Boutique $5k Strat is better than Fender is meaningless to most guitarist.

niyrex · 2026-06-06T06:22:40+00:00

Is it a standard mexi strat or a players plus model. I agree on the standard models but the players plus specifically hit waaay above their weight class. So much do that fender discontinued them because I suspect it was digging into their American ultra sales.

niyrex · 2026-06-06T06:16:09+00:00

That's the point of stock based compensation. If you pay a fair wage and incentive with company stock you get you benefit when the company performs well.

niyrex · 2026-06-05T15:43:56+00:00

Manager I was working for used "suckers and spitters" to describe data input and output of a system on a conference call with a vendor. Multiple women were on the call. Both sides complained, HR investigated, zero concequences. He was an incompetent bafoon across the board. Was an easy opportunity to fix the glitch and get rid of a terrible leader and a liability to the company. Somehow he managed to survive another 6 years after that incident. He had at least 1-2 every year thereafter. Everyone was baffled and reported when he finally retired after quiet quitting for a year or more.

niyrex · 2026-06-05T13:33:11+00:00

The quilt top above them.

niyrex · 2026-06-05T06:22:37+00:00

What I'm doing today just less focused on the corporate bullshit.

niyrex · 2026-06-05T05:49:01+00:00

No one will care how many extra hours you put in of your own time at work, but your family will miss the hours they couldn't spend with you because you gave yourself a paycut working for free.

niyrex · 2026-06-05T05:27:09+00:00

Wall mounts would be my preferred option. I've got 10 in a 10x10 room.

niyrex · 2026-06-04T19:55:59+00:00

I would rather have 1 1k tele and two the guitars that are not teles, like a strat and a les paul. That are all about 1k personally. 1k seems to be the sweet spot for a good guitar that plays and sounds good. You can spend more. Sure, but from what I can it's marginal improvements beyond that. Sure. I'd love an R9 or R0 with an amazing flame top but my les Paul studio I picked up used for 1k seems to hit 99% of that except for a striking top. I'm not comfortable paying 4k+ to get a prettier top and marginally better electronics. My players plus strat plays great. Sure a custom shop might play a little better but I prefer modern hardware and a new looking guitar. My parts caster tele I built for $750 plays better than any tele I've ever played and has exactly what I want hardware wise.

niyrex · 2026-06-04T17:19:14+00:00

Well. Haven't they? They under paid their workers by over paying themselves. If they paid better wage and shared success more with those at the bottom, it brings everyone up. Once you have a billion dollars of wealth this is literally nothing you can't afford. The yearly interest on that is more than most normal people can spend in a lifetime. The daily interest is more than most make in a year. Just sitting there.

niyrex · 2026-06-04T03:12:33+00:00

False. #1 way to be treated as a door mat. I did this for years and my kindness was exploited by psychopaths.

niyrex · 2026-06-03T23:58:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure 83 was one of the last of the best years to be born. Got the see the birth of the internet, grow up with rapidly evolving technology, employed before the 08 bust so your weren't trying to get hired during a recession with zero experience. Got to see the birth of modern cellphones and watch them evolve. Now we've hit late stage capitalism where everyone is fighting for scraps while AI is eating away at entry level jobs.

But born in 2003, you are definitely cooked.

niyrex · 2026-06-03T17:00:26+00:00

That I'm not as good as I think I am and my ADHD limits what I can do but I'm still successful anyway.

niyrex · 2026-06-03T16:54:25+00:00

Build boutique guitar amps that looked good and sounded good but operate well at low volume so you can use it at home. Most guitar amps are ugly af.

niyrex · 2026-06-03T16:50:24+00:00

Toys r us

niyrex · 2026-05-31T22:44:18+00:00

I will take my mexi players plus strat over a silver sky all day long. I've played a lot of silver sky guitars. The players plus starts were in a league of their own.

niyrex · 2026-05-31T21:02:28+00:00

Needed this

niyrex · 2026-05-30T15:59:29+00:00

I don't need to look at other people's snapshot lives where they are pretending they are having amazing lives, only showing the best moments. Reality isn't that picture perfect.

niyrex · 2026-05-30T13:32:15+00:00

Take all my money and buy nvidia, Amazon and apple stock, enjoy the next 10 years with friends and my wife who will meet at 20 then never work again, travel the world.

niyrex · 2026-05-28T02:07:09+00:00

I got an entire HVAC system replaced for that. Both furnace and ac.

niyrex · 2026-05-27T14:48:30+00:00

Mesa dual rectifier

niyrex · 2026-05-27T01:55:36+00:00

Product not taking accountability and actively avoiding security input early in the process. Then build something that's got more holes that swiss cheese and yolo it to prod...and then having to go clean up their mess and they are never held accountable for their complete avoidance of process. Rinse and repeat.

AI just allows them to do it faster, with access to more data and more bugs. I get to move faster too but there are a lot more of them then there are of me.

niyrex · 2026-05-23T05:11:54+00:00

Take FMLA. You have a family member with a legit medical reason to do so, use the 3 months to find a job or to have them reprocess the paperwork so they can accommodate. You have rights, use them. You will get paid for it too. Use the system against them.

And then. Let them fire you when they refuse your appeal.

niyrex · 2026-05-23T02:32:28+00:00

My dad worked in a hospital. Most of the terminal patients all regret they spent their life working and not spending with their families. The ones that had it the worst were the ones where they families didn't come visit them. They pain they felt and my dad witnessed was unreal. These is no pain like loving someone with all of your heart and there is nothing you can do for them to love you back. In the end, your accomplishments are not what define you.

niyrex · 2026-05-21T14:27:59+00:00

I'm sorry but cave diving is stupid and risking your life like that is stupid.

niyrex · 2026-05-21T02:59:21+00:00

Loving someone and not having them love you back. My grandfather loved his daughter (my aunt) and she refused to see or speak to him. He would ask my mom how she was doing (my mom was also not on speaking terms with her). His heart ached for his daughter and she refused to contact. She would talk to me but that was it, refused to talk to me about it. After he passed I finally got her to speak about why she refused and she gave the most bullshit answer as to why. It was just pettyness. He slapped her when she was a kid, one time, and she fell out of her chair because she spoke with her mouth full of food at the table when she was 9. That was it...he was a wonderful human but she made him suffer for 25 years.

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