I’ve done a full day of work instead of fucking around and then went climbing. Does not happen often.

I was able to fix my /home size by using another partition (yes, a typical Lemmy comment). Took me longer than expected, but worked in the end!

Currently training a student at my dayjob and she had to do a survey for school. Our team only meets up in full once per month, and so we could only really do the survey either in 1 week or in 5 weeks.

I pushed her to prepare it in 1 week, so we’d have time afterwards. It certainly was a bit of a tight schedule to work out all the details.

In particular, I wanted to give her a firm structure, as she’s still sometimes chaotic when explaining things. So, I had to dump a lot of thoughts about that structure on her in that week and figured, she’d only really remember the vibes.

Well, team meetup day comes around, I do an impromptu presentation for our team to explain the context and from there on out, she took over, conducting the surveys and explaining each participant the structure+questions.

And damn, not only did the structure work quite well, she was following it down to a T.
I almost wish she would have winged it a bit more, but I did provide that firm structure and that she was able to remember it all, that was just seriously impressive. Made all the surveys a real breeze for her.

I landed a new client at work who will likely keep the company’s bills paid just by itself for the foreseeable future, giving us breathing space to do interesting things that entail some risk.

Graduation. It is relevant to note it’s that time of year.

120lb row :)

Got promoted! I’ve been at my company for about a year and hyper-focused on a particular technology that the new CIO is banking on, so it was a right-place right-time sort of situation. I’ve always had to fight for promotions so this was a pleasant surprise.

I upgraded my unraid cache drive from a 128gb nvme to a 2tb nvme

So much more space

Not as hard as I thought it would be.

I did our taxes. If the powers that be agree with my work, we’re looking at a refund of around $2700. Worth it.

I’ve taken almost three weeks of sick time. I have NEVER taken so much time off sick in my entire life. But I have this case of laryngitis which won’t quit and my job is mostly on the phone. My manager deliberately understaffs us to a criminal degree because she gets a bonus for coming in under budget, and nobody else can do more than a sixteenth of my job, so she’s really screwed and she has to pay me for sick time which comes out of her precious budget. We had a zoom meeting with employee health and my union rep, both of whom told me I sound terrible and to stay off until I feel better, which isn’t looking to be anytime soon, and not to worry about my work load as it was my manager’s job to get the coverage sorted, and instructed my manager on the call to arrange coverage, she began squawking about how she has nobody, and the union rep said “Why not?”. So she looked really stupid and it was funny, and she gave me eye daggers for it. You can literally see dollar signs clicking behind her eyes as you talk to her. All she has to do is apply for a bigger budget, which she can totally justify and totally will get, but she won’t.

I have always had a trauma thing around being sick, comes partly from growing up with a mother with BPD who has zero patience for anyone being sick because then someone other than her might have a need, and living with a spouse who is pretty much the same way. I have worked being sick more times than I can count. But here I am, with a doctor’s note and employee health saying to stay off, and so nobody can say anything to me, and I’m heartily enjoying fucking around all day watching TV and teaching myself PowerPoint as I’m starting my own business on the side. I still have no voice so I’ll go back to my doctor, get another note for more time off and enjoy myself some more. Why not? I get forced to do other people’s work all the time in my job, to the detriment of my own work, so why shouldn’t I let it all go to hell and look after me for once? It’s not my fault I’m sick and not my fault she staffs so poorly.

Sorry for the trauma rant but this is a big deal for me.