Definitely a 10k+ superboosts your rep theory

Past two days done nothing and I’m still gaining

@Twyxz Good deal.

By the way, I hate self evaluations / performance appraisals.

@MisterPositive how well would you say you do at self evaluations?

@motosubatsu On a 1 to 10 scale? ;-}

@MisterPositive yes please, and how you think you can improve that in the future

Ugh so painful

And our manager this year even admitted this has nothing to do with raises.

@motosubatsu find them pointless

how good I am in my own eyes / by my own standards has no importance or relevance to the business

they need to know how much I'm adding for them

@Magisch I'm not a fan either.. there's some very niche scenarios where it's useful to do but 99.9999% of the time I see them done it basically is "I don't have time/enough knowledge about you to evaluate you properly so I'm going to ask you to do it instead"

@motosubatsu Yes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

@motosubatsu Oh and even a bigger pet peev is the crappy spell checker included with out evaluation app.

Hey there!

@MisterPositive I didn't put the country flag because I didn't want to be potentially recognizable by my coworkers in case this hits HNQ. Sorry if that added some workload to you.

@avazula NP I will remove the tag.

@MisterPositive Oh don't worry that's okay, it's already in the body anyways

I'm a bit dazzled by how quickly people responded to that ...

And TIL that I think I'm indispensable to my company ^^

@avazula interesting question

@motosubatsu oh, thanks. I was surprised to see no one asked it before, though. I think it's a pretty common issue in the software industry ...

I'm not certain enough on my French employment regs to say for sure but certainly in the UK you wouldn't be legally protected to refuse on that basis - it would be down to the employer as to whether they chose to accommodate it

a few years back a company I was working for had an animal testing lab as a client and one employee refused to work on it and was given permission not too

in that case though the work she was doing was easily farmed out to someone else on the same team

@motosubatsu wooh, that's nice

so I'd say if you have a good relationship with your line manager it might be worth having a conversation

I think you couldn't just fire someone for that in the EU and france in particular

@avazula Sort of similar:

I'd try and stay away from demanding that the company not work on the project - instead stating that you find it incompatible with your personal efthics

since france is notoriously pro worker

@Magisch in the UK you can't straight up fire them for it - you can discipline someone for it though

I might look to immigrate to the UK once the brexit shenanigans are sorted, btw.

@Magisch if there's any of it left!

I've been wanting to move to rural scotland for a long time

@Magisch wooh, that'd be nice!

But rainy, though

Thats EXACTLY why I want to live there :D

Rainy, not too frigid, doesn't get very hot & humid in the summer

@Magisch frigid.. might be a matter of opinion

it can get very cold in Scotland in the winder

winter

@Magisch well, that's easy when there are no summer at all

I was thinking of compared to my second choice, rural canada

@Magisch oh yeah..definitely not as cold as canada

@Magisch undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/midges

Scotland doesn't regularly dip below -15C, afaik

In scotland your fine as long as a) you have a suitable vehicle and b) you have a plan b in the event of loss of power

funny how a folk who only want to live on cold place have a cactus as emblem

@motosubatsu ... and you're ok with being eaten by small invisible flies...

@Snow Ouch

@Snow well there is that

@Snow sounds like a less annoying variant of our meningitis carrying flying ticks

@Magisch oh they have ticks as well

Lime disease for the win!

I can deal with lime

tick borne meningitis however can take a long walk off a short cliff

idk these midges look like normal summer flying bugs. Granted, ours are a bit bigger. But they also bite more

sometimes in summer (I'm unusually delightful to blood sucking insects) I get 4-5 bites per day

@Magisch Well, these things will bite you 4-5 times per second, per inch of exposed skin.

mhm

The only real insects I just can not deal with are bedbugs

whenever I see one or hear about someone having them somewhere I give them the widest berth

There's a reason why Romans didn't settle in Scotland.

Probably several reasons.

@Snow That is horrific....

I think the whole nearly the entire population consisting of combat-able and comparatively very hardy farmers with a passionate hate for being subjugated didn't help

@Magisch Lyme is lifetime-long and very painful ...

Are we talking about the same disease

because here there's 2 diseases ticks carry

the tick-borne Lyme?

Do people even chill at a water cool

FSME (tick borne meningitis) and another that's bacterial

Isn't the coffee machine the place to be

nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/…

@avazula Yes, I will pass on that

@MaartenWachters that is what we are doing, chilling out.

I'm talking about this one. It slowly destroys bones and joints (among other joyful things)

Yeah that is the same disease

We call it boreliose

@Magisch I thought you meant this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis

which is also tick borne

I've never had it, but was under the impression it's bacterial and treatable with antibiotics

and also rather unpleasant

@Magisch Lyme disease is treatable - but only if you catch it early

tick-borne encephalitis is the dangerous one

@Magisch Well, that's true ... but when diagnosed early enough. I was bitten by ticks but had only one month to get the preventive cure

if not you're basically fecked for life

And in my country, it's incredibly difficult to be believed to have Lyme ... People go to Germany to get a treatment.

We had 12 cases of that last year in my region

it's terrible

That's insane the number of physicians who simply claim that Lyme does not exist

@avazula similar here.. you pretty much have to say "look I was in scotland and I bitten by a tickl

@motosubatsu ._.

well then

@avazula That is a bit shocking....

that is like saying there isn't a carbon emissions issue.

@MisterPositive Those are "Lyme sceptics"

Climate sceptical wasn't enough

How can you deny a whole disease's existance?

@Magisch difficulties to diagnose?

...

We encounter the same problem with autism actually ...

People get labeled as depressed, bipolar, ADHD, blah blah blah ... until someone finally recognizes they're autistic

I'm lucky I wasn't assigned all those labels before getting my diagnosis (even though it took 23 years)

Anyway, in my country this seems to be #1's dedicated reason to dismiss Lyme diagnosis

@avazula On a positive note, your recent question has some really good answers IMO.

@MisterPositive oh sure :)

Half a mil reached and 10 golds hit today

@Twyxz gratz