But if you hang it on a wall, how do you move it around when you go to the bathroom or cook dinner?
And isn't the picture smaller than a tablet, considering how far away it is?
Easy. You don't use a TV, you use a projector and throw a picture that's 7, 8, 10, 11, 12+ ft wide (not diagonal -- wide.) Go big, or don't go at all. 7 ft picture seen from 9 ft away is roughly the same as a a 50 ft picture seen from the prime seats in a moviehouse.
To get the same picture from a phone you'd have to be about 8 inches from the phone.
It was 1.5 hours from my house to the shop in Calle Ocho. Through the worst of miami. 2nd gear crawling most of the time.
Then I got a better job, closer to home. I actually get to enjoy my car now. I floor the first 3 gears then lazy-shift up the last 3. Nice, flowing traffic -- fast, mind you, but easy.
There's those who love to drive, and those who hate driving and hate cars. Guess who there's more of. Yeah. This is why cars are maybe 5% of the cars out there, and the rest are lumbering land-cows called "SUVs" and "Crossovers."
And of those 5%, maybe 1% of those are sports car. What the hell happened? What's with all the land cows?
Leave the driving to those who love cars. The rest of you, for all that is holy, get your self-driving podmobiles already!
"Little Timmy, did you break that plate," the father asks.
"Nuh-uh, 'twasn't me!' little Timmy replies, with an emphatic head shake."
"Timmy... tell the truth, or no Internet for a week.."
"Umm... ummm.,.. okkkaaaaay, i dropped it, but it was Suzie's fault! SHe bumped my arm while I was making lines on the plate with YOUR razor!"
"Let's keep my involvement a secret. Here's a nickel bag for your trouble."
When will people including world leaders realize that when the other party says "I didn't do it!" it really means "Hell yeah, I did that, and then some!"?!
Denial = Guilt. I learned that as a ten year old watching the world around me, which back then was the Shah of Iran being deposed, our redonkidiculous governor's election in 1980 (puerto rico) and other political shenanigans. Oh yes lots of Russkie denials, lots of 'Murican denials, deny deny deny. Months, years later the denials turned out to be empty words, they all had done their respective Bad Thing.
"Is Gramma dying?"
Sad looks all about, then a calm "No, no she isn't."
"Oh, ok," said the little boy, and went on to paint his latest model rocket. Not two hours later Gramma was dead. The little boy knew it was coming, he had never belived the "No" they had fed him that October, 1981.
Seriously, you find kale pretentious? Isn't that a little pretentious?
No, kale in and of itself just is. It is incapable of demonstrating emotion or.. anything.
The joints I've been to that make it a central part of "who they are" I find unbearably pretentious. They didn't waste any time in rubbing in how better life is *their* way vs the "normal" way.
So I stick to places that just serve delicious food without judgement or sermon.
I only visit the pretentious kind when I'm with coworkers of a certain culinary persuasion anyway. It's not by choice, it's out of politeness, and frankly, some of the food *is* quite nice. Just.. lay off the sermonizing, be it active by the staff, or passive by decor.
Going out to lunch, going for a nice walk, and sitting down for 45 minutes is seen as anti-social and unproductive. After all, you could be working more and having lunch at your desk like a good little worker-bee.
Dunno where you observe that at, but every IT shop I've been to since... oh man.. what.. 2000? has frowned on eating at your desk and not going out to lunch. Sure, bring it in, but take it to the breakroom, stretch your legs.
Some specifically say they want you to step out have a walk and clear the brain.
But yes, I'm sure there are little shops of horrors that behave as you describe... and if I ever find myself in one, the next thing I'd do is start lookin' for another job. To hell with the frame of mind you describe.
Mediocre chain establishment? I'll have that to go.
Trendy fashionista place that serves kale and rabbitfood with a side of pretentious? I won't even spend a dime there, but if I had to, it'd be to go.
Family-owned restaurant one has been visiting for the past 10 years? Nope, I'll make time to go there, have that glorious just-brewed tea, nod to the chef and without a word, food magically appears, to my taste, and eat while watching the kitchen do their thing.
Not every restaurant deserves going to. Those that do... treasure them and treat them well.
The sad truth is most people are Muggles, bereft of the ability to feel and enjoy the sensation of metal on oil on metal, the snick-snick of the shifter as it slides the next cog into place, the *bark* of a willing engine, the more cylinders the merrier... or hey, two spinning triangles..
To most people, cars are but mere transport, bringing no joy, only expense and worry. They are cruel to their cars, neglecting them, treating them as mere appliances.
Go ahead, you car-hating "visionaries", go ahead and sign away more of your autonomy. I hope you enjoy your perceived freedom. Be keenly aware that there are people who do not want the car to go away, to be replaced by only electric robots and we will use all means including political to make sure the car and the motorcycle live on for the forseeable future. Your vision of a utopia of people being passively shuttled around is myopic and misguided.
Those few of us that truly love cars as art, as machinery, as engineering and design will sneak out, and illicitly fling a little car of many cylinders down a winding road, and pretend the world still makes somewhat sense. That is, if we can still get gas and oil and rubber and parts....
Rush said it best:
"I strip away the old debris That hides a shining car A brilliant red Barchetta From a better vanished time I fire up the willing engine Responding with a roar Tires spitting gravel I commit my weekly crime
Wind In my hair Shifting and drifting Mechanical music Adrenaline surge...
Well-weathered leather Hot metal and oil The scented country air Sunlight on chrome The blur of the landscape Every nerve aware"
...in cubeland. Proper cubes, with walls all around and a space for entry/exit.
In the intervening years, the open office made a comeback...how?! Why?! Oh dear god why? I thought this was dead and buried in the 70's / 80's? WTF happened?
I hate it, more than I have words for. I see new workspaces built as such and I cringe.
Good thing is where I'm currently at they've seen the light and are planning on a proper cubefarm.....never did I think I'd be celebrating the cube, yet here we are.
I did have an office once. For six glorious years. No window, but it had a roof, four walls and a proper door. I miss that, more than any work environment I've *ever* been at.
America has 170,000 troops in East Asia. China has none in North America.
Troops, guns and sharp pointy things are not the only ways to wage war.
There's economic, social and probably a zillion more than I can think of.
America is (was?) an Empire, just not a military one. 20 years ago you could go to Bumfuck Africa, and have an Oscar Meyer hot dog, wash it down with a Coke, while your companion took a picture of this with Kodak film, while smoking a Marlboro.
If that's not an Empire, I dunno what is.
Anyway, I digress. Yes, we are at war. Economic war, this time, and we not only had our assess handed to us on a platter by China, we willingly gave it to them in the 80's - 90's. Now we pay the price.
Marines like the A-10 because they don't have anything else armored with a big cannon, and they're not convinced they won't ever have to face concealed armor anymore. In actual conflicts where the A-10 is used, the F-16 is the primary platform for close air support.
First of all, the Marines don't have the A-10, only the Air Force does.
Second of all, the A-10 was born as can opener, and it excels at that.
Third of all, yes, the F-16 is a wonderful pinpoint bombtruck. And if you didn't notice, the F-35 is supposed to replace it too.
Neckbeards who played too many of the wrong video game become incapable of listening.
When logic fails, ad hominem?
The whole point of the discussion is that the F-35 is a failure even before being put into service. It is trying to do too many roles.
Maybe it'll mature into a nice airplane. Maybe it'll be forever a dog, to be quickly replaced by other things better suited to the individual customer's needs. Marines' needs aren't the same as Army's needs aren't the same as Air Force needs, so why force one airplane on all? (Two, really, the Harrier-replacement is a fan-assisted... thing... )
What, no one remembers the F-111? Swing-wing, twin-engine, single-tail, was supposed to do everything for everyone, and it ended up being a mediocre low-level bomber and a quite capable electronics warfare platform, but it didn't do anything the sales brochure said it'd do.
The navy rejected it.
The Air Force grudgingly kept it.
The F-35 is more of the same. Specialized missions require specialized aircraft, there is no jack-of-all-trades in fighters.
Interceptor / fighter - F-15, F-22. Expensive, rather rare, yet still the most unfair fighters ever produced, full-stop.
Low-cost fighter - F16. Cheap to buy, cheap to fly, but rather limited in what it can haul. But it does 95% of the jobs out there for fighters.
Close Air Support - A-10. This one needs no writeup. You know it, or you don't. If you know it, you love it.
Marines support - Harrier. Always a rube goldberg, the marines still love it because they can take it and base it pretty much anywhere.
And this last trio is what the F-35 tried to replace -- it was supposed to be the cheap fighter, and the CAS airplane, and the vertical-takeoff bird, and it can't do any of those things well. The Air Force, supposedly, privately, wants the A-10 fixed up for the next few decades because they already know the 35 is a loss.
My tax dollars at work. Fuck them. Build more F16s and come up with a new CAS airpane, a bespoke one like the A-10 was.
I kinda like 'em and if it's a movie I really like and there's no commentary, I tend to go reeeeee about it.
These tracks may not interest most of the populace, but I enjoy the film-makers pointing out things one may not have noticed (tape holding up bits of airplane interiors, and the prescence of cardboard people, in Airplane!, Milos Forman pointing out the huge black floofcat in the beginning of Amadeus, just two examples)..
I enjoy them retelling of the difficulties in making the film (Star Wars, how they had nothing and had to invent it all pretty much,) etc etc.
Some do it better than most. Cameron came off super-arrogant in Titanic's commentary, but then again, that's how he is, so it kinda worked out. I thoroughly enjoyed that particular track.
I do think Weird Al's commentary on UHF was the best.
Microsoft is by far one of the best tech companies around. WTF you neckbeard 50 yr old junior high student.
Pfft. Microsoft. Best? Totally dysfunctional. No QA. Bug city. Updates to Windows that break shit and delete shit. At random. One machine fine, the next a pile of ashes.
Dream on. The older the company the more cruft sets in. One day you'll find that out too.
Don't underestimate the adversary. China's aggressively expanding their sphere of influence in Asia and Africa. Do you not see that?
If you do see that, do you not see that they'll do the same in the internet? Do you want a 'net dominated by Chinese companies, Chinese ethics, Chinese censorship?
I don't want this. I think China has an axe to grind with the US, and they'll do whatever they can to undermine our commerce -- like they have been doing in the past few decades.
The sad part is people will be ok with this. Fuck them, too.
What is this, a space mission where our vitals must be constantly monitored?
No tattle dongles on my car, no smart watch on my wrist. If the insurer balks, Iâ(TM)ll take my shit elsewhere. If my employer balks, Iâ(TM)ll look for. New job.
Fuck 5em, fuck 5em, fuck them, and may the inbred spawns of bacteria that came up with this idea and all ideas like it have an interesting life. I wish them a very interesting, quite educational life.
Good thing I have more years behind me than in front of me, if this is the direction the world is going I have no interest in partaking.
Well, compared to the usual political bullshit, this article was news for nerds. Mega tech company does something, film at 11.
As for Olds for nerds? This nerd would very much like to have a G-body Cutlass Supreme, tastefully done to appear stock while having enough go, stop and handling to be a lot of fun. I'm thinking a Rocket 350 fed by a quad of Weber twin-chokes, into a Tremec five-speed on the floor, with leather interiors and some kind of tasteful alloy wheels with period-looking tall-ish sidewall tires.
One of the more entertaining manuals out there. I particularly enjoy the drawings of the lady keeping clean, and the guy shifting what appears to be a Benz SSK with index and thumb only. At the end of the book there's charts on how far the Tiger can be from a US or Soviet tank and hole it, while being impervious to the target's rounds. Those krauts sure knew how to build a tank!
I miss the old Japanese electronics manual, they had the most wonderful drawings of anthropomorphized things, like a cassette having heat stroke from being left in the sun, etc. Super-deformed chibi characters pointing out interesting things in the manual.
...may be carthartic, but it may backfire on you.. maybe not now, but you never know.
It's best grin and bear it while you look for another job. When the time comes, give them your two weeks (or whatever is customary), and end it on an up note. Why? You never know when you'll again work for someone you leave behind. Or someone that heard something. The scenarios are pretty much endless.
The cathartic part comes when, out of earshot, you see the goddamned place in your rear-view mirror, yell "FREEDOM!!!!", then go home, or with your buds, or whatevs, light that cigar, pound that whisky, and think of the fresh start ahead...
I've done it a couple of times. One was a situation where I was offered a better opportunity. Years later, did it again, this time with a right asshole of a boss who existed to siphon every ounce, every penny of "value" out of every goddamn thing, people included. The first one actually bought me a bottle of single malt. The second one... well, who cares about the second one.
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But if you hang it on a wall, how do you move it around when you go to the bathroom or cook dinner?
And isn't the picture smaller than a tablet, considering how far away it is?
Easy. You don't use a TV, you use a projector and throw a picture that's 7, 8, 10, 11, 12+ ft wide (not diagonal -- wide.) Go big, or don't go at all. 7 ft picture seen from 9 ft away is roughly the same as a a 50 ft picture seen from the prime seats in a moviehouse.
To get the same picture from a phone you'd have to be about 8 inches from the phone.
See? TVs are useless. Get a projector.
It was 1.5 hours from my house to the shop in Calle Ocho. Through the worst of miami. 2nd gear crawling most of the time.
Then I got a better job, closer to home. I actually get to enjoy my car now. I floor the first 3 gears then lazy-shift up the last 3. Nice, flowing traffic -- fast, mind you, but easy.
There's those who love to drive, and those who hate driving and hate cars. Guess who there's more of. Yeah. This is why cars are maybe 5% of the cars out there, and the rest are lumbering land-cows called "SUVs" and "Crossovers."
And of those 5%, maybe 1% of those are sports car. What the hell happened? What's with all the land cows?
Leave the driving to those who love cars. The rest of you, for all that is holy, get your self-driving podmobiles already!
The better the coffee, the less sugar (or other additives) it needs.
This behavior is learned early, early on.
"Little Timmy, did you break that plate," the father asks.
"Nuh-uh, 'twasn't me!' little Timmy replies, with an emphatic head shake."
"Timmy... tell the truth, or no Internet for a week.."
"Umm... ummm.,.. okkkaaaaay, i dropped it, but it was Suzie's fault! SHe bumped my arm while I was making lines on the plate with YOUR razor!"
"Let's keep my involvement a secret. Here's a nickel bag for your trouble."
When will people including world leaders realize that when the other party says "I didn't do it!" it really means "Hell yeah, I did that, and then some!"?!
Denial = Guilt. I learned that as a ten year old watching the world around me, which back then was the Shah of Iran being deposed, our redonkidiculous governor's election in 1980 (puerto rico) and other political shenanigans. Oh yes lots of Russkie denials, lots of 'Murican denials, deny deny deny. Months, years later the denials turned out to be empty words, they all had done their respective Bad Thing.
"Is Gramma dying?"
Sad looks all about, then a calm "No, no she isn't."
"Oh, ok," said the little boy, and went on to paint his latest model rocket. Not two hours later Gramma was dead. The little boy knew it was coming, he had never belived the "No" they had fed him that October, 1981.
Seriously, you find kale pretentious? Isn't that a little pretentious?
No, kale in and of itself just is. It is incapable of demonstrating emotion or .. anything.
The joints I've been to that make it a central part of "who they are" I find unbearably pretentious. They didn't waste any time in rubbing in how better life is *their* way vs the "normal" way.
So I stick to places that just serve delicious food without judgement or sermon.
I only visit the pretentious kind when I'm with coworkers of a certain culinary persuasion anyway. It's not by choice, it's out of politeness, and frankly, some of the food *is* quite nice. Just.. lay off the sermonizing, be it active by the staff, or passive by decor.
Going out to lunch, going for a nice walk, and sitting down for 45 minutes is seen as anti-social and unproductive. After all, you could be working more and having lunch at your desk like a good little worker-bee.
Dunno where you observe that at, but every IT shop I've been to since... oh man.. what.. 2000? has frowned on eating at your desk and not going out to lunch. Sure, bring it in, but take it to the breakroom, stretch your legs.
Some specifically say they want you to step out have a walk and clear the brain.
But yes, I'm sure there are little shops of horrors that behave as you describe... and if I ever find myself in one, the next thing I'd do is start lookin' for another job. To hell with the frame of mind you describe.
Fast food? Yeah I'll have that to go.
Mediocre chain establishment? I'll have that to go.
Trendy fashionista place that serves kale and rabbitfood with a side of pretentious? I won't even spend a dime there, but if I had to, it'd be to go.
Family-owned restaurant one has been visiting for the past 10 years? Nope, I'll make time to go there, have that glorious just-brewed tea, nod to the chef and without a word, food magically appears, to my taste, and eat while watching the kitchen do their thing.
Not every restaurant deserves going to. Those that do... treasure them and treat them well.
The answer may surprise you!
The sad truth is most people are Muggles, bereft of the ability to feel and enjoy the sensation of metal on oil on metal, the snick-snick of the shifter as it slides the next cog into place, the *bark* of a willing engine, the more cylinders the merrier... or hey, two spinning triangles..
To most people, cars are but mere transport, bringing no joy, only expense and worry. They are cruel to their cars, neglecting them, treating them as mere appliances.
Go ahead, you car-hating "visionaries", go ahead and sign away more of your autonomy. I hope you enjoy your perceived freedom. Be keenly aware that there are people who do not want the car to go away, to be replaced by only electric robots and we will use all means including political to make sure the car and the motorcycle live on for the forseeable future. Your vision of a utopia of people being passively shuttled around is myopic and misguided.
Those few of us that truly love cars as art, as machinery, as engineering and design will sneak out, and illicitly fling a little car of many cylinders down a winding road, and pretend the world still makes somewhat sense. That is, if we can still get gas and oil and rubber and parts....
Rush said it best:
"I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware"
My idea of a proper Barchetta. 2 liters. 12 cylinders. Heart of a lion, this one.
...in cubeland. Proper cubes, with walls all around and a space for entry/exit.
In the intervening years, the open office made a comeback. ..how?! Why?! Oh dear god why? I thought this was dead and buried in the 70's / 80's? WTF happened?
I hate it, more than I have words for. I see new workspaces built as such and I cringe.
Good thing is where I'm currently at they've seen the light and are planning on a proper cubefarm.. ...never did I think I'd be celebrating the cube, yet here we are.
I did have an office once. For six glorious years. No window, but it had a roof, four walls and a proper door. I miss that, more than any work environment I've *ever* been at.
America has 170,000 troops in East Asia. China has none in North America.
Troops, guns and sharp pointy things are not the only ways to wage war.
There's economic, social and probably a zillion more than I can think of.
America is (was?) an Empire, just not a military one. 20 years ago you could go to Bumfuck Africa, and have an Oscar Meyer hot dog, wash it down with a Coke, while your companion took a picture of this with Kodak film, while smoking a Marlboro.
If that's not an Empire, I dunno what is.
Anyway, I digress. Yes, we are at war. Economic war, this time, and we not only had our assess handed to us on a platter by China, we willingly gave it to them in the 80's - 90's. Now we pay the price.
Marines like the A-10 because they don't have anything else armored with a big cannon, and they're not convinced they won't ever have to face concealed armor anymore. In actual conflicts where the A-10 is used, the F-16 is the primary platform for close air support.
First of all, the Marines don't have the A-10, only the Air Force does.
Second of all, the A-10 was born as can opener, and it excels at that.
Third of all, yes, the F-16 is a wonderful pinpoint bombtruck. And if you didn't notice, the F-35 is supposed to replace it too.
Neckbeards who played too many of the wrong video game become incapable of listening.
When logic fails, ad hominem?
The whole point of the discussion is that the F-35 is a failure even before being put into service. It is trying to do too many roles.
Maybe it'll mature into a nice airplane. Maybe it'll be forever a dog, to be quickly replaced by other things better suited to the individual customer's needs. Marines' needs aren't the same as Army's needs aren't the same as Air Force needs, so why force one airplane on all? (Two, really, the Harrier-replacement is a fan-assisted... thing... )
What, no one remembers the F-111? Swing-wing, twin-engine, single-tail, was supposed to do everything for everyone, and it ended up being a mediocre low-level bomber and a quite capable electronics warfare platform, but it didn't do anything the sales brochure said it'd do.
The navy rejected it.
The Air Force grudgingly kept it.
The F-35 is more of the same. Specialized missions require specialized aircraft, there is no jack-of-all-trades in fighters.
Interceptor / fighter - F-15, F-22. Expensive, rather rare, yet still the most unfair fighters ever produced, full-stop.
Low-cost fighter - F16. Cheap to buy, cheap to fly, but rather limited in what it can haul. But it does 95% of the jobs out there for fighters.
Close Air Support - A-10. This one needs no writeup. You know it, or you don't. If you know it, you love it.
Marines support - Harrier. Always a rube goldberg, the marines still love it because they can take it and base it pretty much anywhere.
And this last trio is what the F-35 tried to replace -- it was supposed to be the cheap fighter, and the CAS airplane, and the vertical-takeoff bird, and it can't do any of those things well. The Air Force, supposedly, privately, wants the A-10 fixed up for the next few decades because they already know the 35 is a loss.
My tax dollars at work. Fuck them. Build more F16s and come up with a new CAS airpane, a bespoke one like the A-10 was.
I kinda like 'em and if it's a movie I really like and there's no commentary, I tend to go reeeeee about it.
These tracks may not interest most of the populace, but I enjoy the film-makers pointing out things one may not have noticed (tape holding up bits of airplane interiors, and the prescence of cardboard people, in Airplane!, Milos Forman pointing out the huge black floofcat in the beginning of Amadeus, just two examples)..
I enjoy them retelling of the difficulties in making the film (Star Wars, how they had nothing and had to invent it all pretty much,) etc etc.
Some do it better than most. Cameron came off super-arrogant in Titanic's commentary, but then again, that's how he is, so it kinda worked out. I thoroughly enjoyed that particular track.
I do think Weird Al's commentary on UHF was the best.
Microsoft is by far one of the best tech companies around. WTF you neckbeard 50 yr old junior high student.
Pfft. Microsoft. Best? Totally dysfunctional. No QA. Bug city. Updates to Windows that break shit and delete shit. At random. One machine fine, the next a pile of ashes.
Dream on. The older the company the more cruft sets in. One day you'll find that out too.
Bullshit
Don't underestimate the adversary. China's aggressively expanding their sphere of influence in Asia and Africa. Do you not see that?
If you do see that, do you not see that they'll do the same in the internet? Do you want a 'net dominated by Chinese companies, Chinese ethics, Chinese censorship?
I don't want this. I think China has an axe to grind with the US, and they'll do whatever they can to undermine our commerce -- like they have been doing in the past few decades.
If it has a web browser, you will see ads. That's how the web works now.
Now?! Where you been for the past 20 or so years?!
Only the hoi polloi see ads. Those who know run adblockers.
Who knows how long *that'll* last...
The sad part is people will be ok with this. Fuck them, too.
What is this, a space mission where our vitals must be constantly monitored?
No tattle dongles on my car, no smart watch on my wrist. If the insurer balks, Iâ(TM)ll take my shit elsewhere. If my employer balks, Iâ(TM)ll look for. New job.
Fuck 5em, fuck 5em, fuck them, and may the inbred spawns of bacteria that came up with this idea and all ideas like it have an interesting life. I wish them a very interesting, quite educational life.
Good thing I have more years behind me than in front of me, if this is the direction the world is going I have no interest in partaking.
Maybe the slogan should change to Olds for nerds
Well, compared to the usual political bullshit, this article was news for nerds. Mega tech company does something, film at 11.
As for Olds for nerds? This nerd would very much like to have a G-body Cutlass Supreme, tastefully done to appear stock while having enough go, stop and handling to be a lot of fun. I'm thinking a Rocket 350 fed by a quad of Weber twin-chokes, into a Tremec five-speed on the floor, with leather interiors and some kind of tasteful alloy wheels with period-looking tall-ish sidewall tires.
What's your Olds for Nerds?
Here's the solution from nazis
http://www.alanhamby.com/tiger...
One of the more entertaining manuals out there. I particularly enjoy the drawings of the lady keeping clean, and the guy shifting what appears to be a Benz SSK with index and thumb only. At the end of the book there's charts on how far the Tiger can be from a US or Soviet tank and hole it, while being impervious to the target's rounds. Those krauts sure knew how to build a tank!
I miss the old Japanese electronics manual, they had the most wonderful drawings of anthropomorphized things, like a cassette having heat stroke from being left in the sun, etc. Super-deformed chibi characters pointing out interesting things in the manual.
Now it's all borrr-ing corporate.
employer employee
Oh, for mod points. This is the best one yet.
I wish they felt the same about systems engineers.
Some I've worked with recognize the value, and treat you accordingly -- or at least they pretend, which is almost as good.
But most? To most, IT is a drag, not an asset.
You must be new here, dupes are a time-honored slashdot bug. er, feature.
The rampant trump troll forgot to hit 'Post Anonymously'.
The funny thing is, if you click on his username, slashdot barfs and says the user doesn't exist. Why is that?
Yes, I'm aware the user in question is not the real BeauHD......... or is it? Who the fuck knows.
...may be carthartic, but it may backfire on you.. maybe not now, but you never know.
It's best grin and bear it while you look for another job. When the time comes, give them your two weeks (or whatever is customary), and end it on an up note. Why? You never know when you'll again work for someone you leave behind. Or someone that heard something. The scenarios are pretty much endless.
The cathartic part comes when, out of earshot, you see the goddamned place in your rear-view mirror, yell "FREEDOM!!!!", then go home, or with your buds, or whatevs, light that cigar, pound that whisky, and think of the fresh start ahead...
I've done it a couple of times. One was a situation where I was offered a better opportunity. Years later, did it again, this time with a right asshole of a boss who existed to siphon every ounce, every penny of "value" out of every goddamn thing, people included. The first one actually bought me a bottle of single malt. The second one... well, who cares about the second one.
Keep it cool. Keep it pro.