Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

Severe Flood Watch in affect for the San Jose area

Be careful out there. 101 just after 880 tends to flood about now.

For the record... just because I'm storm dragon doesn't mean this is my fault.

Holy Shit... thanks for throwing my ass under the bus MR Head of Engineering... I wasn't even oncall... yesterday.

DO I NEED A FUCKING DISCLAIMER THAT OFFERING A SUGGESTION OF HOW TO SOLVE A PROBLEM TO A TEAM MEMBER DOES NOT CONSTITUTE VOLUNTEERING TO WORK ON THE PROBLEM?

So yesterday, shortly after my shift started the day shift oncall hit me up about an issue (out of control log file growth). I offered a couple of suggestions that ended with "if this doesn't work, escalate it to Team X"

Somehow the head of Team X took that as me stating I would fix it.

I was not oncall yesterday.. so when said team member said "Okay, cool, will do." that was the end of it for me.

Apparently, said team member tried those things then snoozed the page for 8 hours... and it did not come up until night shift hand off... at no point did it get escalated by night shift either and so a customer impacting incident went on for 19 hours with no action taken...

Both members of my team involved in this... kinda dropped the ball.. they are also not under my direct supervision since being placed under the new east coast, day shift team leader...

but somehow this engineering manager is trying to throw me under the bus for it. WTF

Thankfully my boss and his boss... and slack and pagerduty show I had literally nothing to do with the whole shit show beyond my suggestion of "try these things, if they don't work, make sure to escalate it."

@amic@nulled.red

100% accurate... although frequently.. I'm copying and pasting from documentation I wrote these days..

@kelseyhusky I felt like shit during the 4 hour drive home. Eventually we opened a support ticket with cisco and had to apply 5 years of backlogged firmware updates to get status lights matching external ports so remote hands could do it.

@kelseyhusky I hate that shit... back in May I was doing some maintenance at one of our remote sites that required hands on.

Long story short.. NetEng thought they had the right link... but the internal port descriptors on this model cisco core router did not match up with the external numbering.

So we played link roulette for 2 hours, I pulled 6 10G fiber links before we gave up because nobody could figure out a way to map the bad link to a physical port.

Why is always friday nights that work shit explodes all over everything?

@kistaro That is fantastic.

So those of you that know me or have known me for a long while probably know I've been on HRT for a good long while.

Even before HRT.. long hair, wearing it down and not in generic tech dude pony tail and some not masculine signalling colors often got people to Ma'am, refer to me with feminine pronouns etc.

So I've been on HRT for a bit over 6 years... with a clean shave (stupid dark facial hair under my nose) people regularly have no idea what I am... outside of work... while I kinda hate the Biblical Origins of my chosen name.. it works well, gender neutral (Which pleases me. Nobody fucking knows if Sam is short for Samuel or Samantha so.. HA) which pleases me.

Anyway where am I going with this.

I'm working on some series health related changes to my life... weight loss being a big one.

As I start to lose abdominal fat... it will be increasingly difficult to hide that fact that I have significant breast tissue and I'm not fucking binding... did not fucking start HRT 6 years go to start binding.

So yes... I work in Tech... but I'm not a programmer.. I'm not a developer.

I'm an Ops person... (Technically... I guess I'm an Operations Engineer specializing in private cloud infrastructural [datacenter operations, management and linux stuff] and starting to transition into a SRE role focused on our public cloud infrastructure over the next year)

As a whole... my experience has been that OPS is pretty fucking dude bro the dudening.

There is not a single woman in my company's entire Operations division (Cloud Ops and Product Ops... there are lots women in our dev teams and Product Management but not Operations)

So where is this going. I want to change my legal name and gender. I'm fucking terrified for what this will mean for my career prospects.

I don't know how to reconcile this shit.

@Thaminga I am jealous :(

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patreon-announces-it-will-pay-out-half-a-billion-dollars-to-content-creators-in-2019.html

Investors ruin a good platform again, news at 11.

@mawr YIKES D:

That is shadey and scary.

Ughhhhhh.... I got like 2 hours of sleep... want to call in sick... but responsibilities and tasks that only I can do because physical presence and location requirements.

kjfkdfs

Thanks brain... or body.. I spent 6 hours laying in bed... just not sleeping... and 2 more tossing, turning and waking up a lot.

EXECUTE PG&E

Fucking corporate death penalty those greedy fuck sticks.

Board members go to prison. Fuck anyone that is in a Director level position goes to prison.

CLAW BACK BONUSES AND GOLD PARACHUTES

CLAW BACK SHAREHOLDER DIVIDENDS

NEGLIGENCE AND GREED TO THEM WHERE THEY ARE. ALLOWING THEM TO FILE CHAPTER 11 AND SKIRT AWAY SHITS OF THE DEATHS OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROPERTY DAMAGE

@mawr Silly mawr!

STUPID FUCKING TINY TOES.... NEED BIG STOMPY DRAGON FEETS WITH OUT LITTLE BREAKABLE TOE BONES....

Weee... Ops Dinner thing done.... dodged the going out drinking with my boss's bosses thanks to the whole UTI thing... so there is a silver lining to this unpleasantness.

@kistaro

Definitely something I need to get more of!

Working from home with a UTI... had a simple plan to fix and resolve a P1 issue that someone pushed off me yesterday because I laid out everything that needed to be done in the jira issue but did not get a chance to work on it Monday or Tuesday (because going to after hours clinic because penises are not supposed to leak blood after urinating)

What actually happened?
Apparently I fucked up our svn staging version of the file I was working on because I updated to Mojava but didn't update XCODE Tools... so when I merged my 10 line change...

SVN merged the same 10 line change 200+ times adding 700 and something lines.

Meanwhile my phone is going off like fucking air raid siren the whole damned day because vpn boxes are onfire and mysql slaves are on fire and this thing I'm trying to work on... is P1 also fire... that someone decided to assign to me because left a comment saying "I'll work on this if I have time but otherwise here is what needs to be done"

None of which should have been difficult or hard or time consuming but someone decided they didn't fucking want to do anything about and ignored the P1 in the critical queue by re-assigning it back to me while I was asleep.

Thanks jackass.

Soooo I'm out of fucks and out of spoons and ugh...

I have a team dinner tomorrow which includes all of my upper management and the team I'm supposed to be transitioning to with promotion in a few months.... and I have a UTI.... and I really want to just take tomorrow... off because I'm working this weekend too... but... fuck I feel obligated to go... assuming the pager doesn't fucking explode from 5pm-7pm tomorrow... I guess if it does I'll slip off home to fix things.