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[Lagslayer]

The sad thing is that crappy website design is more of a motivation to avoid it than terrible ethics.

Probably because crappy design actually affects the everyday user.

Tv tropes terrible ethics? How so?

Yo.

I'm glad I got a big heaping bowl of tvtropes before it all went to hell.

[Radio Controlled]

The sad thing is that crappy website design is more of a motivation to avoid it than terrible ethics.

Probably because crappy design actually affects the everyday user.

Tv tropes terrible ethics? How so?

Yo.

Thank you for the link my friend, that was informative.

[Sergarr]

my god the new firefox

it's so TERRIBLE

[timferius]

my god the new firefox

it's so TERRIBLE

Note to self, do not update. Adding it to the same list as skype now.

[Sergarr]

my god the new firefox

it's so TERRIBLE

Note to self, do not update. Adding it to the same list as skype now.

note that I've just updated it from 25 to 34

i've held off on updating it because i've heard that it was shit

but it's worse that i could imagine

it's complete garbage

[Sinistar]

... and here I was wondering how could they possibly have made it even worse than it is right now.

Sergarr, stop trying to scare the living shit out of me.

[LordSlowpoke]

how hard can it be to make a browser that halfheartedly understands standard web things and whose ui doesn't get shittier and shittier every passing update

i mean pale moon represent but i'm still a bit salty about the idea that modern browsers have to use over a gig of memory

[Arx]

i mean pale moon represent but i'm still a bit salty about the idea that modern browsers have to use over a gig of memory

Yikes. Firefox restrains itself to half a gig on my machine, at least. I have tab discipline, though...

[Sinistar]

how hard can it be to make a browser that halfheartedly understands standard web things and whose ui doesn't get shittier and shittier every passing update

i mean pale moon represent but i'm still a bit salty about the idea that modern browsers have to use over a gig of memory

I avoid quoting LSP because I never know when his chaotic neutral alignment will bite my ass but this quote just begs to be spammed all over people working at Opera/Firefox/Chrome mailboxes.

[i2amroy]

I avoid quoting LSP because I never know when his chaotic neutral alignment will bite my ass but this quote just begs to be spammed all over people working at Opera/Firefox/Chrome mailboxes.

Haha! As a Safari user I might have a horribly slow and inefficient browser, but at least the only UI changes that have been made since 2009 have been improvements.

[LordSlowpoke]

how hard can it be to make a browser that halfheartedly understands standard web things and whose ui doesn't get shittier and shittier every passing update

i mean pale moon represent but i'm still a bit salty about the idea that modern browsers have to use over a gig of memory

I avoid quoting LSP because I never know when his chaotic neutral alignment will bite my ass but this quote just begs to be spammed all over people working at Opera/Firefox/Chrome mailboxes.

* LordSlowpoke lets loose the ass sharks

[Sinistar]

[MaximumZero]

Guitar-rage: Just picked up my guitar to play around a bit before I started something else (woo, procrastination!) and I miserably failed at something I'd done much better at before. Rocksmith just condescendingly says, "Keep practicing." First time I've ever seen that. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[nenjin]

Work rage, totally self-inflicted. Got a fucking messy data file from a customer of our competitor's who is switching to us.

And I thought, easy-peasy, I'll just work with the spreadsheet, using our little data importing tool....

NO. BAD TECH SUPPORT. TURN NOT AWAY FROM THY DATABASE.

It should have been self-evident, but copy/pasting from an excel spreadsheet into MANY spreadsheets, over several hours, tends to introduce user error. A lot of user error.

Not only that, but spreadsheets come with white space that makes, well, everything fuck up. Nevermind that shit dongle that is Excel, which I haven't really used since highschool, and that was a long, long time ago.

So in about 10 hours I managed to hack apart a data file, clean it up, get it inserted, only to discover....inventory counts are off! And part numbers are referencing the wrong parts!

So I just spent ~5 hours after the close of business, while everyone else is drinking beer and enjoying the end of their work week at a company social event, doing what I should have fucking done in the first place, which was insert the raw data into the database and work query magic on it. LTRIM(RTRIM(blah))? DONT MIND IF I DO.

Christ, I don't know what I was thinking or where my head was at. I'm pretty sure my coworkers think I'm a psychopath at this point, for the amount of swearing and getting up angrily to go fume in private at how fucking retarded this all was.

I think the truth is I've always felt under-qualified for many parts of this job, and my insecurities start turning to rage and frustration when I hit the limit of my intellect. In the end though, I made a stupid choice from the outset and I'm just angry at myself for not knowing, or doing, better. No one at work even cares. They probably care more about me raging out than anything else. *sigh*

[flabort]

I envy you and your work, despite your frustration with it. That's the sort of work I wish I could be doing, fixing and moving one form of data into another form and working with databases. Using Excel and fancy little commands like

LTRIM(RTRIM(blah))

I'd much rather be banging my head against a wall for a mistake like THAT then standing upright all day with nary a chair in sight whilst banging my head against a wall because of faulty management and faulty equipment meaning that we don't have over half our menu at any given time. I HATE customer service, because I feel so weak and powerless against an endless hoard of Supermen who can use their X-Ray vision to see the faults that I have and are endlessly disappointed.

I wouldn't care if my coworkers thought me a psychopath for a few swears either. My coworkers KNOW that I belong in a crazy house, the don't suspect at all. But there's no-one else willing to take the job, I'm "reliable" and "a good person", so I have to take all the crazy shit and stress from the job, bottle it up, and rescue each and every one of my coworkers from themselves in order to make sure that no-one else at my job goes crazy the way I have crazy the way I have. I know I've had to lock myself into a closet for a few minutes more than once in order to calm down, the shit this job gives is crazy the way I have crazy the way I have.

At least you have a computer with (minimally?) decent software and a chair. Our tills are the only computers we're allowed to see (no phones, no CD players, nothing, just the tills while on duty), and they're running Windows 2000 still. Which means the coffee machine is more advanced than our best computer.