My activities for the month of stardate 20089 are/is

[Smucky]

Got to pick up groceries today since I have the day off and since my wife can't drive since rolling her ankle

Then onto react native tutorials

[Smucky]

Applied to three more places. This one:

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Took over an hour itself

[Smucky]

Done with my react native training for today.

React is so beautiful

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Also, completely full of ritalin, adderall, and coffee. Not really tired, but still got to shower, eat, and fall asleep. Which means probably 4 hours of semi-sleep tonight

But atleast right now I feel pretty good

[Smucky]

Ugh, looking at the informed delivery for usps, looks like my wife has a letter from her mother waiting on us. She asked to come by to give the kids christmas presents etc in a text message and we just responded with "No.". We iterated for awhile with chatgpt before hand. "No." seemed to be the best response given our feelings. She never texted back or came by

[Smucky]

To bed now

[Smucky]

Awake

[Smucky]

Cool I got an all day "meeting" watching some under performer on the team. He was also recently hired and given a project that should have taken one week. That was back in Oct though. It was "hard stop" due Dec 5th, but no dice. Apparently there is still a struggle. Team lead told me to help out. Not by looking at the code in the repo, I still don't have access to that, but by watching his screen... all day. "Maybe you'll see something that he is doing wrong" he says.

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[Smucky]

[NinjaPoodle]

Cool I got an all day "meeting" watching some under performer on the team. He was also recently hired and given a project that should have taken one week. That was back in Oct though. It was "hard stop" due Dec 5th, but no dice. Apparently there is still a struggle. Team lead told me to help out. Not by looking at the code in the repo, I still don't have access to that, but by watching his screen... all day. "Maybe you'll see something that he is doing wrong" he says.

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All day meeting, when productivity is too high.

[Smucky]

All day meeting, when productivity is too high.

It has been somewhat productive. Nasty angular.js app, a few ajax calls result in 500 server errors. I said the exact issue will be in the web server log, which no one had looked at or knew how to access

And yea, the logs were full of exceptions, so plenty to look at.

[NinjaPoodle]

All day meeting, when productivity is too high.

It has been somewhat productive. Nasty angular.js app, a few ajax calls result in 500 server errors. I said the exact issue will be in the web server log, which no one had looked at or knew how to access

And yea, the logs were full of exceptions, so plenty to look at.

One day meeting to come to the conclusion to check the logs.

[Smucky]

One day meeting to come to the conclusion to check the logs.

Basically, but it made me look like a superstar

[NinjaPoodle]

One day meeting to come to the conclusion to check the logs.

Basically, but it made me look like a superstar

[Smucky]

Done with work for today, now onto react native tutorials

[Smucky]

Tomorrow will be my first day by myself in the "support role" which was the reason I was hired for. I get to sit there and every 30 minutes I need to check the email lists and answer any questions or complaints that come in (have no idea about anything). These would be from actual employees using internal tools, so it is very important that they get help before they tell their manager which will then call my manager and start a storm. On top of that, every hour I need to open this angular.js app that makes a bunch of ajax calls to random internal apis and gives a green status if everything is working. No clue why they can't use an actual service monitoring solution like nagios or something. But whatever, and also every hour, I am supposed to type "No new issues" into a dedicated microsoft teams channel. You know like that simpons episode where Home invented the alarm that constantly beeps as long as everything is OK.

I can't find an emoji or smilie that accurately reflects how I feel.

[Smucky]

Now to bed

[Smucky]

Awake and gay

[NinjaPoodle]

Enjoy your gay meetings.

[Smucky]

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[Smucky]

Oh, I actually just read the rest of the email. Says it will be at our manager's discretion whether their employees get the day off

[NinjaPoodle]

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It's like inverted reality. Usually companies would panic if there is just one extra bank holiday and they would think would default just because one day off. Now, they just make one extra bank holiday out of thin air to commemorate some former president I didn't know about.

[Smucky]

rofl, manager confirmed we got the day off

[NinjaPoodle]

I've asked some people that I know in the US and they haven't heard anything about a day off because some old president died. Is this something your company just made up?

[Smucky]

Bee things for today

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[NinjaPoodle]

Now eat that honey. People actually pay money to eat whole honey combs.