Trimatrix

joined 2 years ago
[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 65 points 4 days ago

Engineer here. You’re salaried but treated like an hourly employee. You get paid to work 40 hours a week but get “told” that working less than 45-50 hours a week makes you a slacker. Your exempt which means you don’t get a mandatory 30 minute unpaid lunch or a paid 15 minute break every 4 hours. Vacation time is normally unlimited but requires manager approval so if you get the old “boomer” type that drank the corporate cool aid, good luck getting any more than 2 weeks worth approved regardless of years at company.

Sorry I digress, My job starts at 8:00 but I slide in to the daily standup at around 8:10. No one notices or cares. Afterwards, I get a cup of coffee, catch up on vital correspondence and questions from overseas coworkers. It’s sometime between 8:30 and 9:45 That I realize the Bangalore Software team sent out an emergency meeting at 11PM last night for 5AM This morning. “Oh well” I think to myself and sip on my coffee catching up on what I missed. Turns out one of them forgot to plug in a machine. They crack me up.

From 9:45 to 10:00, I have conditioned my body to take a shit. I time it for exactly 10 minutes. My second one is precisely times for between 4:00PM and 4:15PM. I figure those two times are freebies to my 9.5 hour forced work schedule. Upon returning, from my “break” I begin to actually work.

I design things using CAD software cool stuff. I am content by 10:10AM I have my headphones on, I am doing what I actually went to school for. I begin to think this is entirely worth all the other stuff I put up with. I get in the zone and time flies.

Its, 10:25AM. There was an emergency on the production floor. They tell me its a problem they have never seen before. They assure me they have taken all the proper diagnostic steps have been taken and I need to look at whats wrong to prevent a line stop.

I think, “its go time” I follow the techs down to the line and start diagnosing the problem. In no time at all, I find that they never checked the test wiring despite that being like in the first 5 steps of diagnosing a problem. I head back to my desk. Its 2PM by now, I microwave my lunch and work through it. Distractions happen maybe I get an accumulated total of an hour or two of design work done before its 6PM and I head home.

Yup…… You could tell me to switch jobs but every company I work for in my line of work is just like this.

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So burden the already burdened agencies that just got burned more with loss of administrative labor that was probably equipped to review and triage these now expiring regulations?

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they got cloudflare running on their domain so even a bridge won’t help for that specific site. Depending on what you are using it for you can find alternatives with more RSS friendly sites. RSS-Bridge can track music releases through apple music even if you don’t use apple music. I am pretty sure you can find alternative sites for other types of media releases.

I find this the best place to find RSS feeds that just work with out bridges:

RSS List

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Depends what your into. Hackernews is always a good feed to add, ars technica, your local news station, your local news paper, I got an rss-bridge running that posts to my feed when apps update with their change log, when a project on github has a news release, when one of my favorite artists releases music on apple music. Institute for the Study of War is also a decent unique feed if you want to read up on strictly tactical updates on ongoing conflicts.

Honestly, thats the beauty of RSS feeds. They are everywhere, I got feeds aggregating memes, and webcomics. You can run a bridge that prowls instagram using your account and generate a post in your feed when your friend posts something. Literally RSS is all about turning the internet you use into your own personal feed without the BS algorithms crammed down your throat. Someone creates a post, and your feed gets sorted by time posted. Easy as that.

I use Lemmy really for the social interaction. Something which RSS doesn't have.

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You basically just described what an RSS feed is. Get a client (I use readkit) and start adding websites to your feed. If you are feeling up to it. self hosting freshRSS and having it sync your feeds to your client is also an option.

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

The engineer in me sees a silver lining with the way the USA is being in which it’s highlighting a single failure point dependency on some completely random things.

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

hackernews its like reddit but the user submitted links are tech and research of hardware heavy. A good portion of my RSS feed is from blogs that posts were submitted to there.

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Doubt it. Weather changing sounds an awful lot like climate change which is a “woke” DEI concept of the liberal left. /s

please get me off of this wild ride. I miss when politics were boring.