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Yea I should have gotten an AI to write that cause I wasn't clear. It's been 3 different people HR sent the email about. Usually they just say remove from any DLs or don't say anything at all. Saying call management if you see them is once a year kinda stuff.

One of them was yelling at HR during their firing/resignation idk what exactly it was, so wasn't surprised at that one.

Last edited by RTHKI (2025-02-20 08:21:41)

This was before my time but someone shot a shotgun at the building once.

And years ago a manager told me he'd shoot another manager if he became the plant manager. The guy was fired before the other made it to plant manager.

i helped university students with their essays for quite a while. mostly of the rich postgraduate variety, normally attending elite british universities with english as a second language. to be honest, even when the topic interested me and aligned with my own corner of knowledge, i found the work to be unrewarding and strenuous. (i hooked up with not a few of them too but that's not for here.)

doesn't help that everything below actually respectable scholarship - that is, all those homework Jay Galt book report style assignments - have that extremely wooden and formulaic way about them. it's very boring and overly sign-posted. not fun to read and definitely not fun to wade through to fix the grammar. not many people can write with flair, wit, verve, or whatever -- the lower slopes are a kind of chat-gptised slog.

editing isn't hard if you have a good ear, tbh. good writing 'sounds' right to the internal ear. most times, a literate person could intuit how to fix a sentence even without understanding the nuts and bolts of grammar and syntax. i use a sort of 'speed bump' principle, in which anything that snags my attention or inner narration probably needs some diving into. very rarely now do i need to actually consult, like, a usage guide or reach for my trusty 'oxford handbook to ...' vade mecums (acquired in my eager journeyman days). like any job you develop a faculty for it pretty quickly.

i'd find marking papers very arduous at first, too.

Last edited by uziq (2025-02-20 11:58:29)

why give them a free reason to fuck you over on future references or personal referrals? it’s never worth burning bridges at work. a few weeks or months down the line when you’ve decompressed and forgot about the 101 daily annoyances, you’ll realise that. it’s just cabin fever with a payslip at the end of it, at a certain point.

do the full notice and mentally check out. do as little as possible. spend work hours preparing your next applications. hell, in my first job i spent the last 3-4 months mentally checked out just reading PDF books on my second monitor.

always do your time and keep your record clean.

Last edited by uziq (2025-02-28 10:40:31)

come 2 japan.

baby grand piano in the home office is crazy behaviour. that's some The Sims-type home design right there.



good luck KJ, though i'm sure you don't need it.

what korg synth do you have? i've been to some insane korg stores in japan. been to a synthesizer museum, too, in shibuya.

a veryyy different social connotation to having a room full of synths at home to having a baby grand. haha.

Last edited by uziq (2025-02-28 14:39:41)

lots of fun. those triton things look so powerful but give off a kind of 'kenny g' vibe. i'm sure you can shred just about any instrument from a whole orchestra on that thing, though.

i'm more familiar with the smaller, cheaper units like the minilogue/monologue, mono/poly, ms-20, etc. they get a lot of use still in contemporary electronic music.

a huge blast to play, and really intuitive for just doing that, despite that the triton studio didn't release with much documentation iirc. one of those on-the-surface, unintimidating interfaces where the stereotypical "your grandma could play it" applies. having the smaller casio closer by also comes in handy. if my desk was even smaller, i'd probably have a couple 25-keys set up over/under or something. don't always need a bajillion keys.

job-related:

i was probably a hair's breadth from 'faking' my way into composing for games in the early/mid 2000s (a story maybe for another post, but there isn't much to cover). but looking at how mick gordon—another millennial (and light years more capable at this than i am)—was treated, that might've been a bullet dodged.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-02-28 15:54:10)

uziq wrote:

always do your time and keep your record clean.

Always the voice of reason.

uziq wrote:

come 2 japan.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Still wish you settled on Brooklyn though.

There's still time. Cincinnati is the easiest on the list of places people keep telling me to move to.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I'll be in Cincy later this year for U of AZ vs UC). I'll hit you up. Love that city!

I look forward to it. I'm in OTR.

I yelled at my assistant today. Look at me I am Ken Jennings now.

We were talking about the black guy who got ejected from the SOTU. He was yelling about preventing cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid is the healthcare program for low income people.

She said that "they should cut Medicaid. Everyone should have to work. There are generations of people on Medicaid not working. Doesn't that bother you as a tax payer?"

I responded "no. Not at all." She said "so you are not bothered as a tax payer paying for all of these people not working." I said "no. I don't care if people aren't working. People not working leaves more opportunities for the rest of us." She said something like "I can't believe that doesn't make you angry as a tax payer."

I said

"I have a good job. I have my health. I live alone and don't have any kids. I have a good life and am happy. I don't care that other people aren't working. I am just out here living my best life."

I then gave her 4 dollars to buy a homeless student breakfast.

Always convincing people to punch down instead of punch up. Greatest propaganda campaign ever.

I have a 3rd round interview tomorrow. I already met with the big boss last week and absolutely crushed the interview. I feel like it's mine to lose.

Only issue is that I'd have to go into the office about 8 days a month and the office is in the bay area, which is about a 50 minute flight each way. The compensation makes it totally worth doing, and I like the idea of racking up miles and hotel benefits on the company dime.