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Found out we lost my grandmother this morning. Glad I got to visit her a few weeks ago at least. Mid 90s and bedridden for years and about 65 pounds; so at least not unexpected.Enourmo posted:At the end of the day I'm a Mechanical Engineering major. Rockets are what I've ended up doing at school, but there's no shortage of jobs for me overall. My only hangup is not wanting to work in defense, but even on that I've gotten to the point of "if you pay me I don't give a gently caress, whatever"
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Enourmo posted:yeah funny thing, i'm aware of that and it's causing me a major crisis of self doubt right as i'm on the cusp of graduating I've done engineering in the navy and now as a civilian. You get used to it. But the more you buck and fight it that it has to be EXACTLY how you want, or how you think, the harder poo poo is. poo poo sucks but you just roll with it, or find another career. But every career is gonna have the exact same poo poo.
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So, the correct response to "here's your raise, it's lower than you expected even though you did great this year because you're near the top of your pay window, no I can't tell you what that is, your only chance of a significant raise is your uninterested boss supporting you in your next 3 annual appraisals to a level you haven't seen in the 10 years you've been with us" is to get the CV up to date, right? I'm a little short on fucks to give right now, truth be told. E: guess what discipline I'm in Enourmo?
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cakesmith handyman posted:So, the correct response to "here's your raise, it's lower than you expected even though you did great this year because you're near the top of your pay window, no I can't tell you what that is, your only chance of a significant raise is your uninterested boss supporting you in your next 3 annual appraisals to a level you haven't seen in the 10 years you've been with us" is to get the CV up to date, right? I'm a little short on fucks to give right now, truth be told.
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Enourmo posted:loving christ this rocket was gonna be so cool but department fuckups, manufacturing issues, and straight-up false promises have delayed us to the point that I'll be shocked if we get off the launch pad. Guess what, even if you were a software engineer you'd get to deal with the exact same poo poo. Same in construction which I used to be in. It's because of people, and there are very few people in the world high enough on the ladder to not have to deal with what other people think should be done. Sorry, that's just life I do believe. As has been pointed out though, the good thing is you get paid for it once you are in the 'real world'.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/29/597991227/why-300-000-volkswagens-are-being-stored-in-these-massive-auto-boneyards What are the chances that VW/Audi would actually try to recertify and resell these diesels? If so, it'd have to be a fire sale price and I would be trying to jump on one or two.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:Getting paid to stand around with your thumb up your arse while u wait for some other dipshit to do his job correctly is one of the best parts of engineering Just make sure you're not the dipshit. Also, counterpoint: academics are a special and unique sort of bullshit. You'll get some of it in the real world, but there things like money and continued business are on the line, so there is a bit more pressure to not be an idiot. FWIW, I wish I'd have gone ME rather than dicking around with AE, EE, CSE, ultimately not getting a degree, and ending up in IT hell. cakesmith handyman posted:So, the correct response to "here's your raise, it's lower than you expected even though you did great this year because you're near the top of your pay window, no I can't tell you what that is, your only chance of a significant raise is your uninterested boss supporting you in your next 3 annual appraisals to a level you haven't seen in the 10 years you've been with us" is to get the CV up to date, right? I'm a little short on fucks to give right now, truth be told. This is also a truism in IT. The only way to get a significant raise is to change jobs, whether it be with another company or a sideways move. Seminal Flu posted:https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/29/597991227/why-300-000-volkswagens-are-being-stored-in-these-massive-auto-boneyards Well, that article says that it basically depends on the EPA approving/recertifying emissions modifications, so who knows. I guess if they remove the emissions defeat code and prove that they've done so, there shouldn't be a reason they can resell them. They may just have to part them, or export them to somewhere that doesn't give a poo poo.
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Darchangel posted:This is also a truism in IT. The only way to get a significant raise is to change jobs, whether it be with another company or a sideways move. This is pretty much all sectors. If you didn't enter the workforce before the early to mid 90s, wages have been flat for the past 25 years.
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Seminal Flu posted:https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/29/597991227/why-300-000-volkswagens-are-being-stored-in-these-massive-auto-boneyards The 2015s were able to be certified to be sold with some sort of undisclosed fix, so it may be possible. They're sitting around the same price as a similarly equipped gas model, so not quite fire sale price but the diesel premium is certainly gone.
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They are specifically not allowed to dump the cars into another country without fixing the emissions problem.
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BraveUlysses posted:They are specifically not allowed to dump the cars into another country without fixing the emissions problem. Somebody linked how expensive it would be per car to do the fix a while back and it was pretty nuts. I expect they'll render them inoperative (all cash for clunkers) and junk them.
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Hansolio posted:The 2015s were able to be certified to be sold with some sort of undisclosed fix, so it may be possible. They're sitting around the same price as a similarly equipped gas model, so not quite fire sale price but the diesel premium is certainly gone. If a couple hundred thousand of them come on the market, that price point will not come close to holding.
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I assumed they'd ship them to a country less concerned with emissions stuff and offload them there.
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There's only one country in the world that's not in the Paris Climate Accord (it's the USA), so I don't know where you're going to find this mystical location.
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InitialDave posted:I assumed they'd ship them to a country less concerned with emissions stuff and offload them there. except that they're specifically banned from doing so
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Ether Frenzy posted:There's only one country in the world that's not in the Paris Climate Accord (it's the USA), so I don't know where you're going to find this mystical location.  Never has this been more appropriate.
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I ordered a countertop dishwasher using ebay's 20% off code, and it comes in on Monday or Tuesday. I, just, like, don't want to do the dishes by hand anymore. I'm sitting here wondering if I can survive until then without doing them. I hate manually washing dishes - it reminds me of a specific time growing up that I'd rather forget.
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Geoj posted:This is pretty much all sectors. If you didn't enter the workforce before the early to mid 90s, wages have been flat for the past 25 years. Depressing. Metal Geir Skogul posted:I ordered a countertop dishwasher using ebay's 20% off code, and it comes in on Monday or Tuesday. I feel the same about gardening.
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Gardening is relaxing to me, besides the back breaking part of it sometimes. My back yard started out as a dirt wasteland and now it's a tropical oasis and I did it all myself. It's pretty gratifying actually.
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It makes me irrationally annoyed when I'm trying to have a professional conversation with a client, and they end every sentence with "sir". "I don't want to do it that way for x reason sir." "We just don't have that kind of funding sir." "I just don't understand why you say that sir." Now, "Yessir" I'm ok with. 
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angryrobots posted:It makes me irrationally annoyed when I'm trying to have a professional conversation with a client, and they end every sentence with "sir". I have a reflex of saying sir and ma'am and oh god does it piss women off. Also, is it still hoarding when the poo poo you stock like comes in handy? So many electrical fittings and bolts that I've now used... Also snapped a wheel stud in half so now I get to do that, too, because I'm shockingly more comfortable with a 5 lug wheel running 4 lugs than a 4 lug wheel with 3.
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angryrobots posted:It makes me irrationally annoyed when I'm trying to have a professional conversation with a client, and they end every sentence with "sir". We used to have a saying when I was in the military....Don't call me sir, I work for a living
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Seminal Flu posted:https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/29/597991227/why-300-000-volkswagens-are-being-stored-in-these-massive-auto-boneyards They will get dumped into a foreign market or recycled if shipping is too expensive.
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Elephanthead posted:They will get dumped into a foreign market or recycled if shipping is too expensive. Can you read the posts prior? BraveUlysses posted:except that they're specifically banned from doing so BraveUlysses posted:They are specifically not allowed to dump the cars into another country without fixing the emissions problem.
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After driving this Civic in anger I now feel like I wasted the last 15 years of my life never owning one. Jesus loving christ this thing is FUN. Any car that has me laughing like a goddamn maniac before I'm in 3rd gear or breaking the speed limit is a win, but pulling out of a corner in 2nd at 6k with poo poo rear end tires squealing and the car still begging for more like a loving puppy... I wanted a beater, and now I want an LSD and R comps.
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Wait until you're tripoding and getting lift off oversteer in a stock fiesta st. Small fwd hot hatches are awesome.
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iwentdoodie posted:After driving this Civic in anger I now feel like I wasted the last 15 years of my life never owning one. I really didn't "get it" until I got mine. There's just something about them - so great.
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I can't stop watching Forensic Files. Discovered there was a SA thread about it and then learned that it was on Netflix. I fall asleep to Forensic Files every night now.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I can't stop watching Forensic Files. Discovered there was a SA thread about it and then learned that it was on Netflix. I blame you for making me watch it. There are so many episodes.
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We're going to a party Saturday and I asked if there would be food and the host said "Yeah we'll probably get some Pahppy Jays." Now I don't want to be friends with him.
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Rhyno posted:We're going to a party Saturday and I asked if there would be food and the host said "Yeah we'll probably get some Pahppy Jays." Good call.
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iwentdoodie posted:After driving this Civic in anger I now feel like I wasted the last 15 years of my life never owning one. Same but FR-S/BRZ/GT86
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Seminal Flu posted:https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/29/597991227/why-300-000-volkswagens-are-being-stored-in-these-massive-auto-boneyards Not many in not red/white/some shade of gray...
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Powershift posted:One of the local news sites puts an adblocker warning replacing their videos that previously would have autoplayed at 300% volume. Open a new chrome tab and go to: chrome:flags/#autoplay-policy And change it to "require user input." Solves maybe 90% of autoplaying video problems, even on CNN.com. Actually, since I'm doing tips, as posted in Bajaha's thread: Metal Geir Skogul posted:On ebay, adding "-bs" to your search removes all of the "suggested" results. Anything that they THINK matches any search parameter. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I really didn't "get it" until I got mine. There's just something about them - so great. I still loathe everything associated with them as a vehicle, but agreed. I cannot wait to take this thing out and just flog it. Maybe I'll look for a rallycross....
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