thisisnotgoingwell

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has used 4 chan but never spent any considerable time there, what’s the difference? When is the text green?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches Malcolm in the Middle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Big difference between a low paying boring office job and a high paying one lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 on the book idea. Sounds like a delightful read. I have a similar philosophy as well that’s worked for me. I’ve never once cared about getting credit or props, I make my boss/team look like geniuses. That naturally tends to reward you as well. Great individual contributors are actually pretty rare. Out of hundreds of engineers I’ve worked with closely, only a few were brilliant in the way you described.

  If you’re looking for related reading, perhaps for inspiration, there’s a great book called

  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain.

  I highly recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work as an engineer for a huge financial company, so I relate. I was a scrappy upstart who worked himself through the lowest tiers of my industry towards the top. I’m also neurodivergent.

  I can speak on for days about how bosses don’t care who’s doing the work as long as it gets done.

  As a top performer, you’re likely to feel that people should perform at the standards you set, and your natural first instinct is probably to try to train and educate your coworkers. You soon realize that they either don’t give a shit or they’re offended that you’re giving them advice. No problem, we live in a hierarchical society, so you tell your boss about the problems you face, they’ll have your back, right? Wrong. You’re rocking the boat, and the boss’ job is to keep the boat afloat.

  Now, instead of rocking the boat, you start to wonder if you there’s a way you can change the current of the water so the boat goes in the proper direction. That’s where wisdom and skill meet. There’s an incredible amount of depth involved in influencing people and change. I wish it wasn’t the way of the world, but it is. Being brilliant is only half the battle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Forget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a documentary on YouTube called “The internet’s own boy”, if you want to learn more. Basically, he was offered a 6 month plea, but he would be a convicted felon, and basic logic/morality tells you that you shouldn’t plead guilty to a crime that you didn’t commit. However, the justice is very imperfect, and often people plead guilty for reduced sentencing even if they’re not guilty. He stood on principle until his legs gave out. they were already in millions spent in attorney fees. Not a shred of justice can be found in how Aaron’s story ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ends racism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay I found it later 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ends racism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How you gonna say that and not post it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but the comment i replied to is insinuating that EFT active players are up despite the community backlash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Source? There’s no publicly available info on player counts other than BSGs word, so I’m calling BS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EoD is edge of darkness. It’s basically the most expensive version of the game which was originally offered and was supposed to include all subsequent dlc, hence the outrage(ridiculous pay to win features and price aside). SPT is a modded version of EFT(escape from tarkov) that let you play the game single player and added a bunch of cool stuff. BSG(Battlestate games, the publisher/dev studio) didn’t like that so they would copyright videos that used SPT. It’s a whole mess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of the reasons why companies will put on a PIP(performance improvement plan) if they want to fire you. They try to get you to sign something saying you understand and acknowledge that your performance needs to improve.They need to have some sort of paper trail in order for them to be able to deny the unemployment claim. A company can’t just say “oh yeah that guy sucked” unless there was a substantial issue like you getting into a physical confrontation with someone