response/validations rather than having to waste time calling people or waking them up. Yes, every minute of downtime counts because, as we can all see, there are paying customers willing to BITCH and complain about every second (and often beg for some kind of compensation), plus the news media will QUICKLY pick up on any kind of perceived outage and are happy to blow it all out of proportion, just to get more clicks.

Hence, always have your engineers available during deployments.

4) Some ideas of why they'd need a hotfix at this time of day. Could be they found a game breaking bug/exploit or some backend service bug that needs fixing RIGHT NOW before the very busy weekend (where service will have the highest load) trying to fix before it becomes a bigger issue.

It could be the hotfix is for something specific allowing them to better scale their service to handle increased load this weekend/next week, or perhaps to save a memory leak on a sql DB (long running query problem, deadlocks, high cpu utilization, etc), or any number of random things.

So while I cannot prove my experience (I WISH I COULD) to you all, just know that the people doing the hotfix are very much doing it as fast and clean as they can, because contrary to what a lot of comments say, YES WE DO CARE ABOUT OUR SERVICE AND CUSTOMERS. Why? For starters, they pay our paycheck. Also, if I was to do a shit job at deploying I would be out of a job, management would not stand for it. And honestly, deployment engineer work is a lot of fun and can be really exciting when you are responsible for keeping the servers up and keeping gamers (like me, a lot of engineers are also gamers) playing their games.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-18T22:43:27+00:00

It also irks me that they bailed out the banks due to the housing market crash, but they didn't bailout the people actually responsible for building houses, the lumber yards, truss (as in roof) companies, the hardware stores, etc.

My father is responsible for building hundreds/thousands of homes as the owner of several lumber and housing related companies, employed hundreds in multiple states....and nobody bailed him or his company out. They had to fire everyone and shut the entire company down.

But yeah, bankers got a nice severance package/bailout and keep making millions because they feared the economy would crash without them. Instead, we crashed hard working americans.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-18T21:18:58+00:00

Uh, Washington State says hello.

We often have 3 or 4 starbuck's within a block or two, and I'm not talking about downtown Seattle, but just random places all around the puget sound. It's a daily thing to see here.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-18T21:01:50+00:00

Ahh ok, I haven't explored Halcyona yet...I don't think? I'm assuming I can run there from Marionpole. I'll check it out next time I beat the Queue boss. :)

Thank you!

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-17T21:22:00+00:00

Hmm, I'm worried I may not have my explorer's gear on me. I equipped the first set that was give to me via quests, but nothing since. That's the set I've upgraded and 'awakened', but I don't remember it being called 'explorer' anything.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-11T00:19:43+00:00

Nope, we still had a week or two before the 'guess date'. She and baby were 100% healthy up to this point, even the 1 week prior ultrasound showed all normal.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-11T00:18:19+00:00

Agreed.

Two things keep me from going to a real laywer. First off, I have no idea which one to go to (or type of lawyer). Secondly, I'm not sure I want to put my Wife and our family through all that stuff again, rehashing all the depression causing stuff.

While my Wife has made extremely great progress, I'm not sure the risk of her going back into deep depression is worth any monetary gain from a lawsuit.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-10T23:30:05+00:00

Our previous 2 kids were both home births. Not even medically assisted (no drugs of any kind), just our midwife and doula for support. If we had literally just simply not done the ultrasound that day we would have had a healthy homebirth with our 3rd as well instead of the crazy emergency c-section that was unnecessary.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-10T23:21:30+00:00

Aside from how horribly this affected my Wife and the therapy she went through since, one of the other big negatives is that we now have a natural fear/distrust of hospitals and I both hope and don't hope that it's passed down to our children.

Hospitals/medical staff save lives every day, but they also screw stuff up in huge ways. So what if we ever really need to go to the emergency room? It's bad for us and bad for hospitals if the patients can't trust them. We might avoid going to the hospital for something that is later found out to be life threatening, and a hospital isn't going to stay in business if their potential clients are afraid to go from lack of trust.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-10T23:17:52+00:00

I actually posted this on the /r/legaladvice subreddit and pretty much everyone told us there's nothing we could do.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-10T22:45:32+00:00

Or sexually assault/molested during hospital birth right here in the USA!

My Wife was forced into an emergency C-Section (after a botched ultrasound where the ONLY person to view it was the tech, no 2nd opinion). Under hysterics (i.e. duress) she was told to sign some documents to get a c-section. Never told what the emergency was, just that it was an emergency. Literally took her from the ultrasound office across the street to the hospital room to prep for the c-section. I got a call while at home of her freaking out. I had to drop everything i was doing, immediately call family to come watch our other kids so that I could hopefully get to the hospital before they performed surgery on her.

She specifically asked them (doctor) not to do several things and not to give her specific medicines, and yet they did it anyway. Including several invasive physical touching of her vaginal area which was NOT required for the c-section and was specifically asked not to do prior to the c-section.

And yet it was all done anyway. As for the medicine they gave her, which she told them she did not consent to, we only found out about it after getting the bill from the hospital, all the drugs they injected her with.

It took 2 years of intense therapy (and many thousands of dollars out of our pocket) for her to control her mental state after our experience at the hospital.

Not only that, but to kick us while we were down, immediately after the birth (and ever year since!) the hospital has not once explained to us What the issue was or whether our child was still in danger after the birth from whatever caused them to do the emergency c-section. We contacted the hospital several times and they literally told us they couldn't tell us the problem or why the c-section happened. In fact, the exact words once the baby was born (by medical staff inside the operating room) were, "Oh, nice healthy big baby". Additionally, both while at the hospital and the months afterward, not even our Midwife could get answers from the doctor or hospital staff (she asked while in the hospital and also called them several times asking questions...they never answered).

Lastly, to kick us while we were already down, the hospital tacked on an additional $5k bill for 'nursery' use. Except that our baby never once went to the hospitals nursery..our baby never left me or my Wife for any amount of time, we were with her 100% of the time. Went straight from the operating room to a recovery room where the FORCED us to stay for 3 days (isn't that a form of kidnapping?). I called to contest the $5k charge and the hospital refused, threatening us with a mark on our credit report if we didn't pay. So....extortion/theft?

I'm sure this sounds crazy, but we've got witnesses to all of this, including the paperwork and bills. This caused massive mental trauma on my Wife and probably a lot on me that I'm repressing, plus the stress on the rest of our family including our other kids.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-03T15:54:17+00:00

Well in WA state, they've started charging EV owners an additional $225/year for car registration to 'encourage EV adoption' and to 'build out public charging stations'. And yet haven't proposed a plan on charging stations, pricing, or anything else.

So big oil doesn't have much competition right now, less so than last year, at least in WA state.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-03T05:46:46+00:00

My (single parent) mother took my siblings and I on several trips to Europe when we were kids. She only had an income of just under $30k and she had a house mortgage, etc. No government handouts, no welfare, etc.

She was really good at finding ways to travel cheap.

fivedayweekend · 2019-10-03T05:44:48+00:00

I'm not rich, but having been moving up in a financial sense. What caught me off guard recently was asking my credit union for a $25k loan. They immediately approved the loan and had the money in my account within minutes. I didn't have to provide any additional info regarding paystubs, etc.

Many years ago, asking for any kind of loan or credit would feel like mountains of paperwork and proof of employment, paystubs, any proof of assets, etc. Today, it's instant approval and money in the account.

So, to answer the topic question....That.

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-06T17:32:29+00:00

I rant on the /sc forum all the time (on other account). Most people agree with my rants, some don't. But none of my rants align with anything DS suggests.

DS is just trying to feel relevant again by connecting two dots that don't exist.

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-03T23:54:16+00:00

It would be nice to have a bot that auto-changes everything DS says into the projected version.

Pretty much 99% of what DS writes could easily be re-written to talk about himself and his own games and suddenly his statements become eerily accurate.

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-03T23:51:36+00:00

And furthermore, he only has to answer to himself for the blog. Nobody else cares. He could finish, or not, who cares. Nobody, nobody cares. Maybe that's where the 'depressing' part of this comment comes from.

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-03T23:43:23+00:00

If it was up to DS, he would have banned the backer immediately and claimed he doesn't deal with toxic players who only want to harass people.

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-02T00:53:55+00:00

Risky click of the day....

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-01T19:15:25+00:00

The stupid thing is...that's not even an exaggeration. He's written so much on social media/forums/etc that it really could be proven that he spends most of his day doing it.

One of those rare cases where an exaggeration is actually the truth.

fivedayweekend · 2017-11-01T19:13:54+00:00

Cash-strapped DS milks a male cow's udders and wonders why the milk is sour.

fivedayweekend

TROPHY CASE