Transporter Room 3

Surprisingly, in the Midwest.

I have a friend who works for a local, but widespread bank, and got to head up their digital security and IT stuff. Not sure what all it encompasses, but he quickly found out that it was a lot, and the previous guy quit because he had had enough bullshit.

Long story shorter, after a particularly bad week, he decided to just… Stop doing his job.

Kept all their legal stuff and sensitive info under lock and key, but the smaller stuff, he just let it go. Went on vacation, turned everything off, didn’t do everything for a temporary replacement (which isn’t even his job, it’s hr’s) and spent a week playing video games and spending time with his wife and baby.

Several employees just in his building basically ended up doing nothing by the end of the first day because they had locked themselves out of the system.

By day 3 there were several lines that couldn’t be used by the tellers in every branch, older employees were bricking their systems so fast, construction workers started taking notes.

By the end of the week they had people showing up at his door to try and contact him since nobody could get ahold of him. Some legit thought he was dead.

His first words when he got into the office on Monday, we’re “THAT is why you pay me.”

And after that, he was given 3 people to help out (he had been asking for 4) and they had a company come in and redo a lot of the computer systems that year.

Still works for the bank, still has a team although I think they’re bigger now since they’ve opened a few more branches, and still tells that story at every gathering after his one single beer gets him tipsy.

Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

Normal people: “this is SO me!” last done 2years ago

Neurodivergents: every month

COMPLETELY unrelated, I have about $800 worth of RC equipment to make my own planes and cars, and haven’t touched it in over a year.

I want to break it out and make use of it to get my money’s worth, but apparently I don’t want to want to…

My 3 year old calligraphy set has only been used twice, and not even for the purpose they were purchased.

I also like to go with “Cosmically, nothing we ever do will amount to more than the life of a fly, so the end result is the same.”

It doesn’t go over well…

Next time someone says that, respond with “wow, so fuck anyone with brain issues that keep them from forming memories the same way you do, right? Guess grandpa Rick doesn’t care about my family since his accident, huh.”

you having a grandpa Rick, or family to speak of, is irrelevant. The point is, it forces them to confront the fact that there are many reasons someone might forget a thing. They’ll probably still be shift about it, but at least when they’ve unbunched their loads, they might think twice before immediately concluding the other person sucks for forgetting a thing.

Maybe I’m being optimistic with that, but I don’t appreciate when people try to assign my motives to me, instead of understanding my own, and get confrontational when that happens.

I still say that, knowing fully damn well that it probably was important and I going to feel like shit later for forgetting.

Hanlon’s Razor and all that, but I just assume that’s to drive up interaction in the post.

Rant/ramble ahead, you can skip:

By misspelling something, or just doing/saying something that common sense should say is wrong (“life hack, I just discovered this thing that literally every 5 year old already knows about”) you will draw out all the people who are genuinely trying to help, people who just can’t help themselves but smugly correct someone, people who THINK they know the right way but aren’t sure, people who claim to have never seen the right way before, and all the bitch fights such comments produce.

The increased interactions make the post do better in algorithms, which means it goes out to more and more people, who continue the cycle.

My wife watches short form endless scrolling videos despite knowing how bad those are for your mental health, and some of the people she stops to watch are CONSTANTLY pulling the “common sense says otherwise” one. Like my dude you did NOT just figure out in your 20s that you can wait for the shower to warm up before you get in. Literal toddlers know better. It’s such a simple thing, I genuinely do not believe anyone in their 20s just gets in the shower while the water is still cold because they never figured out they can wait for the warm water. But hoooo boy did their video take off and have millions of views, and thousands of comments about how wild that is.

NCD is leaking again…

Not that I mind.

Lol ain’t that the truth.

But I also don’t do any of that for a job, so I doubt my boss will agree!

What if I can operate several different types of forklifts, reach trucks, skid steers, and an excavator, but I’m not “certified”?

Then you get to NewGame++, try to skill your way through, then they pull out surprise moves, are a lot faster, and mock your pitiful attempts to damage them.

And this isn’t even their final form.

^ng+7

EVOLUTION IS A CIRCLE

🦀RETURN TO CRAB🦀

I actually like it when there’s variety to be heard.

Not so much when it’s just one asshole that won’t shut up.

[x] I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

I prefer heavy-handed metaphors and vague references, myself.

Like “when streaming became cable 2.0 I decided to dust off my old hat and hit the high seas”

Going out of your way to make sure everyone knows exactly whats going on in your queue at that particular moment is just excessive.

It’s an old joke.

One reddit user suggests LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET

THE ECONOMY IS DOING GREAT, PEOPLE, STOP SAYING IT ISN’T

homelessness on the rise

people living paycheck-to-paycheck on the rise

cost of living increasing faster than income growth

corporations doubling prices for no reason other than they realized they can, thus resulting in record profits for huge companies

Oh right, that’s what it means.

Big businesses are making more money.

The Poors don’t factor into such things, so their problems aren’t real economic problems.

You ever have one of those moments when you just put 2 and 2 together, and also that you should have had that realization many years ago?

I just realized what NaN stands for…

This must be what people who get told “you can just wait for the shower water to warm up before hopping in” feel like.

Well, Dr. @qjkxbmwvz, I will gladly address you as doctor here to both acknowledge your hard work, and the fact that you aren’t an arrogant prick about things.

Cheers!