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2024-11-13 01:19 from zelgomer <zelgomer@uncensored.citadel.org>
How much money do I need to haved saved before I can quit this waste of
my life?
My job is a waste of a life, I mean. I don't want to quit life. As soon as I posted that I noticed how it came out.
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What is the point of having a policy if some groups refuse to follow it, and executive management refuses to do anything about it?
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Not that it matters, but i understood. Im sure the others did too.
Wed Nov 13 2024 01:20:45 UTC from zelgomerMy job is a waste of a life, I mean. I don't want to quit life. As soon as I posted that I noticed how it came out.
2024-11-13 01:19 from zelgomer
How much money do I need to haved saved before I can quit this waste of
my life?
My target goal, adjusting for US standards of living, is around 200 000 USD.
But then I have no meaningful debt and I produce my own food and electricity, and a substantial amount of house heating. In reallity, most of my retirement money target is intended to pay property taxes.
2024-11-13 01:20 from zelgomer2024-11-13 01:19 from zelgomer <zelgomer@uncensored.citadel.org>
How much money do I need to haved saved before I can quit this waste
ofmy life?
My job is a waste of a life, I mean. I don't want to quit life. As
soon as I posted that I noticed how it came out.
We love you, dude.
yway, I have noticed you have been absent from IRC as of late, everything is good?
You remind me of something I recently read in Linux Magazine, about a developer who got tired and retired to a farming life. You know you can always have
a box in a barn in a craphole country if you need it XD
You have no idea how many times i have considered that sort of thing myself. Toss it all in the trash, cut ties and start over with nature. Tho i could never do 'food animals' would have to be something like dairy cows, wool sheep, perhaps chickens for eggs, crops, stuff like that.
But, its not financially realistic for me to do so.
( even better, a flat coated retriever rescue, along side some crops to help pay the bills... but that is even more out of the realm of possibility )
about a developer who got tired and retired to a farming life.
2024-11-15 13:48 from Nurb432
Subject: Re: We love you dude
You have no idea how many times i have considered that sort of
thing myself. Toss it all in the trash, cut ties and start over
with nature. Tho i could never do 'food animals' would have to
be something like dairy cows, wool sheep, perhaps chickens for
eggs, crops, stuff like that.
Well, I once mentioned to my family we cold save a lot of money in milk and dairy products if we just milked the mares. I got weird looks from that.
Realisticallyt speaking, that is another can of worms because for mares to produce milk they need to have foals.
Well, i know i have mentioned it before about our MFA, token timeouts, SSO being a joke, etc .. that entire fiasco.
Here shortly we roll this mess out to our customers ( around 30,000 people ). Aside from the attitudes or some people here on how much harm we are going to cause, and they don't give a Flying-F what we do to our customers ( some even think its funny.. rather disgusting attitude if you ask me )... I guess they are expecting such chaos that they have created a new support team dedicated to this. So far there are over 200 people in it.
LoL.
4 emails, at the end of each one "And be sure to exit via the menu, so it will save your setting changes"
5th "ok i made those updates and it worked, how do i save my settings"
"20 years ago IT was a support team to the business" "Today it IS the business in every field and no one can survive without us"
That attitude is one reason i hate the industry. Disgusting. Power hungry scumbags
It is interesting to notice that everytime they fire a contractor and cause a money making mechanism to fail as a result, they never hire the contractor back. It would be funny if it didn't happen so often.
Oh, well.
that is because most cant admit failure. OR the blame the now-gone contracting company, even tho it was not their fault.
"they set it up to fail, it wasn't our decisions that caused it"
It is interesting to notice that everytime they fire a contractor and cause a money making mechanism to fail as a result, they never hire the contractor back. It would be funny if it didn't happen so often.
Oh, well.
Probably more than you think, depending on your age.
I'm still seething mad at the person who threw me under the bus at work a couple of months ago. Somehow that incident ended up snowballing into an omnibus gripe list that got added to my HR file.
Whatever happened to just talking to people? Seems like ever since the PlannedEmic we had a culture shift, we don't work out differences anymore, we just go over people's heads now.
Rumor is no raise this year. just a 'bonus'.
Scam. Means your base salary has not changed, so it impacts your retirement, career path if you move on, and what they pay out next year if they don't feel like giving you anything extra.
Nope. Not a rumor just saw the official announcement. Nothing for us serfs but a one time small bonus check this month. A check that will mostly be eaten by taxes anyway ( and only this month ). No baseline increase, not even to offset cost of living. However, the uppers, their salary nearly doubled.
And they wonder why morale here is poor.
baseline increase, not even to offset cost of living. However, the
uppers, their salary nearly doubled.
And they wonder why morale here is poor.
I sometimes catch myself slipping into this line of thinking, too, and I have to remind myself that this is the road to Bernie bro. The fact is it's not about what's fair, it's about what's in demand.
If you want to make what the uppers make, then why aren't you an upper? And when I think about that for myself, whatever the answer may be -- that they bear more risk, or they suck more cock, or they know how to manipulate people better, whatever -- it usually puts me back in my place and I realize I'm so much happier where I am.
Though in my case I should probably find a different employer doing something more interesting. My problem is that they've made me very comfortable where I am. They basically pay me a decent enough salary for some perceived (I would even say misplaced) expertise, and in return I suffer through pointless regular meetings, a complete lack of planning or direction, dunning-kruger characters, and excrutiatingly slow progress as a team (in large part thanks to the lack of direction mentioned before). But because I'm in good standing, I get to enjoy some degree of phoning it in from time to time, and the idea of starting fresh someplace else is a little scary to me. I guess that makes me a big lazy bum, doesn't it?
In my case uppers re elected officials. You don't just "become" one. Especially if you an average person without the money to buy your way into the club.
That is why i didnt use the term 'management', while they are protected, and do get 'perks' we dont, they also got nothing this time.
Thu Jan 02 2025 03:02:00 UTC from zelgomerIf you want to make what the uppers make, then why aren't you an upper?
It always is..
Thu Jan 02 2025 03:02:00 UTC from zelgomerand the idea of starting fresh someplace else is a little scary to me.