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Yeah, and then there’s the follow-up thought that goes, oh yeah, I guess I’m actually privileged to be in this group of people.
Yeah the stark reminder that at any point you could choose not to live like this, it’s just your quality of life would suffer.
I want to tie a cinder block to my foot and jump off a bridge. I’ll bet some asshole made an acronym for that too.
Believe it or not, part of the agile framework.
But surprisingly close to the waterfall as well
First job I’ve ever had that didn’t involve being at heights in winter, or dealing with poo (animal,human) or both.
I’m not a fan of the slide shows, but I also didn’t like hustling homeless people smoking crack in the toilet stalls or dragging wire through crusty old crawl spaces filled with dead animals. “Okay lady, your oven should work now without blowing a breaker, also, you had a whole family of raccoons, now you have what I guess they’d call a crypt.”.
If humanity just chilled, imagine what life could be
You know what I’m saying? If everyone agreed to live as one huge ass village in the galaxy, and just shared the vast resources we have on this planet. Life would be such bliss for everyone.
I got laid off right as I was having surgery last year, so I went to a few job interviews in a panic, on painkillers. At one point they were like “What do you think about XYZ” and whatever the acronym was, I had never even heard it. So I just looked around and said, “Acronyms, eh?” and laughed. And everyone else laughed, except one guy who realized I was bluffing, and that got super awkward real quick. But for a second, we all really connected over how fucking stupid it was. (MSP job for which I am grateful not to have)
MSP = Microsoft Paint
for those who were also wondering.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport actually
Minimal Stupid Product achtually.
Massively Stupid Plan, which applies to most of them.
Or it could be: Managed service provider.
Generally a shitty vendor that hates the customer and vice versa
For anyone who doesn’t know, MSP stands for Managed Service Provider, which is basically an independent contractor IT company that stands in for businesses’ internal IT department if they’re not big enough (or can’t be bothered) to have their own.
Next time they reference XYZ and acronym, say “Fun Fact, that’s technically not an acronym. An acronym is when the letters spell something like NASA or PIN. when you say the letters it’s called initialism.”
maybe you are different. maybe you tie that lanyard to your belt loop.
I feel called out.
We are all different together
Well now I’m depressed
Good news.
The latest newsletter has a QR code where you can get free counseling from a new (presumably AI-based) partner.
It’s okay, it only lasts about 40 years.
The window is over there, but they’re permanently sealed, after…The Incident.
And I’ve sat through a thousand of them
I’m gonna need to have those TPS reports on my desk by Saturday, M’kay?
That’s because the one engineer in the room will have it done by next week.
Lanyards? What the fuck is this referencing?
In a lot of companies you get your identification or door access knob on a lanyard.
Conventions, trade shows, insert large format corporate meeting here.
am i the only person who never has these types of meetings?
But he’s clearly not in a room full of adults wearing matching lanyards discussing a PowerPoint presentation that will be forgotten by Tuesday. He’s laying in bed with his front-facing camera capturing himself from the least flattering angle possible.
This could have been an email, that AI could have read and responded to, without bothering me about it.
