Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space
Shape and form may vary but the pattern of information remains consistent across most known platforms and vessels. Accounting for unknown hosts remains irksome.
Pronous: She/They/Them-THEONESWHOARE!!!!!
Joined May 2017
wow... my taxable income for 2018 went up by 970 USD from 2017.. but my returns went down by 889 USD from 2017.
THANKS REPUBLICAN TAX PLAN I SURE HOPE THOSE BILLIONAIRES ARE ENJOYING THEIR FUCKING TAX BREAKS!
Bleh.. I my head feels like someone started frakking between my eyes and bonus day off for working a 3 day weekend just seems to have left me more stressed out... would have rather had the 3 day weekend.... not that I had a choice.. was my weekend to work.
going to fucking bed and maybe tomorrow will make me feel a little more chill..
Wobbly One Of Myriads
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We have shed the heavy shells we once crewed, and now roam the stars unencumbered.
Work Vent
Oh look a critical service with no redundancy went down in a not 24/7 datacenter, taking one of our flagship products down completely in that region.
This is the 3rd time this week it is happened.
9 months ago, the first time it happened.. I wrote remediation recommendations for the product's team.
THE BIG ONE WAS MOVING THIS SERVICE TO MODERN HARDWARE WITH IPMI AND HOT SPARE!
Guess what they just did...?
FINALLY SPIN THE SERVICE UP ON ONE OUR MODERN COMPUTE BOXES... and decide to stop using the old and busted.
Weather | Bay Area
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.
work rant
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."
Why is always friday nights that work shit explodes all over everything?
Wobbly One Of Myriads
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Mental Health, Capitalism, Workplace, Trans-worry
My workplace has very high profile women, some of whom are transgender, in the ops space. There are cultural issues but there's no reason an ops team can't adapt.
Treat it like any other service issue...
TO: ops-team-x@companyname.website
SUBJ: [ACTION REQUIRED] Data issues with "Sam" API - Manual updates required
Attention X-ops team members,
For the last thirty years, the "gender" API for Sam Lastname has returned an incorrect value, which has propagated to many dependent fields. The API is being corrected, but you will need to manually remediate entries in downstream datastores, including but not limited to your brain, and downstream APIs, including but not limited to pronouns.
Sam is female. Her pronouns are "she" and "her". Please correct datastores as you find them; as with any data corruption issue, errors are expected to persist for some time but should be remediated as they are encountered.
Thank you for your help in remediating this error. A postmortem is not planned at this time. Additional questions can be directed to the API owner, sam-lastname@companyname.website.
--Samantha Lastname
... This approach has been used before in my workplace and has proven remarkably effective. It communicates the important parts (facts, required actions) and important social parts (no room for negotiation, still a professional ops person, didn't magically stop being an ops person in Sarcastic Irritable Ops Person Culture in the last twenty seconds), and is easy to understand. It reads like a joke while being wholly serious, and tends to defuse a lot of tension along the way. Rewrite it to match your company's outage remediation notification format.
Mental Health, Capitalism, Workplace, Trans-worry
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.
Patreon, Capitalize, Unsustainable, Infinite Growth
Investors ruin a good platform again, news at 11.
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
STUPID FUCKING TINY TOES.... NEED BIG STOMPY DRAGON FEETS WITH OUT LITTLE BREAKABLE TOE BONES....
Wobbly One Of Myriads
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CW: Orthocosm, censorship, capitalism #mademethink, Engadget link
Came across this in my firehose of RSS feeds and it made me full of thinks and some sads, and I really hope that there are enough of people around my age that are taking the chance to work into the places where decisions like this were made and doing their best to change them when they can
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta/
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.
Work
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.
Health, Blood, Squick
Welp... I love that Kaiser can get my urinanalysis results posted to me before I get home.
Sadly... I don't know what to make of them other than.. oh jeeeze that is a lot of blood in my urine... which I guess fits since I kinda covered the toilet in blood after giving the sample.
Ugh.. meat bodies suck... bleeding from somewhere I should not be bleeding... now I get to drive an hour during rush hour to go see a doctor..
Today...
Everything is on fire... has been on fire since before my shift started and I'm bouncing between 3 different incident zoom chats and 4 slack calls to mange everything..
Shape and form may vary but the pattern of information remains consistent across most known platforms and vessels. Accounting for unknown hosts remains irksome.
Pronous: She/They/Them-THEONESWHOARE!!!!!
Joined May 2017
