Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100

100 calls an hour BABY.

sigh

So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.

So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.

Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.

Then we do it all over again for the live.

Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.

There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!

I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.

“They’re paying a lot more than me in every single way, their one advantage is speed.”

“hahaha how does it feel to be paying $800 a month in car expenses to go slower than ME!”

Ooh that’s the good stuff! Especially when they get their own light. Lights up the pleasure center of my brain when we get to zoom through when everyone else is waiting on a light.

Good point! During the event near the park it’s probably more accurate that I go the same speed as the cars, because people have to park on all the side streets and walk to the park.

Don’t you have to buy an nft and equip it to earn money with that?

I actually did do a lot of beat saber, but never got used to any games that had me move around a lot.

Walk scape is super cool, but in closed beta. Might be a thing to keep an eye on.

Android has built in pedometer that has nothing to do with google maps, as it’s not gps based. It’s called google fit.

I thought people would realize it just meant it was a built in Google service.

Not a bad shout, I just want to spend a consistent amount of time each day for the most part. Which isn’t really a thing if I’m going to something like that.

Downloaded!

If I had the ability to self motivate I would not be asking this question I’m afraid.

Hmm I was looking for more passive stuff where I do my walking, then get home and get a cool prize/thing to do, but doing things that actively contribute to a FOSS project is pretty inspiring.

Yeah treadmill based walking is good, which is part of why I like WalkScape, which isn’t gps based and instead just using the google pedometer to check in on your walk.

This is the kinda heat I was looking for!

Looks like a full RPG powered by running.

Gonna give it a try!

No hackathons from my school, I do game jams, and so maybe doing one using only code and not a game engine would be an interesting challenge. Plenty of game jams where the goal is to have the game be like under 10 megs, so straight code is the only way to go.

I work full time while also going to school so no freedom during summer or anything.

I’ll see if any foss projects look interesting!

If I could get an internship that could pay all my bills I would love one. But I have a mortgage as I’m currently 30. I probably don’t have time for college, my full time job, and a part time internship!

If there are any internships paying around 70k a year I mean I’ll start it in a heart beat XD

This post was 4 months ago.

Fun to know that it’s still absolutely screwed.