Random Rants
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Took today off work as TOIL for crazy amounts of over time over past few months. All approved and communicated
5am this morning I turn my work phone off so I won't get any early/late morning wake-up calls.
10am when I finally get up I see 14 missed calls from work relating to an outage that started @ 530am.Calls were from my team members, my manager, and others who knew I had TOIL today, as well as a few who didn't. I can't work every incident, it's unfair on the company to have a single guy across everything, it prevents learning and sharing throughout the team and wider org. I HATE playing hero, which jumping on every incident also does.
Now I need to keep off e-mail phone for the rest of the day. Am sure I'll get sucked into the vortex as soon as I write something.
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Stand firm Snowy!! Prob is these days.. Once you show them your a performer they milk the shit out you till your sucked dry. Working for the military for 17yrs was no different.
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Thanks gents. I kept it as TOIL, no comms to/from them for the day. As you've said, gotta stand firm or I'm doing myself a dis-service; F-That, respect starts with the self. And being 5pm I'd call that "safe". Went for a lovely lazy swim this afternoon, beautiful way to spend the afteroon
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I had a recruitment agent call me up about an Android development job with a digital agency in London a week ago. As is common they wanted candidates to do a coding test first, but I didn't get around to doing it because I went to Potsdam and Amsterdam instead.
I had another call about a different role with the agency, and they wanted the test doing. It involved writing a couple of custom UI controls, and a routine to pull down data from an external server. There's nothing complicated about what they want, but it'd be time consuming to do it properly. I estimated at least a day, but I could reuse some code for the server comms.
So I wrote them an email pointing out that the amount of work as a programming test was excessive; they didn't supply a clear and complete spec; and the assets were initially supplied as a Photoshop file, rather than the standard PNG format used in app development.
I get a bit grumpy about these tests because they take up a lot of time, are normally run as a first round filter before you even speak to the end client, and frequently you don't hear back from them upon completion, or find that the job has already been filled.
It'll be interesting to see what they come back with tomorrow.
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Not going into details right now but Comcast needs to die.
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Not going into details right now but Comcast needs to die.
All I will say is amen, and leave it that.
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CANNOT FIND ONE DAMN STORE IN THE US THAT CARRIES MERZ HENLEYS…. absolutely ridiculous... been waiting months. Wish HWcarters had not changed store fornts
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I'm assuming this is a Henley-specific issue, cos:
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yeah, thats all cool and the gang… until you actually go check those shops out.... only about three even carry merz still and the ones that due have very little to offer.
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FUCK THE TAPATALK UPDATE!!!! In the past week my phone had seriously become the biggest eyesore and I detest using it. People do design these updates must be tripping on something good because they just trade in useful for new.
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I believe I have previously voiced my displeasure here with people who don't refill coffee in a shared-coffee environment such as an office. I do my own coffee with an AeroPress, but this hangup of mine is so strong that I got into it with a guy today. This is the same person I got into it with a while back when he left a fraction of a turd on a toilet seat previously (I may have shared that episode here as well).
The guy uses the last of the coffee to fill a giant mug and then starts walking away. I said "excuse me, are you going to refill that?" And he says "No, why?" And I said "Because your time is not more valuable than the next person who wants a cup of coffee. It's basic etiquette, he who finishes the carafe fills the carafe. It has to be somebody, and that's who it is." He says "Whatever," and as he's walking away I call after him "So you like to leave carafes empty and shit on toilet seats. You're an animal." I kind of thought he would come back and get sideways with me, which in an environment other than work would have suited me fine, I was that angry, but he just kept walking. What a piece of shit.
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You should pour his coffee (inaccurately) down the khazi and poo in his coffee mug. That'll learn him.
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Hahaha nice one Winchy!
fffffffuck!
