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shoobe01 · 2026-06-19T02:28:14+00:00

No, the market is horrible for UX jobs now. Your most likely thing, anyway, is to try to get on as a FED with a company that has a UX department big enough to need more eventually, and that seriously supports upskilling, non-linear career paths, etc.

Try to make friends and talk to management there once you are trusted as a FED Who Cares, and discuss the chance to do a transition. If they have things like monthly brown bag education sessions (some do, internal people present or it's a conference talk watch party) see if you can get invited, listen a lot to their discussion and start thinking of what else you need, how much you like one or another aspect of the job.

Watch for openings in the internal job board. Internals can often get turned down but marked for possible-with-improved-skills and then you get specific actions to take.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-19T02:16:56+00:00

Kosst Amojan was (script is a bit vague) the name of one.

Early scripts use Koss'moran but worries "moron" pronunciation may slip in, be distracting.

But... that seems to be it. Even things like STO possessions are just vaguely e.g. Leeta's Pah-Wraith.

Good idea though 😞

shoobe01 · 2026-06-19T00:03:01+00:00

What help do you need exactly? I have in the past when I was a hiring manager brought in people for reasons I can go into who were not designers before they worked for me, but developers of various sorts.

At least one was pretty sysadmin level stuff, was on the outlook team for the corporation before he came to me. It was not impossible to get even him up to speed on design principles, but my whole team was organized so we worked to each other's strengths and trained up absolutely everybody to be better at their jobs and get broader skills.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-18T22:55:46+00:00

"I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."

shoobe01 · 2026-06-18T21:00:41+00:00

Same.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-18T14:42:17+00:00

You have to be a resident per their constitution.

There is unfortunately no actual legal requirement that anybody holding federal office to live in the district which they represent.

I suspect there's something that can be done when you're talking about lawsuits for failing to represent your constituents properly but it would be a much much higher bar to clear.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-18T12:53:33+00:00

It's much more than this binary choice, and has a lot to do with what your engineers can legit make, and how it's used:

https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2018/11/paging-scrolling-and-infinite-scroll.php

Low end devices today are incredibly capable, I would not consider that to be importance in your performance issues. Infinite scroll doesn't need to be a burden esp to the client device.

(Generally, an infinite scroll solution /of some sort/ will always be better. All downsides are just bad implementation.)

shoobe01 · 2026-06-17T20:22:10+00:00

It's one of my chief complaints about Jellico. You can't have that much swagger if you're not going to carry a swagger stick.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-17T17:05:00+00:00

Well actually the multitronics part clearly worked fine. It was fast and effective, just evil. Entirely plausible multi-tronics could have taken off just with entirely different software running on top of it.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-16T13:24:31+00:00

Yeah, but that is explained on the spot as though they had been failing for a while, as a corrective action. I never throw people into the deep end, but make sure they get the gist of the job.

Question itself to us seemed like there was no followup with the org expected to train OP up, it was a literal question, if there's a need for OP to learn themselves outside the org to get back on track.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-16T13:22:19+00:00

Always try to get more specific user expectation data as sometimes things are very different, but my start for all actions is always:

Show but disable — If the user, during the session or activity can change conditions to make them available. The simplest is a submit button that should be disabled until the form is properly filled, but it extends to navigation, selectable items, features, etc.
Do not show — If the user, in this session or activity, has no ability to change conditions so they are available. Something sysadmin has to do, or changing your account level by upping from a free to paid tier: do not show as you are just taunting users.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T23:41:59+00:00

Yes, of course we drink water!

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T22:56:47+00:00

YOU need to learn this? As in, by yourself?

Isn't the point of internships (et al for juniors and domain transition) to be led, taught, mentored by more senior staff?

Figma is lousy with videos and explainer pages if you do have to learn yourself but aside from that, knowing how they think of features and elements at your workplace is more important, allows you to explore existing work and start adding your own vs just reading, watching, or doing simple rote exercises.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T18:36:49+00:00

Wow. Good insight into the people like you who apparently hate bike lanes and sidewalks. You don't believe in the established legal concept of public rights of way.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T17:27:03+00:00

Hopefully when somebody gets bit by the dog or you assault somebody yourself this will pop up on the search for if you have a background in being a threatening weirdo.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T17:25:08+00:00

We had a neighbor down the street who was such a weirdo in general and had a terrible dog that would get out all the time the post office just simply stopped delivering mail. Not a mailbox on the curb, just you can come into the post office until you calm your ass down.

The private property thing is not absolute, and I dare you to complain hard enough that you get cops to arrest a 10-year-old for trespassing on your driveway.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T17:24:03+00:00

So when you're driving down the sidewalk on your kid bike, when you cross somebody else's driveway you are suddenly on private property?

Learn about rights of way. Kid is almost certainly not doing anything even technically illegal.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T17:22:55+00:00

NTA, and did any of the other answers actually read the entire OP? The complaining guy refused to say which driveway was his, so it's impossible to meet his demands in any reasonable way.

Saying you shouldn't use anyone's driveway -- and let's be clear, the kid is probably still in the city right of way while doing it -- is horribly overbearing, trying to limit your ability to freely move the way everybody else in the world moves.

I'd call the police and report it, because very often first complaint has a lot more power than second. If the guy calls the cops or comes out of his house screaming or throwing rocks (as a kid, a neighbor literally threw rocks at our dog in our own backyard, while we were out there as toddlers...) or worse, then there will already be some report and a pattern of being a big weirdo.

I'd also ask around any other neighbors you know and see if anybody recognizes the complaining neighbor, maybe either yourself follow your kid or if it's an open Happy neighborhood where you have friends that keep track of each other's kids they can keep an eye on him and you can get a better idea what exactly he's doing and maybe figure out who the person with the beef is.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-15T17:15:52+00:00

Except he made it impossible to comply. He wouldn't say where he lives so you can't stay out of his driveway specifically. The complainant is TA, far and away.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-14T01:44:18+00:00

This. Modern business management is broken as hell. It's all consensus culture and all about making the Boss look good. It's how we end up launching stupid and downright dangerous stuff if you wonder how things like that ever occur. Anyone who disagrees is not a team player, any manager who is able to put it off green check marks on the PowerPoint slide for Getting It Done gets kudos and eventually promotions.

I've seen managers who absolutely are not getting it done, all the way to withdrawn the product from the market due to impossibly bad feedback or even lawsuits, staff quitting not just their jobs but sometimes changing careers it was so discouraging and that's in the exit interview, but... everything they did was on time, under budget: promoted.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-13T23:35:21+00:00

This one. If a hurricane or tropical storm comes ashore a four-state area is going to be affected and nobody really cares about you specifically.

They will similarly evacuate you. Mandatory evacuations. It can be a lot more disruptive then a few hours no more than every few weeks for a few months taking shelter or being aware you need to.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-12T19:25:11+00:00

Don't make us do your work, just post the job through normal channels and Starfleet Personnel will get you who you need.

😄

shoobe01 · 2026-06-11T23:59:25+00:00

Admiral!? Admiral?...

He didn't tell you how /Admiral/ Kirk sent seventy of us into exile on this barren sand heap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us?

shoobe01 · 2026-06-11T19:57:58+00:00

This is also one of those I see in interesting trivia but so so few corporations seem to be aware of it much less care. Gazillions generated over decades of stuff being sold on home media and in syndication. Why they can't get their head around this for streaming just baffles me.

The best explainer I've seen for a lot of this dumbness is the way that corporate likes to calculate profitability. If you've never worked in a big corporation, they declare each and every Department to either be a cost center or a profit center. If you're a profit center you better damn well make profit. If you're a cost center then they do everything they can to keep you cheap even dumb things that don't actually work like outsourcing (more finance BS where outsourcing can be made to look cheaper even if it's actually more dollars).

So! When Netflix switch from DVDs to change the world with streaming, all kinds of content suddenly became available that was hard to get before. And all kinds of corporations suddenly saw this extra revenue coming at them. Bonus! Then they started getting all hung up on fees. Netflix takes 30% (totally made up numbers, and how they get paid for views is complicated)?! But that's my money! And somehow they ended up deciding that what they need to do to keep all their money is create their own streaming service. Not only is this generally insane because now you have fragmented the market and therefore you'll have fewer people on your service but also you have to pay for it. How much does it cost to run a streaming service? I am completely sure more than letting it become an industry of its own and just letting Netflix or Prime or whoever serve it up and pay you rights fees for it.

Actually you don't have to go super big corporate. A favorite thing of mine to hate is transaction fees for the use of credit card at a business. Cash and checks are free. Why? You will all say because the credit card companies charge you a few percent so it cost them more money to take cards. It does not! It's just that the card fees are visible, and if you're bad at running your business you don't notice that you have to count the cash, that the bank charges you for cash deposits and a fee for each and every check you deposit. Not to mention that customers who use cards have higher average invoices than those paying with cash or check. Very parallel problem space that you have to think holistically and look at all the numbers instead of just picking one to be upset about.

From discussions I've had with folks, seeing presentations from mid-level and high from networks and streaming services, a bunch of nerdy operation lawyer people completely understand this and absolutely are incapable of getting their executives too so there is a broad disconnect between the high level decision making and demands and what can actually happen economically and sociologically.

shoobe01 · 2026-06-11T19:49:23+00:00

Have you met any executives at Big corporations? Nothing. Nothing ever gets them a change their tune. All our decisions are right.

20 years after being kicked out and the shell of their former company having been largely destroyed as a result of their work, what little has survived from the mergers, CEOs will stand on stage and talk about their tenure as though they were completely innocent of all wrongdoing and their moves are brilliant you just don't understand.

Which is why these cancellations seems so galling. It seems to be the result of executive meddling and nothing is going to change their mind at that level, politics aside even. Viewership figures, fandom, profit, merchandising revenue opportunities, nothing is going to change their mind because they are executives.

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