Useless Conversation

[pxib]

Most people are ignorant and short-sighted, sure, but they're also gentle and kind. I've dealt directly with the public my entire working life, and most of my interactions every day have always been charming and positive.  The trouble is that the stupid and selfish few are wildly successful at taking advantage, and we are largely powerless to fight them: You either sink to their level or they don't care what you say. Often both. Nobody wins.

Building fundamental trust, hope, and justice is slow work for meagre reward... but it keeps the human world turning. If anything less than the greatest mass of humanity weren't involved in it practically every moment we breathe, we'd all be hitting each other with rocks and shitting in holes. Sure, it's sad to see the assholes prosper by dismantling what we've built. Sure it's sadder to watch idiots hurt everyone the come in contact with, even themselves. That sorrow is the small the price we pay for having such a generally warm, open, trusting society.

So weep a while, dream a while, and get back to work.

[Sky]

I'm in a pretty cool position for dealing with the stupid and selfish. I help people all day long. As you say, most people are pretty cool and I'm lucky enough to really make their day more often than not.

If someone starts copping an attitude, I can just put on the brakes, sum up their situation and give them a quick set of options and then bid them good day. It's sometimes tough to keep from laughing at the moment the attitude starts up and I conjure this image in my head:



And be an agent of karma on some ignorant loudmouth.

[Miasma]

Who is he?

[RhyssaFireheart]

He's from some reality show called Hardcore Pawn or something like that.  Huge pawnshop in Detroit which means you get serious stupidity going on.  The husband watches the show sometimes and I've viewed it in a  sort of way.  Guy comes off as a major asshole and his two kids are morons, IMO.

[Sky]

How can you not love Les? He's awesome.

[Rasix]

By not ever hearing of him?

[Sky]

I apologize for not providing the apparently requisite specificity.

Guy comes off as a major asshole

How can you not love Les? He's awesome.

[Signe]

Is there going to be one of those "no Les, no more" jokes soon?  I love those.

[Chimpy]

Dear Microsoft SCCM Console designers...you made me waste half of my day in training today not thinking I could create collections due to a permission error when it was just that your console does not create things in the place it logically should based on how EVERY OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE CONSOLE IN YOUR ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE WORKS.

[Yegolev]

These centralized management systems are still in their infancies, no matter what anyone tells you.  Even if there is a longstanding background (IBM), somehow the cloud paradigm is screwing up the current implementations; putting things in weird places is probably a direct result of that.  At least MS and IBM are like that, I haven't actually had the chance to use the one HP/EDS uses and has used for years.

[Ironwood]

I don't think anyone who has worked on these things would disagree with you.

Amazon is the only one that's actually got anything remotely decent and everyone else is just hacking apart systems that aren't Cloudcentric to 'fit' ;  and they never do.  Microsoft Azures first attempt was pitiful and the less said about Office365 the better.  (Hint, if you don't know Powershell, don't bother).

[Lantyssa]

I wonder if a concrete bunker is also impervious to stupid?

How many construction projects have failed due to stupid (or greed)?

[Nebu]

I wonder if a concrete bunker is also impervious to stupid?

How many construction projects have failed due to stupid (or greed)?

I was wanting to build one to keep the stupid out.  I guess if it has internet access, that's impossible.

[MisterNoisy]

Not sure where to put this, so here you go:

Frog Fractions - it's on my short list for game of the year.

[Nebu]

Not sure where to put this, so here you go:

Frog Fractions - it's on my short list for game of the year.

Did I miss the disclaimer that you have to be on LSD to play this?

[Yegolev]

I was completely lost until I saw the scientific notation.  Not sure why I was actually expecting an educational game.

[MisterNoisy]

Trust me - it gets weirder.  Keep playing.   

[Merusk]

Yeah I got suckered expecting actual educational devices. Then again, I'm a parent and these things stop being as funny when that happens.

[ezrast]

I about lost it at "like a billion." Then it got better.

[Paelos]

I finished it. The game is so off the rails I have no idea where to start.

[rattran]

Best game ending since Portal.

[ghost]

I made it through about 2 rounds of that crap.

[Paelos]

I made it through about 2 rounds of that crap.

The initial game is nothing like the real game. You have to think outside the box on this one.

[ghost]

 

[Hawkbit]

I'm sitting here at work, listening to two people laughing hysterically at Chuck Norris meme photos.  I'm certain it's their first time seeing anything funny related Chuck Norris.  It's the saddest thing I've witnessed this week.

[Reg]

Introduce them to Lolcats.  You know you want to.

[Yegolev]

Start at the beginning.

[Chimpy]

The cheezburger cat is not the one you need to introduce them to. It is definitely ceiling cat.

Also, I survived the SCCM training. My brain hurts.

[Sky]

Go straight for the bukkit.

And congrats on survival Chimpy.

[schild]

Yup this company is about to fall apart. These last 3 weeks outside of getting engaged have been what I would describe as Life in Hell.

[WayAbvPar]

I am going through much the same thing. Multiple layoffs and a dismal future has left me with tons of extra work and no job security past about mid 2013. I am starting to wonder if the guys who got laid off were the lucky ones.

[ghost]

Time to sharpen the resumes. 

[Hammond]

Have they blocked the employment websites yet at work? 

So random story I ran into a guy that I supervised at my last job recently.  He had gotten laid off with a bunch of people around 3 years ago and he still hasn't found work.  Although he never really looked hard its hard for me to think of being out of work that long.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oh, well no wonder my POs have been stuck in approvals in Purchasing for almost 2 weeks - woman handling that particular category of PO is over a month behind on them.  She's still working on ones from September.   

Being out of work for a year was hell, no clue how someone could do that for 3 years.

[Merusk]

Longest I've ever been unemployed was 3 months, last January through March.  I was already investigating how I could start a business and work for myself I was so bored.