2023-11-09

thelaughingmuse: Bright green text on a black background. The text is in the style of a code snippet: subroutine yellow, comment 'we all live',end subroutine. Nobody gets this joke any more because modern object-oriented programming doesn't use this syntax. (Default)
2023-11-09 07:26 pm
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On the subject of job descriptions

No, recruiters.

I do not want to be part of a "challenging" team.

I'm in my mid-50s. I want to be part of a "mature" team, a "powerful" team with a large and well-managed "throughput", a "structured" team that knows how to use processes to quickly and accurately handle the Same Stuff Happens Every Week so that when someone else comes screaming in with their ass on fire babbling about something someone else broke and We Need To Document This Thing NOW NOW NOW, one or two of us can calmly turn from our current tasks, neatly and quickly handle La Emergencia, and calm the panicked person's heartrate without raising our own.

I'm old. Fuck "ambition". I just want a good paycheck and no dumbass "this REALLY could have been avoided" hasslepanic.

(originally posted July 3 2023, over on my fediverse account)
thelaughingmuse: A photo of a rolling wave. The caption reads "And the ocean breathed a sigh of winter" - a quote from the beginning of David Brin's book The Postman. (winter)
2023-11-09 07:35 pm

Heckin wimdy

Jeebus.

One year ago tomorrow I posted about the big long power outage and how fucking cold it got in my house. And this year, tonight, we're watching a weather system head at us with high winds. Again.

I gotta get my happy ass down south.