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[wierd]

Gotta love it.

"What, you want to OWN your device? NO! We own it, you just use it!"

*sigh*

Oh well.

[Iduno]

My head's got me a bit fucked up, and I'm trying to make it be slightly less fucky and slightly more unfucky.

I don't even know where to start with how dumb and weird this situation is, or why I've got such a gargantuan hard-on for red flags.


Oh, as an aside, just got back from a 7-hour overbooked family gathering/tween birthday today. I am *exhausted*.

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I was going to take out the part of the quote about family, but that still fits for a lot of us.

Friend of mine sack tapped me today.

He did it because I poo poo'd a piece of art he'd done, which at the time I didn't know was his.

For a minute, I was assuming you were being literal.

[nenjin]

I have strong feelings about art, but not quite that strong.

[Arx]

I started a job today, part-time, because the company desperately needed someone to fill a gap. This is not a low-skill position, and it has a pretty rigorous interview process too.

I cannot possibly do all the work they expect me to, in the hours they're paying me for. In fact, I don't think I could do it in regular full-time hours. Some of it I'm not convinced is even possible. Also, I received literally no onboarding. Every piece of information I've got (some of it beyond critical to even knowing what my job is, let alone doing it) I had to extract from someone.

As for the job itself... imagine being hired by a games studio, to do part-time work as a dev. You walk into the studio, and discover there are no other devs. The last one left a week ago, wasn't great at the job, and no-one actually knows where they left the codebase. Oh, there's a dev intern as well I guess. You are presented with an elaborate technical specification and a ton of specific assets... and are then told to develop the game and its engine from scratch. The investors want to see the demo by next Friday. This is not my actual scenario, but it's spiritually similar.

[TD1]

But!
The monies.

[Arx]

Regrettably, I am being paid in packing peanuts. Regular peanuts would be a step up. I wish my payment were commensurate with what they expect from me, but I can't actually figure out what this company's priorities are.

[Iduno]

Regrettably, I am being paid in packing peanuts. Regular peanuts would be a step up. I wish my payment were commensurate with what they expect from me, but I can't actually figure out what this company's priorities are.

Get a fully-functional product, in a week, on the cheap? Also, I guess they need to add "we don't need to provide tools/information" to the list you choose 2 from.

[scourge728]

Imagine being hired by a games studio, to do part-time work as a dev. You walk into the studio, and discover there are no other devs. The last one left a week ago, wasn't great at the job, and no-one actually knows where they left the codebase. Oh, there's a dev intern as well I guess.

Sounds like tf2

[Kagus]

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--snip--

Thankfully I don't have much in the way of rose-colored glasses looking back on my love life; and in fact more red flags tend to pop up and identify themselves as such as time goes by.

Instead, I'm more readily associated with this fanciful image with text:

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Seriously, the situations I get myself into sometimes... Like yeah, sure, don't mind me... Just having a lovely conversation with the gorgeous and funny sex worker I spent most of the evening talking to (after the Oregonian polyglot I'd been chatting with had already left) while I was in drag at the polyamorous writer's Halloween house party (the one with the pizza dough monstrosity summoning circle), and who was about to ask if I was single while doing evil things with my hair when our conversation got interrupted by her leaving the party with the hostess' husband to go to a bar. No biggie.


But good grief, the gaggle of gay guys at that party ended up having serious calibration issues with their gaydars when trying to figure me out. Can't say I blame them.

[Naturegirl1999]

Interestingly, bulls are colorblind, they charge at the movement not necessarily the redness of objects, also what do you mean by summoning circle?

[Eschar]

Interestingly, bulls are colorblind, they charge at the movement not necessarily the redness of objects, also what do you mean by summoning circle?

Idiom for hypothetical rituals supposedly used to summon stuff.

[methylatedspirit]

I forgot to say this, but I already handed it back to my friend and told him to take it to a repair shop. He did, and now it's basically fixed for far less than the phone's worth.

I take that back; I talked to him today about the phone and he said that it's completely dead. He plans on disassembling it.

[wierd]

Awesome...  This is why we need right to repair laws.

[Kagus]

Interestingly, bulls are colorblind, they charge at the movement not necessarily the redness of objects, also what do you mean by summoning circle?

Idiom for hypothetical rituals supposedly used to summon stuff.

She'd used tape to design a mock arcane rune on the coffee table, and placed a "thing with too few eyes and too many tentacles" shaped out of pizza dough in the middle; as though it had been called forth from the void by a ritual.

[TD1]

How do you know it wasn't?