to me, teaching is more scary and a bigger game of politics.
there is more audience (students) watching your/other player (teachers) moves, and it is easier to sway them in a particular teacher's favor. the principal could single you out to do overtime, while leaving other teachers who are experts in the art of butt kissing

@jestdotty but i guess i should rather try to see things like you do in order to be happy. I think i do have authority issues as the person who was tl before her, i also ended up having grudges with his way of doing things. I would feel that he is quite incompetent and ready to push us under the birdge in front of his bosses. atleast with the new TL, we have got a reduction of direct passive aggressive meetings with the VP, but rather got more aggressive-aggresive meeting with the TL

As a student, i would be somewhat confused and a bit afraid. like everybody buttering some guy would make me fear his authority, but his jokes and nature would make me wanna trust and adhere to his words. but then the students discussing about his words and extracting the "scary" implications would again make me wanna fear him more.

this is basically our VP. and i have already put 2 instanves of my TL who would often randomly become highly aggressive and start shouting our mistakes on us, and often times flex/threaten with their power.

and again, in an environment where fear of power is valued more than the person itself, i don't feel very awesome.
Also our VP is not part of our daily meetings . he works from another office and occasionally joins our meetings/ comes to pur office to visit.
Thus the highest position of power is tl without their boss in the same office and I don't think she worry about the fact that someone might call out her power flexing in front of her boss

@jestdotty Umm, I am having a hard time digesting your point of view. I work in a company where the perception of something is valued more than the reality .

like imagine being a new student in a school and the first day , your class mates come and talk about how steict the principal is and how you don't want to be on the wrong side of him.
Then the teachers come and they also talk about him as if he is some omnipotent, powerful and dangerous person.
Then at the end of the day, the principal actually comes to your class, and you see teachers and students trying to butter him, while he is being cool, funny and relatable, bit at the same time trying to subtly and joking imply strictness and rules.

@jiraTicket i missed your question, TT stands for table tennis

@jiraTicket 1000% correct, thank you!
in our team if we say i finished my tasks early, i think i can go for a coffee, the next Position-in-power person sitting by me would say, oh really well let me give you another task, we got tons of stuff hahaha
i usually respond to this with " yeah sure, i am happy to take another task after my coffee" , thinking that they are just joking, but then they do really come up with another task, which is not even a priority task, just a "stay busy" task. which kinda makes me feel being penalized for completing my task early as well joking about it

@donkulator i can sympathize with you , but that's not related to this post?

@retoor and its probably hydroceles. i can't get it checked until monday. its treatable but i feel bad going through soany surgeries in my age.

Some sources link this condition to excessive sexual thoughts, like if i masturbate frequently,my body tends to produce more sperms and if not released , that fluid collects in the testicles

every thing is shitty about this issue, and those fuckers who said that masturbation daily or 2 times a day is healthy are assholic liars

@retoor i also try to be honest most of the time. i am not a seriel liar , just counting it as a sin

@donkulator it was a casual match that we used to do after workouts , as an excercise for forearms. i have given up gym workouts completly for now

@dIREsTRAITS I am not sure. Haven't got explicit instructions about it. It was just a hunch based on the nature of info, which i feel now that should have been a secret knowledge rather than a public boasting

ps : i just told them i saw what i saw, not the actual ctc ( and answered the question , if i had regrets seeing his salary scale, to which i answered no )
also the guys i discussed it with, were 2 of my other team mates and not the ctc guy

@retoor yes exactly!
I don't understand why tthis feature is being hyped so much

@retoor polling responses changes with time , that's the whole point of polling , right? for eg you are observing the google location api while traveling in a car, its returning your location based on that instance of time, thus the response changes

@mostr4am i don't get that. they can't press charges because they are client? does having a subscription pf a company product allows the company to kill their clients without any repercussions?

welp. and here i thought he fucked up with some semiconductor chips that will impact the whole world.

you owe me 5 mins of time waste

@retoor i told him that i felt like going to TL, as that much i was hurt, but rather called him.

looking at the comments here, looks like that was a mistake too.

well whatever. i do have some issues dealing with people and need to some more growing, i guess

@jestdotty hindi is the most common dialect in India, but every hindi speaking person != hindu (although in this case i am, and no it had nothing to do with the incident)

roasting someone in person or even in group is okay but my only concern was that he abused despite the difference in work exp which made me look like a less knowledgeable professional.

bit again there was no context of a professional discussion so i did overreact

and regarding the joke, its like if your boss asked who has birthday in December and some guy answered "jesus's" . btw i found it funny and did hear a nerdy small laugh before the boss turned it into a sassy girl

@NoMad i also went with this approach only. i had left that bitching group after this incident and soon got a dm with him that he was sorry. i told him that i was angry anf was thinking of going to TL and he was like that he's just joking and stuff. i said ots all good but don't abuse from now on, coz even if its a banter group, its still a professional setting. he is cool with it.

This situation turned into a no win and kept getting worse. first, i reacted to his message and got offended/hurt , then i acted on it and called him and then i left the group. now everyone knows that i am an easily offended person and cpuld be manipulated into getting out of a situation while at the same time not cool enough to be kept around as i might loose my temper and report to authorities, but oh well

@retoor nope, our office is hybrid , wfo is 3/5

@jestdotty cancer is not needed to kill me, my company 's work load, my shitty habits , my loneliness and my exhausting family is doing a great job of killing me each day

this guy in 2022 was so rad. i can't imagine myself being so philosophical even though i did not had the tough experiences that i went i lateral 2 years. crazy good thoughts!

@retoor i am thinking going this way too, as i am also not sure if i ever will be a gamer. my concerns tho:

1. I am not sure if i could identify a fake from a real one
2. if i could, i won't be able to identify the possible issues that it could have

and a slight discomfort would be to not be able to use credit card for that transaction and get those sweet cashbacks

But major is to identify a good used product from a fake one

@electrineer no.
since unions won't be able to impact any government companies (even political parties and olympic players on road protesting can't bulge government decisions)

and if you are an engineer in a private company, you can't be remotely associated with anyunion or community if you love your job.

and what are you asking this question about, aren't you some half indian NRI guy yourself?

@spoiledgoods worse, i live in india we devs are in plenty and therefore less significant than a dust speckle on that macbook air screen.

also I can't ignore it since they control the payroll software that is going to automatically deduct this amount

users shitted on your form because your form ui is shitty at the first place.
username and full name are analogues. its confusing and as a simple minded user i will put full name and first name in them .
why not use full name and avatar name/ handle name(as in Twitter handle) ? also, why not add placeholders to represent the meaning, like john doe for full name and johncool1234 for nickname?

my one cell orange cat does the same

and dropped his

simply wait for an year and give them low appraisals.

or better yet, don't wait for a year and start tormenting them with bureaucracy from day 1.

"why didn't you fixed the random bug that we assigned you 3 minutes before release, that would require 200+ file changes? why, why?"

also 2 people told me that they got 3/5 . one was an equally hardworking dev who was in an equal amount of rage and shock. another was a QA who is struggling to understand mobile testing but still trying to give his best.