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Here’s the nonpaywall version: https://archive.ph/29gJU

As a person who works in server hosting (not as devops or IT), I’m often privy to customer interactions. I feel like my company does a really good job at damage control - where if we fuck up, some rep gets on the phone and makes things right. We’ve eaten costs on behalf of our customers.

But sometimes, you just gotta tell a customer to go fuck themselves.

And those customers, those biggest complainers are often in online gambling, crypto, adult content, or racist shit.

We get DDos’d a lot from it. But I’m glad the company I work for doesn’t bow down to garbage companies.

Which is the real message here:

Bottle your trauma.

Eat bugs.

Fuck hot lady lions.

At my last job, my manager was a conservative white Karen. She invited my wife and I over for dinner, and I’m guessing he was not prepared for me to be a person of color in a mixed marriage. And the dude has some real conservative opinions that she agreed with half the time, and the other half, clearly looked uncomfortable and refused to confront it.

Where my wife and I go at it all the time with conflicting views and find a middle ground.

And it makes me wonder why more conservative women aren’t being more Karen-like against their husband. I mean, I know why, but still.

Shitty thing to say but I want her in a lawsuit/jail for harassment.

This government official used her position to ruin the life of a teenager. Over fucking nothing.

Nah, just a incel upset that they got rejected again

You should make a movie with Elliot page using fake slang that nobody would ever use.

This is going to sound weird but I kinda get it.

I’m not rich at all. But I have a really high paying job. And I tip 25-40% because I used to work at restaurants and coffee shops if they are mildly pleasant. During the holidays, I easily drop 100% tips at like a small sandwich shop.

I’m definitely part of the problem with tipping. But it makes me feel good to give a small coffee worker $5 for their hard work.

How embarrassing, India.

Just cogs in the machine.

Strong doubt.

While a large chunk of game developers are in America, it’s still a small fraction compared to worldwide.

A video game strike would probably slow down a few triple AAA projects. But rather than 10,000 games being released in a year, it might be 9,000 games.

I’m not anti-union or strikes. I just believe that if say Ubisoft America strikes, nothing will really change perception-wise as indie devs will fill in the blank, and Ubisoft shifts to Canada/Europe branches.

Retrofitting commercial buildings is often impossible or more expensive than just demolishing

That sounds like a “them” problem.

They can watch their investments dry up and lose billions, or pivot to the new market. Not our fault they’re stuck in the 80s.

Having used the Unreal engine, I’m actually surprised it’s not more popular than Unity.

I’m leaning towards people saw Unity as “the scrappy underdog” to Epic. When really, Unreal engine fought like hell to get to where it is.

Going to need proof of that.

In nearly every company, CEO makes the plan. Board wants a process and results. CEO is the one who spearheads it.

Big Potato got you too huh?

That’s more of a tequila thing for me.

Jameson tells me to go flirt with that attractive girl, guy, stop sign.

Damn. First China with secret police stations. Then Russia with propaganda and buying off GOP. Now India with assassinations.

Shit. Looks like America getting a taste of what the CIA has been doing for decades.

Probably a real stupid one.

The CEO plays golf with a bunch of dept leads. I’m one of the few dept leads who works remotely, and I don’t play golf. So I’m frequently not on his radar (which includes things like budget and promotions too).

He had a “brilliant” idea to make a internal project that should have gone to my department. We are literally the subject matter experts. But he gave it to another department. The dept lead tried to play both sides. He wanted the project because it’ll earn him brownie points with the CEO. But he tried to appease my dept by saying it’s a experiment.

I didn’t care. I was a bit annoyed the CEO ignored us. But my dept was in no position to take more work.

Well, by taking the project on, their department was under a lot of scrutiny. The internal tool touched everybody. They don’t have UX experience. They don’t know how to work collaboratively. They over engineered the hell of out it. You can’t make changes without being a senior developer (which means even juniors can’t contribute wtf) And worse, the CEO got pissed off that this expensive internal tool barely works. That dept lead went from “Oh we got this” to now fuming over the status of the project.

Finally, a C-level person demanded the other dept hand it over to my dept.

We took the project and rebuilt it in our technology. It took them three months, and we had it fully working in a week. Even better, my dept builds tools for non-technicals. So it was coded in a way where new features can be added by anybody, and managed by a non-engineer. My team still didn’t get credit/attention from the CEO. But whatever.

Stories like this be like… looks like the market is healing!

As if home prices didn’t increase by like 100% in five years and then it drops by 2% this month.

Hey stop making fun of them. You know their have the lowest rankings in education and quality of life. They won’t really understand it anyways.