Transporter Room 3

I have a friend who works for a local, but widespread bank, and got to head up their digital security and IT stuff. Not sure what all it encompasses, but he quickly found out that it was a lot, and the previous guy quit because he had had enough bullshit.

Long story shorter, after a particularly bad week, he decided to just… Stop doing his job.

Kept all their legal stuff and sensitive info under lock and key, but the smaller stuff, he just let it go. Went on vacation, turned everything off, didn’t do everything for a temporary replacement (which isn’t even his job, it’s hr’s) and spent a week playing video games and spending time with his wife and baby.

Several employees just in his building basically ended up doing nothing by the end of the first day because they had locked themselves out of the system.

By day 3 there were several lines that couldn’t be used by the tellers in every branch, older employees were bricking their systems so fast, construction workers started taking notes.

By the end of the week they had people showing up at his door to try and contact him since nobody could get ahold of him. Some legit thought he was dead.

His first words when he got into the office on Monday, we’re “THAT is why you pay me.”

And after that, he was given 3 people to help out (he had been asking for 4) and they had a company come in and redo a lot of the computer systems that year.

Still works for the bank, still has a team although I think they’re bigger now since they’ve opened a few more branches, and still tells that story at every gathering after his one single beer gets him tipsy.

Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

I actually like it when there’s variety to be heard.

Not so much when it’s just one asshole that won’t shut up.

Give me 750ft^2 and 5 acres of woods with enough sunny space for growing some food.

I’d be thrilled.

My wife’s best friend, however, has decided their 3500ft^2 2.5 floor + basement house on 3-4 acres with two sheds and a small barn (or xl shed?) isnt enough space for 2 dogs 3 cats and her and her husband.

They just bought this house last year.

I do not understand some people.

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On the other hand, who gives a shit if Russia burns for their ongoing aggression.

Not many people complain when an entire country reaches the “find out” part of “fuck around and find out” when they’ve had many years to course correct.

It’s an old joke.

One reddit user suggests LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET

THE ECONOMY IS DOING GREAT, PEOPLE, STOP SAYING IT ISN’T

homelessness on the rise

people living paycheck-to-paycheck on the rise

cost of living increasing faster than income growth

corporations doubling prices for no reason other than they realized they can, thus resulting in record profits for huge companies

Oh right, that’s what it means.

Big businesses are making more money.

The Poors don’t factor into such things, so their problems aren’t real economic problems.

You ever have one of those moments when you just put 2 and 2 together, and also that you should have had that realization many years ago?

I just realized what NaN stands for…

This must be what people who get told “you can just wait for the shower water to warm up before hopping in” feel like.

If it weren’t for memes, I wouldn’t know what Todd Howard looks like, or who he even is.

You have seen the your whole life, it’s just recently that it’s become a fadand widespread.

There was a guy who had a whole row of little themed rubber ducks he got at conventions who lived in the same apartment complex as me growing up.

The average rent increase was my entire yearly take-home.

I like watching Rick and Morty.

I have exactly 0 accessories, paraphernalia, or otherwise branded items in my possession that indicate that.

I feel fairly confident that most people here are aware of how childish, arrogant, and honestly just downright insufferable Rick and morty “fans” can be.

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It seems like every time it comes up in conversation, and the other person is a fan, they immediately seem to launch into a tirade about how modern shows are all crap because they’re stupid, not like THIS show. It’s like the “you have to have a high IQ” meme just became the unironic norm for a lot of people.

It’s usually fart jokes and lowest common denominator humor dressed up in Sci fi tropes. You aren’t special for understanding highschool introductory phycisal science.

Futurama is arguably the same kind of show, but they know exactly what they are, and the writers actually have well educated backgrounds to make the science stuff a bit less… “VX nozzle on the turboencabulator”-esque

Theres a reason so many astronauts come from here… They want to leave so bad, they fled the planet.

Barely?

In my experience ops don’t know shit. It’s all about “gut feelings”. "Well “his feels illegal so I’m gonna arrest them and if I’m wrong I get to sit at my desk all day or go on a paid vacation” is how it is.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been stopped by cops for riding my bicycle on the road. Literally to the point where I have a laminated card I keep in my wallet with the relevant laws saying “this bike is illegal on a sidewalk and cars must give way on the road”

I’ve had a few threaten to arrest me “for being a piece of shit” or “for wasting my time” like I’m the one who made them stop…

I’ve been stopped because I “fit a description” multiple times, the “description” being “man on a bike” with nothing else, supposedly.

I’ve been stopped for speeding in a school zone before, and if it wouldn’t have been a waste of time, I’d have let it go to court and showed my helmet camera video that clearly shows my phone GPS as well as cycling computer (glorified speedometer) readout that clearly shows I was well under 25. Granted I’ve gone 49 in a 45 for about 3 seconds before I realized one rock and I’m dead and slowed down, there’s 0 chance of me speeding past 20 on flat ground unless I’m trying to set a personal best.

I’ve been stopped for “being a road hazard”, not having enough reflective things, having “too many lights” (one forward flasher, one steady, and one rear/one steady rear light), not signaling “and hand signals don’t count anymore” lol OK…

Pretty much whatever they feel like stopping you for, they’ll stop you and come up with a half-assed excuse later. They don’t know the laws they enforce, and if they did, they would be considered a liability to other cops and quickly be ejected.

You know it’s weird, it seems like I can predict the way the judge votes, and likely which half of the US they live in, solely by the headline of “federal judge blocks Biden administration plan to…” with 100% accuracy.

Haven’t been wrong yet.

Seems almost like there’s some sort of political motivation here, not what’s best for the people.

Almost seems like the system is working… against the people?

But no that couldn’t be. Surely a judge, who sits at a federal level, would never be swayed by something so petty as kindergarten politics.

My favorite is when people start ba[L]king at these things and write you off as a conspiracy nut.

Like my brother in Slaanesh, these are the things they admit they’ve done.

Edit:[L]

You joke, but a coworker literally said “well there’s no way to really know for sure it was because people were staying inside, it was probably just more forest food than usual that spring” when I pointed out a positive if covid being nature bouncing back just a tiny bit.

Also can someone tell me what “forest food” is? Sure I know what he meant but that’s no fun

They know perfectly well that they’re spewing bullshit.

The facts don’t matter to many people, sadly.

I know plenty of people who would go “heh damn college fucks deserved it” without knowing the first thing about what college or protest, simply “that generation getting what they deserve” is good enough

… There’s just no pleasing some people…