EPTOn April 25 2015 01:17 Ketara wrote:
So, the puppies name is officially Sammy.
So, the puppies name is officially Sammy.
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jcarlsoniv
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
I had some things to say about TB, but honestly I don't think it matters. He's just shooting himself in the foot at this point. --- In other news, the shithole of the company I used to work for did something even worse today. So as a bit of a backstory: a bit after I started, I got a girl hired because she's a close friend of my fiancee and a buddy of mine. Brilliant front end developer, great designer, just awesome at her job and really hardworking. So a few months back (January, I think), our VP/Business Executive (lets call her Shithead) comes to my friend and tells her that they want her to start picking up work as a Business Analyst on top of what she's already doing. Let it be known that this is Shithead's job. Shithead was the one who started the company with the CEO, and the CEO claimed that Shithead was the best at her job and knew more about the industry than anyone else. Except, that every client that Shithead ever worked with asked for her specifically to be taken off the project because Shithead didn't know what she was doing and fucked up every contract we ever had, because she didn't know how to collect requirements, set deadlines, or convey information from the client to the developers. You know, the things a BA has to do. So Shithead says that she wants my friend to help out with this. She says sure, it'll be interesting to see that side of the company. Well, by "help out with", they apparently meant "take over all of these duties and also do all of your normal Front End Developer work. While Shithead sat in her office (the only one to get her own office aside from the CEO), and did... I don't know. She built shitty mockups for customers that our designers had to redo every single time. Who the fuck knows what she did all day other than Tweet shit about our company and get yelled at by clients. So now jump to last month. My friend meets up with me and some former employees for lunch, since we all ended up being friends and had a lot in common. She tells us that she's being put on probation because she wasn't doing a good enough job. Never mind the fact that she's not a BA and had no training (formal or otherwise) from anyone when being given this role. Never mind the fact that the projects were already in a state of insanity. Never mind that she's not allowed to actually talk directly to the clients for nearly any reason. It was apparently her fault that she had two years worth of horseshit dumped on her, and then they yelled at her and punished her for not fixing it nearly immediately. And today, the only other person at the office that I still like texts us and lets us know that HR came in and let my friend go. Because my friend, who went to school for design and has been working as a Front End Developer for more than 5 years or something, and was hired on as a Front End Developer, wasn't doing a good enough job as a BA, and couldn't pick up Shithead's slack. There's a reason I left that company. It wasn't the work being boring, I could deal with that. It wasn't the industry being dull, that I could slog along with too. It was these fucking people. Who smile at you and give you a present for being a good worker one day, and then less than a week later blame you for everything in the company, which they apparently can, since they own it and therefore can ignore the reality that they don't know fuck all about anything. Sorry about that, I'm just really pissed about the whole thing and needed to vent. | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
She's gonna find something good no problem. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Crusnik
United States5378 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 25 2015 01:50 Numy wrote: How idiots keep making money will forever baffle me. Hope she finds a good place. They're not. They're taking out loans and getting people to sign contracts that they know they cant fulfill. They don't pay any of the overseas contractors (I know this for certain because I've talked to them) and they never paid the recruiters who got anyone the interview (same). | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On April 25 2015 01:53 Crusnik wrote: Because idiots give them money. On April 25 2015 01:53 Requizen wrote: They're not. They're taking out loans and getting people to sign contracts that they know they cant fulfill. They don't pay any of the overseas contractors (I know this for certain because I've talked to them) and they never paid the recruiters who got anyone the interview (same). Dam that was beautiful. It really seems like the key to making huge amounts of money is just to be incredibly lucky. There may be some exceptions with super smart people but otherwise it just seems like if you have a working brain it's all about being in the right place at the right time. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Arent there laws against that? | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On April 25 2015 02:05 Ketara wrote: I suppose what surprises me is that a company can get away with not paying people for work that they did under contract. Arent there laws against that? probably. when you're dealing with overseas stuff though it can be tricky to enforce. | ||
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Parnage
United States7414 Posts
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WaveofShadow
Canada31494 Posts
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JonGalt
Pootie too good!4331 Posts
On April 25 2015 02:15 Parnage wrote: I want to stream elite, but I'm trading. The life of a trader is a tough one. Ain't nobody wanna watch someone leap between systems with cargo. I'd let you leap between my system with cargo  | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
So people should come and play. Looks like Eliza is nerfed from skimming the patch notes. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31494 Posts
And I think I linked soviet announcer like a month ago :D At the very least if you own SG make sure you DL Beowulf 'cause he's only free for 3 months | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On April 25 2015 02:15 Parnage wrote: I want to stream elite, but I'm trading. The life of a trader is a tough one. Ain't nobody wanna watch someone leap between systems with cargo. but it's so preeeeeeeettttyyyyyyy On April 25 2015 02:20 WaveofShadow wrote: Ain't nobody wanna watch me lose round 1 of this draft when I draw 9/11 lands either. never forget On April 25 2015 02:34 Alaric wrote: SG's last patch also introduced this. So people should come and play. Looks like Eliza is nerfed from skimming the patch notes. Hear that? That's the sigh of relief of everyone finally exiting hit stun. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
Also I'm not sure I want to play Hearthstone from now on, there's gonna be Hungry Dragons everywhere and I doubt my Rogue and Warlock decks can handle 5/6s easily, let alone on turn 4. :< | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On April 25 2015 02:46 Alaric wrote: Really? I managed to hit around 100 ping when I played with them (weirdly enough the ping with Wave is better than with Soniv) and with the system they use to "handle" lag it's barely noticeable. when you were playing with us, I was at my parents' - my connection at home is better, so idk if we'd get better ping now | ||
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