The Official Status Thread
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I used to work for a company with a "core hours" concept.
A company I used to work for had a "core hours" concept: 8:00 to 5:00. Come in early is OK. Stay late is OK. But be in your office from 8 to 5. Punch in/out. Even VPs had to clock in/out. This was also a company that called the head of the Mechanical Engineering department into the Comptroller's (or some such financial bean counter) office over $2.30 in personal phone calls. Over a span of 4 weeks, they hired 3 software engineers (all US citizens/residents) for a project. A couple weeks later, they cancelled the project and laid off 2 of the 3 new hires. At the same time, they continued processing H1 visas for software engineers from India.
I lasted 4 months there. I spent the first 2 thinking it can't really be as bad as it seems. I spent the next 2 lining up a new job. The one thing it had going for it was that it paid well; I took something like a $10000 pay cut to get out of there. Which was OK, because it was still more than I had made at my previous job.
Incidentally, this was the only time in my career I was officially a software engineer. BIOS. Shudder.
The company where I am now doesn't really have core hours, but we do have an official start time. All employees are expected to be in their cubes by 8:00. Teamwork. Collaboration. Coworkers should be able to find you at the start of the day to answer questions. Never mind that you were in a meeting with India until almost midnight; be in the office by 8. At least here, 800 miles from corporate HQ, this policy is taken with a reasonably-sized grain of salt.
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A lot of people have that one job where they were paid way too much for a bad situation, and that's why it was only that one job.
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If he tends to leave early and you late, suggest scheduling the meeting for shortly before you would normally leave, and send the suggestion in about 2 minutes before he leaves. Just enough time for him to notice and get even more frustrated. But don't do this very often; it can badly backfire. Scheduling across the guy's lunchtime is better.
The evil ideas thread is over there.
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People: punched. @boomzilla: going to bed.
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Status: What a beautiful friday morning!
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It's Thursday for 15 more minutes here.
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Teaching my wife about this story:
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Oh man, I used to work for a company with a "core hours" concept. I love it. "Be here between 10ish and 4ish, and apart from that do whatever the hell you want as long as work gets done".
That's how we operate in practice, with a side-policy of “you can put a meeting outside those times, provided you tell people well in advance”. I'll work also during my commute (trains are good for something!) or at home in the evening if I'm particularly busy, but I'm usually not.
@blakeyrat said:So the opposite of this prison I'm in now...
Turned down a job offer at least partially on that basis. (Also, it was for ATOS working on theirdehumanizationbenefits system contract, which I thought wouldn't be something I could live with.)
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Status: at work, with dog. i LOVE fridays
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Status: I wake up, have 20 notifications, and since I can't view any below the top 10, I have to randomly click shit to bring that count down to 10 before I can use the fucking menu in the way (presumably) intended.
I'm down to 12.
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Status: Thinking of ways to keep @blakeyrat's notifications filled up.
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I gave up when it went back to 13, and hit the fucking mark posts as read button. So I'll never know now.
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Status: Since my post to @blakeyrat remained unanswered, finding a new recipient for the steam keys I want to give away.
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Keys?
What keys?
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Status: WEEKEND!!!!
Time to clock out, space out and fuck off!
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I just saw a senior linux admin create a shell script that executes a command on multiple sets of arguments (
./do_stuff.sh A1 B1; ./do_stuff.sh A2 B2; ...
).He formatted all the arguments in an Excel spreadsheet, added the
./do_stuff.sh
call in the upper left cell and stretched it down. Then copied everything, pasted it in vim and saved into a sh file.It.... actually worked pretty well. Just saying.
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Interesting. I wonder what happens if you use OpenOffice instead of Excel?
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It.... actually worked pretty well. Just saying.
Why wouldn't it? Is there some meme you're riffing on that I've never heard?
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I mean the whole idea of using excel for stuff like this. I was using sublime multi-line cursor and plugins, but i'm reconsidering...
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I mean the whole idea for using excel for stuff like this.
Lemme guess, you only use awk?
EDIT: Oh wait Sublime? Weirdo. That's not even slightly a good fit for this type of problem.
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What would you use?
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Excel, probably. Or Awk if it's a big-ass CSV or something Excel would have trouble handling.
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Never dealt with that much data. If it couldn't fit in sublime, I would probably loop it in bash or something. Before I saw it done in Excel, of course.
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The notification menu is absolutely useless first thing in the morning.
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Ok I hate CLIs, and I still think you should learn Awk if this is something you come across often.
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I mean the whole idea of using excel for stuff like this.
I've done this sort of thing before. Very handy. Easy to do it, quick and dirty like.
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The notification menu is absolutely useless first thing in the morning.
Nope, it isn't. Not on days when the article uses DC.
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Ok I hate CLIs, and I still think you should learn Awk if this is something you come across often.
All I know about AWK is the print stuff. But I heard good things about it. I'll put it in the schedule.
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One thing I have in my "if I ever have a million dollars" file is creating a quality UI for Awk. Just having a live preview would be amazing.
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Looked down. Saw large swarm of ants crawling around (and over) my feet. Fuck insects.
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The apathy during the period between starting interviews and giving your notice is brutal.
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Heading to Big Bear for the weekend.
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Disappointed to discover that the junk food vending machine is, apparently, no longer stocked with Red Vines.
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There's five or six mutually incompatible standards called RSS used for syndication. Go with Atom and have some free service convert it if you absolutely need to gave RSS.
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Lemme guess, you only use awk?
It's a programming language designed principally for text editing. Hence you can write programs in it.
I mostly prefer other things. De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Very handy. Easy to do it, quick and dirty like.
I frequently do it for SQL too ... If it's to little data to actually bother doping it properly ... Some excel magic andere you have a few 100 insert/update statements ... Granted a bit on the rough side.
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There's five or six mutually incompatible standards called RSS used for syndication. Go with Atom and have some free service convert it if you absolutely need to gave RSS.
That was exactly what I did. Because I'm only mostly, but not completely, TRWTF.
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I frequently use Excel as an ad hoc insert formatter using concat when I get large lists of accounts to audit and want them in a temp table for easy queries. (Recv format it usually highly random)
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Status: Picked a washing basket full of apples.
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Wicker or plastic?
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Plastic. Completely full, but some of the apples will need using pretty soon. I'm OK With This.
(They've been repacked into boxes for storage.)
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Status: back from my usual sunday-100-miles-and-back trip to a nice beach. Thinking about making pasta for dinner.
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Status: Trying to compose a blog post about the need for cultural criticism and a re-evaluation of modern-day economic practice. The "Likes" thread suddenly looks very inviting...
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The "Likes" thread suddenly looks very inviting...
Procrastinators of the world unite! Tomorrow…
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Status: wondering why I can put some articles into my shopping cart but not some others.
Filed under: pesky monday morning bugs.
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Tweeting in class #yolo #2cool4skool #boredlol
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Realizing i forgot to log in here at all over the weekend, ruining my attendance.
-sigh- i really need to finish that sockbot script so i can be always online.