Currently the code my senior programmer writes is killing me; and I can't argue against him because the points he brings up are always valid: He is senior to me and has more experience in the field; the project is under time-pressure, so writing code and then improving is a better maxime than overplanning things; He knows more about the technology and codebase because I only took up writing C# some 4 months ago and he 's been working on the project for close to a year soon
At least you are writing code. I am trying to install software. And different versions of different libraries coupled with the inability to do anything on the system due to missing permissions is... difficult...
oooh, that is best permission management; when they do not want to provide reasons you can pester them all day without breaking the contract you are hired by
I requested admin permissions on my work machine, did not get them, so I asked that they come over and install the stuff I need to do my work; so they came over (resp sent the azubi), he didn't get along with me having switched the keyboard layout to US english (and the fact that the login screen would revert to CH german on restart, etc.) so he eventually just gave me admin rights
While we're talking about less-than-optimal things: There's a hair on my right shoulder and I can't pull it with my fingers, I also cannot ask anyone else to pull that hair because I am at the office and that would definitely blur work/life boundaries to an extent that I do not judge any of my current co-workers being comfortable with
That is indeed less-than-optimal and I would encourage you not to ask your co-workers for help in this instance if you want them to stay your co-workers.
@Secespitus I'm pretty happy with how my "why buy future tech" question is going. The two close votes are a bit of a mystery but I'm not super worried.
@James, I'd like to ask your opinion on something.
Which is better/cooler? (1): An elephant made of onyx that has a flamethrower trunk OR (2) an elephant made of emerald that shoots lightning out of its trunk?
Uh, no. They're just supposed to be, um, pretty wildlife that have awesome powers, why?
I think everyone here likes worldDestruction more than WorldBuilding. . . I saw a comment on how to kill a tree that said "Nuke it! Only way to make sure!"
Context is important to getting the best answer around here. For example if you had told me they were temple guardians in a jungle I would have gone with emerald and lightning
Emerald seems more likely in a jungle...oooh or jade elephants that spew poison.
happy to help. for what its worth poison makes more sense to me on an earth plane than lightning. I usually think of lightning as part of an air plane and thus opposite earth.
@James if you had a call with a recruiter scheduled for a specific time and they don't call you at all, what would you conclude from that? This is also the second scheduled call with this particular recruiter? The first call didn't happen either because of problems at the airport.
@Green Do you have a number to call them? I guess you could conclude that either A they aren't all that interested in recruiting you, or B they aren't very organized. B is less sad than A, so probably that one.
@AndyD273 I don't have a number for them. There might have been some timezone translation errors too but even that option has closed. I think it's option B. Option A doesn't even make sense.
It just boggles my mind that the first impression phone call would be handled so poorly.
@Green Eh. Hard to say. Probably still worth meeting them...what they have to offer you is frankly more important than how good they are with stuff like that...
If they have good jobs to submit you for it can be worth the annoyance of them sucking.
@James Agreed. I'm letting myself cool down before I get back to her. I've expressed my displeasure already. No need to keep that wound open and dump cargo freighters of salt into it.
@HDE226868 I would assume that say, grilling salt slabs that are Himalayan salt would be shipped, but it could just be a clever name and I am gullible.
@Green Oh, I got plenty salty. I was on the cleaning crew, and when we had to clean out the evaporator I could stand my pants up on their own at the end of the day.
The potash plant was worse than the salt plant though. The air in there was tangy.
@Green Probably. It is radioactive (slightly). We had masks and glasses and hardhats, but a little would always leak through. Just a bit
@James It says that it is from Pakistan, so that would be shipped. But for non special salt it's probably silly to load it on a ship and sail it across a giant salt solution
We have some huge salt deposits in Michigan. There is a salt mine under Detroit that is deeper than the Empire State building is tall, and is almost 200,000 acres. The plant I worked at didn't mine, it just injected hot water and then extracted the salt and potash from the solution.
Hmm, I wonder if it will someday turn into a sinkhole and eat the plant... that would be something to see
@James I once had a story seed idea, where a starship comes to a new system, and sees this small planetoid with a really weird orbit. So they get close and find out it's really a moon going around a black hole with the same mass as the planet that it ate... I just have no idea how to actually turn it into a story.