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Neon Genesis Phijkchu

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July 17, 2020 – Present
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June 19, 2020 – August 30, 2026
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Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood
I have stopped short of saying it to work but our 20+ person team is mostly solutions seeking problems, and they are largely personal projects with enough lipstick to look work-related.
Yep, there's no better way to say it that I know 99% of what we bring forward is going to get shelved or not have a customer, but I have the budget and team so I may as well spend it, which ironically looks better for our metrics And when we do find someone interested, 99% of the time it's because they have money they don't have anything to spend on, and have no intention of even seeing the project through beyond a year or two
Spooky Phijkchu rawb
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood
Example: Customers ask vague questions. It takes us a long time, sometimes nearly an hour, to guess what they want. Some retard (he's not he's just not being wise) says "Here's my AI project to speed up the guessing process." I'm like... why not ask the customer to clarify AND in the proces soft train them to ask better questions in the future? Nah. The AI project will fix it.
Lol, ok that's such a retarded premise I lk might steal that as a shitpost
Kribbles rawb
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it It is usually torturous
Yup. I worked a factory job where I would take turns on an airgun putting nails into a wooden board. Literally, I did 1 nail, passed it off to the other guy, he did 1 nail, and he passed it back to me.
TinyBomby rawb
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
Yup. I worked a factory job where I would take turns on an airgun putting nails into a wooden board. Literally, I did 1 nail, passed it off to the other guy, he did 1 nail, and he passed it back to me.
I also had something similar to this, except that I was hired as an engineer and they wanted me to have on the floor training, so they wanted me to work like this for months.
Kribbles rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
push enter in a terminal and sit around for half an hour to push enter again
Someone at the navy did that because she didn't want to think, so she just spent a week clicking the next button every hour.
polu rawb
The position I had in my company before this one was really comfy. They would give me assignments that would take months to complete that I could get done within the day and I spent the rest of the time playing vidya and watching anime.
Kribbles rawb
I enjoyed working at the navy because my boss always had work for me and I could just keep grinding away at cleaning up tasks. I got annoyed that no one else had that motivation, but my current job doesn't allow me to keep grinding away at new tasks and that is so much more soul-crushing.
mtcdood rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
surely nothing could go wrong having an LLM hallucinate gap filling in a poorly posed problem statement
Yeah man. It's hard for a human being to produce a correct, complete, and current problem statement.
CEO of Phijkchu rawb
Replying to mint #wimint
getting my sec+ this summer, decided to skip the other ones
Nice, I only ever ended up getting A+ plus a random router networking cert. Still pissed at my last company for never providing training for the AWS certs they promised me
mtcdood rawb
Another work thing. Guy: Hey <customer> is going to use our API to open about 1000 support tickets to test whether rate limits will be an issue in a real situation. My Manager: sounds good Me (quietly): come the fuck on bro

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