Working in IT, the occasional “this might be a problem in a few years, but I probably won’t be with the company 🤷♂️”
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Hey managment gets what they pay for
“After all, why shouldn’t I play with this bleeding edge framework with no support in production code?”
The team can have some dependency beta features in production, as a treat
Created something kind of neat for a former company. Was a hell of a hack job. They want to migrate it to a different platform... Haven't been there in quite some time, but I told them when we were there that it would be a mess to maintain. They still haven't migrated it.
Me migrating a database over to a new system but my org blocking all sorts of necessary plugins needed to make everything work so I just migrate it all as I’m instructed, knowing that I’m about to quit 👨🎓
Malicious compliance is very satisfying.
Perhaps a good story for !maliciouscompliance?
It wouldn’t be super interesting though. 3 years to the date since I’ve left that team and a friend of mine who still works there lets me know about the special little catastrophe I was asked to press go on.
What if you're not the first?
It’s okay there is clearly more space behind the window blinds there
So like a year and a half ago, I'm out crusing around with friends, we stop at a travel-stop type of fuel station to hit the bathroom and get snacks. As I'm finishing up in the bathroom I start grabbing tp, as you do, and the mother fucking case around the tp just yeets itself onto my arm, and I am so confused I start laughing like a maniac. I'm disabled (one arm functioning, among other issues) so as I start trying to hold the thing with my arm so it doesn't fall and make a shitload of noise, while also trying to sort of hump it into place with my leg so it will catch enough for me to let go of it, get up into a better position, and evaluate the situation. And the whole time I'm trying to not laugh - like wtf how does this even happen - but I'm not alone in this bathroom, I have a fucking plastic tp cover thing laying against my arm effectively pinning me in place, this is a stupid situation like wtf and I just can't, I can't contain my "this shit can only happen to me" laughter.
So I'm sounding like a damn mental patient, my friends can likely hear me through the door outside (and probably the rest of the damn store), I'm crying in stupidity and frustration, and now I can't see the case I'm still trying to hump up back into place... This shit went on for like 90 seconds. I'd get some progress just to move the smallest amount and it falls back down, I catch it, repeat... and once I get the two pieces close to clasping, I now have to jiggle my arm up the side to not lose grip and get my arm up to the top to hold it, letting me finally use my knee to jam it in place enough so it doesn't fall. I compose myself, finish up, and take a picture of this thing, send it to my friend so I can explain once I get back in the car, as I snap the photo I fucking lose it again, and once more I'm bellowing at the idiocy of this; and as I try and properly latch this cover back in place so that the next guy doesn't experience their own confused chaotic minute on the shitter (unsuccessfully; I got it to where it was when I walked in), I walk out, make it to the parking lot, see my friends are waiting, and I don't even make it to the car before I start to laugh my ass off again, hobbling with my cane and looking like I forgot my medication.
Telling this story once I was in the car was even worse, as I'm still laughing through basically the whole story but, oddly enough, you need to breathe every now and then, so I'm literally dizzy from lack of oxygen as I try and tell this story while not passing out, at 6 words a minute separated by laughter, crying, and my friends going "wait what?" which just exacerbates the situation.
And now, typing this on my own shitter at home, I have relived that bellowing laughter.
Holy shit lmao, what an incredible story. It reminds me of a story I was telling where I was getting 6 words a minute separated by laughter etc, it was probably the funniest thing I've seen/experienced all year, and I can't even remember what it was now lmao I think it was something related to my job though (I'm a web developer)
This is me leaving enough milk for “1 coffee” at the bottom of the bag without changing it
...the bag?
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Ah, right. Carry on.
There’s bagged milk in a lot of the US as well.
I’ve been using it for decades (Midwest).
(If you knew, carry on, 😊, I see this a lot when bagged milk comes up and I’m never sure which is joking and which are actually unaware, but it’s so normal to me I find that just weird)
I've long harbored the concern of canadian insurgency in the Midwest. I know the signs
I’m totally down to be in Canadian occupied territory, as long as they bring their healthcare and bagged milk stays. I’ll even start to say “eh?”. I already apologize too much and like hockey, so.. how bad could it be, eh?
Jesus Christ this goes deeper than imagined
A lot of the US?
According to a 2010 report by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, most milk containers sold in North America are jugs (68 per cent), followed by cartons (24 per cent) and bags (seven per cent).
Keep on spreading the word, do think it’s rare!
Yes, I’d consider the midwestern region where it’s available to be “a lot of the US”, even if it isn’t the most common way to get it nor the most populous region. I never said it most people use it, just for the record, so the 14 year old production statistics don’t actually matter here (I’m not faulting you for it being really old, I couldn’t find much for that metric either, but it’s irrelevant either way). It is, however, readily available and commonplace.
It’s mostly distributed, at least what I know of, by kwik trip/kwik star which (heavily) cover Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and North Dakota. It’s certainly regional (and frankly im curious if Alaska tends Canadian in that regard), but that’s 6 states with a decent landmass and population, so yes, I’d consider that a lot, since it’s almost certainly not the only option in the US, just the one I personally know of.
Fair nuance!
Took a look for Alaskan milk bags…
Found a Filipino company selling that, for some reason!
Globalization is so weird.. 😅
Midwesterner for about 30 years now, never seen bagged milk in the stores I've been to.
Boxed AND bagged wine, sure, but never bagged milk.
But every time I go into a new local store, I still check because you never know. And I want to be able to say "it's in the bag/box" when my wife asks where the milk is just for the look on her face when she hears "bag of milk"
Yeah I wish it was common in actual grocery stores. I haven’t seen that yet either, sadly.
But kwik trip/kwik star has it, and those are all over in the states they have stores. And since they have their own distribution network and brands, I’d be kinda surprised if they didn’t have it in a particular location.
That sounds very uniquely (eastern) Canadian.
Baguette Canadian?
Sometimes I'm tempted to fix things that I find broken, but then I ask myself what would other people do.
Once they find out you can fix shit, they ask you to fix everything. That's what they'd do.
Taking out the trash and not replacing the bag
You monster
Me fixing all my kids toys constantly.