Good on ya mate. I retired, at least temporarily, from almost 30 years in IT today. I may do some part time consulting to pay for vacations in the future, but my FT days are over. I hope you enjoy being away from it as much as I will.
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"We've always done it that way" is not a great reason to keep doing something wrong, though.
If it doesn't breathe, eat, talk, and feel, it's not a person. Calling it one doesn't make it true.
To be clear this isn't aimed at you, I'm pretty sure you're not 200 years old and didn't come up with the original idea.
It blows my fucking mind.
It's like you're asking people to go hungry or something. It's fucking twitter. JUST STOP USING IT.
Every time I read this my absolute favorite part is how in all the monetary transactions described, nobody ever pays for anything with bitcoin.
I go with Nazis. Pretty accurate on their worldview, and less letters to type.
Just canceled my subscription and let them know in the comments it was because of this.
wazoo = anus
After 3 decades in IT let me share some wisdom.
What you describe is not ok, and it's just letting the company walk all over you because it sounds like nobody had the experience to push back. There should be a senior guy somewhere in that team going "yo this is bullshit, we're not doing this" and making the company define the criteria so you can say yes or no. Otherwise you just don't comply, and everyone on the team has to be onboard with that. Gotta have boundaries in this career or they will literally own you and all your free time, and if shit hits the fan, they will scapegoat you in a heartbeat.
They need you more than you need them. Never forget that. There are lots, and lots, and lots of unfilled IT jobs out there.
I'd guess it's because they aren't saying "all motorcyclists have a 1 in 722 chance of dying riding a motorcycle" they are saying "1 in 722 Americans will die in a motorcycle crash" while completely disregarding that only (making this number up) 80 of those 722 ever even rode motorcycles in the first place.
In other words, pedestrian deaths simply outnumber fatal motorcycle accidents because there are a lot more pedestrians than motorcyclists.
We've known about the "make it so ugly nobody wants to steal it" technique for several decades.
They'll probably make that illegal soon.
You'll buy Nestle Ice and you'll like it.
He did not, in fact, live to be 120 years old.