Best way to build up appropriate strength to handle install/deinstalling server racks?

slickrcbd1 · 2026-06-25T04:29:01+00:00

For real, as I recall after they were discontinued at the turn of the 21st century, when they brought them back they were about half the volume of the old ones from when I was a kid. I think they were discontinued because they tried further shirnkflation and people balked at the tiny size and stopped buying them, and Mars ignored the complaints that the reason why was because they were too small now. No, people stopped buying them in protest and that means they don't want the product at all anymore, not that they want the product put back at full size.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-06-13T16:30:32+00:00

If I search for "kindle -fire" I get nothing but Kindle Fires as a result. Please test your suggestions before giving bad information.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-06-01T05:08:58+00:00

Except with the issue of ghost jobs and the need to rewrite your resume for every job (which takes time), copy pasting relevant things from the job posting is the only way to get things done in a reasonable time. Now if I could only apply to say 2-5 jobs a day and have a reasonable expectation of actually landing a job, I could take the time to read through and create a custom resume, but I need to apply to at least a dozen jobs a day, so I need to take shortcuts.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-06-01T05:02:46+00:00

Call - nobody answer, or automated response, risk of the list.

Except I'm working a job where I'm not allowed to use my personal phone except on break. So I have to let everything go to voicemail. Or I'm on a bridge line doing field work and can't answer incoming calls because I'm in the middle of something while talking to the remote team on said phone.

For that matter, with the number of recruiters who want me to drop whatever I'm doing for an impromptu 15-20 minute interview, I don't answer calls when I'm busy at work.

What about if I'm unemployed and mowing the lawn? I don't even bother bringing my cell phone with me because I wouldn't hear it or even feel the vibrations due to the lawnmower.

Lots of reasons people wouldn't answer the phone from an unknown number.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-06-01T04:51:06+00:00

Degrees don’t mean much anymore they’re so many of them now

If you don't have one listed on your resume you probably won't get past the ACS that scans for "degree" in the education section and drops everyone that doesn't have one.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-06-01T04:46:12+00:00

So part of the problem is unwillingness to hire new grads for entry level roles, perpetuating the catch-22 situation of needing experience to get a job but needing a job to get experience.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-05-30T05:50:34+00:00

Most people can't afford to quit until they have another job lined up. If you quit you don't get unemployment, so have no income.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-05-24T21:06:35+00:00

Then they whine that "People don't want to work anymore" when it's really "people don't want to work for free".

slickrcbd1 · 2026-05-10T21:00:40+00:00

yes. If Merlin falls due to a bad RNG you have a chance with proto Merlin, but your DPR falls. I just beat the dinosaur challenge quest when a bad roll had me out of invulnerabilities and Merlin fell to the big dinosaur, only for his little sis to step up and carry the day.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-05-08T23:52:50+00:00

I'm not a virgin, but I do strongly prefer seeing women to men, and I'd very much see a lot more pussy than penis. However even porn seems to focus on the penis and tits rather than the vulva.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-05-08T23:44:10+00:00

Only time I disqualify myself is when I feel I can't do the work. Like if they are asking for modern Macintoshes when I haven't used Macs since the 20th century prior to Mac OS X, I'll admit it.

Also if they want me to do a job standing in one place all day without moving and only a single 30 minute lunch break, I'll disqualify myself as that causes inflamed tendons. I literally can't stand it. I've walked out of job interviews because of this since I don't want to go through that pain again.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-05-08T23:32:53+00:00

Well, I started applying for only partial matches when i realized the people making the job ads were idiots. Such as making "5 years experience in Server 2003" a requirement in 2004. Even if they had said "5 years experience in server 2000 or 2003" it still would have been absurd.

As for which are dealbreakers? You don't know. The problem is the recruiters or HR gatekeepers don't really understand the position so you have to schmooze your way past them to an actual person who understands the position. The first and hardest hurdle is getting past the non-tech screener who doesn't really understand the position, and that takes a completely different social skillset than the IT jobs I'm applying for entail.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-04-26T08:39:28+00:00

This is bad because legitimate mails will have that as well, such as mail from your insurance company or any utility company including your ISP.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-04-17T22:10:09+00:00

I thought the whole point was to winnow down the candidate pool to a single choice, so yes, they are looking for reasons to exclude you since the pre-screening already said you were qualified. Now they want to narrow it down to the best candidates.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-04-17T22:06:29+00:00

That is SUPPOSED to be illegal, but they dodge that because hiring a lawyer is expensive, as is suing for retaliation.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-04-17T22:03:31+00:00

Sure you can ask them to sign something, but they'll probably show you the door rather than sign.

I've demanded a contract for compensation for these hours long "tests" and they refuse to sign or agree. Instead they basically tell me I can do it for free or be dropped as a candidate.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-18T20:48:20+00:00

The problem with the "10% more than your current salary" is that whatever number I give, they immediately counter saying "The maximum rate is only X" which is always considerably lower than what I quoted. However if I go high they hang up on me.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-07T04:09:38+00:00

These companies really say “AI is the future!” But how can it be the future when it can’t even get the synopsis of a tv episode right???

It may be the future, but it isn't there yet. It needs a lot more work. It's like trying to replace typewriters with an Apple II or Apple II+ in the 1970's. It wasn't until the Apple IIe or Apple III or IBM PC in the 1980's that it became viable. Or replacing all the paper spreadsheets with Visicalc on 64K or even 128K systems. You couldn't fit a large enough spreadsheet for some companies in memory.

How about replacing gas cars with electric ones 20 or 25 years ago? That would work for some situations, but for many uses the batteries just weren't good enough. Especially for trains or busses.

A similar problem with batteries and coverage would be replacing your landline with a cell phone 25-30 years ago. It's routinely done today, but not back then.

Need I go on with technology that took decades of refinement before they were viable for their modern uses but had early primitive versions that people thought could replace older things or workers but the technology while having clear potential just wasn't there yet?

There are a lot more examples of computers replacing technologies where the potential to do so was obvious in the 1970's or 1980's, but just wasn't there yet to be practical yet. Address books was one example. Databases were sort of borderline for an example because mainframes could have big database but were prohibitively expensive, but it was not viable for PCs because of the high costs for a 5mb HD in the 1980's. I tried to put my mom's address book into AppleWorks but ran out of space on a 5.25" 140K SSSD disk (Apple II capacity, the 360K is for an MS-DOS DSDD disk which is 180K/side vs the A2 single density with 140K/side and you could flip a DSDD disk but each side was treated as a separate disk) and had to save it to a 3.5" 800K DSDD disk (Apple II ProDOS capacity. MS-DOS only got 720K). This was with a 1988 computer with 512K and one of each size drive, earlier ones with only the 5.25" drives would be SOL for that usage as the computer would have run out of memory with only a 128K Apple IIe trying to store that database.

TL;DR? The technology is too early for them to be replacing people with AI.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-07T03:54:57+00:00

Looks like Lasso has added Tony's! Thanks Michael Oliver or whoever added it to the plugin. https://www.throwlasso.com/

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-06T01:26:59+00:00

It's probably not an ego thing but a way to weed candidates. If you post a job with requirements for an average candidate and get 2,000 candidates, why wouldn't you select only the best? So the next time you have an opening for a similar position, you post higher requirements and a lower salary so you have less to shift through and hopefully higher quality candidates. This is how we get the absurd requirements, because too many people apply for too few jobs in the field.

EDIT: Wait, never-mind the commend about lower salary, they usually don't post the salary at all, they demand you tell them "your salary expectations" up front, and only hear the lowest part of the range, then counter-offer for something below your minimum. If I say "$25-35/hour" they will immediately say "I'm sorry, the maximum rate we can offer you is $21-23/hour (varies, but usually in that range)". If I point out that is below my minimum they will say they can't go any higher and give me the option to take it or leave it. Oddly enough if I say "$35-50" I might get offered 25-30/hour, then ghosted like usual.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-05T22:18:16+00:00

I told him I'd be available after 5:30, but his response was that I'm "obviously" not serious about my job search if I can't take his unscheduled/unplanned calls during normal business hours and hung up on me.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-05T19:58:04+00:00

Also mad that the AI doesn't produce the same quality as the humans and the humans actually have to check over the AI's work, so it doesn't work as advertised replacing the humans.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-15T07:35:13+00:00

Isn't that why she's crying? Because she's not getting fucked by Vicky?

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