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- sarahfailin0
Did a factory reset on my phone. Feels so good!
- helloeatbreathedrive0
I heard this phrase on Veep,
'Getting paid, getting laid son!'
I mean it's so over the top stupid, I mean retarded #maga level but ultimately - endlessly funny. I'm in tears of joy :)- wordutopian
- sure, it's pretty juvenile I guess, but it kinda sums up lifemonospaced
- Sounds like something Jonas would have said.zarkonite
- Yea, Nick Jonasmaquito
- ^^ lol exactly!helloeatbreathedrive
- NBQ003
I no longer care about career, fame and haven't since many years. I used to be very ambitious and driven but got past the ego shit. I still kept being ambitious in other ways. But I no longer wanted to be in the spotlight. The universe is far too big for us little humans and our little stupid careers.
Why am I saying this I don't know, because I'm not a fan of mediocrity either.
- AmenOBBTKN
- Not past the ego entirely are you.robthelad
- you need an ego to do great work. It's just being asshole that does't work. Ego has been branded a bad thing to have, which is BS.shapesalad
- "Trying to look good limits my life"
Sage advice from Sagmeister. When I was young and first heard it, I couldn't understand what he meant.nb
- i_monk3
Had a meeting today. Some interesting opportunities (a rebranding and then more of a design manager role). Meeting more of the team tomorrow. We'll see where it goes.
- BabySnakes0
Has anyone been ticked for an illegal U-turn? I think if it is a safe turn you should be allowed. Just wondering.
- mg332
That Zardoz image of Sean Connery that was used in one of QBN’s greatest PSB’s... I never knew what it was actually from nor knew that the movie was called Zardoz until yesterday. I only just watched the trailer for the first time today.
- imbecile0
shipping cars in from other states is annoying and carries too much risk.
- MrT0
Ugh. I'm in a co-work spot along with a digital nomad-type who loudly and regularly patronises her sickly minions. From what I have no choice but to pick up, they're basically managing the social media for a lobby group who represent one of Australia's big 'n' dirty mining companies.
On the plus side I've a new-found enthusiasm for my work!
- "patronises her sickly minions"?robotron3k
- She has a rotating staff of ill-looking people that she loudly talks down to all the time...MrT
- The other day she was trying to get one to work the weekend for free ‘because it would be good exposure for you’. Ugh again.MrT
- Exposure! The new name for slavery... Fuck herOBBTKN
- Only tits need exposure.robthelad
- Work robrobotron3k
- *wordrobotron3k
- omahadesigns2
robotron3k :/
- TheGreatGlorpo2
I am totally about to shit in a urinal at work if these three stall hogs don’t finish the fuck up with their business and GTFO.
- zarkonite6
Yesterday we learned that we won the digital portion of a national account we pitched a few weeks back.
It was a good pitch and no one had to do any overtime to get it done. That's probably what I'm most proud of the team for.
- *golf claprobotron3k
- Yeah like professionals should be doing it. Wierd how organization and time managment are so rare. Congratulations!eryx
- good job, congratulats!sted
- Bennn0
My commute to work in bike. Useless video for the curious who wants to see where I live, i guess
- sarahfailin2
Remember the enormous Equifax data breach?
https://eligibility.equifaxbreac… 45 percent of Americans' data was compromised in the Equifax security breach. You can check your liability to file a claim through this link, and then you can be part of the $700M settlement.
If you have credit monitoring already, you can get one $125 payment. If you don't, they will provide you free credit monitoring for at least 4 years. You have to pick one.
- ...if something actually happened to you because of the data breach, you can get more compensation.sarahfailin
- I'm not impacted. :(
Was really looking forward to a little extra cash.monospaced - sorry mono! I'm sure someone will steal your personal information someday!sarahfailin
- check to mail lolsted
- I wouldn't be surprised if they were using prices for sensitive personal information on the black market to calculate this compensation.sted
- i was impacted. i already have credit monitoring and identity theft/fraud alert. That $125 check will turn into a nice date dinner.capn_ron
- @capn_ron well hurry, with this data anybody can impersonate you and might even steal your gurl!grafician
- Hmmm well I qualified. It sounds like the amount may actually be less than $125 though, it depends on how many people claim.yuekit
- @sarah lol waiting for QBN to get hacked and receive spoofed phishing emails from you guys asking for bitcoin...or fonts!grafician
- also wasn't that a $700 mili fine? a settlement might be something else...but def 45% of ppl will need to look over their shoulders - digitally - forevergrafician
- robotron3k-1
I'm about to step off into the abyss. It's very scary. I don't feel like I can go forward without taking care of this. I'm about to pull the trigger on a legal hellhole of 100k+ in debt in just under a year, it's not even gonna be funny. I wouldn't be attempting it if the odds were against me, but I did win a counter to their "attempted" summary judgment in early June. The judge DENIED them of their main argument. They spell it like that DENIED motherfuckers. So I won, but this will be going to the mat, to a full real trial in about 9 months. Once I officially tell my lawyers yes, I have to be in it to win it and it's gonna start costing me. Pfft, I do sleep well knowing my crack all-female Law Firm is on the case. Believe. So I just asked them a question as to what they believe the outcome could be based on what has transpired and I probably won't hear back from them till Monday. So I'm nobody's fool, I want the odd in my favor as it would not be worth the effort. So if...., most likely when, the time comes, don't be surprised if I offer myself available for freelance in design or ux. This is all very hard for me, but this is life, all you can do is try. Thanks for listening.
- good luck with this. just don't loose that tiny bit of sanity you have left ;) (free cheap shot included at no extra cost)capn_ron
- Good luck. Genuinely. Don't know what you're on about but you made it sound tense.Fax_Benson
- DENIEDDRIFTMONKEY
- May Trump, the patron of lawsuits, bless you. Good luckSalarrue
- Thank you, i’ll take all the luck i can...robotron3k
- Best of luck. Stick to your gunscannonball1978
- Suing for the right to fly your confederate flag or to keep your camaro on cinder blocks on your front lawn? :)_niko
- What exactly is it about, can you tell more details?NBQ00
- Yeah, best of luck, genuinely. Sounds shitty - usually those seeking an SJ are pretty confident in what they have to support it.ben_
- Hoping to push off the case 3-6 months , that would helprobotron3k
- Isn’t this a plagiarism issue?monospaced
- i_monk9
*looks at Sagmeister Walsh thread*
You know, maybe it's better we stopped talking about design and just became an appendix of reddit and meme sites.
- ya. i don't bother to comment on that thread.pango
- reddit isn't to check the opinions of others in specific subjects and find out you're right? knowyourmeme is the only meme site u need to know. FBTQBNsted
- Keep in mind that most of the members here are posers and/or failuresnb
- Except nb who is after winning a few oscars with his amazing talent in visual arts moved into the problems of level 5 autonomous driving and world povertysted
- it's a bizarre thread. I don't get it, but then I'm not from NYC... must be a scene thing. I mean, sagmeister got nude too, yet only venom is spat at walsh.inteliboy
- just compare their wikipedia pages and u will see lol :D:D:D for Jessica it's definitely includes that scene thing.sted
- smells like incel in there.pango
- It's not the nudity really. Her over the top narcissm & self promotion is annoying.NBQ00
- @sted Nah, I'm a poser/loser toonb
- I love how just because someone has a negative take on how a woman its herself out there its automatically “hmm seems like incels”cannonball1978
- *putscannonball1978
- *smells!pango
- well i did say incel LOL. but real disappointment from me is the relentless passionate criticism on shit that don't matter.pango
- her and her counter parts, make shit pretty.pango
- let her do her thing. if it works. well shit, i guess that's the world we live in. if it doesn't, you wont be seeing her for long.pango
- It's called "Design Industry & Discussion"
...look it up!utopian - Not much of the discussion centred around design or the industry.robthelad
- no, just what rights you have as a woman to promote yourself. lol.ben_
- sted1
Ladies/Gents
I need you brains/experience* here.
*with the hope that I won't regret posting this :DWe hired 3 people in 2018 Dec. for coding, all male and all 3 with the same nationality. Two of them are married one is a senior with kids, and the third one is a junior who just arrived in the country and he is a relative to the senior.
They represented a certain mentality which almost no one else of the colleagues in production had to met in the past. Before them we actually paid attention to hire new workforce without any questionable behaviors, preconceptions, etc., we watched closely and discussed the new ones during their probation. I used to think that this was one of the reasons why we created a good environment before moving into the big leagues. Things changed, we had to grow and start to satisfy investment objectives, what included changes in our workforce numbers from 8 to 20+, and it was inevitable to change the recruitment process as well.
Things started to get weird in February , when a GO girl had a tiny comment at a coffee talk about one of the guys watching her all the times, we laughed at it, and including me nobody actually cared.
Few weeks later I heard that this guy and an other one of this group are sometimes waiting "accidentally" at the entrance of the office building for her, occasionally with coffee, and trying to be nice in general all the times.Meanwhile me and my business partner had to listen behind closed doors to some really unpleasant comments from these three about the girls at the office. They went down onto a level of wife material, asses slapped/fucked, tits size/banged, blowjobs and all the shit which I am not curious about.
On a side note: I always feel like an outsider in these convos and in my mind want to beat the shit out of the person who is saying such things about the other one. But because of my past experiences I had to accept a conclusion for these situations that it's better to shut the fuck up, listen, and keep my opinion for myself. Otherwise if I don't, I will find myself to be truly an outsider and lose touch with my male colleagues. My business partner comes from a different corporate culture where people are accepting or turning a blind eye above these things.
This situation escalated into a workplace harassment in almost two months, with lots of creepy deeds starting with moving workstations closer to the gitls, trying to get the their facebook(lulz) passwords, sending unpleasant pics/messages in the corporate/private communication channels to irl. stalking. On March 3. a proved groping happened in the office building elevator. Which I'm truly sorry about, because I do not wish anyone to be part of the situation that we saw on the cam. The saddest of all in this for me is that she didn't came forward about what happened for over two weeks. This was surprisingly accomplished by the senior guy, who until this seemed like a quite normal person. It has shown that we have a serious problem which needs to be addressed quickly.
All three got fired on April 12. without notice, and threatened to file a racial discrimination lawsuit mostly based on a comment I made months earlier about joking about the relationship between their needs for caucasian women and their nationality. We had to move fast and subtracted the necessary conclusions, settled the situation (with money) on May 30., all papers signed, everyone can foff.
This action appeared in the draft of our semiannual report.
As a result right now I'm sitting over an email from our investors for almost two weeks unanswered. Which is an outline about the changes they recommend to apply until the end of the current fiscal year. This includes a section where they require decidedly to implement a workstation and video monitoring solution what should be partially available for some of the stakeholders.This is the consequence of solving the problem in our own way, by getting rid of them without having proper proof, based on disciplinary and performance issues that we cannot solve.
Much of the harassment is difficult to prove without complete monitoring and it doesn't not justifies these changes because most of the actions happened outside of office. And I don't want people to feel like they're working in a cage in which all their activities are monitored by a 3rd party. I believe that these things are bad for creativity, efficiency and steering the workforce in a direction where it's more important to collect work hours and leave, than getting the actual work done or the importance of the people who are using the products we build. The street kid in me is already trying to find loopholes, but what pulls him back from the playground is the fact that the financial livelihood of 24 people isn't a game.
There are three of us who have a say in these matters, and only one of my partners is part of the daily operations, knows all the details, nuances. They both are saying that these actions are inevitable and we should have done it earlier... Right now I only see these two desperate options because I'm missing the experience in these things to craft a better one:
Execute the changes, keep my shares and leave place.
Pick up the fight and say no, and enter the unknown zone.
you are not drunk, the typos are real.
- install the cameras surreptitiously so they do not become a focus. few cameras, large areas. good for insurance too. I have one on my desk specifically at work.imbecile
- focus on the good from the cameras, not negativity in the pastimbecile
- ahha yeah like i would love spending the weekend binge-watching the last month tapes. already talked to a lawyer, you can't do that hidden cam stuff anymore :)sted
- Ah get behind the right to work even if its discriminatory... Fired based on discrimination and yet hired... fight the laws that creates the problemsdeathboy
- Cameras just displace unwanted activity. You need sexual harassment sensitivity courses. Mandatory.i_monk
- not hidden, discreetly installed in plain site after hours without having drawing attention it. the cameras in our building are visible w/o being intrusiveimbecile
- attention *to itimbecile
- I would propose a clear discussion about the problem with your staff and make clear the harrassment policies.Salarrue
- Creativity thrives in a secure place and with open communication. Cameras are simply a new element in the office.Salarrue
- Good move firing them. Unacceptable behaviour.NBQ00
- so there is no other solution than do these things and.leave the place?
they want surveillance, "time manager" sw with screenshot generator and keylogger + camssted - I'd say talk to them if you haven't fire them yet.pango
- There should definitely be a clear code of conduct for employees and mandatory training. And a culture that encourages coming forward.monospaced
- Most importantly a good HR department and ethics group to oversee issues and GUARANTEE a no retaliation policy. That’s how it’s done.monospaced
- What began it is people who did not speak up because they felt powerless. Honestly the HR Dept needs to be looked at and all initiatives come from there.robotron3k
- Yes I'm sure you feel responsible but there needs to be a culture shift. Cameras are not cops, each person needs to feel part of the whole. Gluckrobotron3k
- We had a similar table at the bank, a Dev team from a particular country. They were known to openly talk about women together. One day they just moved them awayrobotron3k
- yupmonospaced
- To me it sounds like these 3 guys could be from India (as there are lot of IT people & coders)? Where males harassing women is really a problem.NBQ00
- do you have an HR person or department? what is your sexual harassment training like?dorf
- Get something on the record from the women about how the move was the right move, then remember its your duty to not just listen at the door next time.cannonball1978
- Sorry to hear Sted, these things happen to pop-up in every company "small and or large". You did the right thing by firing these pricks ASAP.utopian
- BTW - Hayoth will be calling you a Commie and a Beta male for firing all of the men, I apologize for him in advance.utopian
- My last office had cameras but really just at entrances and outside in parking lot. One day noticed my boss who was RARELY even in had installed a Nest cameraDarkCover
- Was on a bookshelf and placed in a way the avg person wouldn't notice but being detail oriented I saw what I assume was right away Was #2 in office so didntDarkCover
- worry about it much then one day sitting in his office in the chair I had always sat in was on my phone and for whatever reason that day dawned on me he couldDarkCover
- probably see my phone and computer screen when I sat there. He was a creep anyhow but after that the placement to me was creepy. Could have been in upperDarkCover
- ceiling corner like most office cams and would have come off like it did so I would think strongly about placement, and like others said inconspicuous the keyDarkCover
- Thanks for these comments @mono actually highlighted something that in the first stage i'm going to offer revamping HR.
already have some ideas how to do thissted - and add some of the security features. looked around the office and we can place some of the cams into places where the surveillance it isn't invasive.sted
- the only thing will be hard to refuse is the recording the employee activities.
need to get around that...sted - thanks for these comments, i'm really struggling to find the best possible solution.sted
- I personally think cameras in the office are fine. Being professional at work shouldn't be that hard and your onboarding and coaching should make it clear...ben_
- what the cameras are there for. If a complaint is filed, if something is stolen, etc.
Cultural onboarding is key though, but good riddance to those dudes.ben_ - we installed the cams, then COVID came around the whole thing made no sense at all because this type of shit moved into the chatrooms and zoom calls.sted
- because of other things, we decided to close shop last February, I sleep much more peacefully. oh and the 3 fucker they had to go back to their country.sted
- I just received employment verification request from a US company. the asshole we paid has not been able to find a job since then or at least it looks that waysted
- TLDR?pango
- deathboy0
wish me luck firmware update
- ugh this z170 setup jsut kills me. originally cpu fan wouldnt even run on... case push pull worked.. now its coming on 100% and saying temps over 90 degreesdeathboy
- might be time to just build a whole fuckin new rigdeathboy
- lol I'll bet if you clean it and apply some thermal paste on that cpu everything will run fine :)sted
- naw something isnt right. ive been running the last 4 yrs cool temps without cpu fan coming on. jsut the case push pulldeathboy
- i may be fucking up the hookups and looked back to paper son antec 650 kuhler and realized no info. but very configuration gives something different.deathboy
- its seems fine than does this horrible full fan throttle from 0 - 100. im thinking i should have stuck with instincts i had somehow made shitty hardware workdeathboy
- thermal paste burns off in 4 years of heavy usage. it goes up and down? or just once at startup, maybe after things loaded?sted
- just got back from the store with some thermal paste and a new cooler. Decided to try some new paste it was old. And flicked the tubes a few times and boom.deathboy
- its working again. i think I just had an air bubble. I thought it was the pump since it would start cool than just build up to 100% with fans runningdeathboy
- or hell maybe new paste it was about 4 years and it was pretty brown. jsut up and runnin so good. now to reinstall everything and see if i can finally getdeathboy
- illustrator to run properly and use my 980gtx. tired of it choking on shit my intel on board gpu handlesdeathboy
- omg so slow catching up to date. and for some reason windows is throttling all browsers not edge.... dont remember that nuancedeathboy
- even will try and say no internet connection until IE loads a page than it will load it. so strange, but still so much to install and fine tune... maybe work itdeathboy
- self out in the meantimedeathboy
- Maaku-1
Has it happened to you that you come across a post or replies, could be on any of these threads, and you tell yourself "This is why I come here"? Maybe with an evil smile and nodding in affirmation?
- bezoar1
I had accidentally drilled through an electrical wire yesterday. I was baffled that I didn't get electrocuted – I could see bare wire. For a brief moment I thought that I'd actually died and jumped into the afterlife. Realized later that it's an abandoned circuit and I shouldn't do electrical work stoned.
- imbecile0
Fuel rail and injectors bought...
I'll install them next week.
wtf Kawasaki, why are you being like this?