I keep applying!

I have yet to get a call…

I get hate mail if my total time entered is less than 9 whole assed hours.

They want to know when I take a shit for fucks sake. What are they going to do, reprimand me if I take 20 minutes to take a dump?

“What were you doing that entire time?”

“Taking a shit”

“It doesn’t take 20 minutes to take a shit”

“Maybe for you”

…

I end up doing both and then management sees a gap in my time entries where I was helping someone, and they come down on me for not doing enough.

It’s as if, if I’m not doing billable tasks, then I’m lazy and I’m not working… Because y’know, I show up to work and just fuck around all day unless I’m being watched constantly by management.

Yeah. 45k starting.

I’ve been doing the job for over a decade.

Considering I’ve been doing this stuff for over a decade and have met less than a handful of people with the same technical expertise as I have, and I haven’t met anyone that’s more skilled… I’m pretty sure I should be making at least 6 figures… Nobody will pay that much for what I do.

I’m not trying to brag or anything. It’s just that I keep ending up in the position of having to educate everyone around me on how things actually work, and how to fix them. I spend more time in the bowels of Windows operating systems that the registry makes sense to me.

My understanding of the message in the OP is that phone companies are making phones suck after 2 years using updates that make the phone slower, etc.

… Y’know, like Apple did a few years back.

I’m much the same.

I can’t leave my geographic area for very good reasons, and I will in IT support. I’m experienced enough to be a “senior” support tech. But the average going rate in my area for my job is about 60k/yr. That sounds great until I tell you that I’m in Canada and that’s Canadian dollars, which is about 43k/yr USD.

The state of the market here is embarrassing and I can’t find jobs hiring for remote workers, or anything local enough that I could feasibly commute, that pays enough for it to be worth it to even apply.

If I do find a posting that’s close it’s a 1.5hr commute away and pays about the same as my current work from home gig… Despite the toxicity, why would I take a job I need to spend an additional 3+ hours in a car to do the same work, with potentially the same toxicity, for the same pay?

I fucking hate everything.

All of these have been true at every point.

It depends on where you are in your life’s journey, which one you hear.

It’s always good for the shareholders, as long as they can monetize it

Mine is off too. I’m usually too busy to bother with worrying too much about Google stealing my data. I’ve been using Google for so long that it’s too late for me.

Save yourselves.

I would agree that’s what people mean, but they’re completely overlooking that the problem has already been recognised, and addressed, with a solution that’s been around for decades.

It’s just that people take these modern amenities for granted, so they see them as part of the burden of doing the dishes or doing laundry, rather than relieving the burden of doing those things.

We can load up the dish washer and sit on our duff watching YouTube while a machine does the hard work. Then we just have to suffer through putting the dishes where we want them to go.

This is textbook “first world problems”. AI is only expected to solve these first world problems. By definition, these problems are less actually problems that need solving, and more inconveniences that we perceive as problems.

I’m sorry you’re going through that.

I’m just pointing this out, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who will…

We have machines to do the laundry and dishes for us already. We just have to set them up (put stuff in them) and they do the job for us.

When was the last time you saw someone get out the washing board?

I get it. I miss when words meant something specific.

The one I’m still unhappy about is jealousy. It used to just be the fear of losing something you have. Now it also means wanting something you don’t have.

Envy is a term that always meant, wanting something you do not have.

Over time, people have used the terms so wrong that the definition changed.

I think it says something about society that we have a word that means something, but we used another word to mean that thing so much that we changed the definition of the word to fit the usage.

Oh well. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I don’t like the term “common sense” because anytime is used, the sense that is in question is almost always, not very common.

I don’t think it’s possible to agree more.

Motor vehicles are designed to keep you safe in case someone else has a bad day and hits you, they are not designed to keep any other people safe if you hit them. It is, IMO a lethal device.

Irresponsibly using that device, so you can benefit at the risk of others (as many seem to do), should be criminally negligent at best. It’s selfish and self centered. Anyone with a shred of compassion for their fellow humans should avoid using such a device if it is unsafe for them to do so.

But people often downplay the risks and have more confidence in their ability to do something that they really really shouldn’t do, with no justifiable reason to believe that they are capable of that.

I was very tired yesterday and instead of driving home on the little consciousness I had remaining, I deferred to my S.O. to take over and complete the journey home. I probably could have made it, and risk was mitigated because we were on country roads, but I’m not taking that chance. The remainder of the trip I dozed in and out of being awake and my mind started mixing dream images with reality as I was drifting in and out.

To be fair, I stopped trying to stay awake after I left the driver’s seat (I got us about 1/3rd the way home before conceding), but if that micro sleep happened while I was still behind the wheel, I can’t say I would have made it home no matter how much I tried. I also can’t say that I couldn’t have.

If I had been alone in the car, I would have stopped and taken whatever sleep I could before finishing the trip. I’ve been driving long enough that I know my limits, and I hit it hard when I pulled off.

I was so tired that once I got home, I slept from around 5pm or so, to around 11pm, then went back to bed before 1am and woke up at 7. I slept for nearly 12 hours and I still feel tired. I pushed hard to complete my task because I know my SO doesn’t like driving very much, less so in unfamiliar areas, but I appreciate that they could, and did, take over when I just couldn’t do it safely anymore.

I’m not trying to one-up anyone, and you’re situation was very different from mine. But I told this story because it happened literally yesterday. Driving isn’t just “I’m good” and you go until you get there, it’s a constant evaluation of whether you are still capable of operating the vehicle safely; for you, your passengers (if any), for other road users, and for their passengers, loved ones and families, as well as any pedestrians or other people. If you cannot reasonably say, without bias, that you are capable of operating the vehicle safely, then don’t. It’s just that simple.

But, like I said, most tend to be biased that they can do anything, which makes it difficult to get people to do the right thing sometimes.

Wow, that seems like a violation of their duty of care.

What makes me happy is that you knew that you couldn’t do it and pulled off until you could again. I swear some people drive when they really really shouldn’t, and just rely on everyone else to make up for their lack of eyesight.

Kudos where it’s due. Thank you for being a reasonable and responsible driver.

No idea. I am not a doctor and I do not have enough life experience with eyesight problems to know

Fair enough.

I wish you well stranger.

ITT people with astigmatism (whether they know it or not)