Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!
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It was inevitable, the powers that be have summoned me back into the office after I've been working from home since 2020. At least it's only 2 days a week, but the rationale behind it that pisses me off is that a senior leader just *shrugs* thinks more people should be in the office. Yeah, that's it. Literally the only thing that will change is that I'll be wasting my gas and putting unnecessary miles on my car. What makes it even more asinine is the fact that this senior leader travels constantly; he's barely ever in the office himself! As much as I'm pissed off for me, I feel worse for one member of our team that lives over 40 miles away; in North Texas rush hour traffic, that's easily more than an hour's drive each way.
Such is life in corporate America: someone with power, who doesn't even know our names or what we do, decided on a whim what we "should" be in the office, and no one has the spine to ask him why and/or how it benefits anything other than his ego.
"Fortunately" my immediate boss understands how wholly insipid this is, and doesn't think it's going to last. He thinks if we just "play the game" for a few weeks, the senior leader will find something else to nitpick, and we can likely go fully remote again, or at least not be expected to be in office EVERY week. But even still...
Such is life in corporate America: someone with power, who doesn't even know our names or what we do, decided on a whim what we "should" be in the office, and no one has the spine to ask him why and/or how it benefits anything other than his ego.
"Fortunately" my immediate boss understands how wholly insipid this is, and doesn't think it's going to last. He thinks if we just "play the game" for a few weeks, the senior leader will find something else to nitpick, and we can likely go fully remote again, or at least not be expected to be in office EVERY week. But even still...
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I thought my interview today was scheduled for 8:30am.
It's actually scheduled for 8:30pm.
I woke up early for nothing.
It's actually scheduled for 8:30pm.
I woke up early for nothing.
Found out my Architect counterpart left weeks ago. No announcement, no hand-off, no goodbyes. I wish him no ill wish. I just liked his new job posting on linkedin but
Suddenly I get an invite to a meeting last week about a project hed been working on for a year and they want updates, a plan, a design and testing..like next week. awesome. spectacular. That promotion better be in flight.
Suddenly I get an invite to a meeting last week about a project hed been working on for a year and they want updates, a plan, a design and testing..like next week. awesome. spectacular. That promotion better be in flight.
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I'm currently interviewing for a job that has a posted compensation range between $108,000 and $228,000. What the fuck kind of range is that? It's such a large discrepancy that it's basically useless.
Sounds like you suddenly have a lot of bargaining power.
Yeah, I'm aware. *sigh* They actually know what Im worth. They just randomly gave me a $1000 bonus the day as a "gift" for all my recent chagrin. The promotion is in the works..just wish Id gotten some kinda handoff before my work duplicated.
The 108-228k means they have 3 positions open at various levels and its gonna be a moneyball type deal. If they find somebody whos over or under qualified they'll change the reacquisition to fit.
Wrong thread? The "Share Something That Makes You Smile" thread is about two threads down at the moment. I mean, outside of gay porn or a job involving my being in or on the ocean, there's very little I'd complain about interviewing for if the salary was 6-figures. (Oh, and lion tamer; I refuse to lion tame, no matter how many times they ask me.)
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The complaining isn't so much about the salary itself, but the position I'm in with regards to bargaining. The recruiter asked me if that salary range works for me, and it's impossible to actually say yes or no. $108,000 would actually be too low given that I would be expected to move for the position, and I highly doubt that $228,000 is actually even on the table, but if it is there's a good chance I'll end up talking myself down in terms of salary. Meanwhile other companies keep trying to low ball me with like $70k as if they forget that we live in one of the highest COL areas in the country.
Fair points. Still, chin up that you can reasonably talk yourself down from $228K to a salary you deem fair given they've already put very specific numbers on the table and they are just disparate enough that something in the middle might work for you. You know what you've got to work with, what you're capable of, what you're willing to do, and for how much. Both sides can accept or reject based on having all the immutable facts.
So I'm still putting out applications, and a clerical opening at a union that I've found wants a cover letter, a resume, and a writing sample. Unfortunately it doesn't say what subject the writing sample should be on, and I absolutely cannot come up with anything to write.
I'm learning a song to play on piano with my cousin on violin, but I've never played with someone else and listening to him messes me up. So to practice I thought I'd record myself doing the violin part on my Technics piano and just practice with that. It was all well and good until I loaded it from the floppy disk and found that it didn't play the rhythm and there isn't any way I can figure out to make it do it. I recorded it with a rhythm going so I don't know why it didn't save that. I just don't get it, I've spent an hour pouring over the manual pressing every button and looking through every menu I can find and nothing. This stupid piano has 100 features that I will never use why can't it just play a bloody beat with the playback?! All I ask is a metronome, something! Of course the internet is useless because this piano is 20 years old.
Write about video games.
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I'm shocked anyone still has a floppy drive and is capable of loading something onto a floppy.
20 years ago floppies were already outdated. We had CDs and DVDs and MP3 players. Hell, the iPod was released more than 20 years ago. How does your 20 year old piano not just use a USB port?
It might be closer to 25 years than 20. I don't recall ever seeing a flash drive back in the early 2000s, you could still buy a PC with a floppy drive as well as a CD drive, and anyway piano makers weren't going to invest in cutting edge technology when all they were storing were a couple midi files. I remember all the pianos I saw back then having floppy drives.
Anyway, I figured out the problem. Turns out I saved it as a SMF instead of a TECH, which after consulting the manual mean a Standard Midi File instead of the proprietary Technics file.
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Cutting edge technology? CDs are over 40 years old! USBs are nearly 30 years old. 24 years ago we were on USB 2.0.
According to Wikipedia the patent for a usb flash drive wasn't filed until 1999, so how is that not cutting edge technology? Sure they could have used a cd drive, except you needed special disks for them to be rewritable, they could get scratched, and the drives were bigger and more expensive. Also, if all the other pianos of the time were using floppy drives there was inertia because the idea was to be able to take your midi-files from one piano to another to play with your custom accompaniment.
Here's a thread from 2005 asking opinions on purchasing a piano with a floppy drive, so even that late they were still being sold. The CLP-270 mentioned in the OP appears to be a 2005 model as far as I can tell.
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Eh, how else are you going to crack the case, discuss important political actions or creating/dismantling a conspiracy in a darkened room?
But yeah it's a bit filthy and disgusting. But also: Smells nice (My Father smoked filterless cigarettes for all my life before i left home for college) So: Yeah, smells like home, when i was young.
"Harming my own body proves that I'm an adult." See also: getting blackout drunk.
At least use a cigarette holder like you are playing a stereotypical French femme fatale.
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