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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Exactly. I’m not helpdesk anymore, thank god, but my team still has a ton of day to day work that’s tracked in the ticketing system.

    Well, for years I’ve been stuck in project hell, doing work that isn’t easily fit into the ticket system. My last review my boss said I had only closed about 1/3 of the tickets of the next lowest person on my team, and that it doesn’t matter except we have a new exec watching that shit, so I have to make it look better.

    So the next project I got, I chose to do something manually that I could have automated, that required the help desk to open tickets direct to me about 2-4 times a day whenever someone new needed access to the system I was setting up, until the project was done.

    A week in I automated the “manual” task anyway and had a bunch of tickets I could close with a copy-pasted resolution.

    I would feel bad, but my co-workers game the metrics even worse than I do.


  • I think it’s the shooter of Charlie Kirk. But that’s purely based off the mention of Erika Kirk.

    Calling any court he’s tried in a purely religiously motivated one is fucking rich though.

    As far as I know, he was caught red handed. No room for doubt. The law isn’t void just because he killed someone the world is better without, lol.

    At least with Luigi there’s a bunch of extenuating circumstances that create some plausible deniability. This is just “This guy killed someone I think needed to die, so the rule of law shouldn’t apply!”







  • Any sort of proof of stake or weighting of power is game-able and abuse-able. Even 1 person gets 1 vote just results in a black market of people exchanging theirs for some other thing of value. It always comes down to a division between those who “have” and those who don’t. Even simply having more power through length of time invested creates power dynamics.

    That doesn’t mean that things can’t get better or we shouldn’t try, but it does mean that it’s something that can’t just be waved away with magic phrases.