Can you slip out the back and play hooky?
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Step 1. Engage the right people.
(I usually have the opposite issue, where I set up a meeting for a few SMEs and half the company shows up, ājust in caseā or āso they know whatās discussedā).
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My main issues are people who say, āI love your styleā and proceed to micromanage the painting Iām doing, or āTake your timeā, and then pester me every two days.
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I finally did. Almost rage quit, but managed to just close my laptop, unplug my charger and walked out the door.
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I spent the entire commute home attempting figure out what I could have ābrought toā or ātaken away fromā this design session.
Most of it was āthis is how the vendor does this element of ITILā. Okay. Yep, thatās a workflow. I canāt argue that. Yep, youāll be pulling data from the SQL DB I manage. Yep, I assumed you had some method to do so. Great. And then it was down to the minutia of how forms will route and what fields will be shown and what is default.
If I had nothing else on my plate and had been part of this from the start (6 months ago) I might have been a valid and willing participant, but just because youāll be using some of my data in this stage, doesnāt mean you need to drag me (or my people) into this. Just tell me what Service Account I need to let to have access and we are cool.
Corporate America will be my death.
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Database applications are the fucking worst. Donāt give the users (the people who actually need to use the thing) what they need, which is to peruse and modify the data, run it over RDS so that whatever functions you give them function in the shittiest way possible, make it a third-party app so we have to fight for licenses and with our bosses who are invested in the shitty software companyā¦
Software sucks in late capitalism and it gets worse every year. Our only entertainment is to play bro-coder-bingo.
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80% CRUD and 20% reporting (although that 20% may be 80% of the work and value), thatās no different than 30 years ago. But we have to keep adding more layers, making it more complex, and using new technology to do the same old things.
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ā¦And never fixing shit.
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Then when there is an update that āfixesā things, it makes things much worse. Example from last week:
(Iām glad I donāt work with node/npm. 
Although we have our own āupdates will break everythingā debacle, itās nowhere near that bad.)
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This is what caused me to jump ship in 2001 then coast to 2006. I think openSUSE is gud. I hope.
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Something the opposite of grinding my gears, but not quite triumphant enough to merit a post in Victory! :
During my lunch break I had to run a few quick errands; on my way back to the office I saw a young man who must work for some catering company or another, because he had one of those rolling food service carts. And he was giving away leftovers to the homeless, which is a sign of pure awesomeness in my book.
I decided to give him some positive reaffirmation for doing something good; I attempted to give him ādapā¦ā only to find out that he didnāt really know how.
So I grabbed his hand and showed him the simplest one; down, up, fist bump. (Donāt āblow it up,ā though; thatās just extra.)
The irony of having to show a 20-something (who slightly looked like Dave Franco) how to give a proper āpoundā is not lost on me.
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Itās 11:45. I want to sleep. I am tired. I am in a lot of pain. But the southeastward neighbor has decided I get EVEN MORE PAIN instead of sleep.
P.S. Itās 12:09. STILL MORE PAIN.
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Turns out Iām mildly anemic. Iām a little upset at myself for not noticing prior to now, but itās been a hellishly busy couple of weeks. I thought I was just tired and hormonal, but I couldnāt focus or motivate myself. Thatās not usual, which made me suspicious something else was up. Hoping Iāll feel a bit better with these prescription iron pills.
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Eat well before taking them.
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I was wondering about that, because I had to take iron once before, and it was supposed to be with food. But this one says an empty stomach, which is really hard since I eat all the time now. So I took it first thing in the morning, after the guy who wants to mow the lawn woke us up at 5:30. Weāll see what happens.
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The lawn guy woke you up at 5:30? Sounds more like he wants to meth the lawn.
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Well ā¦ yes. I might just go to a pawn shop and grab a lawnmower. Normally, people come by offering in the afternoon. I donāt want to have this occur again.
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If the building were on fire, itās bad enough for smoke alarms to trap people in the building, with incapacitaingly loud noise, strobing, and/or beeping, but itās worse for the alarm to mock people too, for being trapped by the alarm.
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I take a daily iron supplement, and I usually take it without food. Iāve havenāt had a particular problem with it. Itās a slow release tablet, though and itās also OTC, not a prescription. Honestly, Iām not even sure what mine says regarding food.
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Huge storm came through up here. High winds and all that.
Lost power at 1:30 pm Friday.
Theyāre predicting Iāll have power back midnight Tuesday.
So that sucks.
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