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Shared work spaces suck. I want to kill myself.

So we have shared spaces where monitors and everything are already hooked up, we just have to connect our laptop and are ready to go. But due to hygiene, COVID fuckery and so on, we are advised to bring our own mouse and keyboard - by "own" I mean the ones we got when we started here.

On the work places, a mouse and a keyboard are already there, just in case someone forgot theirs. But they get ignored and are somewhere off to the side.

I just spend 45min on trying to get my keyboard working. I couldn't log in with it, so I used the virtual keyboard to access my laptop. Tried a bunch of stuff and it was really weird. Restarts didn't fix the issue. All the letters and numbers didn't work, but then I discovered that enter, esc and space bar did work.

Which got me to the solution of the problem. The other keyboard was hooked up, but has been thrown somewhere behind one of the monitors, upside down. With the ctrl key being pushed down by a cable.

Stupid shit.
 
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Me: The drains have been clogged for weeks and is becoming a serious problem. Can you please look into it?

Manager: Sorry I don't know what to tell you.

Well, the next time he starts bitching about waiting for us to finish I'll say the same thing. :) Soon it will be someone else's problem.
 
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I'm organizing all the stuff for the next big trade fair and got a student as support. Not necessarily for me, but for the team who have to build and test everything. Setting up the servers, installation of our products etc. there are many tedious tasks and our time is very limited.

Three days in, he quits. He wants to study something different. Won't find anybody else for it. Great.

Also, covid. The last years, the trade fair got cancelled due to covid. Now, the number of cases is twice as high compared to July last year. The fair takes place during the fall, so we have to be prepared for some weird remote shit.
 
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In a totally expected move, after doing 95% of the "super urgent" project and delivering a really good product, I go on holidays for two weeks only to come back and find out that others are taking over the project and of course claiming the success.

You know what ... fuck this shit. I am going back to contracting from next year and never doing perm again.
 
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Funding has dried up for my position. Superiors wanted me to continue working on the project without pay but only a promise of a "more permanent" position - but couldn't provide a timeline. Wage theft by a university, in effect.

Fuck that. Finally time to go back into industry or do my own thing.
 
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Aarbron said:
Funding has dried up for my position. Superiors wanted me to continue working on the project without pay but only a promise of a "more permanent" position - but couldn't provide a timeline. Wage theft by a university, in effect.

Fuck that. Finally time to go back into industry or do my own thing.
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Fuck that. Working for free, GTFO. Even interns should always be paid. Free work is not work experience, it is time theft.
 
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Dreamlord said:
Fuck that. Working for free, GTFO. Even interns should always be paid. Free work is not work experience, it is time theft.
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I have a huge issue with industries that rely heavily on unpaid internships as a route in. Basically they're fucking up diversity by making sure only those with wealthy parents can afford to get in. Absolute cuntery.
 
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Last week I had a pretty big breakthrough at work. I finally got my Azure machine catalog working correctly with our main image. Officially got the first users in the pilot group zooming in a full Cloud environment. Pretty big win as they didn't need to bring in outside vendors for the design which was the original plan. Still tons to do as the VNET needs a lot of customization to emulate the on premise environment. Machines are still domain joined but next quarter I think I will build a catalog which is domain free to truly be living in the Cloud. It means I will have to import or rebuild the polices from the ground up which I am not looking forward to.

I still might need to engage the vendor as the storefronts are not merging as intended but I am feeling pretty pretty good. This build out has been in the works for a few months.

 
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Last week I had a pretty big breakthrough at work. I finally got my Azure machine catalog working correctly with our main image. Officially got the first users in the pilot group zooming in a full Cloud environment. Pretty big win as they didn't need to bring in outside vendors for the design which was the original plan. Still tons to do as the VNET needs a lot of customization to emulate the on premise environment. Machines are still domain joined but next quarter I think I will build a catalog which is domain free to truly be living in the Cloud. It means I will have to import or rebuild the polices from the ground up which I am not looking forward to.

I still might need to engage the vendor as the storefronts are not merging as intended but I am feeling pretty pretty good. This build out has been in the works for a few months.

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So you are moving to thin clients hosted in azure?
 
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So you are moving to thin clients hosted in azure?
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Yes and no. I doubt we'll ever actually move to thin clients only. There was an initial push for a thin client solution when the pandemic first hit. It has been prototyped out(IGEL) but never moved beyond testing. I work in an industry were our users are extremely white gloved and I doubt we will ever move away from laptops….if we do it won't be for years.

We have several data centers which we manage but we have a cloud first initiative to move as much infrastructure to the Cloud over the next few years with the goal of lowering our footprint in the data centers. Most our VDIs live on Prem and we have just started building out VDIs in Azure.

We will be in a hybrid environment for a long time as there has been a lot invested in the on premise virtual environment and it will take quite a while for us to replicate it in the Cloud. In fact I bet they will choose to not replicate some of our on premise features to the Cloud which I am all for.

A lot of people have been waiting for these Azure VDIs to be usable so the fact the workflow for them is built out and working is a huge weight off my shoulders.
 
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Guys I'm not sure what to do. I didn't get the director job last year at work. The CHief operating officers wife got it. I've been nice and helped her out as I don't want to burn bridges. Yesterday she vented that she can't handle it and that she was thinking of quiting. I just want well that's really shocking to hear you say that and left it at that. Ive been crushing it at work...maybe I'll get another shot before to long.

I just keep thinking a bridge you burn is harder to mend and I got 10 more years for my full pension. Plus my team is awesome and they like me a lot. When I didn't get the director job they all took me out for drinks and said it was bullshit. It impacted their advancements for some of them also.
 
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Our IT guy drives me NUTS. I talked to him yesterday, asked if he has a special kind of router and if I can pick it up today. He confirmed both. Original chat with him via Teams now:

Me: hey can I come and pick up the router we talked about, are you here today?

No answer.

Me: visited your office, door closed and nobody there.

He: That's because nobody is in there.

Me: will somebody be in there today?

No answer.

Me: are you even here today?

He: yes.

Me: tell me a time when I can come by.

No answer.

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What a motherfucker.
 
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Not really a rant about work but a tiny moment at work.

I'm working the forklift, solo and as I'm driving, this gay Asian dude races past me on a bicycle and shouts' KONICHIWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in the gayest accent.

And his ass wasn't even Japanese. Just pissed me off because I could have accidentally hit him.
 
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I quit my job yesterday! After 8 years I have formally put in my resignation letter. It feels like jumping off a high dive. I had been unhappy for over a year, but really believed in our product and liked a few of the people I worked with. But a few months ago a competitor reached out with a job opportunity that sounded compelling. I met with them and did a few rounds of interviews and with grace of god got a nice offer. It will be nice going from platform/tech back to actual game development again.
 
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Not exactly a rant. This happened in our company Slack. The first entry is from the MD:

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(It's a trend to start pun-a-thons. The worse they are, the better they are).
 
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I fired a young man at work two months ago for sucking at his job. He said he was autistic and I said sorry had no clue but you still aren't performing and fired him. He filed a law suit yesterday.
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I get it, life sucks when you have a legitimate disability, but fuck, you don't work for a charity.
 
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I get it, life sucks when you have a legitimate disability, but fuck, you don't work for a charity.
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Dude had like 15 certification and did good on his interview but basic stuff he couldn't do. He had to go as I run a real high performing team of 40 people and they all said quickwhips he can't make it here. Everyone wants to be a victim when you call them on their bullshit.
 
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These morons in part of our IT division accidentally disabled emails for a bunch of staff. Worst thing was you couldn't even tell. No notification or error message. It appeared as if they were sending but they weren't. So it took like half the day before people started to notice anything was even wrong.
 
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My workplace has a real nasty habit of letting someone go as soon as they put in their notice. So instead of using the 2 weeks to come up with a gameplan and possibly fill the position, they immediately let the person go and I am usually left to pick up the slack.

Why the fuck would you do this? I've asked and nobody can provide a satisfactory answer.
 
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TaySan said:
Put my notice yesterday and going to start a new job on the 20th. :)

Tough work, but if I stick around for a year I get full benefits and pension. If I move up I can make some good money finally without having to go to school.
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What's that new job Tay? And congrats, sounds good!
 
It's cold outside and thanks to the energy costs , we can't control the temperature in our office rooms anymore. In an effort to save energy, our company turned off the heating it's under 19C.

Which is not really comfy for me. Germany became such a joke.
 
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About to throw this shitty work Lenovo X1 out the fucken window. MS indexer is eating up all resources rendering the damn thing useless. Can't turn off either because of shitty IT controls. Fucken
 
I'm floundering now because I was moved out of what I was working on into a position I actually had no experience with. I enjoy learning to do new things, but now I have to deal with bureaucracy and literally being blocked from being able to do my job because of union workplace politics bullshit and I hate it all.

I was in a hybrid R&D/operations role with a small crew of operators (really a bit of everything shared with the guy I worked with) and had freedom to actually improve stuff. I loved it and spent most of the last four years working on it literally every day, including weekends, with no real vacations. Now I can't even look at process control code as a process control engineer (which I was not before but people thought I was because I pick up coding easily, so I got labeled that) because union goons think I'm stealing their precious time to "make management happy". I even got in trouble for making sure a reactor didn't get plugged and shut down a bottleneck process for 24+ hours (or potentially, you know, explode) because one of the damn goons should have been called in to make one small 30 second code edit, and because I did it to "make management happy". Fuck management (who suck up to the union anyway), I just enjoy making things work. Learning and problem solving and improving things make me happy.

I feel like I've got to leave because I'm suffocating, but pragmatically this is not an economy where you want to be "the new hire" regardless of your skill level. Mass layoffs are coming. On the other hand, I basically can't do an actual job now other than middleman manager bullshit, and I feel like I'm being set up for a disaster to happen and be blamed on me when I do call someone in and they arrive an hour later.
 
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I actually forgot that I started this thread. *sigh*

I think I am running out of steam at my job. I was supposed to be given a team, but apparently, for this to happen, you need to be of a specific race. There is no other way to explain it and I can see it with my own eyes.

Instead of being given the two people I need, I am simply given more work! It's ... insane!

So be it, then. After the bonus, time for a career break to recharge and figure out what to do next. I am coming to this decision not lightly, but for the past few weeks, the person I see in my head when I wake up and the brain starts functioning, is my boss. That ain't healthy shit.
 
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I am balls deep in the migration of my environment to the Cloud and things are going well. I am starting to get a lot of attention from people who are impressed that it is happening. The fact that we didn't need to bring in any vendors for help is also a plus.

The thing is that I have the worst case of imposter syndrome. On one hand I feel that this is super easy and that anyone could have done it. Then I look back, see all the steps in the the build out process which took a lot of time and planning, and I feel a sense of accomplishment. The journey is just starting as this migration will take multiple quarters to fully implement but I have several hard targets that I should hit along the way. A far cry from the overwhelming feeling I felt when taking over the environment back in April.

This imposter syndrome is wild and I have accepted the fact that it will never go away. I am cool with that long as I am constantly learning new shit and stay humble.... it sure is a bitch though.
 
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