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  • As a person who manages people, I cannot fight for your raise if YOU don’t fight for your raise.

    I cannot tell you how many times where something like this happens. I tell my higher ups, “Sarah should get promoted and increase her salary” and then my bosses go up to Sarah and she responds all limpdick like, “I like my job and I’m happy.”

    God damn it Sarah! Flex a little. Talk about how you see a opening you want. Stop being a keyboard warrior on Work Reform and actually SAY IT OUT LOUD. Share your wins! Brag about your value to the company. Demand your worth to MY BOSSES TOO.

    It’s not a single person who makes these decisions. It’s multiple people.

    Nobody is going to hand you shit if you’re timid about it.


  • I definitely sympathize with your plight. WFH definitely provides a distance where we do forget what others are going through. Currently at work, I have a coworker who bitches about how he has to spend more time to pirate Nintendo games, while another coworker is wondering if his wife will survive surgery.

    And here, I’m too busy worried about my cat’s vomit, and all I can do is shrug at my coworker’s Nintendo problem and my other coworker’s family surgery. Don’t take it the wrong way - both suck, as do your plight.

    So don’t take it as people don’t care. And it’s not a boring dystopia - we are more connected then ever (which is a good thing), but we as humans only have finite mental energy and I can’t care about everything equally.

    It sucks what you’re going through. It sucks that you as a human have to look at KPIs and how to increase it by 0.0001% while wondering if tomorrow is the day when you have to flee your home.

    I went on vacation a few months ago and on the map, it showed me I was flying near a area in severe poverty, next to a pretty damn wealthy city. I kind of cried a bit on the flight thinking how unfair it was that I get to spend thousands of dollars to enjoy a vacation while literally a hundred miles away, some family drinks filthy water. And yet, it’s all the same dirt underneath us.

    I hope you and your family health and safety.


  • Oh man same!

    2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

    Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

    I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.