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@mawr also gave me a medical authorization for ergonomic workstation evaluation and some other stuff.. though I don't need to worry about that too much.. current employer gives me 400/yr for stuff like that and 2k as new employee, so I'm looking at powered sit-stand desks this weekend, our HR rep sent me the form right before the end of the day with as long as it's from any major vendor won't be a problem.

@mawr though because of the stiffness and pain, they are doing an anti-inflamatory injection guided by ultra-sound next week.. which should get the inflammation down enough I can do the PT. He was happy to hear I'd been icing it and I should keep doing it.. couple of times every day and then told me to definitely stop using a sling, even if it hurts.. the sling is much more likely to cause problems (frozen shoulder).

@mawr yeah, been having steadily increasing pain, weakness and stiffness in it for the last 6 months.

Thankfully the orthopedic specialist was confident that combination of PT, icing, ergo (desk, sleeping) changes and some short term meds would sort it out.. and the stuff I was really afraid of (like the bicep anchor wearing out frequently happens after 15-20 years and would need surgery to fix) but the imaging shows it is still good!

Good news bad news... I have a rotator cuff injury.. but likely not require surgery... just a lot of physical therapy and new desk.. and some other arrangements... like... 18 months of physical therapy...

@mawr I can't really classify admins as cops. Someone has to keep shit running.. and sometimes that takes policy enforcement and the like but it's not policing or being a cop in my mind.

Unfortunately, humans are more difficult to organize and manage that even cats.. so we need guides and people to help provide direction and some form of enforcement of said guidelines.
This is very distinct from the role of holds the monopoly on violence for the wealthy for the purpose of labor suppression.

@anthracite That is a rad hat!

@mawr sounds like a busy day for a mawr!

@mawr I promise it will suck less than building the THING with no feedback....

Provided you have good controls in place and well defined goals to prevent scope creeping of the THING.

@mawr I would be willing to say that might be the case. If you build the only THING of that THING your people have access to then they will probably use it.

Hell, a lot of Operations folks seem to still follow the attitude of.. we build the infrastructure how we want and Dev doesn't have any other choice but use it (in the context of virtual worlds even).

Still kinda sucks! You should involve the people who use the THING in the design and build process for the THING!

Holy fuck... I wish someone had never uttered the phrase "Build it and They will come."

It is terrible, shitty and a lie. One that is way to common for Infrastructure, Ops and Platform engineering folks to believe.

You can't just build the a thing with no feedback from your intended users and hope for the best!

Hopefully, I can ask questions that shine a light on these issues in a way that helps this team realize the problems without having to directly call them out myself.

Just getting them to start bringing me up to speed on the project seems to have at least made a few of them step back realize they have a problem with complexity and complete lack of how to use this thing docs or any guide/safety rails built into it.

This project in particular seems to be suffering from too long in the oven without anyone glancing at it or taking its temperature.

Folks working on it even feel they might have a problem because something as complex as a multi-tenant, multi-region, onprem, self hosted k8s platform... doesn't feel complex to them any more... but then they have been working on fairly siloed for 3 years.. so.. no shit.

I always find it weird as an operations person when I come into a project which has a stated goal of providing platform for engineering and intends to treat engineering teams as customers... but has no buy in from Engineering.. and lacks any sort of Pitch and then the folks don't get why the thing they are building is not catching own...

Like if you want people to use your thing, you have to explain to them how it will improve their work/lives/productivity/stability/etc..

@mawr I hate this so much... only complaint about my new employer is.... folks use slack, zoom, google-meet... and google message... like argh...

private comms are all fucked up now... and I blame discord!