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Comment Honestly (Score 4, Interesting) 31

I'd take 6 months severance and a dismissal by txt over an HR drone reading from a script 150 times in a row and a week per year or whatever most companies do.

There are certainly more or less callous ways to lay people off, but in the end, layoffs can't really not be miserable. I'd argue that a nice cushion while you find your next gig is worth a lot more than a tearful goodbye.

Comment Re:Two points (Score 1) 181

Your claim that the bottom of the economic ladder uniformly supports Stumpy is false.

Your assumption that because I'm well-off I'm clueless about the lives and opinions of less well off people is stupid and false.

You're incredibly presumptuous and appear willing to just bullshit without regards to facts. So I'm done wasting time on you.

Comment Aethetics (Score 1) 171

Anytime someone asks, "why do you need that?", they're telling you they think you're weird. You're running some other life track that they don't understand, but just know in their bones must be the result of mental illness or bad parenting or something else negative.

You can use that admission to great advantage.

Comment Translation service (Score 1) 42

"My understanding is that eufyMake has not ruled out creating new 3D printer models in the future. But the brand has ended sales of the M5 and M5C for the time being,"

...

"That was a stupid idea, and the comms people told me abandoning the chumps we already sold to would bite us in the ass. So we're really hoping Pasadena falls into the ocean or mermaids are sighted or something, and did you see the new Superman movie?"

Comment Bitching about your pencil (Score 1) 90

There is a certain sort of person who emotionally needs more attention than they regularly get, and they learn to get their fix by doing irritating things like this.

Whining that you don't have the latest shiny, or you don't want to do things that way, or otherwise asking for special accommodations constantly is a common expression of this.

Some people are also just pricks with the obsessive need to always be right, even in situations where they're hiring someone to educate them. At superficial exposure, it can be hard to tell the difference, but with a little more time it becomes clear which is which.

Comment Preach it (Score 1) 83

I work for a startup made-good, bought by a very large company you have heard of if you live in the US.

The switched us to Office/Outlook about a year ago.

Shit still doesn't work.

My only use of word is to format docs for the business types after I write them, so I don't really care about it. I mean, it is shitty, but whatever, I'm a Unix guy, I'm used to shitty UI.

What does bug me is Outlook. I get invites to meetings after they happen, mail gets randomly delayed for no apparent reason while I get other mail. And the UI does matter more there - they calendar will randomly refresh back to "today" when I'm trying to look at future things. The whole application randomly decides something is wrong and stops working until a restart.

And then there's the freakish "web" vs executable split.

Lots of Excel features don't work on the web, and apparently I use all of them. So after I share something and have to edit it again, I have to use this eunuch version that constantly tells me I'm doing it wrong.

Not too long from now I'll get the locked-down laptop from them, and not have any option to not use them. But that's fine, I expect to be laid off not long after that.

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