I'm so sad right now. We're planning to get married and combine our last names but now I either get married, keep my name and hope my demand will be approved someday (but that means I'll never have both my partner's and my last name), or wait for at least 3 years to get married and hopefully my demand will be approved (but that means I'll also have to wait 3 years to have kids if I want them to have both our last names)
@JAD yeah, that's a weird thing. France, ladies and gentlemen
Also, I agree with the fact that anger is better than sadness. Sadness is what is left when you have no energy to be angry anymore (at least, that's how it is for me)
I think anger is easier because it's easier to say 'this person/thing doesn't deserve me wasting my energy being mad at them'... you can't do that for sad as easily.
Some coworker told me I'm always smiling. It was nice to have this feedback, it was definitively not how my coworkers at my previous job were seeing me (I believe I was seen as grumpy and complainer)
The other day I began to work in a new gym as a personal trainer. And as I was explaining how to do a certain exercise to my client, a personal trainer, from that same jym, came up to my client and said to him that the way of he had been performing the excercise was wrong, and moreover, he did it...
My owner always gives me a birthday gift. He is too kind I know, but he never delivers the gift by himself, instead he leaves it in the common kitchen.
Sometimes he gives us also a piece of cake by putting it somewhere in our common room. Sometimes he leaves something that I don't really know if...
@AJ "bonfire" is such an ugly word in English (making me think of "bone fire") but such a beautiful one in French. It literally translates to "fire of joy"
> late Middle English: from bone + fire. The term originally denoted a large open-air fire on which bones were burnt (sometimes as part of a celebration), also one for burning heretics or proscribed literature. Dr Johnson accepted the mistaken idea that the word came from French bon ‘good’.
But it's also called a 'vreugdevuur' (joy fire) in Dutch sometimes.
@avazula Well, making a big fire in the woods is absolutely possible. Plus, the fire only need to be big in your mind (which there certainly were when I was little and easily impressed)
This morning, I ask my manager for a meeting about technical stuff. I now just realize that, we he put the meeting, the subject was "One on One + technical stuff". Now I'm stressing about the "One on One" stuff ><
The good news is, the meeting is (suppose to be) in 5 five minute, so I won't stress for long I guess
@TheTinyMan I think I'll start bouncing when home. :) That means I have no more work to do, and a new book in that has arrived in the mail today to read. Should be enough to make me bouncy ;)
@ElizB there's plants that do well with just light, that don't need direct sun :)
In fact... From what I remember from working in the garden centre it's harder to find a plant that'll thrive in sunlight than one that'll do good in the shadow :)
@TheTinyMan For my previous "One on One" meeting, the feedbacks always come with a negative side which always hide the positive ones (I suspect he only delivere positive feedback when he need to delivere a bad one). But thankfully, this time we only talked about technical stuff and, if he wanted to give feedback to me, he didn't had the time to do so
Sorry to interrupt. But it just ain't fair. The same police who let me go for being blank white are the same police who arrest my melatonin-blessed friends.
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Yeah, today is the last day of our sprint cycle. So we've had a ton of meetings. First was our daily scrum, then we had a sprint planning for the next sprint, then an agile team assessment, and next we have our sprint retrospective.
As part of our team assessment, we had to judge where we were at on like 50 different criteria. Some of them I strongly disagree with what is good and bad. For example, pair programming. According to the scoring rubric, the highest grades are for when all developers do pair programming at all times. I'd sooner jump out the window than spend 100% of my dev time pair programming with someone
@Rainbacon well, I can muster that because I expect the favour in return ;) but just sitting next to someone working on the same thing is so annoying. I don't know if this is a programmer thing, but I'm always wanting to grab the keyboard and mouse (and my coworkers definitely have the same tendency)
My problem is that I usually end up having to tell them character by character what to write. Like, if I was going to tell someone to log a value in javascript I would have to say "console dot log parenthesis x close parenthesis semicolon" It's kind of awful
@Rainbacon Srsly? That's what my coworker did to me and it was hugely annoying... Then again you'd expect someone to understand another programmer asking to add a log statement
@TheTinyMan that sounds better than the interview I just had. The interviewer gave me 20 minutes worth of background in 30 seconds and then asked me how windows knows how to run an executable
@scohe001 Interesting, but I don't think that would have helped me. When I told him I didn't know he asked me how I'd implement it if I was building windows. I said I'd make a tool to check, and he asked me how the tool would know
And yeah, it was crazy hard particularly for being a first round interview
Well then, hopefull the fact that you didn't know won't be "old against you". I know I had some questions I couldn't answer during my interview, but I still got the job. So, fingers crossed ^^
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