going through my old pieces and I really wanna highlight these two modemoiselles
good taste, @BestGirlGrace
what the fuck... I actually had fun at a company christmas party for once.. that is like the weirdest damn thing.
Granted.. I unintentionally collected a posse of like a dozen queer and queer adjacent folks from ops and dragged them to the outside part of the venue and hung out for 4 hours but still..
Of course now I am suffering with no voice xD
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@mawr I struggle with this a lot.
We recently had our yearly self reviews at my new employer and was having long talk with my manager because I felt like I could have done more and was feeling guilty over ending up sick enough to get admitted to the hospital for a few days during a critical point in a project I was our teams primary representative on that had a lot of C-suite eyes on it.. and someone apparently mentioned I was attending project meetings from the hospital bed while being pumped full of antibiotics to him.
The end result made me feel a lot better.
Paraphrasing him but. "I really value what you bring to our Team and feel very good about the current team dynamic. It is normal that not everyone has the same amount of bandwidth and I'd rather you take on less work than get burned out. During your first year here you've taken on two major projects that were highest priority for the company and managed to keep them moving forward. You are doing great, other managers regularly ask if you are available for projects but I'd rather you be focused on one or two major projects than burning midnight oil to keep velocity and constantly context switching."
Like.. some days I barely manage to bang out some random answers to stuff and maybe a code review or two. Other days my brain is on fire and I'll spit out the thing I've supposedly been working on for the last two weeks and has been simmering in my head for weeks.. in like 6 hours and then collapse into a puddle.
And that is just like... work. Home life.. taking care of my self? Never enough time for everything.
re: work (-)
@mawr Yikes D:
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Ultimately, capitalism's demand for endless growth is designed intentionally to inspire you to push yourself past your limits.
Businesses purposefully assign challenging goals with unreasonable time frames to inspire a sense of urgency.
That urgency is toxic to mental health, and harming yourself to meet unreasonable goals will only result in even more challenging goals later on.
So: Just focus on making each step the best step you can take.
@anthracite I got the flu and pneumonia jab together this year when I was being discharged from a 2 day stay in patient.. sadly I was still pretty sick so no idea if it how they effected me.
@kistaro @bj
Generative AI being crammed into everything is so damn frustrating.
I work for a storage and DR company and last few earnings calls have always had some dipshit investor asking "how company is going to leverage generative AI beyond generative AI companies need lots of storage."
I hate that generative AI has become the new block and chain buzzword but is capable of a lot more damage.
Just noticed the JetBrains integration thing in the “GitHub is shoving AI up everyone’s ass” announcement. Uninstalling, cancelling my $250/yr JetBrains IDE subscription, telling them _exactly why_ in the survey. I strongly encourage others who subscribed to the paid versions of JetBrains tools to do the same; companies that forcefeed shitty AI features into otherwise good softeware must be made to feel pain.
Bleh... human bodies are weird. So.. I can't tolerate large amounts of dairy any more.. unless it is like butter for cooking or heavy cream that has been sauteed when I make garlic mashed potatoes. Like I can't eat icecream without getting sick, even with lactaid. D:
Oh and like some mild, white cheeses, jack, queso in small amounts.
I guess because I basically didn't eat dairy for a year other than small amounts of butter for cooking and often I use avocado or olive oil instead.
@kistaro I dunno.. one of my coworkers regularly has a like a 5ft long fox plush in the background... but yeah. I know those feels though for me.. its like.. disorganized shelving, kobold and dragon plushies
re: I'm not saying they're right, but I kinda understand a little. (CW: Shadowrun mechanics terminology, Dental health trauma, cancer mention)
@kelseyhusky That sounds incredibly stressful and crappy. D:
Though I was under the impression most dental adhesives were zinc free these days.
@kistaro We host our gitea at work. Generally it works really well until someone does something very foolish but I can definitely see the advantage to self hosting your own.
Gods, I need to figure out how to communicate this to people.
If you are close to me and you ask something, a favor, help, assistance... I am generally incapable of saying no.
Even if I don't want to, don't feel up for it etc.
I'm like a discount version of The Luidaeg who can't ask a fair price.
Sometimes it is really important to recognize when is a bad time to ask for my help.
Worse, struggling with this makes me feel awful every time.
@mawr I will be upset if it gets axed.. like.. I've been using it for... a very long damn time.. since like 2009. :(
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