Posts made by Auspice

@Selira said in The Work Thread:

How much better my focus is just being able to sit in my room.

It takes a very specific kind of person. I do well working remotely. I have 'my' setup, geared towards my needs. People can only interrupt me as I allow (aka enabling/disabling notifications, phone ringtone, etc.).

I'm also capable of resistance. What I mean there is: resistance to 'just run out to do an errand;' resistance to agreeing to a 'short outing;' resistance to getting embroiled too deeply in a game (be it video or MU); resistance to my bed.

The last is actually the one reference I use when people ask about working from home. I got mono when I was 27 (srsly, ridic age for that shit) and had to work every day in view of my bed. I tell people to be 100% honest with themselves about that scenario: could you be exhausted-sick, have your bed right there, and still work? (because there's no taking time off for a month-long deal like mono)

If the answer is 'no,' working from home probably isn't for you. Because it's not the miserable-sick situations that get you. It's the small ones. The 'I'll just take a quick nap...' The 'I'll run out for groceries just this once.'

I am enjoying the office experience because I work with awesome people, but I do miss working from home. (Though I get more exercise this way: 1mile + walking a day due to commute.)

Yes, please take down the UAT environment while I'm in the middle of a deadline for documentation.

It's not like I need it or anything.

I just gotta say: fuuuuuuuuuck the SOS task to get 10 formidable pixies.

I get common and imposing but in the past 2 weeks I've gotten only 2 formidable.

@mietze said in The Work Thread:

Same thing, no judgment, a lot of help, suggestions of things I never would have picked out myself but really worked, and totally kept things in budget and versatile.

This happened to me when went to Breakout Bras (they're a big online store, but they have a physical location where I lived in SC). I was rather anxious about it (I mean, it's a rather intimate garment!), but those ladies were so incredibly helpful.

@Arkandel I admit, as 'the tech writer,' the attire thing is a little weird.

There's no dress code here. We have one girl who is full goth all the time. Another who wears jeans with a studded belt, tanktops or band tees. No one batted an eye at my 'artfully torn tee over tanktop' combo last week.

But hell if I don't plan those outfits. Those are for the days I have no meetings because a lot of my meetings involve upper management. I think they'd all be totally fine if I was jeans-and-band-tee, but I feel like I need to represent a little.

@The-Sands

The first time I saw that image used was when PETA talked shit about Steve Irwin.

You know how you piss everyone off? You talk shit about Steve Irwin.

I'll be honest, Mighty Morphin' is all I know.

My younger siblings were really into the one where they go into space tho, so I caught glimpses of it.

But MM was my show.

I completed my Table of Contents for this documentation last week.

I know once I'm "into" the writing, I'll be able to coast on through.

But outlining it is proving to be difficult. I know I'm not alone in this. I follow tech writer blogs. This is, legitimately, the most difficult stage. But shit if I don't feel like a failure right now.

@Cupcake said in Power Rangers: Power of the Grid:

I might have dreamed of being a Purple Ranger when I was a kid.

I'm not saying I did, but I might have!

I 100% wanted to be the yellow ranger. Best zord.

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

One of these days I'll make actual money.

I'm still telling myself this.
Yet here I am, thrilled to be in a 6-month contract, making $15k/yr under average for the role.

@Lotherio said in The Work Thread:

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

they would have gotten away with it -- if it hadn't been for the fact those meddling kids literally just read that obscure little portion last week for another case

FTFY

@Tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

While this type of high profile death is naturally surrounded by politics, can we keep the actual political talk to the appropriate section of the forum?

fuck pomodoro.

I've tried it a few times because I keep having bosses who want me to stay ON A SINGLE TASK FOREVER and they're like 'oh just do pomodoro! then you can take short breaks and-'

Look, in theory it's great. For some people it's probably awesome. For me it becomes:

Work for 20 minutes, start drifting off into other things......
Break hits, cool!
Halfway through the break, start working again because my mind drifted back to it.
Timer goes off, I go back on break because hey it dinged and I was working so now it's break time right?

And about an hour in, I'm just ignoring the timer each time it happens. Trying to get neurotypical people who 'get distracted sometimes' to understand ADD is such a pain.

I had to actually champion for the youngest of my brothers when he was in school. The school he went to was a private one and structured so students had their own little cubby-desk to work at. And the school and my parents kept being upset that he wasn't doing his work. 'We took everything out of his desk and he STILL gets distracted' was one of the complaints. And I had to explain look, I deal with the same thing. It doesn't matter what you have, your brain will drift. And taking away everything from him is pretty effed up.

tl;dr people who aren't ADD act like it's a choice to get distracted and it's not.

@Wretched said in Food!:

OKay, I remembered to take a picture of this batch... so here it is, my meat.

You can show me your meat any time.

@Rinel said in RL things I love:

I am going to check this out! I've had to get mine from Fresh Market, which is what would result if people decided Whole Foods wasn't sufficiently bougie.

god, so fucking true.

There was a Fresh Market in SC that I stopped in a couple times (because I'd be in the shopping center for other things) and oh lawd the glares and eyeballs I'd get.

Whole Foods is pricey, but at least I can shop there without getting the stink eye (here in Austin even moreso since I don't stand out as much as I did in the southeast).

@AeriaNyx said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

I am trying to summon some empathy for the loss of life. I'm coming up empty. Oh well.

That's where I'm at.
Whether he killed himself or someone helped him there: lo for my field of fucks is barren.

Seeing those first scenes begin to happen on a game you've spent months developing.

I am so, so happy @Paradox came to me earlier this year with the proposal to open a Stargate game (and he didn't even know that I'd wanted a game just like this for years!). I'm happy we made our goal of opening early August.

To everyone that's joined so far: thank you. The effort put in (and my going whyyyyyyy at errors I ran into) is already worth it. I only hope I can make your time worth it in the plot that we'll be delivering in the coming days.

@gryphter I'm trying to learn the art of saying no when asked to do things above my pay grade or outside scope.

It's hard. Our generation was raised to be go-getters in this sense. That if we didn't put in the extra effort, go the extra mile, etc....we wouldn't get the money or promotion.

Unfortunately, companies have learned some things. Namely that they can just dangle the money over our head like a carrot because our ability to go elsewhere is so slim. And why is our ability so slim? Because kids fresh out of college don't stand firm on their worth and take unpaid internships or low-salary jobs where they end up working 70 hours a week. These employers know if we do leave, they can find someone with nil experience to replace us for less.

It's a goddamn mess. I was really glad when I learned that more and more college advisors are impressing upon students to never accept an unpaid internship. They deserve better than that.