ChickenLadyLovesLife
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- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 day ago:
I’m a school bus driver and drug testing is a DOT mandatory requirement. Some of the districts around me have a reputation for making sure the “random” tests are only give to the drivers they know will pass, so a driver just has to keep clean long enough to pass the initial screening.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 day ago:
I was a programmer for 25 years and never had a drug test in that time. No employer ever even contemplated doing it.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 day ago:
I’ve been tested only twice in my life (I’m nearly 60), once while in college for an engineering internship at IBM and once five years ago when I started driving a school bus. I actually failed the IBM drug test (for marijuana) but they just told me to “clean up my act” and gave me the intership anyway. I’m kind of OK with drug testing school bus drivers only because there’s not really any way of testing whether or not a driver is currently high. On the other hand, they don’t regularly test drivers for alcohol and it’s more common than most parents would want to know for drivers to be drunk.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 day ago:
the only thing I noticed was the return of dreams
Same thing happened to me. I quit wake-and-baking about five and a half years ago because I felt it had just taken over too much of my life. Shortly afterward I became a school bus driver, which requires an initial drug screening and then you’re subject to random tests thereafter. I’m a little pissed that I’ve never been selected for the random test, which means I could have been happily puffing away for the last five years.
The dreams are insanely weird and happen every time I sleep, even just a short nap. Most of the dreams are about me messing up driving a school bus and losing my job; one dream was me driving through high school hallways with kids scattering in all directions while thinking I really shouldn’t be doing this. I never dreamed at all when I was smoking.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 3 days ago:
The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump’s political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.
- Comment on Anon uses AI in a smart way 4 days ago:
Prompt engineer? No, prompt whore.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 5 days ago:
I was on private health insurance for a couple of years. My premium was over $300 a month and my deductible was $7000. I had looked for an ACA policy on the government website but something with the same level of deductible was closer to $1000 a month. What really sucked is that my private policy did not qualify for the exemption from the fine you had to pay for not having health insurance. Somehow I never had to pay the fine, I dunno why not. I’m sure my policy also would have fucked me if I’d ever tried to collect on it, but fortunately I was completely healthy during that stretch.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yeah, it’s just their lebensraum, nothing to be concerned about at all.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 1 week ago:
I got the moobs like Jagger.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 1 week ago:
Fresh! I don’t grow that shit for no reason.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 1 week ago:
I like to make half with paprika and half with diced chives, around Christmastime. I think that’s the only valid reason to not put paprika on them.
I might get some hate because I used spanish smoked paprika instead of the hungarian variety.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 1 week ago:
I’ve never even thought to buy pre-made deviled eggs. Never even seen them for sale, for that matter.
I might buy pre-boiled eggs in a pinch, though.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 1 week ago:
I try to keep it down to three
Three eggs … meaning six halves, right?
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 week ago:
the average person isn’t using AI for anything important
You’re discounting all the students who are using AI to make it seem like they’re learning something.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week 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 week 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 week ago:
My body is a machine that turns articular cartilage into bone.
- Comment on 1 week 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 1 week ago:
No, they want the kids to know it’s coming.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Fuck avocados and their 15-minute ripeness window.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Cartwheels get replaced by Fossamax.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Heck no … there was no place in the kitchen for me to shit.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
My first programming job in 1996 was $35K a year. It was pretty disappointing even then.