coyootje

joined 2 years ago
[–] coyootje 37 points 2 weeks ago

Lol and on LinkedIn too, not much virtual anonimity there. Hope his company thinks about it similarly, otherwise he might be in for a rough time.

[–] coyootje 13 points 2 weeks ago

At my first company I was part of a team of about 20 people. In this team there were multiple instances of office romance drama. We had a manager with a wife and kids that cheated on them with a marketing colleague during a company skiing holiday, we had a team member that had a (not so) secret relationship with a manager and we had a colleague that was in a relationship with a colleague from another department and then started cheating on him with a direct colleague.

The first one I don't know too much about because it happened before I came to that team but the second and third ones I was in the middle of. The colleague-manager relationship was especially weird because to me and my direct colleagues it was obvious what was going on, they weren't hiding it that well. But when people asked them about it, they would always deny it which was kinda weird. Anyway, after one of them left the company they supposedly fell in love afterwards and are now (to my knowledge) still together.

The cheating colleague was a whole different story. She had a relationship with a guy from another department who was pretty good looking but he was an ass. They were even living together. She then proceeded to fall in love with a direct colleague from our team and ended up meeting up with this colleague in the company bathrooms during lunch breaks... This went on for a bit (and was somewhat common knowledge in our team) before she broke up with her partner and started living with the new one. Pretty weird. Also, there were multiple occasions where I saw her straight up kissing another guy in our team on the lips for his birthday which was a bit strange as well.

Last story: at my latest company I got hired to be a business analyst. When I walked in, there was no way I was going to be able to carry out this role. They asked me to use data to support and advise but there was literally no data available. So I stepped in together with another colleague to work on this for the next year or so, with great success. We had a whole data platform with interconnected data and a visualization tool by the end.

However, close to the time we finished our work a new colleague joined our team. When he presented himself, his tasks fully overlapped with my original role. I went to my de-facto manager (my actual manager was only HR-responsible and was not very available at the time) and asked him if this person was my replacement, I got told that he wasn't. The new guy then proceeded to start getting in my way every step of the way. I went to him and asked him if he was there to take over some of my work, he said no. Long story short, by the time it came to the time of the decision of extending my contract to a contract without an end date, they gave me a bunch of negative feedback (which I later found out mostly came from the newly introduced colleage) and only offered me a temporary extension.

This got me so frustrated and annoyed that I ended up quitting over it. They were very surprised by that but I did not hold back with my feedback during my exit interviews. Luckily I'm now at a different company that seems a much better fit for me where I can actually carry out work that I like. But yeah, overall a pretty eventful 8 years so far...

[–] coyootje 10 points 2 weeks ago

You can overthrow a flawed democracy only to end up with a fascist dictator taking totalitarian control.

Or you can vote for the guy that openly stated he'd be a dictator and that has fascist tendencies and is already working on remaking the government apparatus in his image...

That aside, I agree with your point that democracy should be preserved and used as a tool to steer your country in the right direction. It can be difficult though, being just a lone voice in a giant mass of people. Add to that that the American way of democracy is a bit biased towards Republicans with their crazy electoral college system and I can imagine that people like to phantasize about overthrowing it all in a revolution.

[–] coyootje 10 points 2 weeks ago

It'd be nice if they rotated the tracks a bit more in general. Some races are kinda stale at times.

[–] coyootje 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well then fatter I guess. Also, just like me fr fr

[–] coyootje 1 points 2 weeks ago

That picture is a great new meme template.

[–] coyootje 10 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, must no longer be a problem now that he left /s

[–] coyootje 3 points 2 weeks ago

And once that's done, continue with every republican voter, starting with the ones with signs and shrines in their yards.

[–] coyootje 0 points 2 weeks ago

I agree but in many places they have housing shortages so I don't think it's likely they'll give homes to the homeless. I'm not saying they shouldn't (it would be really nice if the government could do something like this) but it's not very likely to happen.

[–] coyootje 13 points 2 weeks ago

And the possibility of it turning into a Playstation exclusive once again. Or at the very least a game developed for Playstation with a terrible PC port.

[–] coyootje 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think hurting his ego also hurts him, just look at the amount of people that get banned from X for doing it.

[–] coyootje 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you create shelters where the homeless can stay for the night they don't have to sleep rough in a park or station like that. Of course this won't work for all of them, sometimes people like sleeping rough. But on average it should help, especially in the colder months. They do this where I live and I rarely see homeless in the streets when it gets dark, they're only there during the day to scavenge for cans and bottles with deposits on them or to beg for money.

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