TheBeardedOne said @sleek bruh,Give a poes a link?,@retoor how does one obtain this power? It sounds perfect,Is software ever really finished though?,If I could make the same amount of money that I currently do spending half days churning out WordPress garbage, I would. But I have such a viscerally disgusted reaction even trying that so...,Sitting at 7 or so years now.... I've become disillusioned and realized that "spoeg en plak" as we say here is what works best for me,@retoor okay so my first problem is I'm honestly not that hard of a worker,@retoor you're right. I was saying to someone at church last that I've worked harder there than at some of my jobs,@NoMad bending alone already hurts but I'm not yet at the age where it should,@2Fdev2Ftcsh they might be on to something,@jestdotty I mean you're right. It's just heckin frustrating on either side of it,@retoor remember kids, hours of trial and error and can save you minutes of reading,@jestdotty now you sound like my mother,I for one like the isolation,Not a single one of the jobs I've had was as advertised,Yea they really don't have a foot in reality....

My favourite one from geriatrics is "Yea things cost less back then but we made less"

Okay gramps. You were a train driver and sure you weren't rich by any stretch of imagination but you still had a free standing house in a good area, your 3 kids each had their own room and went to decent schools oh and you and the other blue collars could somehow all afford each other's services,@retard Has anything felt real since?,All true. The problem is managers/PMs/clients etc all want them and take them as gospel,@retoor had one once where I did get an offer but then they rescinded before the start date,@retoor wish I'd thought of that,@jiraTicket I feel this in my soul. There are some things that are better and some that are worse about freelancing,Well I was born in 97 so I guess I'll just shit myself and then cry until someone sticks a tit in my mouth,@donkulator he does that anyway,If we did all strike at the same time the world would end before we got back from lunch,Are people really that touchy?

Every single place I've worked everyone swore like a sailor and every conversation was a never ending string of innuendos,Just in time. My wrist hurts so bad,Whichever one you think it is any given context, it's the other,@retoor The important part is it's not German,@donkulator actually yes. Years ago. My parents (I only live 5 minutes away) have an inverter with solar panels but the battery only lasts for like 10 minutes these days,I fucking hate that WordPress exists. It's just made all this too accessible. Used to be if someone wanted even just a basic website they'd have to pay one of us a shit load of money and it was all nicely mystical to civilians,@SidTheITGuy yea unfortunately because of how long this has been an issue for, the back up power options all quite pricey,@retoor A good friend of mine is actually looking into that option. As for me,  my Afrikaans is bietjie kak om dutch te probeer optel,@Demolishun I've always wanted a toilet seat with a built in scale so I can see just how much lighter,@retoor Eskom se poes,@Demolishun yes, Amy Jo Johnson made us all realize a couple of things

Jason David Frank continued as Tommy Oliver throughout several versions of Power Rangers, being a ranger of many different colours in many different teams. Jason sadly committed suicide in 2022,@Demolishun yea it's always sad when anyone, especially a childhood hero, self-deletes,@SidTheITGuy that's @b2plane the first day,@AvatarOfKaine South Africa,That nipple app Big Head made in the beginning of Silicon Valley,@Lensflare yes exactly,@antigermanist did you know their flag has Velcro?,@Lensflare still warm is preferable though,@retoor the weird part is them asking for money to submit the CV. Poes,@SidTheITGuy this bullshit system where they want to write fanfiction about working for them,Is it... Having fun?,It messes with my head how we can sometimes survive multiple center mass gunshot wounds and then you could also slip in the shower, bump your head and that's game over,That sucks. I've been that guy more than once and the thing is they need basically no reason to cut you during probation.

The first one, I started at the company in November, cleared out the entire backlog on my team's project by Christmas. Then the company closed for the annual shut down, a few days after opening back up they told me they needed "someone more senior" I was junior at the time but the position has been advertised as junior. Much sus...

The next one, well the CTO was just an asshole and I didn't fit in. Still scummy that he left until the last day of probation to cut me.

Most recently, joined, monster project, team and pm keep telling me I'm doing fine and that it is indeed a monstrous mind fuck and it'll probably take 6 months to really understand. Higher apparently disagreed. Turned the guy who interviewed me for that job was actually standing for the guy who would actually be my boss.

Point being, it's not always something tangible. Good luck to him,Software is never really finished. It's a wonder any of it, especially banking stuff, still works,Yes, breathing, indeed,@jestdotty they all are,@retoor my poes is toxic,The two things I hate with freelancing are finding the work and then the inevitable (if not immediate) stage where the client gets all clienty,People want to be Frank because he's a part of it, New York, New York!,@AvatarOfKaine Cape Town, in a suburb about 30 minutes from the CBD,@retoor yea I'd bet hers was,@djsumdog I mean I'm not saying it's not related but she was a celebrity so God knows what else she was drinking/snorting/smoking/shooting,@retoor he was a rather famous actor. Man had like 5 Oscars which averages to 1 per decade he was an active actor. 

He played Lex Luther in the first Superman movie in 1978. He played a lot of bad guys actually. The Firm, The Quick and The Dead, Runaway Jury,@Demolishun oh man there's a memory,@retoor Runaway Jury was a particularly good film,@Demolishun yea I had it on VHS, recorded from local TV,Time based auto-promotion,@BordedDev it's kinda crazy. I don't consider myself senior and then one day recruiters just started reaching out for senior positions,@MammaNeedHummus it actually can,@BordedDev the thing that makes it hard for me to qualify that it's different everywhere. Some places will never change your title if you stay. Other places will see you have any prior experience and label that senior.

I had an interview after my first job where they basically wanted a dev to join the support team and turn it into DevOps (yea I know) and they described me as "quite senior with the technical stuff" but I only had 18 months experience and tbh it was pretty low quality experience.

The next job I had, I was still junior in title and the intermediate got bumped up from junior purely because I, someone more junior than him, was joing,@retoor all this fucking but no poes```