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re: Java Training: Day 3 [Amused] 

@mawr Headcanon: John DiMaggio has been programming Java for 20 years, or your instructor is using John DiMaggio as a text to speech interface, like doing a Cyrano DeBergerac and giving John lines to say into the phone.

re: What Kind Of Day Has It Been (HRT, MH ~)) 

9. About to reach 4 hours of overtime working after hours on an issue that was first noticed 6 months ago, but we never got clearance to work on the host, so now it is a Sev2. + -
10. Blew up at people that didn't deserve it. - - - - - -

I am going to get so FUCKING stoned once I'm off call. Like, goddamned MARBLED.

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What Kind Of Day Has It Been (HRT, MH ~)) 

1. Out the door late. -
2. In to work ontime anyway. +
3. Getting a raise! ++
4. Tripped door alarm. Again. (4th time, same door) - - - -
5. Fighting emotion surge and despair, trying not to cry with frustration in the RZ. -
6. Begged my boss to wait until after New Year's before canning me. - -
7. Got reassurance not anywhere near any sort of termination consideration. +
8. Actually closed ticket that was making me rush and trigger alarms. +

Confession (CW: Horrible music taste) 

I will never not love Sandstorm. And I refuse to apologize.

why organize tech workers? 

> why organize? don't you, as a software dev, get paid enough?

1. no, i don't
2. without my knowledge or consent, things i've made have killed people, and my only options were to shrug or quit
3. work should not give you PTSD
4. worker rights and communal welfare is about more than pay. it's about power dynamics, accountability, representation, and taking the craft back from the profiteers who readily dispose of us

@Aria@cybre.space That seems appropriate to me. Most users consider tech work to be dark magic in the first place. It's why I started carrying around a stick with "wizard staff" engraved on it.

@Leucrotta Hey, things will be okay. You are still good and loved. The regional sales rep doesn't get to decide your value.

*sigh* just got booted from a group YCH cause the artist doesn't feel comfortable working on "h*rms." Getting a full refund, and I obviously don't want an artist being outside their comfort zone, but a little knowledge beforehand would''ve been nice.

Going into recharge mode early to prevent unwanted rogue processes from overwhelming caches and eating resources. Goodnight, Zion. Sweet dreams.

Here's a question for : What's a project of love you are currently working on? What are you doing lately that is part of your interests or the things you enjoy that are part of who you are?

Ugh. 20 minute crying-jag with TLC's Unpretty running on repeat in my head cause my brain hates me and is swimming in hormones. Thanks. This is what i needed at the start of my on-call shift where I have to be ready to drive downtown at a moment's notice, so I don't even get my usual evening's weed recreation.

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