Stouffers
FAFO
Had an interview this morning. Without asking for references, they're flying me out to Newark, NJ to meet the team. I might be in the mafia now.
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Same here, though my work is 70% Angular lately and 30% split between NodeJS, Java and .NET back ends.
I much prefer C# to Java tbh.
Yep, I am of that mentality/capability as well. I get shit done, fast. And I will build you resilient, well thought out and clean systems/architecture.
I have literally not done a single useful fucking thing today. Eugh. Honestly, not my idea of fun.
Damn, that sucks. My employer decided a few months back that we all will continue to telework permanently. Except for those people who have to be in the office (mostly IT), or don't want to / can't telework for whatever reason.
I have officially owned our Citrix Environment for a month. I feel like I am getting in a decent rhythm while better prioritizing what is actually a priority. I am grateful that the previous Engineer was a rockstar and did a great job keeping the environment zooming and made time to train me best he could.
I have a few ideas on how I want to move forward and build out the current toolset we have while expanding into the Azure world. The only bad thing is my management is still trying to pile projects on. I am already running around like mad and I am finally pushing back. They can fuck right off with all these additional projects. Its like they had no actual idea how much work the previous Citrix Engineer was doing. Add into the mix all the other technologies that I own and the workload is never ending. I am grateful to love what I am doing and have it been incredibly challenging.... sometimes I miss the days of just fucking off and playing Video Games during the work day lol. I look at it as I traded in gaming while at work for the ability to truly work from home 100%.
As I continue along this journey hopefully my shitposting can pick back up. I feel like I am no longer drowning and now swimming through murky waters which are inhabited by shit piles that must be avoided. I must stay vigilant otherwise I will end up with shit in the mouth and eyes.
I have a few ideas on how I want to move forward and build out the current toolset we have while expanding into the Azure world. The only bad thing is my management is still trying to pile projects on. I am already running around like mad and I am finally pushing back. They can fuck right off with all these additional projects. Its like they had no actual idea how much work the previous Citrix Engineer was doing. Add into the mix all the other technologies that I own and the workload is never ending. I am grateful to love what I am doing and have it been incredibly challenging.... sometimes I miss the days of just fucking off and playing Video Games during the work day lol. I look at it as I traded in gaming while at work for the ability to truly work from home 100%.
As I continue along this journey hopefully my shitposting can pick back up. I feel like I am no longer drowning and now swimming through murky waters which are inhabited by shit piles that must be avoided. I must stay vigilant otherwise I will end up with shit in the mouth and eyes.
Just sat through an hour long 'training' on records management and it was one of the most tedious and mind-numbing things I've been forced to endure in a long, long, LONG time. Fuck all that shit.
Yeah I had the obligatory pointless hour long meeting today. Never worked for a company that loves meetings so much before.
I should send the trainer a MS Paint gif of a dog's ass and ask if it counts as a record (who knows, I might need it for work) and, if so, how long it should be retained.
Meetings are the bane of my existence. Almost everything discussed in meetings can be handled over email.... even some of the most technical problems. I swear people at my company just love to hear themselves speak. I would rather shitpost and get shit done.
Sometimes it's good to go talk to someone to avoid email ping pong but that's generally best done one to one. A good conversation one to one gets a lot done in terms of clarifying what's wanted etc. The problem is meeting with too many people.
The only times I really call meetings, it's when people are either ignoring a problem or trying to shift blame back and forth. I shut the door, and tell people we aren't leaving until we resolve the problem. Suddenly everyone is willing to work together!
Done that plenty of times - yeah sometimes you need to bang heads together.
My brain is so fucking drained and I hate Nvidia so so so so much. Their drivers are complete shit. I spent all day creating a new platform layer and I got stuck on installing the Nvidia drivers for our Tesla T4 GPUS. I spent hours trying to figure out why they wouldn't install in the platform layer but they worked just fine in the old platform layer.
They have no logging and no failure codes. Just woops installation has failed.... our bad bro. They don't tell you shit. Oh but their older version worked just fine. The old driver was still part of the 400.xx release so no major upgrades which I assume means the architecture should be similar. I finally said fuck it and packaged the layer with the old version.... I have already drank the AMD koolaid but after this I will never go back to Nvidia...... fuck I am going to get so high this weekend. I can't believe its only Tuesday.
They have no logging and no failure codes. Just woops installation has failed.... our bad bro. They don't tell you shit. Oh but their older version worked just fine. The old driver was still part of the 400.xx release so no major upgrades which I assume means the architecture should be similar. I finally said fuck it and packaged the layer with the old version.... I have already drank the AMD koolaid but after this I will never go back to Nvidia...... fuck I am going to get so high this weekend. I can't believe its only Tuesday.
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One week in my new job and it's not bad. Easy work, chill team, and free food/drinks.
Stouffers
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Job interviews are a rigged game heavily in favor of the interviewer and suck. It's a framework of taboos one has to maneuver with around while the interviewer is held to different standards... it's basically like arguing with a mod on GAF or REE
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>.<
I dread the day I have to do an interview. Never had to do one with any of my jobs
I've seen both sides of the process and that only increased my dislike for it. People weren't getting selected simply due to the photographs they chose for their bio, deliberate delays to build up frustration, interviewers not looking at the references and certificates... and criticizing any of these, or other (sometimes deliberately inserted) faults is an instant disqualification from the job.
I've hired over hundred people, with all the pre-selecting and the job interviews. It's definitely fucked up to some degree. When you are flooded with job applications, even small details play a factor.
And I've seen old thirsty dudes searching for an assistant, only chosing who will get invited based on the photo. "I want to see a nice smile when I'm coming t the office."
I hate the whole process, especially when I'm the one searching the job. That said, I also had a good number of great job interviews.
Been on both sides - I've been sent people who can barely speak a word of English, people with no experience as developers nor any indication of interest as a hobby, people have come in and copied an answer from their google drive for the tech exercise and still got the test wrong.. not fun at all.
In a separate note, back at work today after 2 weeks paternity leave, and predictably updating the code I find that everything is fucking broken. I have never in my life encountered such a broken set of shitty code, the amount it must cost them in delays as developers try to get this broken-ass shit to actually fucking well run must be enormous, but there is little inclination to fix it. So, fuck it, I'm getting paid, if they don't know how to fix it and I don't because I'm still new enough to have no idea about the whole code base, it's not my problem. More Isaac cuddle time.
In a separate note, back at work today after 2 weeks paternity leave, and predictably updating the code I find that everything is fucking broken. I have never in my life encountered such a broken set of shitty code, the amount it must cost them in delays as developers try to get this broken-ass shit to actually fucking well run must be enormous, but there is little inclination to fix it. So, fuck it, I'm getting paid, if they don't know how to fix it and I don't because I'm still new enough to have no idea about the whole code base, it's not my problem. More Isaac cuddle time.
There are no words to express precisely how utterly fucked this code is. I mean completely and utterly fucking fucked. I've been given a bug to fix but I can't get to it because I have to first get past 50 other fucking broken things just to get the fucking thing to run. Absolute fucking clownshow, and not a single person among the senior devs who know how this shit is held together (by sticky tape mostly) has any interest in improving things. Absolutely fucking ridiculous.
I think I have one of the laziest/easiest jobs on the planet atm. Write really shitty code in R for web scraping, old professor thinks I am a genius whilst the $$$ flow in.
Gitlab and internal npm servers all dead, along with dev servers. Add in 3 hours of pointless meetings today and my Football Manager save is coming along quite nicely.
Damn that sounds miserable. I hate when no one wants to improve legacy systems because they work. It's like yeah it works but it's trash and convoluted. Shit frustrates me to no end.
It's insane tbh. The company is awash with cash and has loads of devs (60+) and does stuff slower than my old team that was just me + 3. Either we were really punching above our weight or they're punching below theirs - I suspect a combination of the two. They do however find the motivation to have hours and hours of pointless meetings...
Some weird stuff going on right now. Friend of mine, experienced IT Project Leader who's great at what he does, started a new job in a big German furnace company. As head of all their IT projects, to push much needed new logistics systems and a lot of important stuff.
They desperately wanted him, he did a banger job, got very positive feedback. In Germany, you have six month of "trial" time, in which you can get fired without any reason. But he felt very safe, even got a 5k bonus for his great work.
So now with the Ukraine Russia fuckery going on, a lot of companies struggle. Last day of his first six months, he gets a call from HR. Gets fired without any explanation.
Turns out a lot of companies are in serious financial troubles.
They desperately wanted him, he did a banger job, got very positive feedback. In Germany, you have six month of "trial" time, in which you can get fired without any reason. But he felt very safe, even got a 5k bonus for his great work.
So now with the Ukraine Russia fuckery going on, a lot of companies struggle. Last day of his first six months, he gets a call from HR. Gets fired without any explanation.
Turns out a lot of companies are in serious financial troubles.
I've come the the realization my team/company is working out in the Wild West of technology for enterprise companies. I am sure there are tons of companies further along than us but I bet we are in the top 1%. Migrating all the works streams to the cloud is going to be an interesting process. We will be in hybrid work environment for years but the horizon is looking bright. Lots of unique jobs that not many endpoint engineers get to work on.
teezzy
Let me have my wanks
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Starting to love my job again.
I consistently make my company about 80 to 100k a month, and they're starting to recognize that.
Cheers everyone
I consistently make my company about 80 to 100k a month, and they're starting to recognize that.
Cheers everyone
I am so fucking tired of the annual trainings that get more and more painful each year. Sexual harassment, IT security, ethics, etc, etc. Fuck all that shit. I'm not here to hit on chicks or make money on the side, I don't give a flying fuck about pronouns, and I'm not an idiot-fuck who's going to go to some rando link to download a questionable exe file. Fucking hell, what a bunch of nonsense.
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It's even worse in finance, I have to do shit like that almost every quarter, plus attestations and other shit. Boggles the mind how much money and hours are spent collectively doing this shit.
I'm just a lowly-almost-six-figures-grunt, and I have to go through this shit year after year. People wonder why I have no interest in progressing further. I've taken a sip of the kool-aid, but I have no desire to drink more (which appears to be a requirement for management).
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my competitive esports degree is coming along nicely. Soon I'll be smart enough to be a twitch streamer just gotta pass the final.
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Got my compensation letter today.
I got a 6.83% raise and a 9% bonus. The raise was more than I expected. I know I am criminally underpaid for my role because of my internal promotion but I am humbled to be working for such a great company. I am also grateful to love what I do but I am curious to know how it stacks up compared to other companies.
I got a 6.83% raise and a 9% bonus. The raise was more than I expected. I know I am criminally underpaid for my role because of my internal promotion but I am humbled to be working for such a great company. I am also grateful to love what I do but I am curious to know how it stacks up compared to other companies.
