ChickenLadyLovesLife

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Heh, according to the guy who sold me the house, he had to put the grey vinyl flooring in because of water damage from a portable AC unit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

grey vinyl flooring

I hate that shit even more than I hated the fake wood paneling and shag carpet of the '70s. I bought a house last year that had the grey vinyl flooring in the living room and I've tried my hardest to fuck it up during the renovation so I have to replace it, but unfortunately it holds up to extreme abuse pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you think those guys would know to do something about a dude on a roof with a rifle?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's a slur for Asians, more specifically Vietnamese. I can actually trigger my coworker to say it, by merely mentioning that I like Chinese food.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Even before AI, I definitely encountered people writing things on their CV with no actual idea about them.

I've actually done more than one phone interview where I would ask a question and then hear either keyboard tapping or multiple people whispering (or both) in the background during the long pause before the interviewee answered. It was hard to not just laugh and hang up on them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I will never implement a sort IRL

My answer to "what's the best sorting algorithm" is "the SORT BY clause in SQL".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I retired as a programmer five years ago and now I drive a school bus. The difference in acceptable workplace behavior is pretty stark. In my software companies, nobody ever came anywhere close to saying anything even vaguely racist; meanwhile in the bus garage people routinely use the n-word and the g-word. And it's not like this is Mississippi or anything - this is a suburb of Philadelphia where the entire transportation department would probably be sacked if parents were ever to become aware of how their bus drivers talk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At my last company, they usually gave end-of-the-year bonuses instead of raises. They were pretty generous, usually amounting to about half of our annual salaries, but it of course prevented us from being guaranteed that level of compensation the following year. That's why I always describe bonuses as raises followed by pay cuts.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I once quit my job at a software company I really hated. They were desperate to keep me around for the projects I was leading so they asked if I would work hourly for a while. I quoted them a go-fuck-yourselves hourly rate which they immediately agreed to, which made me even more angry about my prior years of poor compensation. I worked under this agreement for about half a year and further improved my effective hourly rate by not working very hard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's funny how people who get their news exclusively from their Facebook feeds have never heard of Cambridge Analytica. I can't imagine how that could happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a school bus driver and I had to ban the singing of Christmas songs on my bus before Thanksgiving. Naturally the little bastards ignore this, just like they ignore my injunction against singing Taylor Swift songs. Thank god T-Swiffer has never done a Christmas album.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You misspelled "harvest" and "organs".

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