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Does that mildly annoy you? Or are you saying it mildly annoys us?

Welcome back, Great Handsome Oppressor.

Browsing through clothing stores online because I've grown to dislike most of my current clothes and also (mostly) to keep my mind off of things I don't want to worry about right now and I hate everything I see. They seemingly replaced everything with summer clothes and more plaid. How dare they sell summer clothes in the summer and not the ugly winter stuff I wear all year.

I like winter clothes, but I overheat if the area around me reaches just barely over 70°F, so I can never wear them unless the world suddenly reverts into another ice age.

I eventually found a place that had okay stuff (the place has everything from $20 casual hoodies to $225 """designer""" plain t-shirts with holes in them as a sign of rebellion against the System, man). The place turned out to be a lot snootier then I expected and almost everything available was L and XL only and I ended up buying two shirts, one of which is plaid. Sad day.

Why do heretics always have to make things about MLP


It's been seven years can we please stop

Is that a Jojo reference?

you stop that

Yes.

Hey, lack of sleep is more Mildly Annoying than Pissing Me Off! This is a good sign!

Although, it will piss me off come the end of summer break when I have to get back into a school based schedule, even though I won't have to leave for school until about 7:40 now, instead of 7:20 or 6:30 previously.

Too much adult life™ bullshit lately
I've never been this involved with my own life before and it's tiring

The general tendency in the IT industry to think that we should never try to handle anything by ourselves because "programming is hard" and we are too stupid (which I realize is ironic coming from me) and should rely entirely on mismatching third-party ressources that don't exactly fit our needs instead of even attempting to come up with our own solutions.

Every "professional" IT project is apparently required to use a shitton of frameworks that each do 80% of their intended job (badly to mediocrely) and render the remaining 20% excruciatingly hard to accomplish or just not feasible. For the past few months we've been dealing with problems in production because the 12 layers of frameworks our project relies on don't work as advertised and we are reduced to conjectures about which layer (or combination thereof) could be the culprit and how to identify and solve the problems. For example, the allegedly enterprise-grade server/container is supposed to handle user sessions automatically so we don't have to do anything because "handling user sessions is too complex" (this place is among the top 5 IT consulting companies in the world). Turns out it doesn't do it properly, so the production server has to be rebooted every day because it never lets go of any memory. One intern spent one day looking for a workaround and came up with a functional user interface to monitor and control user sessions manually in real time, greatly alleviating the problem, after the higher-ups wasted weeks and tens of thousands of dollars in non-technical meetings talking about how we should hire expensive experts to tell us where the problem lies. I reused that intern's work yesterday afternoon and came up with a scheme that would allow actual automatic management without having to use the UI, i.e. user session handling. In one afternoon. But my solution has not yet been approved and might never be because it involves original work and not just shoving a multi-million square peg into the same triangular hole for the 13th time and hoping this one fixes the leak so higher-ups are nervous about it.
Another example: our application uses an ORM to query the database in an atrocious "high-level" way that "frees us from having to deal with the complexity of SQL". Except it doesn't support everything we need, forcing us to waste days looking for shittier workarounds, and it accomplishes everything in the worst way possible. The entire application was developed for two years under assumption that SQL is just too unwieldy and that the magical ORM will do everything optimally 100% of the time, which result slow as fuck requests that constantly lock up the application, clog up the connection pools and use way too much memory, making the user session problem even more dramatic. In the last month, we've had to hastily revise the entirety of the application to apply fixes in every single module (meaning everything can and does crash and the previous months of intense testing are now meaningless), and those fixes come from intimate knowledge of SQL, which we were supposed to eschew entirely, as well as the quirky intricacies of that particular ORM (you need to do more work to make it produce the SQL you explicitly desire in a heavy, code-wretching way because writing that SQL yourself would just be silly).

This ideology seems commonplace and it's disheartening. Seemingly everyone with a degree in Buzzwords And Holistic e-Marketing 2.0 looks down on us lowly developers and laugh are our simplistic ideals and think we're so cute to think we can program programs using our programming skills while they, as more educated people, know it's unrealistic.

I mean, my company just built the place I work at and our comps and programs look to be older than the company itself. Probably the most annoying thing is that the most crucial part of the job, the info on how many units are in an individual package, is gated behind clicking for more info when the main page displays everything except that (which is mostly meaningless drivel), and you're expected to go through this thousands of times a week. Half the time we're directed by the program itself to open the tab for the extra info too (and comfirm we read the message) which is like, we use less than half the screen, and all we need is a "qty: XXX" added to the end of a line, or hell add another line to use up the wasted space.

Companies don't value efficiency in anything except worker output. You work around the adversity, you don't fix it. Even if it's as simple as sweeping the tacks off the floor before you walk across it.

Ughghghhghgh paperwork is bullshit. JUST LET ME HAVE THE daisies PAPER THAT MAKES EVERYONE AGREE I DID ALL THE WORK I DID.

Trying to scout out listings ahead of time to find a place to rent in the town where my job is going to be, but the only two places that have anything posted are an apartment complex with rather scathing comments about the management, and a townhouse that would be GREAT, except they wouldn't allow my cat. I would just look for a listing in the nearest city (about 35 minutes away from my school), but if I'm going to be teaching in a small district, I should probably try to actually be in the town that I'm going to be teaching in.
Auguughghghghhh

How long ago were the comments made about the management? Maybe they've had time to fix things?

I have plenty of scathing things to say about my apartment complex's management, especially the desk clerk who bodaciously called herself "retarded" to me once, and the fact that the folks who bought the place have plenty of time to throw events and leave us fancy new flyers about sweepstakes and such, but hasn't fixed any actual problems like the gate that's been broken for most of the year and just lets anybody in (hmm wonder why we had 3 break-ins a few months ago)

Wait, what was I talking about? Oh right... but other than that stuff I like my complex. Reviews tend to be skewed negative anyway, I'd say it's worth a visit but be very cautious and don't trust anything they say at face value. Lol