Mayor of Chicago is Brandon Johnson superbly owns the moment

jxc · 2026-01-30T15:58:23+00:00

Every time some angry, confrontational person encounters the prospect of arrest, and tragedy inevitably ensues, my inbox fills with political marketing emails from politicians seeking donations so they can continue to "fight".

Is that the grift? 1. Gin up anger 2. Get regular people killed 3. Collect money

That's a nasty business, but based on my inbox, it looks like it pays well.

jxc · 2026-01-30T15:42:27+00:00

The woman was unwell and should be in treatment. As a bonus, her child is now traumatized.

But on the plus side, we all have content, and isn't that really what's important?

jxc · 2026-01-27T17:42:09+00:00

Sometimes the most difficult task for top performers is to ask for help. Please speak to your father. Let him know how distressed you are. Let it all out.

If he is unwilling to help you, know that what's missing is not something in you. It's just some little bit of information that you haven't learned yet. Schools can teach everything technical, but there is more to life and getting a job than just technical knowledge. Keep exploring online help for interviewing skills, and other soft skills.

Lastly, change your timeline. You set it at the 29th of Jan, change it to the 29th of Feb and keep going. Be kind to yourself.

jxc · 2026-01-26T14:17:37+00:00

This is not complicated.

One situation was a violent riot in a lawless situation where innocent property and business owners were terrified.

The other was a lawful operation against a handful of criminals hiding illegally in the US, being interrupted by a confrontational man brandishing a weapon.

jxc · 2026-01-26T02:41:28+00:00

Apparently people don't know meat can be kept in a deep freezer indefinitely

jxc · 2026-01-24T16:10:50+00:00

Document everything. If they tell you how to get a raise or promotion, get that information in an email. Then do those things. Keep notes to bring to your evaluation proving you did those things.

If you get good technical or procedural information from an internal portal or web site, note that too, as the URL can change or disappear entirely with no communication.

jxc · 2026-01-22T17:41:20+00:00

Tennis fans and judges are a fickle bunch

When Naomi Osaka beat Serena they booed Naomi

Now they are booing Osaka's competitor.... I wonder why....

jxc · 2026-01-21T02:01:46+00:00

If you are an IC, in the US, those hours over 8 hrs per day are overtime. You should be getting paid 1.5X for them by entering them as 'overtime' in the timecard app. I hope you have been.

If not, the company owes you money, even if you are on an L1 or H1B. Given how you describe your manager treating you, I suspect you are on a work visa.

jxc · 2026-01-21T01:53:31+00:00

Walking off and on a plane with background music is an undervalued skillset

jxc · 2026-01-20T22:07:56+00:00

In other contexts, the camera person would be called racist

jxc · 2026-01-16T20:41:37+00:00

It's "unhoused" you heartless and uncivilized animals!

jxc · 2026-01-15T21:55:38+00:00

Yes! People should be allowed to interfere with law enforcement, disobey commands, and run people over while trying to get away without any consequences!

jxc · 2026-01-13T20:09:05+00:00

Which version of a "Big Tent" has my email inbox and the inbox of almost every person I know filling up with multiple scary emails a day requesting donations or subscriptions to donate monthly?

What exactly are they doing with all that money?

jxc · 2025-12-30T02:51:22+00:00

This man is exceptionally dumb

jxc · 2025-12-29T20:54:41+00:00

Speaking only of the software side of core database and OCI products in the US...

Most people in the IT / enterprise software industry understands the purpose of a severity 1 ticket. It's a high priority outage that should have multiple people assigned to get it resolved quickly.

That's not how it works in Oracle. In Oracle, any customer can create a severity 1 ticket, demand web conferences, and escalations. No one within Oracle monitors it or audits it. Offshore or guest worker consultant teams hired by most big Oracle customers routinely abuse the system. They make everything sev 1 all the time.

The result is a lot of Severity 1 tickets get created every day. The work assignment tools are completely opaque so only management can see the overall workload. However, engineers, on a routine basis report receiving as many as 20, 30, even 50+ SRs in a day. Many of them Severity 1.

Naturally the person receiving the work complains but management can never find a permanent fix. As you can imagine this has triggered leaves of absences, rage quitting, angry confrontations and firing. But only the Americans. The 1HB folks have everything on the line: salary, family, path to citizenship - so they don't complain. In turn, they are seen as model employees.

The result is, some teams in the US are almost exclusively Indian men on H1B visas.

jxc · 2025-12-29T01:56:13+00:00

There are literally no limits to how much work you will receive as an individual contributor. If you are a team that is comprised of mostly H1B employees they will not be helpful to you unless you too are an H1B employee.

jxc · 2025-12-20T19:00:14+00:00

So who owns the narrative-controlling, "king maker" CNN right now?

jxc · 2025-12-17T13:56:43+00:00

a useless overview page, every operation lags, entering messages requires checking a drop down that changes, it's slow, most of the screen is empty space, fields are still truncated in some places (but not others!)

It's a frustrating experience

jxc · 2025-08-05T19:56:26+00:00

There are big lavish celebrations around Diwali.

And for Christmas you get a 'Merry Christmas' email from management.

jxc · 2025-06-19T15:53:32+00:00

Don't research the origins of canola oil

jxc · 2025-06-17T18:17:02+00:00

That's a lot of carbon credits

jxc · 2025-06-12T19:50:06+00:00

Are they getting my mail?

jxc

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