@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
The company that botched two interviews is now no longer considering you?
Like -- a'ight.
That happened to me with Nvidia. They really fucked the interview process up. I ended up letting the guy's manager know and waving as I sped off into the distance.
After learning to manage up(Silicon valley geek meets Midwestern Office), I am seeing my role at work change drastically. Less technical, more leadership -- by a very large margin. I have to admit I really, really like the change. I had been very concerned with my burning out around pure tech.
I still carry critical duties; the on call rotations and critical issues, but my plate has been pretty heavily cleared off to let me do the projects I am driving without a lot of distraction. I feel sometimes that I log in at 7 am, work for 2 hours, and then... don't do a whole lot for the rest of the day. I still work, don't get me wrong, but it's coasting and barely engaging me. I get more kudos now than ever. It's weird. I think I found the cadence that my brain needs to do my best work(I did similarly in college).
My boss wants to keep our team fully remote. My workplace provides us a recurring stipend for WFH expenses. They require vaccination OR ELSE. No jab, bye Felicia. No fucks given if you're in the office or not.
They provide us amazing benefits and more front-loading vacation than I have ever seen outside of Europe. I get in trouble for having leftover PTO. I am paid well. I get bonuses.
Pinch me.
I almost feel guilty, but there's a reason for all the awesome, too.
When we fuck up, people can actually die. And they die badly.
Still, wouldn't trade it for anything. Our KPI is how many cancer patients we match with donors and get to live.
After years of shitty tech jobs, I feel like I landed in the right place.
@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@saosmash Goodwill LOVES me for this exact reason. I bring them stuff with tags still on it, still in boxes, still packaged. Just shrugging because of course I lost the receipt and the item is more than 30 days old because I can never remember to just take it back when I go again and yes I would love a receipt for this donation that I will inevitably lose within 5 minutes of getting home because I put it down SOMEWHERE because there was a smell in the apartment so I changed cat litter and took out the garbage and wiped down everything that might possibly be smelly only to realize two hours later someone across the hall is cooking something Godawful smelling and its affecting my sinuses, so I took some allergy meds just in case that would help and I sat down to handle some messenger and then my son came home from school so we talked about his day and popped some popcorn because he thought it would be fun for us to pile onto the floor and watch Ghostbusters... yeah. By the time the receipt even enters my mind again, I can't even remember actually putting it down anywhere, let alone where. XD
I can't buy clothes without actually going in, trying them on, sizing, moving, and testing them in at least two other ways. Can't do it. I keep detailed notes about which cut, size, and make fits in what way. I have only two times in my life ordered clothing online, and it was solely to get stuff I had already put through my process.
It's like my brain knows how it will go if I don't.
Looks like my boy has bad hind legs. I'm finding out how bad, but right now he has good and bad days. I did get some steps for when he can't jump into bed. He's got a rough hip and the vet says his knees both subluxate. 
I have been giving him daily dusequin(or whatever it's called), and we tried some syringe-given antiinflammatories. Getting old sucks.
Doesn't stop him from using a hunting blind, though. No ankles are safe:
@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
TFW when your parent who has been absolutely vile to you for weeks gets out of the psych ward and confesses that, in their last episode, they and the hallucination of their dead ex husband had a full on plan to murder you.
I want to talk to the writers of my life. They have completely jumped the goddamn shark.
My mom did some crazy shit like that also.
We should get our writing staff in a room and hand the result to the Coen brothers.
@cassite I'm using one through my EAP currently. It feels marginal to me, kind of like jawing at a bartender, probably because I'm not heavily investing in it.
My primary care place finally got me in to see someone, and that's where I have placed the bulk of my energy and effort because I have already done stuff through them. I didn't want to tread over the same ground with other folks again.
Finally getting formally tested. I'm guessing my psych wants to pin it down since it exists alongside medical and other psychiatric fun. I'm a book!
Unfortunately in my state, your job gets you vaccines, not your risk. It's almost like we're not even people.
Craft Chocolate TV - We get to watch someone opening a chocolate-making business over years. Plus: We get to learn about making chocolate.
The TRY Channel - I can pretty much watch Irish people try shit for days. And I do.
Townsends - I love this guy. Fans of living history, history nerds, and cooking nerds, rejoice! Often, all three at once!
ERB - Seriously, who hasn't heard of Epic Rap Battles of History.
The Charismatic Voice - As a trained vocalist, I love watching various professionals in the field review music and songs, especially ones I like. Plus, total gamer getting into nerdy bands and videos.
Natalie Gold - There is no world in which watching a nerdy Jewish gamer girl react to videos isn't in my wheelhouse. She still can't match my grandma yelling at the 9ers during a football game, but she'll get there.
Millenial Movie Monday - This girl is hysterically funny and has some of the best outbursts and commentary on the movies she reacts to. Sassy Southern meets Millenial Modern.
The Graham Norton Show - I want to be famous someday just to be on this show.
I will run across lots of reactors as well, like the previously mentioned Jamal, Too Sushi, and Sincerely KSO. I also watch a lot of music reactors as well, like Old Composer and Julia Nilon, though I tend to gravitate to the song rather than the reactor. I'll pick a favorite song and watch reactions to it, etc. What can I say, I love analysis.
@rhamnious said in Favorite Youtubers?:
@ominous said in Favorite Youtubers?:
I have come across the hilarity that is Ordinary Sausage, and I must share it with the world. Discover the joy that is watching a man who looks like Nintendo's Mario and sounds like Peter Griffin from Family Guy make sausage from random foodstuffs, then eat them. I find Spam Sausage to be a good intro.
My Boyfriend loves this man so much, and I don't know why.
Guys, we love the sausage.
@curious1 I don't think so -- I don't remember SN. I don't usually recycle character names, though.
@curious1 It just occurred to me, it's been what, more than 20 years? Jeebus.
@cobalt My friend in the Dallas area was subject to the rolling blackouts, but was otherwise not severely impacted -- no flooding, etc.
@curious1 said in Atomic's Playlist:
@atomic I played with you on Dragonlance I think. If I remember correctly my character pretended you were his son. Do you happen to remember the name of the Kender that was always around? Really amazing RPer. Also the name of the 600 year old white-robe elf wizard? There was also the head of the red-robes who was great, a female.
The white robe was Lhovrik.
@cobaltasaurus
You need a basement with a flooding problem to lock your doctor and housemate in.
I love it when my heart gets erratic, my hands and feet turn to ice, and nausea takes over. Balance is next to go, then the rest of my thermoregulation.
It's my favorite thing. 
Just had my first exam. I'm not sure what A LOT of pattern recognition exercises, word lists, and "Remember this story" have to do with anything other than cognition, but I hammered it down in pretty good time, I think @3.5 hours instead of 4-4.5 hours. Maybe establishing a baseline?
Neuropsych done, I'm guessing the actual interesting stuff with be with Behavioral Health in March? This is my first run through at all of this.
