ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 day ago:
I don’t think it has gotten progressively worse, only because it couldn’t.
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 day ago:
It’s never too late to get in shape, but 40 is a really long way from being too late to get in shape.
- Comment on Getting old sucks, GenX version 1 day ago:
My body is a machine that turns articular cartilage into bone.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
they’d say hours were normal but they might need extra hours during “crunch time”,
I always had this arrangement at the companies I worked for, except the “normal hours” were actually me doing next to nothing, and the “crunch time” was me genuinely busting my ass for a few weeks to get the software finished and out the door. It was nothing more than an extension of how I handled college rather than some arrangement that the companies intentionally offered. Management was always just so utterly fucking clueless about anything related to the technical side of software development that it was easy to fool them into thinking that my way of doing things was just normal for the field.
- Comment on Good shot 2 days ago:
No, they want the kids to know it’s coming.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 2 days ago:
I found a 5 pound slab of skirt steak for about $6 a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was hallucinating.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 2 days ago:
For me it’s the limes. They always look fine in there for months but when I grab one the underside looks like Chthulu’s butthole.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 2 days ago:
Fuck avocados and their 15-minute ripeness window.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 2 days ago:
I love how my local grocery stores sell steaks at a deep discount when they’re a day or two from expiring. Like, 75% off for aged beef? OK, if you insist.
- Comment on The good old days 3 days ago:
Cartwheels get replaced by Fossamax.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 3 days ago:
My company got purchased and then the purchasing company got purchased by a huge west coast tech giant. Everybody from the original company got reassigned to new teams and we all ended up with new bosses who had no idea who we were or why we were even there. I had a very enjoyable six months “working” from home doing absolutely nothing before I was laid off. I even got a severance package about equivalent to a year’s salary for the first (and presumably last) time in my career.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 3 days ago:
I had a 25-year career as a programmer, ending up making nearly $200K a year. Now I’m a school bus driver making about $30K, although fortunately that also includes subsidized (and really good) health insurance. I’m also fortunate because I already own a small house and was able to save a good bit when I was making good money. I quit programming (read: was laid off) just before the AI “revolution” so I’m thankful that I’ve missed all that bullshit.
Maybe I’ll be able to get back into coding after all the AI slop fails catastrophically and there’s nobody left in the industry who still knows how to actually code, but I don’t have my hopes up for that. Corporate bullshit is simply too strong for catastrophic failure to be a real problem.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 days ago:
Heck no … there was no place in the kitchen for me to shit.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 days ago:
I bought a house that had been occupied by smokers. One day I painted one of the bedrooms and everything seemed fine and I went home. When I came back the next morning, the top two feet of paint on the walls had flowed down off the walls and onto the floor. Not something I’ve ever seen happen before. Fortunately I was able to scrub the top with mineral spirits and get the next coat of paint to stick.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 days ago:
I looked at one apartment years ago where a dog (hopefully it was a dog) had eaten a one-square-foot chunk out of the corner of the bedroom door. The previous tenants had repaired it by nailing a pizza box over the missing corner. The pizza box still had cheese on it. Somehow this seemed worse to me than the two big mounds of dog shit in the kitchen.
The landlord was a wheelchair-bound woman who hadn’t been upstairs to look at the apartment since the previous tenants had left. When I told her what was up there, she said if I took the place she would knock off $200 … from the security deposit.
- Comment on Wages never caught up with costs 3 days ago:
My first programming job in 1996 was $35K a year. It was pretty disappointing even then.
- Comment on Wages never caught up with costs 3 days ago:
I went to a liberal arts college in the late '80s and tuition there was about $13K a year. Tuition at comparable liberal arts colleges these days is in the neighborhood of $75K, so it’s in the neighborhood of a 6X increase. Which is still a fuck ton but not quite as bad as indicated by this post. However: college tuition (especially at colleges like this) is a very fluid property. They offer quite a lot of “financial aid” which is really nothing more than a discounted rate rather than any actual money changing hands, and it’s quite typical for a student to end up paying half the quoted rate. A college’s tuition can be better regarded as the maximum rate they’re going to charge kids from better-off families.
- Comment on Whites never been so bright 4 days ago:
You can also make banana bread in the bleach dispenser at the same time.
- Comment on Basically a sequel 5 days ago:
I don’t think Uncle Roger has ever said anything good about any iteration of Jamie Oliver.
- Comment on Basically a sequel 6 days ago:
Hey now, Jamie Oliver made good, ordinary food back then. No chili jam in his fried rice or anything like that. The money and fame made him insane as a chef.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 6 days ago:
Yes!
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 week ago:
Maybe he gave the song to Run The Jewels because he regretted that commercial.
- Comment on Choose a major you love 1 week ago:
Four field approach FTW!
- Comment on Choose a major you love 1 week ago:
Anthropology made me the school bus driver I am today.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 week ago:
tronic” meaning “tronic”
No, “tronic” means somebody addicted to '80s animated movies.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 week ago:
That’s because it was DJ Shadow (who did the music) selling out, not Run The Jewels.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 week ago:
Americans lag behind the developed world in life expectancy and general health
Hey now, we do spend twice as much per capita on health care as the rest of the developed world.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 week ago:
Apparently car commercials aren’t even really meant to sell cars. Their main purpose is to make people feel good about the car they just bought (and are making enormous monthly payments on) so that they buy the same make of car next time.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 week ago:
Q: What even is an “imagine dragon”?
A: Imagine dragon deez nuts across your face. - Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
Was this Eraserhead?