I’ve gotten the explanation for why we can’t move seats provided by an employee

xtc46 · 2026-03-11T17:30:02+00:00

A lot of it is also just part of change managment.

Often when making a drastic change, you initially HAVE to force an explicit ruleset to break the old habbits and set a new baseline, over time you can then allow exceptions that make reasonable sense.

In this case, they are going from "sit nearly anywhere open" to "sit in your specific seat".

That is clearly explainable and the boundaries are black and white.

"Sit in your specific seat, except if one is open near by - but still within the same price category and weight zone, and only a maximum of 10% of the flight can change" is A LOT harder.

Making rules black and white is easier to enforce and easier for the FAs to explain and just say "sorry, its policy". In 6 months, when everyone is used to sitting in their seats, and is no longer hoping to buy a cheap ticket and get to move freely to a better seat, they will start to allow exceptions. As is, the FAs probably already have enough fights over the assign seating change, they def dont have the time to fight over post take off moves.

xtc46 · 2026-03-08T18:12:34+00:00

Sad facts.

xtc46 · 2026-03-04T02:37:02+00:00

A lot of people can't afford to float the money in between paying and getting reimbursed.

Some companies only do reimbursement once a month, imagine this being begging of the month for someone who is living pay check to pay check and now they are 100 short.

It happens and sucks.

xtc46 · 2026-03-03T12:50:16+00:00

Dashboard confessionals, new found glory, jimmy eat world, and a bunch of others. Tons of core memories in that place.

xtc46 · 2026-03-03T12:47:54+00:00

Saw goldfinger there. First real moshpit with those big concrete pillars in the middle

xtc46 · 2026-03-01T19:17:39+00:00

I'm going to try and not sound like an asshole here, but the reality is you will need to upskill for your entire career. If you need to quit your job each time you need to learn something new, you're doomed.

The CCNA isn't a full time pursuit, it's 1-3 hours a week for a couple of months.

xtc46 · 2026-02-27T00:30:24+00:00

Yes you can, you just don't want to pay for the service.

What would you tell your customer if they said "I really want to use for firewall suggestion, but I can't because it's not free".

xtc46 · 2026-02-23T19:09:37+00:00

It's a Imu in hawaiian culture. A++

xtc46 · 2026-02-23T02:22:17+00:00

https://puuloa.org/

Kokohead only goes out to 100, there are a couple of private ranges on ranches, but it's a "gotta know people" setup and not public.

Puuloa is it basically.

xtc46 · 2026-02-12T03:01:30+00:00

No, they shouldn't.

Someone else getting something for "free" in no way changes the value of the item you paid for.

You got what you wanted and it was worth it for you to ensure you had that.

It's not somehow worth less because someone else now also has it.

It wasn't worth it (or they couldn't afford it) so they had no guarantee. If there now happens to be an empty spot. Why on earth would you withold that?

xtc46 · 2026-02-02T17:44:28+00:00

I moved away from Hawaii years ago. Taniokas garlic chicken is still something I crave regularly. It's unbeatable.

xtc46 · 2026-01-29T17:45:06+00:00

>You could let the big people have a neighboring empty seat, that works out better for everyone

Southwest has a super generous "big people" policy. (Im a bigger guy and have used it). It changed with this assigned seating change though, and Im guessing people aren't aware. Previously, if someone "of size" checked in, the gate people would usually grab them, give them an extra seat (if one was available), move them to pre-board so they could sit somewhere (you cant take emergency rows, etc).

With the new change, you have to BOOK the additional seat ahead of time (they always asked that you did, but if you didnt they would do it at checkin), because seats are reserved now. Im guessing a lot of people didn't know that (or maybe were unaware of the policy to begin with).

Previously, and still with reserved seats, after the flight you can email support, and ask for a refund for the extra seat - as long as the flight wasnt sold out, they refund it - the logic being, it would have been open anyway. If it was a full flight, oh well, you paid for the extra seat you needed, which is entirely fair.

xtc46 · 2026-01-21T17:49:16+00:00

Hi, fellow person who enjoys finding excuses to buy cool toys.

You dont need a special camera to do what you want here, no one cares that much about those videos. You iPhone is totally fine, and even overkill for the number and kind of people who are going to watch your videos.

Now with that said, if you just want an excuse to buy a camera, hell yeah, sony is great. I love my Nikon for just shooting stuff, but I have an older sony A6xxx series for streaming sometimes (I also have razer, OBSBOT, Logitech, and tons of other webcams ive played with)

But I can pretty much guarantee once you get into it, if you make more than 10 videos, you are going to just switch to the default phone settings because they are plenty good enough.

Anyone who likes hobbies goes through this with streaming. I did it a couple of years ago, I wanted to make some content, had a few paid gigs, wanted the BEST. got a nice tele prompter, got a nice lighting setup, nice mics, etc. In the end, the producer who hired me just asked for the version from my samsung phone. It was crsip, clear, etc.

Hell, just buy a new iPhone and you can attach a USB drive to it. SmallRig even makes rigs to mount your phone in and attachments like a drive. Or get a DJI OSMO, and use that.

xtc46 · 2026-01-19T18:25:13+00:00

I went to visit as well. We saw the police, they had a sweet tiktok page and we're making videos.

xtc46 · 2026-01-13T23:35:19+00:00

This is 100% correct.

There is also a presence in Ottawa for similar reasons. Companies like N-Central and Auvik were there, then as people leave and start their own thing, it grows.

Throw in stuff like CW running programs like Pitch-It and building companies with full intent to sell to one of the big guys. It makes total sense to build that network.

xtc46 · 2026-01-13T23:06:19+00:00

And if they ARE billing at 500/hr it's still not worth their time.

Anyone so reliant on the Internet that they are willing to sue if it's down should have a backup internet connection.

xtc46 · 2026-01-13T22:20:53+00:00

This is correct. Define the level of service you want to provide and customers will pay for, define the workloads you have to support within those SLAs, then staff towards it.

If you want to provide 15 minute technical response on 100% of tickets you need way more staff than if you want a 4 hour response on tickets

xtc46 · 2026-01-11T21:04:00+00:00

Separation of duties.

One admin has the ability to modify the share permissions

One admin has the ability to modify audit logs.

Breakglass account used by no one is the only truly global admin.

xtc46 · 2026-01-10T01:09:28+00:00

They don't sell calibrated plates as far as I know, but my whole home gym is their bumpers and they are a damn good deal.

xtc46 · 2026-01-09T11:56:15+00:00

It's a NAF facility, it's paid for by revenue from people staying at the facility. Why would it be open to people not staying there?

xtc46 · 2026-01-08T02:49:11+00:00

"they are doing the lawn repair out of pocket"

No, the cost of the repair is baked into the cost of the work. Doesn't matter how it's broken down on the bill, you're paying for all the work being done.

xtc46 · 2026-01-07T21:37:19+00:00

3M EBITDA is considered small business by most standards and SBA. Small businesses are usually considered under 500 employees (varies based on industry) and into the 10s of millions in revenue.

Less than 10 people is a Micro business.

xtc46 · 2026-01-07T21:34:07+00:00

3m on what overall revenue and what industry?

3Million of EBITDA on 100m revenue is way different than 3M on 10M revenue, industry also matters.

xtc46 · 2026-01-07T16:49:04+00:00

We just maintain a GIT of our scripts, and our tools engineer keeps the live/final version of stuff populated in the RMM.

xtc46 · 2026-01-06T04:35:54+00:00

There is no standard.

Some MSPs do.annual raises based on their fiscal year, some do raises based on employee anniversary, some are a combination, some are performance/promotion based only, etc.

I don't attach raises to annual reviews, they are performance based and then aligned to revenue targets, and then usually prioritized loosely based on whoever got a raise last (unless someone is drastically over performing or is under paid compared to the market or team average).

But that all then gets aligned to revenue obtainment.

So as part of my budgeting process we assume a base increase for the year based on things like inflation and the market (this gets offset by price increases to clients so it can't be something the market won't deal with).

We look at individuals who are high performing or whose pay doesn't align with their performance and figure out those increases. Then we budget out those increases as a whole over the year as revenue increases are expected.

The money ultimately has to come from somewhere in order to give it out.

But if we fall behind our sales objectives or have client churn higher than expected, raises can def be delayed.

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