Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

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..

wow... onboarding for new company has gone.. way smoother than @pple did.. and huh...
wasn't the only person in the new hire meeting using they/them pronouns... that is different.. in a good way xD
also... don't feel like any of the onboarding meetings have been a waste of time

downside.. first meeting with the new team involved getting pulled into briefing session about an incident and the fact that if the thing was not addressed.. the worst case scenario was it starts an actual fire in a data center.. sometime in the next hour to month xD

wow... well aside from the fact I'll be starting my first day light on sleep...

Apple (as a contractor): here is a 3 year old macbook pro, oops we forgot some account stuff and didn't send you the "first week" plan doc or meeting invites until friday.

New employer: Brand new macbook pro 16, if you want a 13 you can trade it out later, here is a $2k for home office stuff (desk, chair whatever) , $250 budget mouse + keyboard and a $400 dock. Also here is week schedule.. a week ahead of time!

Sometimes... I really fucking hate being the reliable, dependable, responsible person... willing to drop whatever to help someone.. @.@;;;

Just sat down with fresh panag from my favorite local thai place and now I get drive all the way to mountainview because I'm the only person a close friend knows with fucking jumper cables.

JUST WANTED TO EAT MY FUCKING CURRY... shouldn't be so pissy about it but I'm really hungry

Sooo... I gave Apple the I'm out bitches with no notice... never done that before.. but honestly, I would have maybe felt a lil bad if they had to pay for another week because I gave notice on Monday.

Sigh.. contracting company keeps promising a dock.. dock has not arrived.. now I'm reading complicated internal tech docs on a 16" laptop display that keeps changing brightness because [redacted] 's [redacted]connect tool locked down a ton of usability settings.

first day of work is going great! Contracting company requires use of legal name for email and manual request for preferred name email alias through IT. But client was only provided my preferred name... so when the client sent onboarding emails for slack and email and everything else.. they vanished in to the ether.. also only one member of the team I'm supposed to be part of at the client company showed up to the onboarding meeting this morning... and he had no idea what was going on and bailed after 15 minute to eat lunch. Also they have never had a contractor onboarding on their team and were just confused about it.

We are talking like.. 1% of what the cost of my contract and everything else is probably costing them.

There is something vaguely laughable about taking a 12 month role as contractor for a company w/ a six digit salary and receiving a refurbished, scratched and dinged up version of one of their flagship products as your company computer.

I finally got around to seeing Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Uh... I loved it.. it is definitely my favorite film in very long time.

Don't think I've ever been dreading a job this much.

Accepted a 12month contract for a Fruit for a senior SRE role that is k8s, terraform and go, pretty standard stuff I've been using for years.. but conceptually the idea of a 12 month contract for a Senior SRE position seems... insane. Plus they have a reputation when it comes to contract to hire positions.

Really hoping some of the other buns in the oven come to fruition before next monday because I don't want to quit like 2 weeks in.