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I need to journal in my actual journal more.

Team call today to go over all of the outstanding tickets that have been hanging out there.

None of them are mine.

Just going to spend an hour listening to other people I guess....

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CuRsEdToDaRkNeSs
17:29 Apr 21 2025

A call that could have been an email?

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birra
18:00 Apr 21 2025

Several emails, but yes, it didn't need to involve everyone....

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CuRsEdToDaRkNeSs
19:31 Apr 21 2025

Yeh, sounds like it only needed to involve those who had outstanding tickets. I suppose this is one of those, we don't want to out anyone so we bring everyone events.

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birra
15:27 Apr 23 2025

Exactly. But you're not really outing anyone if you call for a meeting with just those individuals. You've kind of outed individuals if you do it in a meeting in front of everyone.

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CuRsEdToDaRkNeSs
05:35 Apr 26 2025

Very true!

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For clarity sake I propose we rename El Salvador to El Salvauschwitz...

Thanks social media site for giving me tracking cookies for targeted ads but no cookies that can figure out this is the laptop I log onto your site with daily?

No it's not a new device. I don't need 3 emails and 2 alerts on my phone that I logged in again.

Sheesh.

Finally, a spring-like day in Spring.

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Cadrewolf2
04:43 Apr 14 2025

Go mow the lawn

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birra
14:37 Apr 14 2025

I built a new composting bin, moved the compost to it, screened 18 gallons of compost for planting, and broke down the old bin to dispose of it.

I did the stuff.

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FrenchBloodsucker
21:10 May 05 2025

Here I dress in the morning and it's cold, then it gets burning hot and I die, then later it gets cold as fuck again...

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Going through Windows 11 in-place upgrades across the company.

You would think I was asking people to perform monumental tasks when I say things like, "The laptop needs to be connected to your dock...." or "Run windows updates..."

Got the new camera.

I can shoot scenes now from two angles at once.

Have to accessorize it. Probably going to sell my old gimbals and buy one new one that will work better with these cameras specifically.

Is anyone else experiencing lag with almost every internet service provider recently?

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Cadrewolf2
20:01 Apr 02 2025

Yes

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LunarTides
16:41 Apr 04 2025

Yes

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So, April 1st.

April Fool's Day.

The day my union's contract gives us a (almost) 3% pay bump for cost of living.

Which, the way the contract is laid out, I only get to keep that increase for 3 months. Because of my hire date, my step increase hits on July 1st, then my pay rate reverts to the contracted step amount, and any cost of living increases get overridden.

I like finally having a union. The health insurance is probably the best I've had since the 90s.

But this contract seems like it was negotiated by someone who has no sense of how a calendar works, and how we need to live.

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birra
17:44 Apr 01 2025

You would think the step increase would be in time with your hire date and annual review, but no... the way it works is your anniversary has to be at least 6 months from April 1st for that to happen. My hire date was in December, so my step increase happens at the 6 month mark from the beginning of the year of the full year after my hire date.

Makes sense?

So I get my review in December, then have to wait until July for my raise.

Of course none of that was explained when I was hired. It was all explained completely different. My expectations were completely different. So yes I'm a bit salty about it.

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