Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

My team: quietly leaving the meeting trying not to run away laughing or screaming or snickering..

Then here comes the big one "We should... like do pull requests.. and maybe set up a slack channel for people to announce code changes and stuff."

My team: Collective jaw dropping... because that is the first thing we did when we started our project...

"Oh and made the pull requests mandatory, this isn't like some one person greenfield show anymore and like.. I don't think it was malicious but it sucks to have someone push code straight to master and fuck everything up."

So we get to it and the guy that brought it up goes into a rant about how one of their team members pushed a bunch of changes straight to master over the holiday weekend that blew up every one on their platform's k8s clusters because their flux-weave implementation does continuous deployment to -all- environments as soon as changes are pushed to master.
We offer some suggestions about doing git tags for versioning and pinning versions to specific environments they shoot those down

Sitting in a meeting with "the team building a competing k8s platform to our own" that really wants to bring my team and project into theirs... we are both using almost all the same tools and doing similar things... on the agenda is "Better ways to communicate and share code" which I took as.. oh they want more insight into what we are doing and vice versa.. cool.

@mawr Is that like an SME?

@kelseyhusky @orrery

Eww... I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

@mawr Would not surprise me at all.

They were fucking hungry for trade in/lease buy out. Like... I've had someone call me or email me ever week for the passed 6 months about it from their dealership.

Apparently they get a lot of "Do you have a Forester XT" requests since Subaru killed them. Even for used ones.

@kistaro

Pretty much that.

The worst part is... if Subaru still made Forester XTs.. or stuck the 2.4 turbo in from the Outback XT in one.. and the new not shit infotainment system that has android auto it.. I would buy one.

I love my Forester, all I really want in it is a better head unit with Android Auto/Car play.. but there are only like two options for aftermarket and they require a bunch of custom wiring.

The whole time I'm sick with an ear and sinus infection and miserable.. trying to do some work on my laptop from the dealership.. and never got lunch because repeated "Oh just give them 10-15 minutes" that took 30 minutes each time.

Fuck... please note I specifically signed up for "I'll be staying at the dealership so do it fast" service slot. Somehow an hour and half turned into 3 hours.

If they had just said at the start "We are really busy today." I would have fucking left

Got check with service department "Oh tech is just finishing up.. let me go find out how long it will be."

30 minutes later "Oh let me pull it around, they are done!"

15 minutes later my car is now out front.

Start going over the paper work "Oh tech left the inspection checklist off the clipboard"

10 minutes later "Found it, it was on his toolbox and he went to lunch."

2 hours and 55 minutes later finally going over service paperwork.

5 minutes later. LEAVING FINALLY

So the toss some numbers around, I'm like, "I don't really desire to pay more than I'm currently paying for the Forester per month (445) they come back with well.. with trade in we could get you an Outback for $527/m

Or 445 if you put 4k down.. I struggle not to laugh in this dude's face... mumble something about just give me the numbers on paper so I can talk it over with my partner and escape.

Total time at dealership now 2 hours.

So he goes on to try talking me into leasing a new outback but drops the mention that most of the leases they are taking in are coming back with hugely negative equity, including his own outback.

So why the fuck would I sign up for a lease for a vehicle that you just admitted might end in me owing more than the value of the vehicle at the end of the lease?

Which is shit, because I already had the buy out price + evaluation for financing a lease buy out

(I owe 22k, evaluation after condition and low mileage came in at 27k)

I know the trade in values are different but fuck dude.. 400 bucks? Really? I could finance it at 3.6% APR and then buy it.. turn around and sell it on the open market and easily net 10x that.

Get back.. it has been an hour, go to check and see if my Forester is close to done, service department is like oh.. 30 more minutes! so I don't go to lunch.

Sales dude is like.. why don't I get you a quote on the Outback and trade in value on the Forester..

I agree.. because it gets him to leave me alone for a bit.

He comes back with his manager (is the person that sold me my Forester 3 years ago)

We talk some numbers oh look you have 400 bucks of equity on the lease

In two weeks.placate them by talking to them.

Literally Subaru killed the Forester XT (2.0 turbo) in 2018. I love mine. My only wish is for Android Auto which was never added.

After 30 minutes of talking with this dude I finally agree to placate him by taking an Outback Onyx XT for a test drive. (Really nice car by the way, but way more car than I desire. Just too big. Even if it is super roomy with lots of cargo space. Its a foot longer than my forester and 6-7inches wider)

I was far too exhausted yesterday to grump about this.

So yesterday the Wobblura went in for final inspection and service before my lease ends (I'm keeping it though)

Scheduled everything ahead of time. EToC of 1.5 hours. Sure I'll just walk over to the thai place across the street and get some lunch..

Get there, drop off.. (note I'm sick and I had 3 hours of sleep because of said sick)

Immediately ambushed by sales person that knows my lease is up.

https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-actor-billy-dee-williams-reveals-gender-fluidity

This is pretty boss... but the image.. is pure gold!