Nief

Glass Beetle.

“What do you mean you didnt get the email about psychic powers? You’re on the list, see! Theres your name. of course its spelled correctly! Dont insult my intelligence!”

Apparently I’m on a ‘No Psychic Powers List’ of some kind.
IT may have something to do with the fact that my email address on the company global distribution list was spelled incorrectly despite my asking ‘Is it spelled correctly?’ For nearly 2 years now.
I shit you not.

-Continued-
'Helpful' Engineer: *posts link to support hub page without comment*
me: Thanks - We are aware of this page, and so is the user, and the error they're seeing is not listed in the altogether brief 'troubleshooting' section on this page.
*bangs head on desk*

Company: Here is our new API! Consult Support if you have issues.
*later*
Me: Are there any.. tools or logs we(support) can check when a customer is having problems ?
Eng: No.
...

Hello and welcome to my unboxing video

I'm not even permitted to paste a log *extract* in a ticket to a client because of *privacy*, but it's ok to pipe all out log files into a 3rd party system running in the cloud ?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS PLANET

I dont know If Im being a petulant child here because it feels like I have no autonomy or decision making abilities over my OWN professional progress here, or If Im genuinely being railroaded because someone has a hard on for a product that feels like its going to make my role redundant...

Management: "One of the things you highlighted in your reviews was lack of training and learning opportunities, So Everyone will now be provided with a license to the $AIVariant we decided we'd use along with training to learn it!"

... I feel like I'm being told what I should be interested in...

*picks up old bottle from ocean, reads message*

"Mah-Nah, Mah-Nah"

Also, YOU CAN GET PLUSH NECRON SCARABS ONLINE!
I may have purchased one.

I'm stuck minding the support desk today, and since the Engineering team *didnt* deploy a incompletely tested new feature at 4pm on a friday last week, It's been relatively quiet.
So I spent some time modeling some Necron Scarabs.
Very Plain and simple, but it was a good learning exercise.

OF course, It also happened After Uber Eats became a thing - And sometimes things arrived BY Uber, Which is a dreadfully civilised and amusing intersection of past and present.

Way before Uber Eats was even a pipe dream, we used to stand outside our houses waiting for another type of person to arrive.
A person who, Like the Uber drive was *always* ‘just a couple of mins away’ or was ‘Just leaving now’

How times change

Overheard: "-And we'll pray to the Friday Deployment Gods-"
me: *muttering* "Also known as the God of Fools, Idiots and Gamblers"

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Me: Hey, Im moving pretty well today! Feeling pain free, more
Co-ordinated than I have in a while, Have I lost weight? I feel like I’ve lost we-
*catches sight of reflection in shop window*
Me: No.. No I haven’t.

Me: The issue here is with the cert installed on your internal $SERVER. Can you verify you have the full chain of trust included in it ?
*24 hours later*
Customer: The IT Team have just finished installing CA and WEBCA certs on $PRODUCT and its still not working!

...
*sob*

The Wang 2200 computer, vintage 1973.

My Wang hasn’t experienced optimal performance efficiency for decades.

It's getting to the point where I am actively avoiding escalating tickets because I DONT WANT to have to apologise to a user repeatedly for the next 3 - 12 months because their issue isn't 'urgent' enough to warrant attention.

I am definitely in a bad mood today.
I just started resenting the fact that I have to take pills twice a day to even achieve what is considered a 'normal' workload.
*mutter*

To me this says I should be able to book an eye test with an UNqualified Optometrist.

I am aware that when I'm in 'a mood' I'll object to anything someone says, simply because I'm feeling bloody minded, oppositional and 'difficult', But goddamn it feels like people are being especially objectionable today.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that sometimes you have to deal with edge cases, But if your default approach to something is to fix the symptom rather than stop it from occurring then you're a shit developer.

Opinions.
I have them today.

Eng: Ok - Well, We can put something in to correct that behaviour when X occurs.
Me: .. How about we look into WHY / stop X from occurring rather than just spend all our time fixing edge cases ?
*silence*

HOw to really stress someone on the spectrum out;
Tell them they’re doing something incorrectly, But dont provide any framework to do it *properly*

I swear, If someones lazy ass fucking coding has just made 6 months work for me I am going to set fire to something.
*mutter*

Its only monday and I feel like going back to bed and not moving for the rest of the week.