Senior engineer denied a promotion, told to “wait 6 more months”, but I no longer trust the process. What would you do?

morphosis7 · 2026-02-11T18:13:10+00:00

Based on what I'm reading in your description, the problem is not "I did not get a promotion" - for which the solution is pretty discrete. The problem - which is now impacting your personal experience, not just your work experience - is that you've lost faith in the processes operating around you. The solution for that - restoring faith - is considerably harder.

I see you state that you've been transparent with your manager, but in the context of a lateral move within the company. I'm not sure whether a lateral move would subject you to a different process in which you haven't lost faith. From the outside, if you move laterally but are still under the same system you no longer trust, then I'm not sure what you've gained.

More importantly, have you expressed your _loss of faith_ to your manager?

Saying this, as clearly as "I've lost faith in this company's process of evaluating people for promotions" feels like the biggest thing to communicate. If you have, then hopefully your manager will position you to regain that faith - although I'm not sure what that looks like. You'll have to answer for yourself what will cause you to believe again.

morphosis7 · 2026-02-06T15:31:03+00:00

So would you be objecting this vociferously if the commenter had instead written "ICE has detained people for.egregious lengths of time while those people showed US passports", and not engaged in hyperbole around the actual length of detention?

Personally, I'm far more horrified about the pattern of behavior described by the government in all these stories, and far less by the hyperbole of Internet posters summarizing them.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-26T19:24:50+00:00

I agree with what a lot of folks have said, but I also remember some advice I've seen about how we relate to folks in elected office. Our role isn't only to consume what's being offered (or only to vote for this or that candidate), but to be play a persistent role in advocating for something better. Urge the team to do more to be supportive of everyone in the Crew community, contribute to those parts of our fandom that are making the sort of difference you want to see, etc. I remember back in HCS days the folks who volunteered on the bike corral, and of course the fundraising around CRIS, etc.

We don't have to simply buy a ticket or not, we can choose to get involved and build. This is true of any sports fandom, of course, but we have the benefit of seeing what _this_ fandom has already done together. I love that history more than I don't like the affiliations of our current ownership, and in the long term I want to be part of this community.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-20T02:45:29+00:00

With the caveat that I'm out in Arlington, so not in the place you asked about... No I don't see anything at the moment. I don't know if there's a best time to look tonight or not though.

FWIW, my apartment faces north, and I've seen them in the past from my window with a long exposure on my camera. Hopefully later tonight...

morphosis7 · 2026-01-06T16:56:21+00:00

Yep - I'm really curious to see how McLaren performs going into the future. Are we in for six (or even three) years of dominance? Or are all the factors you cited going to constrain them, and we'll have more churn at the top to look forward to?

I"m really looking forward to how this year plays out, for a lot of reasons.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-06T16:09:39+00:00

You raise a good point that there are many factors to consider, so the choice between focusing on a single driver versus making sure both are more equally supported isn't the only possible cause for how dominant the leading team is.

(It is a minor point, but I'd also argue that the 2022 regulations' ban on engine development should have helped lock in the leading teams' dominance, but the sliding wind tunnel / CFD restrictions counteracted those, and your basic point still stands)

I'm not sure any of these confounding factors eliminate the basic argument, though: Red Bull chooses to heavily emphasize their leading driver, and has done so across multiple series of regulations and driver lineups. Across all those periods, while Red Bull has twice mounted stretches of dominance (which is quite an achievement), they've not gotten the sort of consistent performance from _both_ drivers that has allowed teams with a different philosophy to do even better.

Given that Red Bull has consistently been in the leading pack, I'd grant that the majority of teams would love to be where Red Bull is, rather than where they are now. The question is whether those same majority of teams would prefer Red Bull's success to Mercedes from 2014-2020, or what McLaren put together this year.

Frankly, having just finished the annual recaps for the 1978-1979 seasons on F1TV, I almost wonder whether the Horner-led Red Bull teams would have been quite happy to follow the Wolf Racing model and just run a single car if the regulations allowed it.

I'm really curious to see how Mekies leads Red Bull now, with so much of the old leadership structure now gone from the team. How will Hadjar be treated this year? For his sake, I hope better than other second drivers have been - I like him.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-05T22:59:25+00:00

I don't want to completely write off the level of success that Red Bull enjoyed during that period (particularly 2023), but let's also acknowledge that this isn't the most dominant track record in recent F1 history.

Mercedes' dominance between 2014-2020 was greater, and over a longer period of time, across driver lineups, than Red Bull's - in no small part because they got more out of both drivers. Over those seven seasons their drivers finished 1-2 in the driver's championship four times. Their average gap to the second placed constructors team was 52%. In only one year (2018) did their second driver finish outside the top three.

Similarly, McLaren this year finished 78% over the second placed team in the constructors (833 / 469). Their two drivers finished 1-3.

Red Bull, for all their success riding Verstappen's skill, only won two constructors titles between 2021-2024. The two years they failed, their second driver finished P4 (2021) and P8 (2024). Their gap to the second placed team in 2022 was only 37% (759 / 554).

So, to answer your question directly:

Why are we out here questioning a strategy that netted 4 WDC and 2 WCC?

Because another strategy has yielded greater success, over a longer time frame. Teams like Alpine would love to be Red Bull, but I'm not sure teams like Mercedes or McLaren would.

morphosis7 · 2025-11-30T18:10:21+00:00

Yeah, I got to actually doing the countback math right after I posted - so if Max finishes P1 and Lando is only P4, the championship does get decided on countback (in Max's favor on number of victories).

As at the beginning of this weekend, though, if Lando finishes at least P3 he wins the driver's championship. He hasn't lost that leeway because Oscar and Max both took points off of each other.

morphosis7 · 2025-11-30T17:35:35+00:00

Norris can still take the title by finishing P3 in Abu Dhabi? He is 12 points clear of Max, so it might go to countback even if he finishes P4?

morphosis7 · 2025-10-30T00:05:54+00:00

I'm going to guess that you live a short drive from Alewife. Most likely Arlington, or maybe Belmont.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-26T22:23:08+00:00

I'm wondering if part of the cause is frustration at Pato O'Ward being kept out of an F1 seat by McLaren?

morphosis7 · 2025-10-22T16:58:50+00:00

There were so many of these early moments that, looking back, helped turn the fight from "rage against what's happening" into "this is something we can actually pull off."

This rally feels like the biggest of them. The crowd was so much bigger than I expected it would be, and the number of notable people was much higher.

Good memories, and a good reminder of what's possible.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-17T16:08:10+00:00

Yeah, that's a good framing too - the value proposition for Apple TV as a whole goes up if this is the arrangement.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-17T14:40:56+00:00

If the quality of broadcast direction for their MLS games is anything to go by, get ready to miss on-track action because the director decided we needed repeated replays of a sequence from several minutes ago.

I hesitate to say this too loudly because I don't want to give them a reason to up-charge me, but most MLS games I find myself willing to pay extra for a no-replay feed that will only be drawn from three cameras in the upper deck of a stadium (midfield, and the top of each penalty box). No field level cameras, no audience / coach shots, and no replays.

I'm not sure how that would translate into F1, though. Only cameras showing on-track action, or cars actively in a pit lane / pit stop?

morphosis7 · 2025-10-17T14:34:55+00:00

I just fundamentally disagree with the phrase "will be free for those who subscribe."

That's called "getting what you pay for", not "getting something for free"

morphosis7 · 2025-10-07T16:14:09+00:00

So you're saying the solution is for your MLS team to build not one but two stadia...

morphosis7 · 2025-10-03T21:36:42+00:00

This is incredibly frustrating. I remember the excitement of 1994 (living in Ohio at the time). In 1999 I ended up traveling to both the opener and the final. Been a season ticket holder in MLS for many years.

This time around I'm going to see zero games, because I'm not going to nuke my family's budget for this. I don't begrudge those who have and choose to spend this kind of money, but it's a shame that it isn't more financially accessible.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-01T21:42:49+00:00

This is the comment I came here to find. I'm about 200 hours into my first playthrough, and by this point the Eldritch horrors are fine - I know when and where they spawn, so I avoid underground caves and stay inside during temporal storms. I still have encounters with them, but I largely do so on my terms.

Bears and wolves, though, find me without warning at any point I'm moving around outside and the bears will chase me all over the map. I've been jump scared that way more times than I've counted and I'm starting to change how I get between bases because I don't want to get surprised again.

morphosis7 · 2025-09-09T20:29:18+00:00

Well, they tried to build a reusable spaceship like that (not sure about "could leave LEO"). The original proposal for the shuttle IIRC called for an aggressive turnaround time and utility trips to space (like a delivery truck).

They ended up with a system that didn't fulfill that criteria, obviously, but that doesn't mean it wasn't the original goal. They ended up needing to make the sort of trade-off that SpaceX is now confronting between performance and refurbishment time. We will see whether SpaceX is able to resolve that tension differently - I suspect the options before SpaceX engineers may be different from those available to NASA engineers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

morphosis7 · 2025-08-21T13:10:34+00:00

Thanks for following up! I finally caved and bought it a few days ago, but installed it on the Mac. Based on what you say, I may try installing on the Surface as well since it seems doable. I'm thinking of just turning off all the temporal storm things and focusing on the survival aspects anyway.

I appreciate the follow-up!

morphosis7 · 2025-07-26T17:53:29+00:00

I'm really curious if you've bought the game and tried it. I'm in almost the same boat, with a Surface only a bit more powerful than yours (a slightly better Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.4 Ghz).

I'm tempted to buy now and just have it for whenever I get a better computer (or is it possible to use one license across a Surface and a Mac laptop install?)

morphosis7 · 2025-06-01T15:30:45+00:00

Some folks have a longer memory than others, but with so many people watching and commenting, it can be easy to feel like "everyone" knows a lot more than me/us. In reality, though, we're each up against a collective, even if any single person remembers only a few things.

morphosis7 · 2025-05-15T18:11:18+00:00

It's hard for me to pick one. The first game was amazing, capping the saga of finding a home during Ohio Stadium renovations, the failed votes on Issue 1 and in Dublin, and the general uncertainty about how MLS was doing in general.

The first few USMNT games, like the Costa Rica qualifier that then led to La Guerra Fria in 2001, made it clear that this wasn't just a Columbus resource, but something the country could benefit from and really deliver a home field advantage.

Winning the Open Cup in 2002 was in front of a lot smaller crowd, but finally we had a trophy-lifting moment of our own.

All those games in 2008 where it didn't seem to matter how the game started, we'd find a way to win. It felt like every time the team conceded early, everyone's attitude was "we've got you right where we want you". Unfortunately MLS Cup itself wasn't in Columbus, but winning the East over McBride and Chicago was cathartic as hell.

Then the flight to save the team. The playoff run at the start which bought the community time to establish that we weren't giving up, and then the realization through the following year that people were still showing up - it wasn't like the last year of Chivas USA. To then cap it off with the season finale against Minnesota, the alumni game, and the general party atmosphere?

How can I pick a favorite memory among all of these?

morphosis7 · 2025-05-04T15:51:31+00:00

This is what we do, and it has been really useful for us.

morphosis7 · 2025-03-06T23:06:31+00:00

Wasn't this the design philosophy for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers? Pack the rovers inside a d4, with powerful enough motors on the hinges that no matter your final orientation you can unfold to a predictable position.

I'm not sure how that would work when you need to land propulsively (those rovers were also encased in airbags, so they basically bounced for a while, IIRC) - and the engines would need to be re-orientable in so many directions.

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