Posts made by Auspice

@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Do you work in our government?

Newp. But close enough: our client was a financial firm.

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice What ever our differences, I'm really sorry to hear this, and that is some serious bullshit you absolutely do not deserve.

If karma is indeed a thing, you will find something kickass soon that is not a nightmare to deal with day to day, and they will lose a lot more people over that crap.

Thank you. And I do think they will, to be perfectly frank.

I know most of the other people there were/are unhappy with his shit. This is a man who will dig around for 'dirt' on people. Who will lie and when caught, engage in clear gaslighting tactics wherein he insists you're the one lying / in the wrong / 'must be crazy' sort of bs.

He sulks and has nigh tantrums when it's pointed out that he doesn't know certain things or have the skills for stuff (stuff he's blatantly refused to learn how to do).

Lord above I wish I hadn't finished a ticket I did over the weekend. I had to rebuild a file from scratch that had been lost. I managed to do so by teaching myself further ins-and-outs a program that only I know (when I say 'only I,' I mean it: the last person who knew anything was with the client and even he was sort of groping around within it when he taught me the steps). Lucky fuckers.

I wrote documentation on it months back, but for the most part, any time a case on it ever came in: it'd be left for me because most people just got lost within the software.

@Derp

What makes me feel (marginally) better is I've had multiple teammates tell me in the past that things would fall apart without me. There's multiple processes that only I know how to do.

I've tried teaching other people. I even made documentation. But most of them were too lazy to ever learn. There's also a lot of shit I just know or can do in a fraction of the time.

Welp.

Shit head boss wins. Fired for reasons of "not a good team player." I had a coworker who had outright stated I was the only reason he was still at that job. I documented the hell out of shit. I communicated thoroughly. I got along with everyone.

But my boss constantly had vague shit about me not getting along with people. Never anything concrete. Never any actual situations. Just vague handwavium.

And I got fired for it.

Has anyone else watched The Dragon Prince on Netflix?

It fills the missing part in my life from Avatar (it's done by the same people, y'all) and oh man, this show does diversity right. It just... is. Like, it's just a part of the world. It's not jam-smushed in your face like a lot of network television tries (and often poorly I'm looking at you CW with your 'oh hey this character who has been straight the past X seasons is suddenly awkwardly gay').

I wanna be Amaya when I grow up. She's amazing and I fucking love how she fights with her shield. Also, poor Galen. Who somehow manages to be ridiculously polite and optimistic despite his circumstance (I love him and his freckle-y face). .... really I could gush about like, 90% of the characters.

But Bait is no Momo gdi.

So, when I was a teenager, I always carried a deck of cards everywhere. I taught myself a number of little tricks (only one 'magic' trick, but mostly just what is termed as 'cardistry') since... y'know, pre-YouTube days.

This turned into collecting decks of cards. I have probably... 80? or so decks now. Vintage decks, decks from places I've visited, decks from places other people have visited and sent me, etc etc.

Recently, I've gotten back into trying to do things with them and I've been actually learning shit. This began with buying a bunch of cheap Bicycle decks, but I finally went and bought an actual nice deck of cards and on top of these things being just downright gorgeous (theory11's Monarchs), they handle just... so much better. I'm able to do some moves and all that I'd been struggling with on the much more slippery bikes.

It's just fun to be learning (or re-learning?) a new skill/hobby and also to have that moment of 'Oh, shit... the things I were struggling with were partly due to the tool, not me.'

ETA: for anyone else who loves playing cards, theory11 produces a ton. The Monarchs are just their signature deck. But... they have a deck they produced with NPH that is also a puzzle. I have it on order because HOW COULD I NOT

@Aria

For a brief, wonderful time I was able to do the telepsychiatry thing through my insurance. It was nice. I could see my psychologist from the comfort of home through video conference and it was like, $20 a session. It was great.

Then my insurance dropped that benefit, those fuckers. At least the teledoc is still only $5 each time and is available 24/7 (that's been really great the times I've needed it).

ETA: I will warn they can't prescribe certain things, however. BUT. They can usually send a note to your primary care doc with their recommendations, etc., to work in tandem with them so you CAN get it.