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my job is just boring. I was hired as a software developer but I spend maybe 98% of my time doing web design which is something that i am bad at and hate doing almost all the programming is done by one guy who doesn't like to document anything at all, doesn't write tests for anything and doesn't want to do pair programming so that other people can figure out what the hell is going on. and he's on holiday so basically if anything goes wrong everyone looks to me and I have to spend hours searching through badly formatted, undocumented code to chase down bugs. But that's still preferable to loving around with CSS all day so I'm hoping something goes wrong.
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Quote-Unquote posted:my job is just boring. I was hired as a software developer but I spend maybe 98% of my time doing web design NO THIS ELEMENT NEEDS TO BE 3 PIXELS TO THE RIGHT web design/CSS can loving do one I'm spending most of today nursing a huge sleep debt/hangover
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Sep 10, 2015 10:05
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Face update: I shaved on Sunday but I should have done it on Saturday and I accidentally went into public with it I have wrote a shitload of notes for this interview, what tactics would you suggest to distract them while I take a cheeky peek? My that is an interesting question but the more interesting one is WHO IS THAT BEHIND YOU
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Sep 10, 2015 10:13
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Actually considered injuring myself intentionally rather than come in to work today Then I realised that's probably a sign of mental illness and I should probably see a doctor or find a new job ASAP. Only been here three months and really, really regretting leaving my old job (even though the pay and benefits are better).
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Sep 10, 2015 10:13
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Face update: I shaved on Sunday but I should have done it on Saturday and I accidentally went into public with it Sounds like youre not prepared and so shouldnt bother turning up and accept you're a fail rear end goon whos doomed to eating
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Sep 10, 2015 10:18
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I will cut you taff, I already have a job which is awful and it would be Runescape not WoW
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Sep 10, 2015 10:26
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Quote-Unquote posted:Actually considered injuring myself intentionally rather than come in to work today its a symptom of capitalism
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Sep 10, 2015 10:28
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Fingerless Gloves posted:I will cut you taff, I already have a job which is awful and it would be Runescape not WoW I forgot to mention it would be roast beef monster munch
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Sep 10, 2015 10:38
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Face update: I shaved on Sunday but I should have done it on Saturday and I accidentally went into public with it you don't need to distract them just look at your notes, idk maybe say early on as a warning you might use your notes as a refresher sometimes
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Sep 10, 2015 10:40
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in my last interview I was a big fan of taking really long pauses to think of answers because I hadn't had an interview for ages and was out of practise and hell, I was offered the job
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Sep 10, 2015 10:41
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moved to the uk a few months ago. strange place. all this beautiful nature around but virtually no forest paths or ways to enjoy it. streets are so narrow yet everyone wants to drive, plumbing on the outside of houses and separate taps for hot and cold water.
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Sep 10, 2015 10:42
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reavor posted:virtually no forest paths or ways to enjoy it.
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Sep 10, 2015 10:53
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the best received interview answer i ever gave was "i would google it"
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Sep 10, 2015 11:04
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reavor posted:moved to the uk a few months ago. strange place. all this beautiful nature around but virtually no forest paths or ways to enjoy it. streets are so narrow yet everyone wants to drive, plumbing on the outside of houses and separate taps for hot and cold water. You've got the British aptitude for complaining down pat there, but you're clearly not trying hard enough to enjoy nature. Go romp through a forest/along a beach, you don't need a path (And if you do, as has been mentioned, go fine a nature reserve, they usually have maps at strategic intervals and well-defined paths.) If you don't like walking without a guidance system, try OS maps as you'll get good detail once you find where you want to go. Also, you could try googling 'best places to go walking in my area' and see what comes up...y'know, internet being quite handy for finding out information and all that jazz. Phoon posted:the best received interview answer i ever gave was "i would google it" Oh hey, me too, it's what got me my last job on an IT helpdesk and made it second line! Kluliss fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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Sep 10, 2015 11:05
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reavor posted:moved to the uk a few months ago. strange place. all this beautiful nature around but virtually no forest paths or ways to enjoy it. streets are so narrow yet everyone wants to drive, plumbing on the outside of houses and separate taps for hot and cold water. WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM STRANGER
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Sep 10, 2015 11:18
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sorry caps
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Sep 10, 2015 11:18
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reavor posted:moved to the uk a few months ago. strange place. all this beautiful nature around but virtually no forest paths or ways to enjoy it. streets are so narrow yet everyone wants to drive, plumbing on the outside of houses and separate taps for hot and cold water. Theres loads of walks around people just dont bother looking. Plumbing on the outside of houses idk what you mean and seperate taps for hot and cold water is always a choice, we have both options in our house, kitchen has a single tap, bathroom has 2.
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Sep 10, 2015 11:20
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My most cocky interview answer was when I was asked what I'd do if I had to deal with someone who didn't do what I'd asked and I replied "nobody has ever not done what I've asked  "I did follow it up with that was because I never make unreasonable requests and I like to maintain an excellent working relationship with people such that if they can't do something they will tell me and we can deal with it, but the opening statement was cocky af.
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Sep 10, 2015 11:24
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i'm trying to find stuff on ons' website and its making me want to kill myself. coincidentally i'm trying to find stats about deaths
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Sep 10, 2015 11:25
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Jose posted:i'm trying to find stuff on ons' website and its making me want to kill myself. coincidentally i'm trying to find stats about deaths http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--deaths-registered-in-england-and-wales--series-dr-/index.html
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Sep 10, 2015 11:29
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actually that might not be that helpful idk, what are you looking for particularly ?
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Sep 10, 2015 11:30
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that but to local authority which idk if they publish anymore
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Sep 10, 2015 11:31
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Jose posted:that but to local authority which idk if they publish anymore this might be the wording youre looking for Monthly Figures on Deaths Registered by Area of Usual Residence - England and Wales, 2014 (Excel sheet 163Kb) http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob2...aths---2014.xls not sure whether they have annual stuff etc
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Sep 10, 2015 11:38
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after annual stuff unfortunately. i think they've just stopped publishing it. cheers though
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Sep 10, 2015 11:40
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Quote-Unquote posted:almost all the programming is done by one guy who doesn't like to document anything at all, doesn't write tests for anything and doesn't want to do pair programming so that other people can figure out what the hell is going on. and he's on holiday so basically if anything goes wrong everyone looks to me and I have to spend hours searching through badly formatted, undocumented code to chase down bugs. But that's still preferable to loving around with CSS all day so I'm hoping something goes wrong. I work with a dude like this, he's basically scared someone will replace him so keeps everything to himself just like your guy. God forbid anyone want to know exactly how our system setups work so we can fix poo poo while he's away. He just has this weird sense of insecurity that someone will do better than him at stuff. Nobody's interested in taking his job because it's crap, we just want to know how poo poo's programmed so we can take it to bits when we need to.
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Sep 10, 2015 11:40
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Smelly Face can you find me some figures on how many people have stayed dench, and how many have been frimponged, and how that collerates
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Sep 10, 2015 11:41
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The Big Taff Man posted:Smelly Face can you find me some figures on how many people have stayed dench, and how many have been frimponged, and how that collerates hmm it looks like 69% of posters itf have been frimponged, seems pretty high but makes sense given the audience
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Sep 10, 2015 11:48
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The Big Taff Man posted:Theres loads of walks around people just dont bother looking. Not a choice for people who rent, and the whole two-taps thing is way more common here than other places. ALAB?
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Sep 10, 2015 12:05
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the two tap thing is pretty gay imho
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Sep 10, 2015 12:13
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reavor posted:moved to the uk a few months ago. strange place. all this beautiful nature around but virtually no forest paths or ways to enjoy it. streets are so narrow yet everyone wants to drive, plumbing on the outside of houses and separate taps for hot and cold water. Where do you live that has plumbing on the outside of the house? I don't think I've ever seen that
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Sep 10, 2015 12:14
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Face update: I shaved on Sunday but I should have done it on Saturday and I accidentally went into public with it I have always taken notes (and examples of work) to interviews and gotten 3/4 of my last interviews so just take and refer to your notes dude. As long as you arent intensely staring at them the whole time while sweating profusely you should be okay
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Sep 10, 2015 12:17
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freelop posted:Where do you live that has plumbing on the outside of the house? I don't think I've ever seen that You have never seen a house with an outside tap?
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Sep 10, 2015 12:57
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freelop posted:Where do you live that has plumbing on the outside of the house? I don't think I've ever seen that Downpipes for waste water from the bathroom maybe? Lots of older houses have those externally.
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Sep 10, 2015 12:59
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gotta have somewhere to plug in your hose
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DrWrestling69 posted:You have never seen a house with an outside tap? Didn't think of that though they are universal
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Sep 10, 2015 13:02
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If you find old enough houses in tight terraces they sometimes route bits of plumbing outside the building to save space inside (and it can't go in the walls because they're stupid thin). Conversions from having no upstairs plumbing and an outside toilet, places like that.
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Sep 10, 2015 13:38
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Quote-Unquote posted:my job is just boring. I was hired as a software developer but I spend maybe 98% of my time doing web design Does he believe that his code is amazing and has a smug sense of satisfaction even though his code leaves you weeping? There always seems to be one guy. Especially at small businesses that have a single in house developer with nobody to slap their poo poo down You won't believe the atrocities I've seen in PHP.
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UncleBlazer posted:Does he believe that his code is amazing and has a smug sense of satisfaction even though his code leaves you weeping? There always seems to be one guy. Especially at small businesses that have a single in house developer with nobody to slap their poo poo down To be honest it's mostly not too bad (if really poorly formatted, which makes it hard to read, but that's easy enough to clean up in Sublime Text or such). It's just that the complete lack of testing leads to really silly errors that could easily have been avoided if there was literally any shared knowledge or unit/behavioural tests. And those errors are hard to track down because of the complete lack of documentation. You know, stuff like not doing strict type checking, which is stupidly important in PHP (quite a few times I've had to fix something because of the use of != false instead of !== false). I've got a new boss now who is keen for me to write tests for all new work from now on, so it might get better. Right now though it's a serious chore to get out of bed and endure this poo poo. It's honestly making me completely miserable spending hours every day making tiny annoying tweaks to CSS and being shot down whenever I want to refactor some code or rewrite some ancient bits that nobody seems to understand (because "it works fine the way it is!"). But at least the money is good.
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Interview is done. Hopefully next week I can spend the next 3 weeks sat around laughing at my colleagues about them still having to work properly Also UAT testing is weird
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